REGISTER - HANS KOLLHOFF
from Register - Architecture & Landscape Hosted by Architecture & Landscape Kingston University London
In this episode we are joined by Hans Kollhoff, who we invited to Kingston to do a workshop with unit 6 of our M.Arch, and to give a register lecture. Prof Kollhoff teaches in the ETH, and practices from Berlin in partnership with Helga Timmermann. Kollhoffs life work might be described as a quest for meaning and language in contemporary archtiecture. Writing of the Piraeus building in 1995 he said “Under the economic pressure to create something optimal in every respect, every building turns out to be nothing but an uninspired shoebox which the architect then decorates as they think best. Today's building programmes defy formal analogies so that, if they doesn't want to market themselves as a window- dresser, the architect is forced to ferret around and find vestiges of formal intensity in even the most banal building programmes and projects” This search has taken him through an exploration of different ways this might be found. His early works seek this in the harnessing of the contingencies of regulations and site, while more recent projects embrace Chicago School or Classical forms depending on the typology. http://www.kollhoff.de/en/index.html Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston University. fada.kingston.ac.uk/al/ Head of Department: Eleanor Suess Register Editor: Timothy Smith Interviewer: Timothy Smith & Jonathan Taylor Audio: Justin Howard
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