Architecture Masters

For this episode of Architecture Masters we’re joined by Frank Anatole, Principal Architect at Network Rail. Network Rail oversees a vast network of built environment infrastructure across the UK including over 2,500 stations, 30,000 bridges and tunnels, as well as countless maintenance depots, signal boxes and other infrastructure buildings that all too often go unseen. …

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On the programme today we’re joined by Dale Sinclair, Director of Innovation for the global infrastructure consultancy Aecom. Over the years much of Dale’s work has focused on the future of the architecture profession, and much of our conversation today involves future gazing. Dale grew up in Edinburgh and went on to study architecture at …

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On the programme this week we’re joined by Sheng-Yuan Huang founder of Fieldoffice Architects. Sheng-Yuan was born in Taipai and initially studied architecture at Tunghai University in Taichung – Taiwan’s second city – where he graduated in 1986. Taiwan – officially the Republic of China – was governed underMartial Law until 1987, which marked the …

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On the programme this week we’re joined by Sofie De Caigny, Director of VAi, the Flanders Architecture Institute. The VAi is based in Antwerp – across two buildings – with gallery space and public programmes taking place in the International Arts Campus deSingel. As well as their extensive public programme, every two years the institute …

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For the eleventh episode of Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Giovanna Borasi, Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Giovanna joined the CCA in 2005 as the Curator for Contemporary Architecture, going on to become Chief Curator in 2014 and then Director of the Centre at the beginning of this year. …

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On this week’s Architecture Masters at Home we’re joined by Roger Hawkins, co-founder of Hawkins\Brown. Russel Brown and Roger Hawkins founded the firm in 1988 after having worked together at Rock Townsend in the 1980s. The two partners started the firm with an initial determination, as they saw it, not to get trapped working on …

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For the ninth episode of the LFA’s Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Ellie Stathaki, Architecture Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine. Wallpaper* Magazine was founded in 1996 and quickly became one of the world’s most influential international lifestyle titles. Wallpaper* – with tagline “the stuff that refines you” covers design and architecture, fashion, travel, art, …

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For the eighth episode of Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Laura King, Director at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in London. Over the last few weeks many of us have been getting used to the new normal of remote working. But for many global architecture firms like KPF, working on international projects with clients …

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For our seventh episode of Architecture Masters at Home we’re joined by the artist-designer Yinka Ilori – described by The Financial Times as one of the world’s most in demand designers. Born in London, much of his work references his West African heritage. Yinka established his studio in 2017 with a loan from the Prince’s …

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For the sixth episode of Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Maria Louise Long, Senior Associate at Chris Dyson Architects. Maria Louise grew up in South West Ireland and went on to study architecture atthe Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen before moving to London some 10 years ago in search of work …

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