Successful architects' practices and community engagement

Chris Heuvel

01       In an e-mail to AJ 13.02.15 (vol.241, issue 06, page 13), Beth Worth – a trustee of Architecture for Humanity (an organisation worth incorporating in to this research perhaps) – notes that “Assemble, Studio Weave and Architecture 00 are young practices working on smaller-scale community projects and public-space institutions.”

02       Speaking at NTU this evening, Freddie Phillipson of Witherford Watson Mann observed that architects like themselves (with a commitment to the improvement of public rather than private space) usually win public space projects through participation in competitions.  I think it was also this speaker who described his practice’s work under three separate headings: a) ambitions and approaches, b) actions and achievements, and c)broader cultural offer to the community.