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Architecture Week

This year, for the first time, Lighthouse produced a series of seminars and workshops as part of Architecture Week, a national initiative which started in 1997. The aim of Architecture Week is to provide a focus to celebrate the best in contemporary architecture through a varied programme of events and activities in which 25,000 people took part last year.

The theme of this year's programme was 'The Way We Live' and across the UK, events were held which ranged from the home to the city.

Lighthouse hosted three seminars under an umbrella title of Building Synergies:

Virtual/Space

Who are the new architects? How, as developers of non-physical spaces and environments, is their practice altering or enhancing our understanding of architecture?

Peter Gomes (Architectural Association) - www.arch-assoc.org.uk
Giles Lane (Proboscis) - www.proboscis.org.uk
Robin Deitch (Wide Games) - www.widegames.com


City/Space

Cultural and creative agencies and institutions across the UK are deftly developing some of the country's most exciting and innovative flagship spaces. What impacts are these developments having on the nature of our cities and how are the positive benefits to the broader economy becoming evident and measureable?

Eddie Berg (FACT) - www.fact.co.uk

Rhonda Wilson (Seeing the Light) - www.seeingthelight.co.uk

Peter McLeod (DEMOS) - www.demos.co.uk


Art/Space

As arts practice continues to mutate beyond traditional parameters and spaces, what kinds of models are emerging to accomodate these shifts and to what extent does the 'building' either liberate or stifle innovative art and creative production and consumption?

monica ross (artist) - www.justfornow.net

Pierre Coinde / Gary O'Dwyer (The Centre of Attention) - www.thecentreofattention.org

Marlene Smith (C-plex) - www.c-plex.co.uk


Workshop

Digitrails: A Building Synergies workshop for young people on the theme of 'The Game as Architecture' was developed with young people from local schools and youth organisations in Brighton.

See the results of the workshop