The AJ Student Prize 2022 is being judged by returning judge Edmund Fowles of Feilden Fowles and 2020 student prize-winner Shawn Adams, who is a speaker,
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Owen Hatherley on Modernism + Will Hurst explains RetroFirst
In a bonus episode of the AJ’s podcast series, we talk to Owen Hatherley about the retrofitting of Modernist buildings and to the AJ’s Will Hurst about our RetroFirst campaign
Author and critic Hatherley describes approaches to the retrofit of Modernist buildings, lessons learned from post-Soviet housing and why he thinks White Design’s straw-bale Lilac Cohousing in Leeds could be a replicable new-build approach.
Hurst explains the tactics and ambitions of the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign, from engaging with MPs to raising public awareness, as well as the policy levers necessary to prioritise retrofit.
AJ Climate Champions: episode 6
AJ Climate Champions podcast – Anna Heringer: ‘You can build with clay in a very modern way’
The final episode in the AJ’s podcast series features an interview with German architect Anna Heringer
In this six-episode series, Hattie Hartman and her co-host George Morgan interview change-makers and innovators who are transforming architecture by designing in ways that respect planetary boundaries. Our six champions offer inspiration as well as sharing essential knowledge about design in an era of climate emergency.
Heringer talks to the AJ about how to mainstream building with earth, her ‘corona baby’ – a birth space in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, and her pipeline of projects in Germany, Spain and Ghana. The conversation was recorded in December 2020.
AJ Climate Champions podcast – Sarah Wigglesworth: ‘Sustainable architecture is fantastically creative’
The penultimate episode in the AJ’s podcast series features an interview with Sarah Wigglesworth
In this six-episode series, Hattie Hartman and her co-host George Morgan interview changemakers and innovators who are transforming architecture as we know it by designing in ways that respect planetary boundaries. Our six champions will offer inspiration as well as sharing essential knowledge about design in an era of climate emergency.
Episode five centres on the retrofit of Stock Orchard Street, Sarah’s home and office, completed in 2001. The Stock Orchard Street retrofit, completed in 2020, tackled maintenance and repair, a deep environmental upgrade and rethinking the house for aging gracefully, what Sarah describes as ‘the fourth age.’