Title & Author:

A More Interesting Way / [presented by] Will Alsop (All Design).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2006.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (31 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Will Alsop -- Diagram Layout For New Prisons -- H.M.P. Gartree, Leicester: A Prison Cell -- H.M.P. Gartree, Leicester : Inmates' Drawings & Paintings -- H.M.P. Gartree, Leicester: Idea For A New Cell Block -- H.M.P. Gartree, Leicester: Space To Relax -- Housing In Nottingham -- Housing In Bradford -- Manchester, New Islington, Housing: Painting Of A View -- Manchester, New Islington, Housing: New Housing -- Manchester, New Islington, Housing: Flats Facing River -- Office Block For Palestra, Southwark, London -- Alsop Painting -- Goldsmith's College: The Ben Pimlott's Arts Campus, London

Summary:

In this talk with Will Alsop, he speaks about recent research he has been doing into the design of prisons, by discussing with the inmates and staff of H.M. Prison Gartree in Leicester their desires and needs. He uses the same approach to some existing housing in Nottingham, and shows work he has been doing in Bradford, Manchester and London. Painting has always been his passion and it inspires his unorthodox architecture and playful master plans. He cares about how people are going to use a building in a livelier and more interesting way. "Serious should be fun" he professes.

Subject:

Architectural design Great Britain.
Prisons Design and construction.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Prisons Conception et construction.
Architectural design.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Alsop, Will, narrator.