Title & Author:

The Inclusive Envelope / [presented by] Joanna van Heyningen (van Heyningen & Haward Architects) & Birkin Haward (van Heyningen & Haward Architects).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1996.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (18 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Rare Books Room, Newnham College, Cambridge. Interior -- Rare Books Room, Newnham College, Cambridge. Exterior -- Chipping Camden. Sketch Showing Market Hall -- Willowfield School, Walthamstow, London. Interior -- Willowfield School, Walthamstow, London. Exterior -- Nineteenth Century Warehouse. Exterior -- Visitors' Centre, Clovelly. Devon. The Centre -- Clovelly. Devon. Village Street -- Visitors' Centre, Clovelly. Devon. Location Plan -- Visitors' Centre, Clovelly. Devon. Interior Of Centre -- Visitors' Centre, Clovelly. Devon. Footpath From The Village -- Dining Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Site Plan -- Dining Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Exterior -- Dining Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Plan -- Dining Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Elevation To Garden -- Dining Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Interior -- Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St. Hilda's College, Cambridge. Site Plan -- Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St. Hilda's College, Cambridge. Ground Floor Plan -- Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St. Hilda's College, Cambridge. Interior Of Recital Room -- Jacqueline du PréMusic Building, St. Hilda's College, Cambridge. Roof Under Construction -- Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St. Hilda's College, Cambridge. Section -- Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St. Hilda's College, Cambridge. Exterior.

Summary:

Birkin Haward graduated from the Architectural Association School in 1969. Joanna van Heyningen, his wife and partner, was taught by him at Cambridge. They started to practise together in 1982, after Birkin had been for twelve years with Norman Foster. They have a great respect for understanding how traditional buildings are put together though they seek to design in a modern idiom, using materials and components appropriate to each given purpose. For their talk they have chosen to look at some of their recent school and university work in Britain. One of the ideas which recurs is that of precedent. They are not afraid to re-use or re-work an idea. A traditional form to which they are attached is the centralised top-lit plan. Another preoccupation is the idea of the inclusive envelope into which everything fits - as opposed to the tendency towards dispersal of the modernist tradition.

Subject:

Architectural design Great Britain.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Van Heyningen, Joanna, narrator.
Haward, Birkin, 1912- narrator.