Previous Meetings

October 9th: The Gill & others

The Gill
The maps are inserted into a PDF file, rather than PowerPoint so they are bigger and easier to print


Ulverston Maps:
http://www.furnessu3a.org/filesdownload/architecture/Ulverston%20Maps.pdf

Dan Elsworth's Warehouses document:
http://www.furnessu3a.org/filesdownload/architecture/Warehouse%20Survey%20Report%202005.pdf

The SLDC Ulverston Assessment report:
http://www.furnessu3a.org/filesdownload/architecture/Ulverston_assessment_report.pdf


Bryan's splendid notes on The Gill Buildings:
http://www.furnessu3a.org/filesdownload/architecture/Bryans%20The%20Gill%20notes.pdf

The Guide Rooms, photos:
http://www.furnessu3a.org/filesdownload/architecture/The%20Guide%20Rooms.pdf

Brenda's Windows presentation:
http://www.furnessu3a.org/filesdownload/architecture/Windows.pdf

Grete's Doors of the Gill:
http://www.furnessu3a.org/filesdownload/architecture/The%20Gill%20Doors.pdf

Stewart Brand: How Buildings Learn

The book is now quite difficult to find, and expensive:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0670835153/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1381406239&sr=1-1
but there are some used ones, possibly much cheaper, on abebooks:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=brand&bt.x=0&bt.y=0&sts=t&tn=how+buildings+learn


The YouTube versions of the BBC programmes are available easiliyt via this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxFD-wxU4CoNb-gCM0-P9fjJchwUIfkep
and there's a Wikipedia article with some other links here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn

The Phil Gyford pages are useful:
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/10/24/how_buildings_le.php

as is this:
http://urbantheories.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/how-buildings-learn-stewart-brand.html


Even Tim Harford (FT Economist and broadcaster) is a fan:
https://plus.google.com/116092342562393168390/posts/i9i4vZe6YTe


Christopher Alexander

Christopher Alexander (who I mentioned, as does Stewart Brand) has a website here:
http://www.patternlanguage.com/


There's a bunch of books, too. A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building are accessible and available, again via abebooks. I got his more recent The Nature of Order at pre-publication prices, they are just out of reach now!
Again, the Wikipedia page is useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander

and a video of a 2011 lecture:
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/an-introduction-to-christopher-alexanders-pattern-language/2012/12/10

RIBA Stirling Prize 2013


The RIBA site for the prize is here:
http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/

you can also view the video for Astley Castle directly from this site.
Details of each shortlistlisted building are in this press release:
http://www.architecture.com/NewsAndPress/News/RIBANews/News/2013/2013RIBAStirlingPrizeshortlistannouncedforthebestnewbuilding.aspx
Blencowe Castle, so well detected by Bryan, is covered here:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/advice/conservation-principles/constructive-conservation/constructive-conservation-in-practice/blencowe-hall/

Portfolio of pictures from the architect:
http://www.grahamknorman.co.uk/#/blencowe-hall/4549488470


Ulverston background

The three books we mentioned are:

Dorothy Ashburner A Story of the Growth of Ulverston
Library and a few secondhand copies around

F Barnes Barrow and District
Library and a few secondhand copies around

J D Marshall Furness and the Industrial Revolution
Covers more than this and is good on Ulverston: Library, but quite scarce as secondhand



April 15th : The Arch, a short Introduction
 

April 15th: Art & Crafts Architects: Lethaby
 

February 13th: The Instigators




January 9th: Form & Function, Arts & Crafts
November 14th: My Favourite Buildings

Our first meeting, in which each participant told us about their favourite local and non-local building. Lots of interesting choices as well as some more obvious.

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