STORE STREET 17 Tuesday 27 May 2008, 6.30 pm Past Store Streets
The Building Centre Trust
26 Store Street
London WC1E 7BT
Tel: 020 7692 6208
Email: events@buildingcentretrust.org
Further information from Jackson Hunt jhunt@buildingcentre.co.uk
www.buildingcentretrust.org
Sir Peter Cook presents ... 'Drawings'
The next Store Street evening of the 2007-2008 season will be a special event examining the role of drawing in architecture. A number of internationally renowned architects will discuss their drawings and then join Sir Peter Cook for the requisite chat. Please check back soon for more details on the line up and to book tickets.
Store Street is supported by DSDHA, Fletcher Priest Architects, HOK, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Marks Barfield Architects, Michael Gallie & Partners, Stanton Williams and Wilkinson Eyre.Please book here: www.buildingcentre.co.uk
WHAT STORE STREET IS
There were conversations on the BA flight to Los Angeles and more conversations
when we got there. Paul Hyett popped the question: what if you had a series of events
like those (in the deep past) at ‘Art Net’ and (in the recent past) of the Lowe Series at the Bartlett?
It would need to be different, I said : 'there are more "kiss and tell" lectures and meetings
to discuss architectural issues in London than any other city, but young architects are arriving
in their thousands – mostly from abroad – and still feel out of the conversation'.
Egged-on by Paul Finch and everybody at the Building Centre Trust, we are now ready to
complement New London Architecture with STORE STREET – a chirpy form of salon,
where all sorts of architects will come and talk to each other. The Architectural Review is the
media partner. There WILL be pictures – as background, as information, or even the odd
20 minutes of kiss-and-tell, but the key thing is the conversation between pairs or trios of
people – often from the same city but of different generations or different positions.
The bar at the back of the (new) hall will remain open throughout.
I will search out people from those other cities who have found their way to London. I will
introduce the fact that surprising combinations of people have been cronies/rivals/secret
supporters/avoiding each other for years.
PETER COOK
1 Zaha Hadid and Lebbeus Woods
2 Odile Decq and Didier Faustino
3 Will Alsop and Ken Yeang
4 Xefirotarch and Studio Kolatan/Macdonald
5 Hanif Kara and Paul Westbury
6 Laura Allen and Mark Smout; Nanette Jakowski and Ricardo de Ostos
7 Kathryn Findlay and Nigel Coates
8 Ivan Harbour and Graham Stirk
9 Thom Mayne
10 Zvi Hecker
11 Piers Gough and Eva Jiricna
12 Aedes Architecture Gallery
13 Carmody Groarke
14 Jakob and Macfarlane
15 Heneghan and Peng