Studio Spring Report
We are living through a second cycle of close attention to our natural surroundings in Burgundy as the vegetal world reawakens and...
STUDIO ANDREW TODD
I Feel Wood: Nordic Talks at Les Echos
Andrew Todd spoke to Les Echos Editor in Chief Daniel Barroux along with Nikolaj Sveistrup about the status of wood in construction...
World Building (excerpt from Common Sense)
A building site is a four-dimensional crime scene, a mirror of our fallen world. The architect is a sleuth, doggedly uncovering...
Wood Would (excerpt from Common Sense)
How biomaterials bring us together socially and ecologically. I have -lately- been thinking and building almost exclusively in wood. I...
Welcome to Our New Website
I would like to welcome you to our entirely new website, which came into service at the beginning of 2021, just as the former site (which...
Rowan Moore reviews Hardelot in The Observer
Architecture critic Rowan Moore visited the Hardelot Elizabethan Theatre shortly before its inauguration in June 2016. In his article he...
Background: a Performance Lecture
Andrew Todd was invited -along with Robert Wilson, Daniel Libeskind, William Forsyth and Richard Beacham- to engage with the Appia/de...
Tempus Lignum
Keynote lecture at the 2016 Holzbau Forum in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. How wood brings us into the flow of time: Time to grow Time to build...
Common Sense
Andrew Todd's 2016 book Common Sense was published by Rightangle. You can buy it here. "Using the theatre and space for performance as a...
Portrait of Director Philippe Quesne in The Guardian
Andrew Todd speaks to Nanterre-Amandiers Director Philippe Quesne, touching on French cultural politics. Read the article here.
Portrait of Bruno Latour in The Guardian
Interview with Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati.
FT: Towers of Babble
Article (paywall) in the Financial Times on background and foreground sound (particularly in cities) and their largely ignored identities...
Eleanor Young on Hardelot in the RIBA Journal
Eleanor Young was one of the first correspondents to visit the completed Hardelot Elizabethan Theatre: "If ever a building was destined...
Kengo Kuma: Killed by Concrete
Andrew Todd interviews Kengo Kuma
Grounding
A chapter by Andrew Todd from the book 'The Open Circle: Peter Brook's Theatre Environments,' published by Faber and Faber in 2003.
Scandinavian Urban Design in a Global Context.
Interview with Andrew Todd at the Aarhus Dome of Visions, questioning conventional notions of urban culture, design and development....
Three-way Street: Todd on Japan in the RIBA Journal
Andrew Todd recounts his 2015 Villa Kujuoyama residency for the RIBA Journal. Read the article here.
WIRED on the Paper Theatre
WIRED reviewed our Paper Theatre project in this article from 2013. Read it here .
Larochelle sur Hardelot dans Le Monde
Jean-Jacques Larochelle décrit pour Le Monde le Théâtre Elisabéthain du Chateau d'Hardelot dans le cadre du vandalisme de motivation...
Details on Hardelot
Details Structure covered Hardelot in depth. Download pdf:
Zitzmann on Hardelot in NZZ
Marc Zitzmann covers Hardelot in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Download pdf:
Roussel sur Hardelot dans Libération
Frédérique Roussel décrit le Théâtre Elisabéthain du Chateau d'Hardelot au moment des 400 ans depuis le décès de Shakespeare, quelques...
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