Speakers
Conference: Local Tradition and Culture

Peter Davey is the Editor of The Architectural Review

After graduating from Edinburgh University and working in architectural offices in Norway, Edinburgh and London, he qualified as an architect in 1970. Specialisation in writing and editing started on the Architects' Journal. A contributor to numerous magazines and books, Davey has lectured and criticised at schools and societies of architecture throughout the world, and is the author of Arts and Crafts Architecture, the definitive history of the key turn-of-the-century movement. Other books include Peter Zumthor (1998) and Heikkinen & Komonen (1997).

Professional involvement at the RIBA has included being RIBA councillor, Honorary Librarian and Vice President. He was keynote speaker at the annual congress US Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Puerto Rico (1991).

Davey has been jury member of many international competitions and awards, including Prague Castle Pheasantry Competition (1997, chairman), Brunel Awards (Copenhagen, 1996), the South African Constitutional Court Competition (1997-8), the Carlsberg Prize (1992, 1995, 1998), the first Hellenic Institute of Architecture's National Award (2000), the Norwegian Institute of Architects quinquennial exhibition (1985-2000), Commonwealth Association of Architects' student prizes (chairman, Auckland, 2000) and the RIBA's annual Royal Gold Medal (1990-1995).

He has been honoured with Knighthood of the White Rose of Finland, First Class (1991) and with an
OBE (UK, 1998).

Commercialism versus aestheticism; must architecture be either mediocre or arcane? Can architecture still en-noble and inspire humanity? Do architects have to retreat to art for art's sake, or can they reinvigorate their own discipline as an essential part of civilised life for everyone? Do we have to embrace the destructive placeless aspects of globalism at the cost of particular places and local cultures?

Lessons from the AR+D awards, given for excellent completed work by young architects. Now in their fifth cycle, the awards regularly receive over 700 entries from all over the world, from the richest as well as the poorest countries. The awards are a huge torrent of ingenuity and invention that shows how we can begin to evolve local approaches to architectures which combine tenderness to humanity and respect for the planet.

Peter Davey OBE
www.arplus.com

Cathy Hawley has been with muf since 1996 and an Associate since 1998. She has extensive experience of working in the public realm on both art and architecture projects. An architectural designer by training she is a senior lecturer in architecture and a post graduate design tutor at the London Metropolitan University (previously the University of North London). She has taught and lectured at UIAH in Helsinki, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen and the Academy of fine Art in Vienna.

Cathy was the 2001 RIBA Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome.

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS

muf architecture/art are a multidisciplinary practice of artists and architects committed to working in the public realm. Since 1996 muf has established a reputation for innovative projects that address the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of each site, brief and situation.

The practice philosophy is driven by an ambition to realize the potential pleasures that exist at the intersection between the lived and the built in order to deliver strategic durable projects that inspire a sense of ownership through occupation and accommodate diverse and multiple use.

The creative process is underpinned by a capacity to establish effective client relationships that reveal and value the desires and experiences of varied constituencies.

Access is understood not as a concession but as the gorgeous norm; creating spaces that have an equivalence of experience for all who navigate them both physically and conceptually.

muf's presentation will look at urban and design strategies that develop the economic and social potential for multiple occupations of public space. How do you identify the many and diverse desires and influences contingent on a situation?

4 Projects will be presented:

Security, Mobility, Pleasure In the London Borough of Newham physical urban improvements are supported by sustainable mechanisms for management and community involvement. By redefining the limits that constitute public space and so concentrating investment where there already exists a degree of informal surveillance and management schemes which would normally be considered too rarefied and vulnerable become viable.
The Pleasure Garden of the Utilities A public art project in Stoke on Trent for a permanent streetscape provides its own benign surveillance through the involvement of the local ceramic industry. The work itself is assigned a shared authorship and sense of public ownership through its physical manufacture.
Oyster Pavillion A museum building in St. Albans to house an in-situ Roman mosaic is designed to make apparent the relationships between the remains of the invisible city beneath the grass, the current activities of the park and the contemporary town.
Tilbury Community Gardens A landscape project developed with the residents of a housing estate in Tilbury acknowledges and makes space for the diverse and contradictory demands made on limited space. The design ensures both security and pleasure through an undulating landscape of shared and discrete spaces.

Cathy Hawley
www.muf.co.uk

A graduate of the College of Architecture, Chandigarh, 1979 and of Washington University, St. Louis, 1984 with a Masters degree in Architecture and Urban Design. Rajeev Kathpalia has worked in Delhi, Kuwait and in St. Louis and currently practices from Ahmedabad.

He co-founded Mansar in 1987, a design laboratory for experimenting with architecture, urban design, fashion, photography and exhibition design. The practice is the recipient of JK Cement 1993 Commendation Award and has won several national design competitions. Notable being the All India mass housing scheme for CIDCO in 1988 and Urban Design Guidelines for part of Navi Mumbai in 1998.

Since 1995 he has been a partner with Vastu Shilpa Consultants where on going projects include large urban design and planning projects, including revitalization of the historic core of Hyderabad and high density low income urban mass housing. Architectural projects integrating conservation and recycling of fast depleting water resources form another area of exploration.

He teaches at the School of Architecture and the Urban Design program at CEPT, Ahmedabad and has also taught at the Urban Design program, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, conducting multi-disciplinary design exercises with students from India and abroad within the theme 'In search of India's future Cities". He also runs with BV Doshi, the Vastu Shipla International Studio programme for students in association with schools from a number of countries and has lectured widely.

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
Beyond Sustainable Cities; Applied Strategies for Regional Sustenance

This presentation takes three projects executed by Vastu Shilpa Consultants demonstrating the processes and tools for attaining a sustainable development. These examples show that, irrespective of constraints, it is possible to innovate and introduce sustainable practices.

Fringe Area Development - Aranya, Indore
A composite housing project for the under privileged in Indore evolved from the need to reduce servicing costs which went on to demonstrate that economics can be a motivator for creative alternatives that respect the realities and aspirations of the users and their resource base. Whilst the project provided a serviced plinth a pilot of 60 houses was built, representing the various permutations and combinations of the basic elements that could evolve from user preferences. The project received an Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1996.

City Planning - Vidhy Adhar Nagar
A green field extension of the city of Jaipur, that sets a new theory model for urban planning in the Indian context, post-Chandigarh. It fuses the best of Indian urban traditions from the medieval city of Jaipur with the Modern planning lessons from Chandigarh. Adapting the implicit orthogonality in the traditional 'Prastar' plan. The project is a prototype for an Energy Conscious City optimising orientation of streets and traditional builtforms with courtyards, recycling and reuse of wastewater and integrated public transport and pedestrian access ways.

Inner Core of Historic City, Hyderabad
Physical interventions to re-establish this rich heritage site as a holistic tourist centre, conserving whilst providing economic opportunities for residents, (the urban poor), leading to regeneration of the quarter. By restoring civic and physical infrastructure, civic pride has been reinstated to citizens who have voluntarily accommodated changes such as pedestrianisation banishing vehicles to identified car parks. Chaotic signs and hoardings have been removed to reveal historic facades and heritage walks draw visitors in encouraging the reuse and maintenance of buildings along the routes.

Rajeev Kathpalia IIA
www.sangath.org

After graduating from Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, Patrick Staniger worked in New York for three years, returning to Jamaica in 1971. He worked for a short time with the Jamaican firm McMorris Sibley Robinson and then started, with three other Architects, Design Collaborative. In 1976, he left that firm to work with Jamaica's Ministry of Education and its Urban Development Corporation. This experience in working with Government was interrupted by two years of work in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1986 he returned to Private Practice as a sole practitioner.

His experience is characteristic of work in a small community in that it calls upon the architect to play different roles on different types of Projects, rather than specialize. Thus, the list of his works includes private houses, low cost housing, institutional buildings, industrial buildings, landscape design, urban design and town planning projects. Throughout all of this he has maintained his commitment to Art and has on a number of occasions participated in Jamaica's Annual National Art Exhibition. In 1989, for his contributions to Architecture, he was granted admission to Jamaica's Order of Distinction. Similarly, in 1999 he was awarded the Silver Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica for his contributions to Architecture. In 1998, he was granted honorary membership to the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects.

He has frequently written, lectured and participated in Conferences in the Caribbean and the United States and is continuously involved in community service. He has been a member of the Board of Kingston's Metropolitan Parks and Markets, and currently serves on the interim Board of Kingston City Centre Improvement District Co. a recently formed vehicle for the development of Kingston's Downtown. For five years he was Dean of the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology.

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
Caribbean Tradition and Culture

Tradition and Culture - A brief historical and geographical review will clarify how much is taken for granted in the phrase "Caribbean Tradition and Culture". This will also examine the world's external perception of us as opposed to our own internal self image and take on the complexity of the idea of "Tradition" in post colonial, slavery based, composite, new societies.

The Architect - Discussion of the enigma of Identity and the culture of the West Indian architect. Our social origins, education and relationship to our societies.

The Individual - Argument for the individual artist as the point and counterpoint of and to Society. Illustration of individual search for relevance and the joy of personal expression in the work of a number of our architects. A discussion of the problem of my own work and of the Depth, Breadth and Variety of our experience.

In Review - Why do we do what we do? What do people want from us? What does History want from us and what are we prepared to give?

Patrick Stanigar OD BArch

Speakers
Conference: Policy 1 and 2

Chris Colbourne is currently Vice President, Design and Construction, Masterworks Development Corporation, with responsibility for the design and construction of all projects worldwide, having joined in 1998 as Director, Development, Europe.

Chris is an architect, but with design, planning and development management experience of major projects. Chris has lived and studied in the US and UK, and currently divides his time between both countries.

He has worked for UK based international firms, including Llewellyn-Davies Weeks, and was a founding partner of Tibbalds Colbourne Partnership, (Now Tibbalds TM2) and Davis Brody Tibbalds Monro, an international multidisciplinary practice, based in New York and London. His work, which includes new towns, universities, residential communities, commercial buildings and leisure facilities, has been recognised by numerous awards for design, conservation, and sustainability.

He has served both as a Vice President and Deputy Director General of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and is currently CAA Chair of Communications. He is a Visiting Examiner at University College, London and has been a Validation Panellist for the RIBA.

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
The Impact of "Business Process Outsourcing" on the Architect's Office

One of the paradoxes of the 21st century seems to be that each trend has an equally powerful counter-trend. It is the juxtaposition of these trends that makes for vitality and progress, or if badly managed, calamity and chaos. When I was Deputy Director General of the RIBA we worked with management experts to help us design an Institute that would meet the diverse expectations of its members.

Now my working life puts me in contact with many practices in many countries. I find that I am attracted, paradoxically, both to the intimate knowledge and expertise of the small, expert, local practice, and the world-class standards of international firms. Value comes from both the expertise of the local professional, and on achieving top class construction documentation that follow international norms, and are obtained at cost-effective prices.

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is affecting all kinds of businesses. It is now not just the outsourcing of peripheral tasks, but deliberately placing critical, core functions with experts who have established high standards through making the function the centre of their business, and working hard to get the economics right.

Outsourcing offers both threats and opportunities to architects, wherever they are located and however large their practices. The internet has provided a tool which makes practical the global delivery, instantly, of architectural documentation. Understanding this trend is the best way to make sure it remains an opportunity, rather than a threat. By way of example, I will touch on the progress of Vietnam based Atlas Industries in developing a business around UK practice's need for the efficient preparation of high quality construction documents.

Christopher Colbourne BA(hons) AADip RIBA
www.masterworksdev.com
www.atlasindustries.com

Lousie Cox has had wide experience with particular emphasis on heritage, conservation, institutional and health planning and contract administration of major health projects. She is UIA Vice President Region IV, Asia and Oceania, a Council Member of the UNESCO-UIA Validation System for Architectural Education and UIA Region IV Education Director

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
The UIA Education Policy and a recent trial of the UNESCO-UIA
Validation System

The next ten to twenty years will see an increasing focus on the problems of sustaining human life on the planet for an increasing population and will highlight the need for holistic and conceptual thinking that can integrate appropriate solutions. We must produce creative and critical thinkers who as architects and designers can address the complexities of our world, and who can deal with unique and unstable situations and find brilliant and lateral solutions.

The issues of ecological sustainable design and construction and their relevance to the solution of the world future, will bring demand for holistic skills of architects and their ability to integrate arts, science and technology with the real needs of society.

In looking at the future of Architectural Education and from an understanding of the five UIA Regions, it is obvious that the independence of educational institutions must be respected, as must a country's unique society, traditions, climate, terrain and the needs of their peoples. We should build upon what is there. Intuition, observation and regional sensitivity, not regionalism must be taken into account.

The question is how do we structure architectural education?

This Paper will look at the development of the UNESCO-UIA Charter for Architectural Education, and the result of the trial of the UNESCO-UIA Validation System at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in October 2002 and how this is relevant globally.

Louise Cox AM BArch DipT&CP LFRAIA RIBA

Born in London, 1949. History degree, Selwyn College, Cambridge. Entered journalism 1972. Deputy editor, Estates Times, 1976 to 1983. Editor, Building Design, 1983 to 1994. Editor, The Architects' Journal, 1994 to 1999. Currently editorial director of the Architects' Journal, the Architectural Review, and their publisher, Emap Construct. RIBA honorary fellow 1994. Joint editor, Planning in London. Frequent chairman of lectures/debates. Occasional contributor to BBC programmes on architecture and planning. Member, John Gummer's Thames Advisory Group, 1995-97. Member, Nick Raynsford's Advisory Group on the building for the GLA, 1998-99. Deputy chair, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (and chair of design review committee), from 1999. OBE 2002. Lives in Wandsworth, South London (with Mrs Finch).

PRESENTATION TITLE
London Calling; UK Architecture in Perspective

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
UIA Accord on Recommended International Standards of Professionalism in Architectural Practice.

The UIA Professional Practice Commission has developed the "UIA Accord on Recommended International Standards of Professionalism in Architectural Practice" (the Accord) and nine related Accord policy guidelines. The Accord contains a statement of principles of professionalism and a series of 16 policy issues in a format of definitions and background statements followed by policy statements. These documents were approved by resolution at the UIA Congress and Assembly in Beijing, China in July 1999.

UIA interest in establishing recommended standards of professionalism grows out of the increasing globalisation of architectural practice and the opportunity offered by the Council for Trade in Services established by GATS. The Council charged to develop measures relating to qualification requirements and procedures, technical standards, and licensing requirements based on objective and transparent criteria that do not in themselves constitute barriers to trade in services. International standards of relevant international organizations are to be taken into account in judging conformity to this obligation allowing the UIA to take the lead in working toward inter-recognition of standards of professionalism and competence

The UIA encourages governments and regulatory agencies to adopt the policies of the Accord as the basis for reviewing and making appropriate revisions to their own national standards and as the basis for negotiating mutual recognition agreements. It is the intention of the UIA that the Accord and policy guidelines will provide practical guidance for governments and agencies entering into mutual recognition negotiations on architectural services.

Esa Mohammed
www.uia-architectes.org

Olumide Olusanya is currently, Professor of Architecture and Head of Department at University of Lagos, Nigeria and a practitioner. He trained in the US at Oregon and Washington Universities before taking up academic appointment on his return to Nigeria.

He work places premium on the integration of academic research and professional practice in providing practical solutions to architectural problems, as well as marriage of architecture design and technology. His primary concern is for the problem of housing in Nigeria and he has evolved an urban housing prototype with a strategic approach to housing delivery as an engine of growth in a developing economy, designing a system of plant and building components. The objective is the marriage of housing production and processes for sustainable industrialisation.

Significant buildings include The Frederick Ebert Foundation building at the University of Lagos and the 3000 capacity auditorium for the City of David parish church. Olusanya is a poet, composer and pianist. His academic research interests include the principle and practice of creative and operational skills.

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
Sustainable Industrialized Housing Delivery System for a Developing Economy

Nigeria has the largest population among all African countries. (2000 est. 120 million). The problem of housing provision for its large population is compounded by rapid urbanisation without attendant industrialisation and infrastructure. The project here reviewed is for a 60-unit housing estate, which is the industrial translation of an experimental research project in system housing successfully completed at completed at the University of Lagos in 1991.
The project is a radical departure from conventional practices in that it involves a marriage of architecture design and building systems where the product and the process are conceived as an integrated whole. The main features are:

The Product:
An urban housing prototype that makes optimal utilisation of expensive urban land and utilities while promoting territorial claim and identity. The provision of environmental comfort in a tropical climate by the development of a roof system that catches the breeze for cross ventilation

The Process:
The development of an organisational process that achieves productivity and cost-efficiency through a breakdown of the building operations into one integrated continuous production system. This is achieved by adapting the high skill traditional craft-based building methods into a system of technique-based production methods that make efficient utilisation of a large, under -employed, under-skilled labour pool.

The objective is a sustainable industrialised housing delivery system based on complementary linkages with other industrial activities within the economy.

Olumide Olusanya BArch MIarch MNIA

Speaker
Sophia Gray lecture

Peter Buchanan

Born in Malawi and schooled in Zimbabwe, Peter Buchanan studied architecture at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1968. He has worked as an architect, urban designer and planner in various parts of Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He is also a writer and critic, curator and consultant. Through the 1980s he was Deputy Editor of The Architectural Review, publishing prolifically in that journal and others. Since 1992 he has freelanced: curating exhibitions (including Renzo Piano Building Workshop: selected projects and Ten Shades of Green - both were initiated by The Architectural League of New York and have toured widely), writing the four volumes of Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works and Ten Shades of Green, and consulting on urban design and green issues. His interest in the latter originates from his early years in practice in Cape Town, before he moved to London in 1972 where he still resides.

PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
Architecture Of The Emergent Epoch

Towards the beginning of last century modern architecture was assumed to herald the dawn of a new era. At the beginning of a new millennium, historians see modernism (in the arts and architecture) as instead marking the final phase of a 400 year epoch, that of modernity which began with the rise of science. After a terminal post-modern phase, in which what had been repressed by modernity briefly flared to the forefront, the coup de grace for both (modernity and post-modernity) is being delivered by the environmental crisis. Central to the new epoch which will be the quest for sustainability, and in achieving this the environmental design disciplines must inevitably play a central role. The challenge for them is to confront the pressing realities ignored by post-modern theorising and seek enmeshment in much larger realities than those acknowledged by modernity in general and modern architecture in particular.

As a quick foretaste of what will follow, the lecture will open by briefly contrasting some key themes of modern architecture and that of the emergent epoch. It will then outline a conceptual framework that illuminates with great clarity the key themes of the modern era and its post-modern sunset, their great gifts to our continuing cultural evolution and their now debilitating limitations. This vantage point will allow a quick critical appraisal of the relevance of the various strands of contemporary architecture before using the same conceptual framework to explain key aspects of the emergent epoch and the unprecedented role design can play in consciously shaping it and bringing it about. The latter part of the lecture will use a series of contemporary works (and possibly those still under design in leading architectural and engineering offices) to illustrate aspects of an architecture that could shelter a sustainable society that is gentle in its environmental impacts while offering an unprecedented quality of life to all.

Sustainability in this sense cannot be achieved by attending to ecological and technological issues alone, nor is it in anyway regressive. Instead it will involve stepping forward on all fronts, including socio-economic, spiritual and aesthetic. As part of the examination of this expanded realm of design, the lecture will also discuss the collaborative working methods and new view of creativity implicit in such design as well as the true promise of the computer, beyond labour saving tool and facilitator of the current fad for biomorphic blobs.