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London Edition 2023

June 08, 2023, 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm BST

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We are back in London! The last “normal” event in this city took place four years ago and we couldn’t wait to come back and meet our community in this city after such a long break.

On Thursday, June 8, 2023 at St James Church in Clerkenwell, London, AnA will bring together three prominent London architects, who will talk about their personal experiences and the influences that impacted them as architects in the most important creative periods in their lives:

Joe Morris, Morris & Company, London, Copenhagen – www.morrisand.company

Alison Brooks, Alison Brooks Architects, London, www.alisonbrooksarchitects.com

Cindy Walters, Walters & Cohen Architects, London – www.waltersandcohen.com

“Architects, not Architecture”, or “AnA”, gives guests the chance to get to know world-renowned architects on a more personal level as there is only one golden rule: speakers are not allowed to talk about their architectural projects. This has allowed audiences around the globe to enjoy unique personal content since the format was introduced in 2015. 

Doors open at 18:00.
The talks start at 19:00.

This event is kindly supported by Equitone, JUNG, and Cosentino.

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Program live

1.
18:00

“Doors open” & Get-Together

2.
19:00 – 19:10

Welcome

3.
19:10-21:00

Speakers (20-minute talk & 10-minute interview)

4.
21:00 – 21:20

Round table discussion & Q&A

5.
21:20 – 23:00

Get-Together & Fingerfood

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The event venue

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St James Church is an active church and event venue in London, England located in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell. The church structure that stands today was constructed in 1792 and has merged modern amenities with many features from its original design including wood detailing and stained glass windows. This versatile space offers a grand backdrop for our speakers and an intimate experience for our guests.

About the Speakers

Joe Morris is an architect spearheading Morris+Company across two studios, one in the creative district of London’s Shoreditch, the other in Copenhagen. In a career spanning 25 years of professional practice which has achieved widespread international recognition, Joe has increasingly advocated a sense of urgency for fair and transparent practice, inclusivity and equality, through open dialogue and critical debate, whilst encouraging the broader company to take ownership of projects and develop their own careers and interests.
Morris+Company is a growing studio, recently included on the AJ100 definitive record of the UK’s largest architecture practices, and its direction and governance is a shared endeavour across the director team and beyond. Accordingly, each member plays a vital part in driving the practice to achieve exemplar service and output. Joe’s focus is directed towards the Workplace Sector (spearheading the #Office+ Programme), Majors (providing strategic oversight on all major projects) and International (working collaboratively with our Danish Team to build our sister studio in Copenhagen, as well build on relationships in Munich, Berlin, Paris, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Oslo).
www.morrisand.company

Alison Brooks, Founder and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects London, is one of the UK’s most highly awarded and internationally acclaimed architects. Born and educated in Canada, she moved to London in 1987 and established her practice in 1996. With built works encompassing urban design and housing, private houses, public buildings for the arts and higher education, she is the only architect to have received the profession’s three most prestigious UK awards: the RIBA Stirling Prize, Manser Medal (twice) and Stephen Lawrence Prize.
Her work reflects a commitment to generous, inclusive city-building and a uniquely sculptural design language beautifully demonstrated in her recently completed Cohen Quadrangle for Exeter College, Oxford. Landmark urban projects include Ely Court, London, the Stirling-prize-winning Accordia, Cambridge and Cadence in King’s Cross. Her public and education buildings include Folkestone’s Quarterhouse Performing Arts Centre and the ‘Smile’, a spectacular public pavilion for the 2017 London Design Festival. Private houses continue to serve as a focussed platform for the practice’s design research, from the much-celebrated 2001 VXO House to 2021 RIBA House of the Year, Windward House. She has been invited to exhibit her practice’s work at the Venice Architecture Biennale three times. www.alisonbrooksarchitects.com

Cindy Walters is director and co-founder of Walters & Cohen Architects. Since establishing the practice with Michál Cohen in 1994, Cindy has been responsible for a variety of projects in the UK and abroad, including several schools, Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre in Suffolk, the Gallery of Botanical Art in Kew Gardens, and the Dorothy Garrod Building for Newnham College, Cambridge. She believes strongly in creating beautiful buildings and spaces that have civic and social purpose and encourage a wider conversation about architecture. Buildings designed by Cindy have been called elegant, miraculous and timeless. They are unique to their context, create a sense of place and are loved by the people who use them.
Cindy and Michál provide a supportive, creative environment, one where staff know they are appreciated. Outside the practice, Cindy regularly contributes to academic and professional institutions as an external examiner, speaker, competition judge and mentor. Her long-standing involvement with the RIBA includes being on the jury for the Lubetkin Prize, Stirling Prize, President’s Research Awards, Honours Committee and a member of the RIBA Validation Panel. In 2019 she became chair of the Architecture Foundation. She is also one of the Design Council’s associates, a governor at Regent High School and completed a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2022.
www.waltersandcohen.com

Joe Morris, Morris+Company, projects:
Energy Hub
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
Alfriston Swimming Pool
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
The Featherstone Building
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
R7
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
Wildernesses Mews
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
Belle Vue Senior Residence
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
Wildernesse Restaurant
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
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Alison Brooks, Alison Brooks Architects, projects:
The Smile
Alison Brooks Architects
Windward House
Photography: Paul Riddle
Unity Place
Photography: Paul Riddle
Exeter College Cohen Quad
Alison Brooks Architects
Ely Court
Photography: Paul Riddle
Quarterhouse Performing Arts Business Centre
Alison Brooks Architects
One Ashley Road
Alison Brooks Architects
Newhall South Chase
Photography: Paul Riddle
Knights Park
Photography: Paul Riddle
Mesh House
Photography: Paul Riddle
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Cindy Walters, Walters & Cohen Architects, projects:
Kings International College
Photography: Dennis Gilbert
Newham College
Photography: Dennis Gilbert
St Pauls School
Photography: Will Scott
Reigate Grammar School
Photography: Dennis Gilbert
Sandringham Primary School
Photography: Dennis Gilbert
American School of London
Photography: Dennis Gilbert
Somerset College ESTEAM Centre
Photography: Andre Engelbrecht
Boathouse 4
Photography: Dennis Gilbert
Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat
Photography: Dennis Gilbert
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