Architecture Week 15 - 24 June 2007

Now in its 11th year, Architecture Week gives us an opportunity to think about, celebrate and, most of all, to experience architecture. Architecture Week 2007 will took place from the 15 - 24 June, with events spanning a wide range of contemporary arts and culture, coming together in celebration of the built environment.

15 events took place in Devon and Cornwall this year. Here are just some of them:-

City Tour - Plymouth

Led by Professor Jeremy Gould the tour went ahead in spite of heavy rain revealing the unique history of Plymouth City Centre, the Abercrombie and Paton-Watson plan for Plymouth and the post-war Architecture of Plymouth ‘rising from the ashes.'

Tours of Royal William Yard- Urban Splash

An opportunity to see the completed and emerging development at Royal William Yard with an indoor picnic owing to the weather and the presentation of 2 awards by the RIBA to Amanda Le Page of GHK for Conservation and to Henry Alpass of Acanthus Ferguson Mann for the Building Design

Promenade

The public were invited by artists Kitty Wingate and Bridgette Ashton to ‘Promenade' along Armada Way in Plymouth discovering interventions and celebrating aspects of Plymouths public realm.

Bamboozle

The fishing village of Porthleven participated in Archietcture Week with style, - an international roll call of artists, architects and mastercraftsmen , all coming together to provide displays of refreshingly innovative structural developments which will combine the techniques of basketry and construction, using bamboo and other woods that can be split and woven.

Featuring, amongst others,

New Delhi architect, Pradeep Sachdeva from Windmill Designs and Johnny Allen, from Auroville in Tamil Nadhu, will be joining forces with Birmingham based structural engineer, David Trujillo from CCB Evolutions to create a bridging structure to span the harbour entrance.

Mud Mud Glorious Mud

In its 15th year this event held at the Hoe centre and led by Linda Watson of the Centre for Earthen Architecture was an invitation to school children for a hands on experience of mud as a building material. This year's project was a crinkle crankle wall. For more information about the Centre for Earthen Architecture go to to Link http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/soa/arch/earth.htm