RA Summer Exhibition 2010

July 14th, 2010 by Patrick Lynch

This is a photograph of the Barking Abbey Green model, which is currently being exhibited in the architecture room at The Royal Academy, curated this year by David Chipperfield RA. We’re situated between a drawing made of lego by FAT, and a sectional model of an art gallery by Foster and partners, which feels about [...]

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TALK AT THE BARBICAN

July 14th, 2010 by Patrick Lynch

My friend the novelist Tom McCarthy and I are giving a talk at The Barbican art gallery on Thursday 29th July at 7pm. We’ll be discussing ‘The Surrealist House’ in novels and films and attempting to discuss the ways in which the architectural imagination responds to images of technology and to the suppression of myth [...]

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Wiley House

May 6th, 2010 by Patrick Lynch

Two photographs of a house on the east coast of America built in 1953 by Philip Johnson. Vincent Scully over states his case for Johnson as an architect concerned with archetypal spatial experiences (see below), but the images are compelling with or without the rhetoric. Johnson’s steel cloister for St Thomas’ University in Houston is [...]

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TALKS

March 5th, 2010 by Patrick Lynch

Patrick Lynch is talking at London Metropolitan University department of architecture and spatial design next Tuesday 9th March, along with the Portuguese architect Camillo Rebelo:
http://www.asd-realtime.org/
and then again the following Tuesday 16th at Nottingham University school of architecture alongside the artist Hilary Koob-Sassen.

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How to Apply for a Job

December 1st, 2009 by Patrick Lynch

We’re always interested in working with good people and are particularly keen to find good qualified (post part 2 and post part 3-or equivalent) staff at the moment. I’m afraid that we get a huge number of CVs every week and if we replied to all of them we’d never get any work done….
Here’s some [...]

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