Professor Fiona McLachlan

Event details

Lecture title: "Practice, Practice, Practise : Illustrated in Colour"

Date: 17 December 2013

Time: 5.15pm

Venue: Business School Auditorium, University of Edinburgh Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS

Lecture abstract

Architectural practice integrates and interprets multiple sources and lines of enquiry as intertwined threads. The relationship between practitioner, researcher and educator can produce tension and uncertain identities, but also affords the opportunity to consider the potential interaction between these modes. This lecture will focus on two recent research projects on colour in architectural design, both of which were stimulated and informed by my own architectural practice and began with an intuitive process of observation, experimentation and an experiential methodology. Whether inherent in material or applied, colour has the capability to be used as an instrument to tune and transform architectural space. Yet it is rarely discussed in architectural education and in architectural practice, colour often involves arbitrary decisions late in the design process. Through these examples, concepts of architectural design as a synthetic and material practice will be considered.

Lecture video