HAPPI : PROJECTS FOR THE ELDERLY
Richard MacCormac contributes to the Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (HAPPI). He wrote a piece about projects for the elderly that were taking steps to alleviate the problems of later life that was published in the Architects' Journal on 14th January 2010.
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INNOVATION, CONTEXT AND CONGRUITY
Richard MacCormac wrote on the theme of continuity and innovation in an essay published in the English Heritage Conservation Bulletin Issue 59 : Autumn 2008.
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RIBA/HOMES&PROPERTY DEBATE : SUSTAINABLE SUBURBIA - WHERE DO PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE ?
MJP organised a debate during Architecture Week 2006 entitled "Sustainable suburbia - where do people want to live ?". Jonathan Glancey was the chairman with Richard MacCormac on the panel of speakers along with Tim Williams, David Balcombe, Yolanda Barnes, Angela Brady and Dominic Papa.
RIBA Jarvis Hall 19th June 2006
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SURFACE
Richard MacCormac delivered the headline presentation at the opening night of the Surface Design Show at the Business Design Centre, Islington on Wednesday 1st March 2006
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BBC's BATTLESHIP RELAUNCHED
Mark Hines describes how the symbolic home of the BBC is being given a new lease of life.
First appeared as cover story of The Twentieth Century Society Newsletter Winter 2005/6
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ARCHITECTURE, ART AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Richard MacCormac on where architecture stands in the cultural territory of our society.
First appeared in 'Architecture and its ethical dilemmas' edited by Nicholas Ray (September 2005)
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HOW MUCH DOES BEAUTY COST : AN ARCHITECT'S VIEW
As part of the RA Forum Debate 'Value, Culture and Commerce' Richard MacCormac gave his view on the relationship between economic, social and cultural value with specific reference to the MJP's Senior Common Room project at St John's College, Oxford.
First appeared in the Royal Academy Magazine Summer 2005
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MODERN LEGACY :
COLLECTING THE BAGGAGE OF TRADITION
To coincide with the completion of MJP's Warwick Court at Paternoster Square Richard MacCormac wrote this essay which took issue with modernist theories that neglected tradition.
First appeared in Architecture Today September 2003
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COVENTRY PHOENIX INITIATIVE:
ACHIEVING URBAN RENAISSANCE THROUGH
PUBLIC SPACE & ART
This paper was first delivered at the Cityscape Conference, London on 13th October 2004
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ART AND REGENERATION IN THE CITY OF COVENTRY
As part of the 'Soul of the City : International Symposium on Art and Public Space' (Hong Kong - September 2005) Richard MacCormac spoke about MJP's regeneration project in the city of Coventry, The Phoenix Iniative.
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MJP@30
Architects' Journal special supplement celebrating 30 years of practice by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard. The directors reflect on the essential qualities of the practice's work, while Richard MacCormac charts the evolution of MJP's work over time. With an introduction by Paul Finch. (First appeared in the Architects' Journal, 19 June 2003)
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BEYOND BOW BELLS - RA MAGAZINE Spring 2003
As London looks eastward, RA Magazine asked three commentators on urban space (Richard MacCormac, Iain Sinclair and Alice Rawsthorn) to consider how new architecture can affect the quality of people's lives. (2003)
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BBC RADIO 3 NIGHT WAVES DEBATE: 'THE VALUE OF ARCHITECTURE'
In June 2003 Richard MacCormac participated in a debate at the RIBA entitled 'The Value of Architecture'. The debate was broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves programme
(the other panellists were Amanda Levete, Paul Finch, Michael Cassidy and Roger Madelin)
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS - BUILDING DESIGN January 10 2003
As part of the Building Design special report 'Them & Us' which looked at what the public and architects themselves expected of architecture in 2003, Richard MacCormac joined a panel of architects (Robert Adam, Ian Davidson, Paul Hyett & Richard Murphy) to examine "what next?" (2003)
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ARCHITECTURE : ART AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Richard MacCormac's Keynote Speech at RIBA/Interbuild Conference, NEC, Birmingham(2002)
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AN INTEGRATED DESIGN: THE JERSEY ARCHIVE
One of the largest repositories in the world to use a passive environmental control. David Prichard describes the design and its development.
(First appeared in: arq (Architectural Research Quarterly) volume 5, number 3, 2001 p.210-228
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ON THE EDGE : REGENERATING A DUBLIN SUBURB
MJP's regeneration project at Ballymun, Dublin
First appeared in City, December 2000
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ARCHITECTURE, MEMORY AND METAPHOR
Excerpt from 'The Architecture of Information', catalogue of the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 1996 (British Council 1996).
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AN ANATOMY OF LONDON
By understanding how places have evolved, we are better able to guide development and change in the urban fabric, and avoid the incongruity created by so much of the 'modern environment'. Examination of 'sections' of London shows that functions of a very different type can co-exist successfully if they are in the right place; it is not a question of architectural style, but of purpose and use, and of scale and symmetry across places. (1996)
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FIVE BUILDINGS PREFACE by Prof. Sir Colin Stansfield Smith
(First appeared in 'MacCormac Jamieson Prichard : Five Buildings', 1995)
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THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST
Richard MacCormac's essay about the practice's work in the catalogue for the MacCormac Jamieson Prichard : Five Buildings exhibition in 1995.
(First appeared in 'MacCormac Jamieson Prichard : Five Buildings', 1995)
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PURSUIT OF QUALITY
In his inaugural presidential address, Richard MacCormac describes his view of the landscape of conflicting ideas in which we practise today, and through which critics and the public understand or misunderstand the current practice of architecture - modern architecture. (1991)
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ARCHITECTURE AND THE MORAL TEMPER OF THE TIMES
Ruskin reminds us of the conditions for the aesthetic dimension of human culture to flourish.
This paper first appeared in the Boston-Melbourne-Oxford Conversazioni
on Culture and Society's Winter Conversazione for 1990,
On the Public Face of Architectureš
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SUBURBAN SYNTAX
Current theories of urban design are preoccupied with the forms and values of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cities, and disdainful of suburbia which remains without respectable discussion. The wishful thinking implicit in this is curiously reminiscent of the Modern Movement; for whereas the Modern Movement proposed an ideal new world to convert society from its suburban aspirations, the new urbanists, such as the Kriers, propose an idealised old world. (1985)
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HOUSING AND THE DILEMMA OF STYLE
The ideological void in which architects find themselves in the aftermath of the Modern Movement continues to provoke speculation, in these pages and elsewhere, about the meaning that architecture should now have. (1979)
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NOTES ON THE ROLE OF FORM IN THE DESIGN PROCESS
This essay was the result of having to evaluate propositions about architecture which might have been taken for granted had they not been exposed to the opposite view. It was provoked by the experience of two very different, perhaps complementary, educational environments, the School of Architecture at Cambridge and the Bartlett School at University College. (First appeared in Arena, May 1967)
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