REGISTER - FEILDEN FOWLES

Published: March 14, 2019, 10:48 a.m.

b'In this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Fergus and Edmund of Feilden Fowles \\n\\nTheir practice is one which foregrounds craft, and the formal histories of the language of industrial and agricultural structures as a site for discovery and invention. Their hands on approach is probably most celebrated in their own studio, located as part of a campus of structures for Waterloo city farm. Despite the contingencies of budget (the client being a charity) and the need for the buildings to be rapidly designed, made (and potentially moved in time) they worked with and elemental architecture and frugal materials to make a wonderfully considered series of buildings and spaces. \\n\\nThis nimbless means that their investment in the details does not preclude larger work, and indeed they are working with contemporary industrial sites - such as their recently completed food production site in Somerset. Here they work with the language of contemporary industrial structures, but adjust these by addition, developing a figurative exterior linked to subtly tuned interiors. \\n\\nThe interview goes through the evolution of their practice, and their views on architecture and education today. \\n\\n---------\\n\\nCredits: \\nRegister is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london\\n\\nHead of Department: Mary Johnson\\nProducer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy\\nRegister: Christoph Lueder; Matt Wells; Matt Philips\\nInterviewer: Andrew Clancy\\nEditor: Andrew Clancy\\nMusic: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture'