Register - Architecture & Landscape

In this episode we are joined by the Developer, Historian and Architect Crispin Kelly. Crispin is a developer with a deep understanding of architecture, most evidenced by his studies at the AA, but more pertinently by the space he has made for thoughtful work in the risky and contested world of private development. His willingness to personally back talented architects in the making of small and medium scale work gives him an insight into our discipline tempered by the contingencies of economics and return. Most recently he has been working with Peter Salter on the housing complex at Walmer Yard, Peters first built work in many years. In this interview he discusses his education, and career. He shares his thoughts on housing, profit, and affordability. Along the way he gives a detailed insight into what it was like working with his former teacher Peter Salter. Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston University. fada.kingston.ac.uk/al/ Head of Dep

In this episode Andrew Clancy is joined by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats of Flores Prats Architects. (NOTE: During the conversation we have an extended conversation about their Casa Balaguer project - being able to refer to the drawings and images might be useful to understand this part! http://www.floresprats.com/archive/palau_balaguer/) Flores Prats work with a lyrical precision, working into and out of the contexts where it is sited. Sites are read formally and culturally with memory and the incidental valued as a site for discovery. The roots of the practice lie in the time that Eva and Ricardo spent working with the late Enric Miralles and the investigations of this time continue to be a source of agitation and delight. Disarmingly modest when they speak they do so directly and with no artifice. In their built works disparate elements are held in an equilibrium in which everything impinges on everything else in a choreography at once gestural and deeply felt. Familiar elements are woven into new

In this episode Andrew Clancy is joined by Christopher Dyvik and Max Kahlen of Dyvik Kahlen Architects. Their London based office was established in 2010 and operates across various scales and sectors in the UK, Holland, Germany and Norway, collaborating with clients ranging from public institutions and developers to artists, curators and private individuals. Underlying their work is a desire for objects and spaces that are comfortable and strangely familiar, as much as a fascination for rational and neutral form. In this interview they discuss their education, and how they came to establish their practice. In particular the role of representation in their work was described in detail - this is not deployed as a presentation technique alone, but as a way to tune and develop their work. http://www.dyvikkahlen.com Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston University. http://fada.kingston.ac.uk/al/ Head of Department: Eleanor Suess Register Editor: T

In this first episode Eleanor Suess and Andrew Clancy introduce the Register podcast, which is a new initiative from our department of Architecture and Landscape in Kingston. Our school is one invested in acting in continuity with architectural culture, and in cultivating practitioners who make work in a thoughtful manner, attuned to the social and physical contexts where they work. This podcast will host a diverse range of conversations with people who visit our school. Some will be practitioners engaged in making work, others may be researchers, or planners or developers - people involved in enabling a space for architecture. We are interested in making a space to talk discursively about the culture of practice. Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston University. fada.kingston.ac.uk/al/ Head of Department: Eleanor Suess Register Editor: Timothy Smith Audio: Justin Howard