Lectures - Jamie Fobert Architects

Jamie’s recent lecture as part of the ‘Talking Interiors’ series at the RCA is now available to watch on their website.

Together with Charles Saumarez Smith and Jeremy Dixon, Jamie Fobert discussed the challenges of renewal projects for cultural organisations.

Watch their discussion here.

Our transformation of the Grade II listed barns and hidden courtyards at Charleston aims to respect and honour the site’s history and special atmosphere whilst creating much needed new facilities.

Jamie was invited to be the keynote speaker for the conference ‘Retrofitting during the urban transformation process’ at YEM, Turkey’s Building Information Center.

In Jamie’s lecture, ‘Retrofitting: Fabric and Form’, he described how working with heritage and conservation organizations on difficult urban sites can create the opportunity for a powerful architecture.

Our proposals for Kettle’s Yard are due to commence on site later this year. The gallery has just published a presentation given by Jamie Fobert last Autumn, describing the project in detail to the capital donors and Friends of Kettle’s Yard.

Today, in ‘Raising the Roof’ at The Charleston Festival, Jamie Fobert joins other panellists David Gentleman, Simon Jenkins and Julia Barfield to discuss the passions inspired by architecture from the last 100 years.

Today, at the Winchester Discovery Centre, Jamie Fobert launches the 2015 RIBA South East Lecture Series with a talk about JFA’s varied design work – from Cornish roof forms to 300 year old oak cobbles in Paris.

Jamie gave the RIBA Plymouth Annual Lecture on Tuesday 10 November, hosted by Plymouth University. There was a great turnout, including many enthusiastic students.

Jamie described his experience of working in three spheres of architectural design – residential, retail and cultural projects – with close attention to three projects, Levring House, BHV (pictured right, before and after the transformation of rue des Archives in Paris) and Tate St Ives.

Tuesday 10 November 2015

5.30-7.30pm

Plymouth University, Portland Square Building, Stonehouse Lecture Theatre

On 17 November, Jamie will be delivering this year’s‘George Baird Lecture’ at the University of Toronto. The event will be free and open to the public and will afterwards be available on the Faculty’s YouTube channel.

Tuesday 17 November

6:30 – 8:00pm

Room 103, 230 College Street

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto

In November, Jamie went back to the University of Toronto – where he studied Architecture in the 1980s – to give the 2015 ‘George Baird Lecture’.

His talk, ‘Working in Architecture’, is now available to view in full.

In this discussion hosted by Archiboo, Jamie will join a panel of retail specialists to discuss why they think bricks and mortar shops will not simply survive but thrive, even after the reported decline of the high street.

This event is ticketed and part of designjunction at King’s Cross. Find more information here.

Thursday 22 September 2016

6.00pm – 7.30pm

Gasholders London, Goods Way, King’s Cross, London, N1C 4UR

On 6 October, at the University of Bath, Jamie will be giving the Annual Lecture for RIBA South West.

Presenting a selection of completed and current work, Jamie will describe his design approach and how, having developed a careful language of form and materiality, he is able to create architecture which responds with great specificity to every project and its place.

Thursday 6 October 2016

18:15 – 19:05 – Lecture
19:05 – 20:00 – Drinks reception

University of Bath, Claverton Down Road, Bath

On 15th February, Jamie will be giving a special one-off tour of Luker House for a limited number of guests. Services Engineer, Henry Luker, and his wife Andrea commissioned this generously-sized family home in the village of Barnes in South West London. Luker House won an RIBA Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for the RIBA Manser Medal for best house.

Tickets are available through Open City and this event supports their pioneering education programmes.

Wednesday 15th February

18:30 – 19:30 or/
19:45 – 20:45

Luker House, London SW13

Looking ahead to May, Jamie will be giving a site tour at Charleston as part of the annual Charleston Festival.

The Centenary Project is the most ambitious building project ever undertaken by the Charleston Trust. It will see the building of a new exhibition gallery, collection store, research studio and education studio as well as the restoration of the existing Grade 2 listed barns.

Jamie will lead the tour with the on-site project manager Terry Reeves and Charleston’s Director Alistair Burtenshaw.

Friday 26th May

10:30am

Charleston, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 6LL

On Friday 3rd March, as part of the AA’s Building Conversations series, Jamie led a visit to Bromley Hall School. AA members were granted exclusive access to the building, which has remained closed since 2002. Built in 1967-8, this building was designed as a school for physically handicapped children by the LCC/GLC Architects’ Department and it is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

Some of the JFA team joined Jamie in visiting this fascinating building. They commented that the rooflights were reminiscent of those being built now in our own Tate St Ives.

The visit was recorded on the AA School Blog. Photography (c) Valerie Bennett / Architectural Association.

With work now complete on JFA’s long-awaited expansion of Tate St Ives, Jamie presents this and two other forthcoming cultural projects, the redevelopment of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and Charleston Barns in Sussex.

This lecture is presented by The Architecture Foundation.

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Wednesday 25 October 2017

7.00pm

The Royal Institution, London W1S 4BS

There was a great turnout last night for Jamie’s lecture at the Royal Institution. Jamie presented recently completed Tate St Ives, the redevelopment of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and Charleston Barns in Sussex.

A huge thank you to The Architecture Foundation for presenting this lecture.

On 17 April, Jamie will be giving a lecture at Kettle’s Yard about how the remodelling and expansion of this much-loved House and Gallery came about and how the continuity between old and new has been harnessed to enhance its domestic and contemporary spaces.

The lecture will be followed by a discussion between Jamie Fobert and Ingrid Schröder, from the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

Tickets are £15, including a glass of wine. Booking is highly recommended. You may find more information and book your tickets here.

On 24th April Jamie will lecture at The RCA as part of the INSIDE/ OUT series. In Jamie’s lecture ‘Working in Art’ he will discuss cultural projects Tate St Ives, Kettle’s Yard and Charleston Centenary Project.

Jamie’s talk takes place in Lecture Theatre 3 (Darwin 305), Royal College of Art, Kensington campus SW7 2EU at 6.30pm.

On Wednesday 27th June, Jamie will speak at the Editoriale DOMUS event ‘Architecture meets Fashion’ at the Volvo Studio in Milan. Jamie will be presenting a selection of completed and current fashion-related projects including interiors of Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, Selfridges, Givenchy and Versace.

This is a Versace store we completed in the beautiful Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan.

Photography by Marco Cella.

“To what extent are cultural buildings public spaces? What function do museums and galleries have beyond exhibiting art?”

Taking place on 8 October at the Royal Institution, this year’s Frieze Art and Architecture Conference considers the design of spaces to show, make and live with art. Jamie will be speaking, in conversation with the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Nicholas Cullinan.

More info and tickets

8 October 2018, 10am-4.30pm

The Royal Institution, London