The Worshipful Company of Paviors in conjunction with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College and the Institution of Civil Engineers present the 37th Annual Paviours’ lecture.
Ken Shuttleworth is the Founding Director of Make, the architectural practice that he set up in 2004 after 27 years with Foster and Partners. During this earlier period, he worked on some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking buildings, including the HSBC building and Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong, the Carré d’Art in Nimes and the Al Faisaliah development in Riyadh. His work in London has involved several notable projects including the Swiss Re Tower, known as the Gherkin, the Citibank headquarters at Canary Wharf, the Millennium Bridge, the Albion Riverside development in Battersea, Sainsbury’s Head Office, the More London development at London Bridge and London’s City Hall.
Make has studios in London, Birmingham and Beijing and has won numerous projects across a wide range of sectors including retail, residential, commercial, education, health, sport and leisure. Several important educational and research building projects have been successfully completed, including the Old Road Campus Building and the Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute for the University of Oxford and three iconic buildings on the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus. Other recently completed schemes include the Handball Arena for the London 2012 Olympics, The Cube in Birmingham and the Montpellier Chapter Hotel in Cheltenham.
Ken is a graduate of the City of Leicester School of Architecture and has received honorary degrees in recognition of his achievements from de Montfort, Westminster and Nottingham Universities. He is Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Paviors and has been a CABE Commissioner and Chair of their Design Review Panel.
In his lecture, Ken will take a candid look at the journey towards sustainability in building, including the pitfalls and triumphs encountered along the way. He will analyse the current world situation and anticipate the direction which architecture could take in the future, without the need to compromise artistic integrity.