Studio Andrew Todd

STUDIO ANDREW TODD NEWS

June 2013:
World Stage Design 2013 Exhibition
Studio Andrew Todd (together with engineer Laurent Mouly and performance consultant Klaus Kruse) have been invited to exhibit their scheme for a theatre made almost entirely of recycled materials in the World Stage Design Exhibition in Cardiff in September 2013

May 2013:
Competition at the Chateau d'Hardelot
Studio Andrew Todd have been shortlisted for the competition to design a new Elizabethan theatre in the grounds of the 13th-century Hardelot Castle in the Pas de Calais. The Jury decision will be announced in late july.

April 2013:
Play-City Ideas Camp, Copenhagen
Practice Director Andrew Todd has organised and led a week-long in-situ conversation and design charette in the Dome of Visions on the Copenhagen Harbour, in association with Theatrum Mundi. Speakers included TM director Richard Sennett, Hana Loftus, Odile Soudant and composer-musicians Peter Gregson and Nick Ryan.
Link: http://theatrum-mundi.org/reflections/play-city-copenhagens-in-between-spaces/

December 2012:
American Center in Paris
Studio Andrew Todd have been shortlisted to submit a tender and outline scheme for the renewed American Center for Art and Culture in central Paris.

October 2012:
Theatrum Mundi Presence and Absence in The City
Andrew Todd will be speaking at the first American general meeting of Theatrum Mundi, hosted by Columbia and New York Universities
Link: http://theatrum-mundi.org/projects/second-theatrum-mundi-global-street-conference/

March 2012:
OISTAT Conference Las vegas
Practice Director Andrew Todd spoke at this year's OISTAT conference in Las Vegas concerning the Theatrum Mundi network to be launched in June of this year.

May 2011:
Andrew Todd named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres
Practice Director Andrew Todd has been named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Minister of Culture Frederick Mitterrand.

April 2011:
Practice director Andrew Todd to co-lead Open Spatial Laboratory at PQ11
Andrew Todd will be one of three leaders of the Open Spatial Laboratory at this year's Prague Quadrennial; the aim will be to unite the energies of more than twenty emerging practitioners and researchers in pursuit of answers to the question: what will theatre space become next? Todd will chair a talk by Richard Sennett as part of the OSL, and will deliver the keynote address to the International Federation of Theatre Research conference. (SAT are also curating and designing the French contribution to the PQ Architecture Section).

October 2010:
SAT shortlisted to redevelop the world's first cinema
Studio Andrew Todd have been shortlisted -in association with NS architectes- to submit a proposal for the redevelopment of the Eden Theatre in La Ciotat near Marseille, which housed the world's first cinematic projection by the Lumiere brothers.

October 2010:
Scenographie, 40 ans de Creation
Practice Director Andrew Todd has contributed a chapter to the recently-published volume 'Scenographie, 40 ans de Creation' (L'Entretemps). The text relates Peter Brook's break with traditional theatre architecture 40 years ago with current developments in theatre space (including the practice's own work).
Link: http://www.amazon.fr/Sc%C3%A9nographie-ans-cr%C3%A9ation-Luc-Boucris/dp/2355391181

May 2010:
The Handshake of a Building
Practice Director Andrew Todd will be co-leading a workshop this summer with Eddie Heathcote (architecture and design correspondent of the Financial Times) on the subject of the door handle as a vital component of architecture, the point at which body and building first come into contact. The week-long workshop (from July 11th to 17th) is hosted by the Domaine de Boisbuchet near Poitiers and Limoges, an extraordinary architectural park run by Alexander von Vegesack, Director of the Vitra Design Museum.
Link: http://www.boisbuchet.org/component/option,com_workshop/task,details/did,102/Itemid,128/lang,en/

May 2010:
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Studio Andrew Todd are pursuing RIBA Stage C design work on the redevelopment of Basil Spence's Grade II listed Gardner Arts Centre (now renamed the Attenborough Centre) on the University of Sussex's campus near Brighton. This follows the completion of a feasibility study in March 2010 (produced in collaboration with theatre consultants Charcoalblue and arts consultant Fiachra Gibbons).
Link: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/acca/

November 2009:
Castle Theatre Aberystwyth
Studio Andrew Todd have been appointed by Aberystwyth University to look at strategies for redeveloping the Castle Theatre building, adjacent to the ruined Castle and seafront. The building will be explored for its potential as an international-standard found-space theatre.

August 2009:
Kitchen Gallery Bis restaurant opens
After a frenetic six-week build, the Kitchen Galerie Bis restaurant has opened in the rue des grands Augustins, adjacent to Studio Andrew Todd's offices. A full project profile will be added to the website shortly.

June 2009:
Kitchen Gallery Bis restaurant
Work is currently under way on the new Paris restaurant of Michelin-starred chef William Ledeuil, which is being co-designed by Studio Andrew Todd and jazz drummer and painter Daniel Humair. The restaurant will open in late August 2009.

May 2009:
Josh Lilley Gallery Opens
The Josh Lilley Gallery was inaugurated on May 14th with the opening of the show 'Daily Miracles,' attended by more than 400 people. The project will be published on SAT's website shortly.

April 2009:
Sverre Fehn obituary
Andrew Todd's obituary of the great Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn was published in the Guardian on April 28th.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/28/obituary-sverre-fehn-architecture

February 2009:
Andrew Todd profiled in Financial Times
Andrew Todd was the subject of a profile by FT architecture and design correspondent Eddie Heathcote in the February 20th edition of the paper, focussing on the Old Vic CQS Space.
Link: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bb0942fe-fedf-11dd-b19a-000077b07658.html

January 2009:
Josh Lilley Gallery, London
SAT have started work on plans for the new Josh Lilley Gallery in Fitzrovia, due to open in May.

January 2009:
40 Years of Scenography Conference, Amiens
Andrew Todd spoke at this conference alongside Marcel Freydefont, Georges Banu and Guy-Claude Francois

December 2008:
Silo Opera House begins construction
After four years of studies the Silo auditorium in Marseille began construction. It is scheduled for completion in 2011.

November 2008:
Studio Andrew Todd shortlisted for Liverpool Royal Court competition
SAT has been selected to submit ideas for the renovation, retooling and urban redefinition of the 1938 Art Deco Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. Competition projects will be on show to the public in February 2009, with a judgment expected in early March.

November 2008:
Andrew Todd speaks about sustainable design in India
Andrew Todd spoke at a conference at the Chandigarh College of Architecture on the subject of sustainable auditoria, organised by the A3 Association. He also gave talks at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and the Sushant School, Gurgaon, at the invitation of the British Council. SAT are due to submit proposals for a new conference facility in Delhi in collaboration with SD Sharma Architects.

October 2008:
The CQS Space at the Old Vic is inaugurated
After three weeks of previews the official press inauguration of the new CQS space took place on October 6th in the presence of Artistic Director Kevin Spacey. The Old Vic redesign has garnered enthusiastic reviews, the Independent describing the transformation as ‘a miraculous combination of intimacy and grandeur.

October 2008:
SAT Beaulieu entry in exhibition
SAT's entry for the new Beaulieu conference centre was exhibited at the conference site along with the other retained projects.

August 2008:
Andrew Todd at Festival della Mente
Practice director Andrew Todd has been invited to speak at the Festival della Mente in Sarzana, Liguria, northern Italy, on the subject of the conflict between civic life and star architecture. He will speak with his new partners in the A.S.I.A. social impact consultancy, Franco la Cecla and Emiliano Armani.

August 2008:
Andrew Todd profiled in l’Avvenire
The Vatican-affiliated daily l'Avvenire publishes an interview-portrait of Andrew Todd in its edition of 28th August.

March 2008:
Practice Director Andrew Todd named one of Europe’s top young architects
Andrew Todd is a winner of the Europe 40 Architects Under 40 Award conferred by the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture. His work was selected from a field of over 200 entrants.