From exhibitions to commissioning to programming
EXHIBITIONS
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
Royal Academy of Arts
25 January – 6 April 2014
I was the curator of the exhibition Sensing Spaces that set out to evoke the experience and power of
architecture within a traditional gallery environment. I worked with seven architects from around
the world to create an exhibition that would highlight the sensation of inhabiting built space and
awaken or recalibrate visitors’ awareness of spaces beyond the gallery walls. The architects, Grafton
Architects (Ireland), Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkina Faso and Germany), Kengo Kuma (Japan), Li
Xiaodong (China), Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Chile) and Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
(Portugal) created unique spaces for visitors to experience. Their installations highlighted different
aspects of architecture – from the manipulation of light, mass and structure to the transformations
brought about by use, movement and interaction.
Related Articles
- “Sensing Spaces: A Creative Experiment” essay in “Sensing Architecture: Essays on the Nature of Architectural Experience”, Royal Academy of Arts (2017)
- Time Out: Curator Tour Sensing Spaces Royal Academy of Arts 2014
- The Architects Journal: Sensing Spaces Interview 2014
- ‘Creating Sensing Spaces,’ Lecture at Royal Academy (2014)
- “Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined” – Exhibition catalogue (2014)
- A journey to the Pacific edge with Pezo von Ellrichshausen (2013)
- Sensing Spaces: Meet the architects: Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo 2013
Inside Heatherwick Studio
New British Inventors tour, East Asia
2015 – 2016
This exhibition toured to six venues across East Asia as part of the New British Inventors Campaign developed by the GREAT Britain Campaign and the British Council. The London based Heatherwick Studio epitomises the spirit of invention of a new wave of British designers. Featuring drawings, models, films and test pieces generated by speculative and built projects from the past 20 years, the exhibition is a window into the studio who have become renowned for projects such as the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. It offers unique insights into the ideas and experiments that go into realising projects that span architecture and engineering, as well as furniture, sculpture and product design.
The exhibition captures the studio’s spirit of discovery, demonstrating their imaginative and entrepreneurial approach to design.
COMMISSIONING
Unexpected Hill, by SO? Architecture and Ideas
Commissioned for Royal Academy of Arts with Turkishceramics
2015