Register - Architecture & Landscape

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 harne