Tuesday 29th June
10am - 4.30pm
@ The RIBA
Portland Place, London
Doors open at 9.45am

£10 / ticket
Please book through www.LFA2010.org

For eight decades, Architectural Design (AD) has consistently been at the forefront of cultural thought and design. Provocative and inspirational, it has stimulated theoretical debate and technological advances internationally. To celebrate its 80th anniversary, AD is gathering together significant architectural commentators and designers, and some of the greatest creative minds from its illustrious past and present, to bring you a day of fascinating architectural insights.

Biographies of Speakers

Mark Burry is Innovation Professor of Architecture at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT and the Founding Director of RMIT?s Design Research Institute; and Velux Visiting Professor for 2009? 11 at CITA (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark). Since 1979, Burry has worked as an architect on the Temple Sagrada Família in Barcelona, where he is now Executive Architect and Researcher; a key member within the local design team, he has been responsible for untangling the mysteries of Antoni Gaudí?s compositional strategies in his greatest work. Read More

Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She is the author of Domesticity at War (ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007), Doble exposición: Arquitectura a través del arte (Akal, 2006), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994) and Sexuality and Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992). Read More

Peter Cook is currently in practice with Gavin Robotham as CRAB studio, building a law school in Vienna, social housing in Madrid and with upcoming projects for a theatre in Italy and a museum in Taiwan. A founder of Archigram, he has produced over forty years? worth of experimental (drawn) projects and the ebullient Kunsthaus building in Graz (with Colin Fournier) and many books. Read More

Charles Jencks divides his time between lecturing, writing, and designing in the USA, the UK and Europe. He is the author of the bestselling The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (re-issued as The New Paradigm in Architecture, 2002). He has also written numerous other books on contemporary arts and building, including What is Post-Modernism? (fourth edition, 1995) and The Architecture of the Jumping Universe (second edition, 1997). His celebrated garden in Scotland is the subject of his book The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (Frances Lincoln, 2003). Read More

Peter Murray joined Architectural Design in 1970 as art editor and then moved to the position of technical editor after training at the AA where he edited Clip Kit (featured in Beatriz Columina's exhibition Clip Stamp Fold - small magazines on the 1960s) and, at the same time, was design correspondent of Nova magazine. In 1974 he moved to edit Building Design, followed by a stint as Editor of RIBA Journal, before founding Blueprint Magazine in 1983 together with Deyan Sudjic. Read More

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988. Schumacher studied philosophy and architecture in Bonn, London and Stuttgart, where he received his Diploma in architecture in 1990. In 1999 he completed his PHD at the Institute for Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University. In 1996 he founded the ?Design Research Laboratory? with Brett Steele, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and continues to serve as one of its co-directors. Read More

Neil Spiller is Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory, Vice Dean (Academic Affairs) and Graduate Design Director at the Bartlett, University College London. He is Founding Director of the Bartlett's Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group (AVATAR) He is author of many books that include Digital Dreams - Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies (1998), Lost Architecture (2001), CyberReader (2002), Visionary Architecture -Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (2006) and Digital Architecture Now (2008). Read More

Michael Weinstock is an architect and distinguished academic. He is Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme at the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Over the last decade his published work has arisen from research into the dynamics, forms and energy transactions of natural systems, and the application of the mathematics and processes of emergence to cities, to groups of buildings within cities and to individual buildings. Read More