CONTENTS
Preface 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 12
1:0 Non-style 17
1:1 North Croydon Medical Centre 18
1:1.1 Disposition 20
1:1.2 Differential rules 20
1:1.3 Composition 21
1:1.4 Void+ void 21
1:2 CASPAR
1:2.1 Profit and prototype 26
1:2.2 Diversities 26
1:2.3 Social condenser 26
Prototype-David Dunster 27
1.3 Live-In Room House 30
1:3.1 Expanded field 32
1:3.2 Research and experimentation 32
1:3.3 Coloured space 32
1:3.4 Non-canon 32
1:4 Portsmouth Players 34
1:4.1 Linkage 35
1:4.2 Mannered reaction 35
1:4.3 Detail 35
1:5 Private House 38
1:5.1 Demeanour 40
1:5.2 Modulation 40
1:6 Walsall Bus Station 42
1:6.1 Analogies and metaphors 46
1:6.2 Flows and movements 46
1:6.3 Logic moonbase 47
1:6.4 Civic space 47
A question of timing - Paul Finch 55
2:0 Surface 57
2:1 Work & Learn Zone 58
2:1.1 Gift wrapping 58
2:1.2 Rhythm 60
2:1.3 Angel suits 60
A letter from Shoreditch - Tim Pyne 65
2:2 Walsall Bus Station 66
2:2.1 Field 66
2:3 Live-In Room House 68
2:3.1 Cartoon 68
2:4 Granada Television 70
2:4.1 No logo? 71
2:4.2 Wallpaper 72
2:4.3 Direction 73
2:5 Morelands 74
2:5.1 Grain 74
2:5.2 Patina 75
2:6 Dalston Lane 76
2:6.1 Camouflage 76
2:6.2 Cake and icing 78
2:7 Crown Street Buildings 80
2:7.1 Armadillo 82
2:7.2 Chameleon 82
2:8 Broadgate Club West 84
2:8.1 Spine and guts 86
2:8.2 Wash and glow 86
2:8.3 Mirror and body
2:8.4 Face and mask 86
2:8.5 Poetry and promotion 87
3:0 Getting things done 89
3:1 Paternoster Alternative 90
3:1.1 Paternoster City 92
3:1.2 Piazza del Duomo 92
3:1.3 Fun Fair City 92
3:1.4 Pavarotti in the Pulpit 92
3:1.5 Dome 92
Optimistic worlds- Neil Spiller 95
3:2 Melvin Apartment 96
3:2.1 Ring-fence 97
3:2.2 St Jerome in his study 97
3:2.3 Cover star 97
3:3 Under 50K 98
3:3.1 Value 98
3:3.2 Career 98
3:3.3 Professional role 98
Ordinary/extraordinary- Jeremy Melvin 99
3:4 Halas Archive 100
3:4.1 Dummy 101
3:4.2 Minimal 101
3:5 St.Mary's Nursery School 102
3:5.1 Cold call 103
3:5.2 Terrain 103
3:6 Millennium Products 104
3:6.1 Touch 105
3:6.2 Body seduction 105
3:6.3 Metaphor 105
3:6.4 Spectacle 105
3:6.5 Abacus 105
3:6.6 Curiosity cabinet 105
3:7 Corn Exchange Hoarding 108
3:7.1 Viewpoints 110
3:7.2 Is this art? 110
3:7.3 Local sensibility 111
4.0 Landing 113
4:1 Great Notley Primary School 114
4:1.1 The law of diminishing returns 116
4:1.2 Materials and devices 116
4:1.3 Microclimate 116
4:1.4 The triangle approximates the circle 116
4:1.5 Farmyards and stealth bombers 117
Environmental and sustainable design - Patrick Bellew 119
4:2 West Pier 2000 122
4:2.1 Sun 123
4:2.2 Sea 123
4:2.3 Wind 125
4:3 Monsoon 126
4:3.1 Strategies of time 129
4:3.2 Past 1: battleship 129
4:3.3 Past II: rotunda 129
4:3.4 Present future 1: operation131
4:3.5 Present future II: arts 131
4:4 Union Square 132
4:4.1 Silhouette 134
4:4.2 Breaking up the block 134
4:4.3 Firming up the square 134
4:5 New Garden House 136
4:5.1 Dock 138
4:5.2 Landing stage 138
4:6 Poolhouse 140
4:6.1 A guest in the garden 143
4:6.2 Elemental relations 143
The Old Man - Iain Borden 143
5:0 Interacting 147
5:1Designing for Doctors 148
5:1.1 Architecture for architects 148
5:2 CASPAR 149
5:2.1 Research and development 149
5:2.2 Partnering and M4I 149
5:3 MoMo Apartments 150
5:3.1 Technology transfer 151
5:3.2 Flexible specification 151
5:3.3 Touch the ground lightly 151
5:3.4 Fit out and finish 151
5:3.5 Spacing time 151
5:4 The Fifth Man 152
5:4.1 The Fifth Member 152
5:4.2 The Fifth Space 153
5:4.3 The Fifth Architect 154
5:4.4 The Fifth Mind 154
Collaborative research - Farshid Moussavi 155
Uncharted territory- Jon Corpe 155
5:5 The Office 156
5:5.1 Ham and High 157
5:5.2 Pocket money 157
5:5.3 POM 157
5:5.4 Projects X, Y and Z: sacking the client 159
Architecture can be about people - Peter Cook 164
5:6 Unit 10 165
5:6.1 Programmes 165
5:6.2 Conversations 165
5:7 Dalston Lane 168
5:7.1 Amending planning 168
5:7.2 Turnaround 169
5:8 Walsall Bus Station 170
5:8.1 Finite element analysis 171
6:0 Spacing 173
6:1 Clearwater Yard 174
6:1.1 Closure 175
6:1.2 Aperture 175
6:1.3 Vectors of law 175
6:1.4 Vectors of sight 176
6:1 .5 Inner world/other world 176
6:2 Mallett-Catcheside House 180
6:2.1 Section 181
6:2.2 Event 181
6:2.3 Texture 181
6:2.4 Television 181
On pragmatism - Lee Mallett 183
6:3 Barbican Centre 184
6:3.1 Unification 186
6:4 Private Apartment 188
6:4.1 Stage Set 189
6:4.2 Discomfort 190
6:4.3 Display 190
6:5 Great Notley Primary School 192
6:5.1 Intensity 192
6:5.2 Schema 192
6:6 Raines Dairy 194
6:6.1 Modularisation 196
6:6.2 Site benefits 196
6:6.3 Patterning 197
6:6.4 Urban presence 197
A factor of change - Cedric Price 199
6:7 Otemon Housing 200
6:7.1 Filter 201
6:8 Poolhouse 202
6:8.1 Precision 202
6:9 Jubilee School 204
6:9.1 Ugly beautiful thing 208
6:9.2 Modulations 208
6:9.3 Corners 209
6:9.4 Development 209
6:9.5 Temporality 210
Going for a drink? - Martin Richman 212
Project Chronology 220
Collaborators 228
Partner Biographies 230
Contributors 230
Bibliography 231
Index 236