Day TWO
The second day of lectures was much more comfortable. Perhaps I got used to the format of the evening or perhaps (most likely) the venue was comfortable and a little less stiff. Where as the first evening I felt like I was in a boardroom. The presentations were very interesting and although it was a shame that Michael Sorkin or Robert Ivy couldn’t come speak. I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. I found Samia Rab to be completely interesting with her talk about Dubai. Perhaps just because of the way she spoke and the outlandishness of the city that she was dealing with.
Dennis Sharp: London, UK
- Expressionism
- Connection of people to the earth
- EIA – environmental impact
- The profile of the city and St. Pauls in the background
- Need more room around center
- Richard Rogers proposal
- London is a name soaked in history
- MARS group plan for London
- The aviary by Lord Snowdon – London zoo
- Royal College of Physicians
- Lloyds of London
- Peckham library Will Alsop (a precursor to the Sharp design center?)
- Goldsmith college
- Laban Dance center (H&deM)
- Tate Modern
- Greater London Authority office (Foster)
- The London Eye
- Bedzed – Bill Dundster
- Lords Media center
- Wellbley stadium
- Arsenal football club (HOK spork & Piers Gough)
- Millenium Dome (Rogers)
- Millenium Bridge
- British Museum – Great Hall
- Ascot Racecourse
- The “Gerkin”
- “The Cheese Grater” – what is with the nicknames? Almost as bad as bradgelina!
- The Shard (renzo)
“Sharp has practiced and taught architecture, designed exhibits, and published as an architecture critic in London since the late 1960s.”
“Studying at Liverpool and London’s AA, Dennis Sharp has always combined an active architecure/exhibition design practice with a prolific career as critic and historian and conservator of Modern architecture. Noted for an early study of Expressionism plus monographs of Santiago Calatrava and Kisho Kurokawa, his Twentieth Century Architecture: A Visual History has just been republished by Images of Melbourne.”
Source: A Dialogue of Cities
Samia Rab: Dubai
- Calvino – Kubla Khan
- Cities have always been in competition
- Globalization
- Trade Center and Emirate tower
- 24 hour construction sites
- Global Village (literally)
- Cultural artifacts?
- Burj Al Arab Hotel
- Madinat Jemeira Resort
- Al Hisn Fort
- Dubai “Everyday a new Dubai”
- Indoor ski hill
- Nakheel.ae
- “the world” islands
- expatriat = one who moves abroad
“Under current sheikh and former crown prince Mohamed al-Maktoum, Dubai has become a hub of extravagant, tourist-oriented architecture. American University Sharjah architecture head Samia Rab casts a skeptic’s eye on “Las Vegas on the Persian Gulf.””
“Currently head of the Faculty of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah, just outside of Dubai, Samia Rab grew up in north Pakistan and took her first architecture degree in Lahore. She has completed advanced studies at Rome’s ICCROM, MIT’s Aga Khan Program, and a doctorate from Georgia Tech, along with publications on urbanism, conservation, and vernacular architecture in the Islamic world.”
Source: A Dialogue of Cities, Nakheel, The World, University of Hawaii
Yasmin Sharif: Nairobi
- Sensitive to the environment
- Practical
- Needs much more about sustainable urban issues
- Ecological footprint
- Thinking about the vernacular
“Yasmin Shariff is an East African now living in London, UK. She is a director of Dennis Sharp Architects and the East of England Development Agency, as well as a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster. She is a member of several government panels on architecture, heritage and urban planning and is a specialist in environmental design. Yasmin is currently working on a research project on East African architecture and has already published numerous articles on the subject. Her design for a straw bale dance studio was featured on the Discovery Channel and recently won the RIBA’s Spirit of Innovation Award.”
Source: A Dialogue of Cities
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