For the last episode of the season focusing on Transformation, we're asking: Can Architecture Fix Outdated Buildings? We’ve invited Florian Kosche, a structural engineer in Oslo, Norway, to share stories from working with historic and structurally challenging transformation projects.

Links:

www.difk.no

Today we’re asking - ‘Can Architecture Fix the Brittle City?’.

We’ve invited William Mann, an architect and principal at Witherford Watson Mann architects in London, to share a story about working with urbanity in and around London.

Links:

http://www.wwmarchitects.co.uk/

A Latecomer Imagines the City

http://www.wwmarchitects.co.uk/site/assets/files/2370/alatecomerimaginesthecity.pdf

Richard Sennett ‘The Open City’

https://urbanage.lsecities.net/essays/the-open-city

Fordlandia, Brazil

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon

William Mann ‘Untimely Buildings’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOdZKUu_I8

Charles and Ray Eames ‘Powers of Ten’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

This week we're asking: Can Architecutre Fix Waste? We’ve invited Lasse Kilvær, an architect and component reuse consultant with Resirqel, to share a story about the practice of re-use in Norway, and his contribution as an author and project manager for the Research and Development project entitled Proper Reuse of Building Materials published by the Directorate for Building Quality in Norway in 2019.If you would like to know more about Lasse Kilvær and his company Resirqel, you can find information online at http://www.resirqel.no/