Title & Author:

Magic & the Ordinary / [presented by] Sunand Prasad & Greg Penoyre.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2002.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (41 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Greg Penoyre (Right) & Sunand Prasad (Left) -- Snape Maltings Concert Hall -- Jan Vermeer Painting -- Portuguese Boat Building -- Wolverhampton Civic Hall -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. The Existing Building -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Model -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. The Entrance (Sketch) -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Covered Links (Sketch) -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Courtyard & Lift Shaft (Sketch) -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Lift Shaft -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Green Roof -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Steel 'Tree' In Atrium -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Competition Sketch -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Development Of Roof (Sketches) -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Section -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Structural Detail Of Steel 'Tree' In Atrium -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. General View Of Canopy -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Model -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Section -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Early Illustration Of Cladding -- Charter School, Dulwich, London. Elevational Treatments.

Summary:

Penoyre and Prasad have a love for gritty everydayness. They distinguish a couple of keen passions in their work. One is about the ordinary, an architecture rooted in, but rising out of function; while the other is about the magic of structure and fabric and its effect on the making of space. They illustrate this with their design for a large school in South London. Their backgrounds are very dissimilar. Prasad, excited by the space programmes, eventually turned to architecture as a way of combing science, engineering and art, and studied at Cambridge and then the AA where he was involved in a political unit devoted to process and people. There followed eight years work with Edward Cullinan, and a PhD about the structure of the North Indian city. Penoyre, son of architects, studied at Sheffield University, worked with Chamberlin Powell & Bon, and then also with Cullinan. His interest was to release the potential of social and site values. In 1988 he and Prasad set up in practice together in London.

Subject:

Architectural design Great Britain.
Sustainable architecture Great Britain.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture durable Grande-Bretagne.
Architectural design
Sustainable architecture
Great Britain

Added entries:

Prasad, Sunand, narrator.
Penoyre, Greg, narrator.
Penoyre & Prasad (Firm)

Magic and the Ordinary