31/01/2014

open jury

thanks to our guests at the Open Jury: Robin Cross (Article 25), Simon Tucker (Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture), Mike Levey (Newlon Housing Trust), Nick Willson (Nick Willson Architects) and Sandra Denicke-Polcher (The Cass, LMU).

some quotes from the day:

Make physical models.

Learn from Berwick Street.

How does a building affect its context and how does the context affect the building?

A proposal is imagining and proposing the future.

Design for the future of Soho.

Take a leap. Don't be afraid of getting it wrong (because you always start by getting it wrong).

A drawing is never neutral.

Encode your agenda in each drawing.

Interesting things in Soho happen above (or below) the ground level.

The projects need more friction. Give them more to work against.

Is it (the friction) programmatic? Or to do with day/night shifts? Find it. 

Draw sections - show layered richness and richness of activity.