Abstract
Eric Parry (RIBA, RA) gave a keynote talk at the Architecture, Festival and the City conference in November 2017. The following interview with Professor Christian Frost, co-organizer of the conference, is from February 2018. It develops some of the themes from Parry’s talk relating to practice, education and communicative space, and also explores other ideas and experiences that have shaped his architectural and intellectual practice.
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1 Eric Parry, Context: Architecture and Genius of Place (Chichester: Wiley, 2015).
2 Ibid., 17–31. The section “Pavements” of chapter 1 introduces the themes such as “shadows” discussed here in relation to Siza’s project following the 1988 fire in Lisbon.
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Christian Frost
Christian Frost qualified as an architect in 1990 following the completion of his studies at the University of Cambridge, and he has practiced in Australia, Germany and the UK. He is author of Time, Space and Order: The Making of Medieval Salisbury (Peter Lang, 2009), and joint editor of Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral (Ashgate, 2014). He is currently the Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture at the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design.