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time and city

This lecture is a discussion about the dimension of time and collective memory in architecture.  Every site has many times embedded in it – many of them invisible but still present in some way. It is important to understand that every place is in a process of change over time, and is never in a final fixed state. We will speak about working with the memory of a place. The idea of city underpins the work that we do at both the building scale and the urban scale. In the city, culture is debated, argued, translated, transformed and celebrated.  The architect is equipped to be a guardian of this discourse. Architecture can make a gift to the city. It can bring culture and civility to people.  Four urban design and architectural projects will be shown, some built, and some unbuilt, including a large urban design proposal we are currently working on in Central Seoul, South Korea.

Florian Beigel is the Director of the Architecture Research Unit (ARU), a design laboratory for design as research, building architectural prototypes at the small and large scales.

He is Professor Emeritus at the London Metropolitan University where he has been an architectural design tutor since the early 1970’s. He was awarded the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2014.

Florian Beigel was born in 1941 in Konstanz, Southern Germany. He received a Diplom Ingenieur (Architecture) at University of Stuttgart in 1968 and a Master of Science at University College, London in 1969. He was an architectural assistant to Prof. Rolf Gutbrod in Stuttgart and Arup Associates in London, and worked as a research assistant with Günter Behnisch, in conjunction with Frei Otto on the Munich Olympic structures. Since 1970 he has been an architect in private practice in London. Florian Beigel received the Grand Art Prize 2013 from the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Philip Christou has worked with Florian Beigel Architects and the Architecture Research Unit since 1985.

He was born in 1956, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Western Canada. He began his university education at McGill University, Montreal, then studied Fine Art at the University of Lethbridge and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association London. 

He is Professor Emeritus at the London Metropolitan University. He has been a Tutor in Architectural Design working with Florian Beigel at London Metropolitan University since 1985. He has lectured in numerous schools of architecture and participated in international conferences concerning architectural design in Europe and Asia. He has written a number of texts for international journals.

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