REGISTER - LUTJENS PADMANABHAN

In this episode we are joined by Oliver Lutyens and Thomas Padmanabhan. The work of their practice is thoughtful and scholarly, and yet open minded and lyrical. In teasing out the fundamental tension between façade and plan they have developed a characterful and playful expressive language through a series of modest residential developments. Invested in a deep knowledge of the history of architecture, they critically examine contemporary tectonics in a search for an appropriate civic language. They do not seek significance in monumentality or in the weight of material expression. Rather they find it by considering external insulation, rain screens and winter gardens, as valid sources of architectural investigation. Informed by precedents these technologies are each tuned to give a quiet dignity to the ordinary ways we must make buildings today. http://luetjens-padmanabhan.ch Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston University. fada.kingston.ac.uk/al/ Head of Department: Eleanor Suess Register Editor: Timothy Smith Interviewer: Andrew Clancy Audio: Justin Howard