Lynch Architects September « 2009 «

Andy Laurie was our student at London Met a few years ago. He can make nice cast models such as these, which are various versions of a small office building that we have designed for Land Securities at Victoria in London. The soffit angles result from the need to connect the columns to existing pile [...]

Chris Storie did his diploma at London Met last year in our unit. Now he’s working here and doing these lovely drawings, and grappling with CAD…

PRITZKER PRIZE CITATION FOR SIZA
VITTORIO GREGGOTTI
‘I have always had the impression that Alvaro Siza’s architecture sprang from archaeological foundations known to him alone—signs invisible to anyone who has not studied the site in detail through drawings with steady, focused concentration.
Later on, those signs come together because they convey a feeling of growing out of [...]

This is from Valentina Colomba who is a student at Milan Polytechnic. She was an intern for 3 months this summer. We often have interns here on Leonardo Scholarships and currently Gunvor is here from Bergen and Laura from Dresden. They’ll also be making comments in their own languages.
‘Lavorare nello studio Lynch Architects è [...]

Fehn argues that in the day-to-day rituals embedded in these two elements [open fires and water collection] lies an aspect of time, in particular an aspect of waiting, and that this time aspect is a resistance force: it sets limits. “Tragedy arrived when one had to live with instant light everywhere. Tied to the fireplace [...]