Neighbours in Space and Time: Grafton Architects at Sir John Soanes Museum

About Deborah SauntKenneth FramptonMarina TabassumYvonne Farrell

Yvonne Farrell is a founding Director of Grafton Architects an international architecture studio based in Dublin Ireland. Grafton Architects have been awarded the Pritzker Prize the RIBA Royal Gold Medal the RIAI Grandon Prize the RIAI Gold Medal and the RIBA international prize amongst other accolades. Kenneth Frampton is an architect and historian and is Ware Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Deborah Saunt is an architect and one of the founding directors of DSDHA. She has held academic appointments at Yale School of Architecture Universidad de Navarra ...cole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and the University of Cambridge. Marina Tabassum is Founder and Principal Architect of Marina Tabassum Architects in Dhaka and is a pioneer of what she describes as 'the architecture of relevance'. She is Visiting Professor at BRAC University in Dhaka and Director of Academic Program at Bengal Institute for Architecture. Tabassum was awarded the Soane Medal in 2021. Kenneth Frampton occupies a unique position in architectural culture. His work as an architect writer critic educator and academic over the last fifty years has shaped and informed the outlook of countless students and architects. Few architects practising today can claim not to have influenced by his thinking and ideas notably around issues of context and culture as articulated in his seminal and still powerfully contemporary text 'Towards a Critical Regionalism' (1983). Other works such as Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995) and the many editions of Modern Architecture: A Critical History have driven the ways that we see think about and understand modern architecture and its role in society. Born in 1930 Frampton trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture London. He has worked as an architect and as an architectural historian and critic and is now Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Preservation and Planning Columbia University New York. He has taught at a number of leading institutions in the field including the Royal College of Art in London the ETH in Zurich the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam EPFL in Lausanne and the Academia di Architettura in Mendrisio. He is the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary architecture and has served on many international juries for architectural awards and building commissions. His writings include Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995) Le Corbusier in the World of Art series (2001) and a collection of essays entitled Labour Work and Architecture (2005). Marina Tabassum was born lives and works in Dhaka Bangladesh. She is Founder and Principal Architect of Marina Tabassum Architects MTA in Dhaka and is a pioneer of what she describes asthe architecture of relevance. Her practice focuses on designing buildings in tune with their natural environments (in particular working with local materials and communities) while also embraing the design challenges of sustainability environment and our collective impact on the planet. She is currently working in the Rohingya refugee camps Cox's Bazar in south-east Bangladesh and designing mobile modular houses for ultra-low-income people in the country's coastal areas. She is visiting professor at the BRAC University in Dhaka. Yvonne Farrell is a founding Director of Grafton Architects an international architecture studio based in Dublin Ireland. Grafton Architects have been awarded the Pritzker Prize the RIBA Royal Gold Medal the RIAI Grandon Prize the RIAI Gold Medal and the RIBA international prize amongst other accolades. Kenneth Frampton is an architect and historian and is Ware Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Deborah Saunt is an architect and one of the founding directors of DSDHA. She has held academic appointments at Yale School of Architecture Universidad de Navarra ...cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the University of Cambridge. Marina Tabassum is Founder and Principal Architect of Marina Tabassum Architects in Dhaka and is a pioneer of what she describes as 'the architecture of relevance'. She is Visiting Professor at BRAC University in Dhaka and Director of Academic Program at Bengal Institute for Architecture. Tabassum was awarded the Soane Medal in 2021. Dr Bruce Boucher is Deborah Loeb Brice Director of Sir John Soaneís Museum. He taught for over twenty years at University College London and is the author of books on Palladio and on Italian Sculpture. He is a corresponding member of the Ateneo Veneto in Venice and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.