Past/Present: Reinventing Heritage

Genre Architecture

Sub Genre Heritage, Culture

Format Lecture-demonstration

When Saturday, 5th December 2020
From 5:00pm to 6:30pm (IST)

Where Online

Price Free

Details

University of Edinburgh and Avid Learning present Past/Present: Reinventing Heritage a live session on reviving, repurposing and updating heritage spaces in a conscious and transformative way with Architect, Writer and Professor, University of Edinburgh Ed Hollis. In this session, Prof. Hollis will explore key works of masters architects Carlo Scarpa and Geoffrey Bawa to show how they made very different uses of the pasts they found around them, in order to make very different futures. He will also reflect on ways that the models they developed for dealing with the buildings of the past have been challenged in more recent times by architects like Rem Koolhaas. Building on these international paradigms, Prof. Hollis will further examine ways in which architects are dealing with the past through particular projects in a number of Indian cities. Join us for insights into how architects have contemporised heritage structures and delve into projects that challenge accepted wisdoms about the ways in which we live with the buildings of the past, and the ways in which we can use them to help build the future.

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Faculty

Professor Ed Hollis

Architect, Writer and Professor, University of Edinburgh

Professor Ed Hollis is Personal Chair, Interior Design, University of Edinburgh. He studied Architecture at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities; and practiced as an architect for six years, first in Sri Lanka, in the practice of Geoffrey Bawa, at that time the ‘grand old man’ of Sri Lankan Architecture, famous for his garden of follies and ruins at Lunuganga; and then in the practice of Richard Murphy, well known for his radical alterations to ancient and historic buildings in and around Edinburgh. In 1999, Edward Hollis began lecturing in Interior Architecture at Napier University, Edinburgh, working with students both in the design studio, and in more theoretical disciplines. In 2004, he moved to Edinburgh College of Art, where until 2012, he ran undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Interior Design. In 2014, Hollis became Director of Research across Edinburgh College of Art, and he is now deputy dean of research across the Art, Humanities and Social Sciences working, assisting staff in developing research interests and projects of their own across disciplines from contemporary art to linguistics. He is currently developing a cross continental Phd. programme in cultural heritage with the Una Europa consortium. Instagram: @tersatto | Twitter: @edwardhollis2

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