On the evening of the 1st March Níall will be giving a lecture at the Britsh School at Rome titled ‘Archipelago’. It will deal with buildings we have designed in Britain and Ireland over the last decade. The lecture is in person but can also be watched online, you can register here.
Niall McLaughlin nominated Herman Hertzberger as the recipient of the 2012 Royal Gold Medal. At the award ceremony in London this month Niall delivered the formal citation for Herman Hertzberger on behalf of the honours committee.
“For Hertzberger inhabitation is the key….architects should be specialists in the daily life of people. This is done not by asking people what they want but by undertaking a rational observation of what they are.”