How do you take the ideas and commitment of your student portfolio into architectural practice? How can you build a career that reinforces your ideals and aims, rather than compromises them?
These two talks, by architects at very different stages of their careers, will illustrate ‘how they do sustainable practice’, and the challenges and success they have had in addressing the concerns they had as students through their built projects.
This session is organised by Professor Harry Charrington.
The speakers
Chris Morgan, John Gilbert Architects, Glasgow
Chris Morgan graduated from Newcastle University in 1991 with a project based on the use of woodland thinnings from Kielder Forest which he prototyped full-size. He has practiced for over 25-years in Glasgow, designing for climate justice through innovative and expert regeneration strategies, newbuild, conservation and retrofit design work.
Gordon O'Connor-Read, London
Gordon graduated from Westminster University in 2018. While a student he was already working with RUSS, Rural Urban Synthesis Society, and he will talk about his work with them since then, particularly the Church Grove Community Hub, a community space built by volunteers in 2019 using reclaimed materials, and the first element of a mixed-tenure Community Land Trust development of 36 houses/flats. He will also talk about his work for Laing O’Rourke, a multi-disciplinary contractor, not a conventional architecture practice.
Joining the session
The session will take place in the Robin Evans Room M416 at Marylebone Campus and online. The link to the online session will be added at a later date.
