Marriage guidance tips for Truth and Beauty
Neven Sidor
Partner at Grimshaw Architects
- Thu 6th Jun, 2024
- BCU STEAMhouse
- 2:00pm
- talk
- Free
- 40 mins
As the Lead Designer for Curzon Street Station Neven had to find mutual ground between the architectural aspirations of Birmingham City and the technical and functional needs of HS2. Birmingham’s deep engineering heritage proved fertile ground and resulted in a strapline: “The Engineering is the Architecture”. This stood the project in good stead. However Truth and Beauty are not always good bedfellows and this is a notoriously slippery area open to misinterpretation from all sides. Using references to architectural history, the engineering and architectural traditions out of which the Grimshaw practice grew, not to mention Curzon Street Station itself Neven will attempt to unpick some common misconceptions and shine a light on some of the questions with which he has had to wrestle over his long career.
Speakers
Neven Sidor
Partner at Grimshaw Architects
Neven joined Grimshaw Architects in 1981 and has played a key part in the development and growth of the practice over the subsequent 43 years. He became a director in 1994 and a Partner when it was restructured as an LLP in 2007. His primary interest has always been winning, organising, designing and delivering large projects. These include 18 major schemes, five of them international. While he has lectured extensively, written numerous reviews for architectural magazines, and chaired RIBA Awards juries, he likes to devote as much of his time as he can to all aspects and stages of design.
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BCU STEAMhouse Challenge Space
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