A&A Celebrating 25 Years | 1st August-26th Sept.2007  The Building Centre London

For twenty-five years, Art & Architecture has been debating and influencing the role of art, design and building, ever since its inception at a landmark ICA conference in 1982. Rallying and empowering practitioners, it has been advocating joined-up thinking, from a time when architectural debate was exclusively for architects, and art was much less accessible than it is today. To date A&A has presented 200 open talks and sixty journals, a considerable achievement for groundbreaking volunteers.

Applying the principal of art practice at the forefront of innovation, A&A promotes the collective approach as the vehicle to new challenges such as a low carbon society and "restorative" ecological design. To this end subjects for recent public discussion have featured Design for Climate Change, Architecture for Humanity, Arts & Ecology, Critical Modernism. Speakers included Ken Shuttleworth, Michaela Crimmin RSA, Sunand Prasad RIBA, Charles Jencks - see over.

The Pentagram connection. A significant factor in the ability of A&A to gain recognition for its activities is the support from international design agency Pentagram. It was Theo Crosby and John Rushworth in particular who designed the identity of the network, in addition to producing lecture publicity, brochures and other ephemera. This display of posters highlights the fruits of the partnership. The Royal College of Art Library now holds the complete Art & Architecture archive available for viewing by appointment.

JOIN THE DEBATE. A&A is now looking for new team members to take the events and website programme forward. Should you be interested in joining please come along to the re-launch 6pm Sept 26th The Gallery 77 Cowcross Street EC1

A&A Lectures

An important contribution to the integration of skills is a series of open talks involving many top practitioners. A leading public forum for knowledge and breeding ground to exchange ideas, speakers include:

2007

Eric Parry Collisions & Collaboration

Ken Shuttleworth Designing for Climate Change

A&A 25th Anniversary Debate Sunand Prasad, Richard Simmons CABE,

Michaela Crimmin RSA, Megan Yates AfH UK

Charles Jencks Critical Modernism

2006

Chris Wilkinson Exploring Boundaries

Designer Wayne Hemingway I'm not an architect,what am I doing here?"

Healing City

Rab Bennetts

Studio Downie Architects

Making Exhibitions

2005

Artist Richard Wilson - 'Not By Half'

Artist David Batchelor - 'Chromophobia'

Architect Nicholas Pope

Architect Rick Mather - 'Art and Architecture'

Architect Declan O'Carroll (Arup) + Artist Simon Patterson - 'Public Art as Civic Space'

Engineer Cecil Balmond - 'Informal Networks'

2004

Artist William Pye - 'Artist as Designers - Designers as Artists'

Artist Jochen Gerz + Architect Sir Richard MacCormac - 'Future Monument'

Terry Farrell Ultimate Collaboration

Artiste Jude Kelly

2003

Artist David Ward-'Dancing about Architecture'

Architects Ushida Findlay, Mike Russum, Laurie Chetwood - 'The Art of Living'

Architect Tony Fretton - 'Architecture Art & Situation'

Architect Rafael Viñoly - 'Cultural Projects & Ground Zero'

Architect Irena Bauman + Artist Bill Fontana - 'Doors of Deception'

2002

Artist Yuko Shiraishi

Curator Simon Groom

Artist Kathrin Bohm

Architects Dominic Williams + Ellis Williams

Architects Eric Parry

John Pasmore

Architect Jim Chapman, Chapman Robinson Architects

Designer Thomas Heatherwick

2001

Curator Peter Sharpe + Artist Kisa Kawakami

Planner Fred Manson

Curator James Lingwood - Artangel Trust

Eelco Hooftman - Gross Max Landscape Architects

Artists Heinrich and Palmer

Architect John Miller

Artist Isamu Noguchi

Architect Kathryn Findlay

Architect Sarah Wigglesworth

2000

Minister of State DCMS Chris Smith

Architect Terry Farrell

Architect Wendy Shillam

Artist Martin Goodrich

Architect Tom de Paor + Geoff Wood + Jeremy Grint

Structural Engineer Chris Wise

Artist Richard Wentworth

Architect Pierre D'Avoine

Architect Will Alsop

Architect Shigeru Ban + Philip Gumuchdjian + Paul Westbury

1999

Artist Adrian Wiszniewski

Minister for the Arts Alan Howarth

Haworth Tompkins Architects

Mode 1 Architects

Artist Martin Richman

Patrick Schumaker, Zaha Hadid Architects

Artist Eilis O'Connell

Jane Gosney

Architect Alex Lifschutz

Artist Susanna Heron

1998

Artist Alan Charlton + Architect John Wynter

Julia Wood, AA School + Gary Woodley, Slade

Architect John Lyall

Architectural Engineer Tim MacFarlane

Architect / Engineer Chris Wilkinson

Andrew Whalley - Nicholas Grimshaw Partnership

Architectural Glass Art Andrew Moor

Architects MUF

Architects FAT - Fashion Architecture Taste

1997

Artist Michael Craig-Martin

Architect Florien Beigel

Architect Dennis Sharp

Doug Cleave + Landscape & Art Network

Landscape Architect Preben Jakobsen

Artist Katy Hallett

Architect Kisho Kurokawa

Architect Shin Egashira

Fiona Raby + Tony Dunne

Artist Danny Lane

Public Art Consultant Vivien Lovell

1996

Charles Jencks

Artist Ron Haselden + Architect Adam Caruso

Artist David Mach + Architect Sunand Prasad

Architects Kengo Kuma + Noriko Dan

Artist Lalitte Stolper + Architect Nicholas Boyarsky

Mark Fisher MP, Labour Shadow Minister for the Arts

Graham Cooper

Artist Richard Wilson

Artist Peter Fink

Architect Ian Ritchie

1995

Sandy Nairne

Will Alsop + Floris Van Den Broeke

Will Alsop Collaboration

Artist Anthony Gormley + Curator Andrew Brighton + Tim Eastop

Architect Jon Broome

Architect Richard Rogers

Artist Anthony Caro

Richard MacCormac

Deyan Sudjic

1994

Stuart Durant

Architect Piers Gough + Archictect Edward Cullinan

Theo Crosby Memorial Lecture

Artist John Maine

Sally Medlyn Tony Noble

Rory Coonan Lottery Fund

1982 - 1993

Artists

Francis Carr, Bernard Cohen, Stephen Farthing, Tess Jaray, Ron Haselden, Ben Johnson, Raymond Mason, Bruce McLean, Dhruva Mistry, Deanna Petherbridge,

William Pye, Felisk Topolski, Glynn Williams,

Architects

A Alberts, Will Alsop, Julian Bicknell, Ted Cullinan, Richard Burton, Sir Hugh Casson, David Chipperfield, Terry Farrell, Roderick Gradidge, Charles Jencks, Zaha Hadid, Leon Krier, John Outram, David Lyle, Richard MacCormac, Sir Colin St John Wilson, Colin Stansfield-Smith, El Wakil, Quinlan Terry, Richard Frewer Engineer, Francis Tibbalt, Planner

Craftsman /Designer

Rodney Fitch, David Hamilton Ceramics, Stuart Hill Blacksmith, Eva Jiricna , Richard Quinnell, Blacksmith, Patrick Nuttgens Glass Artist, Jane Priestman.

Critics, Acadenic

Graham Burgess, Richard Cork, Peter Dormer, Jonathan Glancey, Sir Ernst Gombrich, Jules Lubbock, Sutherland Lyall, James Mordaunt-Crook, Andrew Plumridge, Bill Riseboro, Joseph Rykwert,

Curatorial, Planning, Developer

Rory Coonan, Sandy Nairne, Sir Peter Palumbo, Ian Pollard Sir Roy Strong,

Events and conferences include

1983 Art and Architecture, Bristol Arnolfini Gallery

1983 Art, Architecture and Public Participation (Whitechapel Art Gallery

1984 Children, Planning and Play (1984).

1985 The Crafts Factor in Architecture RIBA,

1986 Percent for art conference

1990 Percent for Art Education Conference RCA

2002 Next Generation Forum at Tate Britain, RIBA, Bristol and Manchester.

2007 A&A's 25th Anniversary Building Centre

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