Lynch Architects

Lynch Architects, formed in 1998 by Patrick Lynch, is a London-based practice. The directors are Patrick Lynch, Claudia Lynch and David Evans. Lynch Architects was awarded the Young Architect of the Year Award in 2005,[1] and co-represented Ireland at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale.[2] The practice was selected by Sir David Chipperfield[3] to exhibit at the 2012 Biennale.[4]

The practice’s early reputation was established through exhibitions and writing as much as its built work. In 2001, Patrick Lynch, who gained degrees at the universities of Liverpool and Cambridge, exhibited small scale built interventions in existing structures in London and other speculative projects at the ‘Encounters Between Here and There’ show at London’s Architecture Foundation.[5]

The practice’s first internationally recognised project was a 2003 country house, Marsh View, Norfolk.[6] The practice has since developed its design reputation at a range of scales, from major commercial projects, landscape interventions, housing, memorial sculpture, and a bronze door handle for the manufacturer, Izé.[7]

Lynch Architects’ work has been reviewed by critics and writers including Ken Powell;[8] Ellis Woodman;[9] Kieran Long;[10] Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki, The New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism, Laurence King, London, 2010;[11] and Joachim Fischer and Chris van Uffelen.[12]

Design influences

Lynch Architects' creative inspiration includes the work of architects such as Sigurd Lewerentz,[13] Alvaro Siza,[14] Luigi Moretti,[15] Francesco Borromini,[16] and Michelangelo.[17] Equally important to Lynch’s design are the writings of his key teachers, Dalibor Veseley,[18] Joseph Rykwert,[19] and Peter Carl.[20]

In an article entitled Measuring Matter and Memory,[21] Lynch cites the writings of the American artist Robert Irwin to support his idea of creativity as mental topography, and the role that imagination plays in forgetting the name of the thing that is seen.

Selected projects

The practice’s first significant project, Marsh View in the wetlands of Norfolk, remodeled a bungalow to create a two-level house whose unusual form was anchored to a mound-like chimney corner. The building suggests an archaic mode of inhabitation, based around a hearth or temple.

The Kingsgate House scheme in Victoria, for developers Land Securities,[22] replaced a massive slab-block in central London with two new buildings and urban landscaping. The articulated form and crafted detail of the mixed-use buildings includes elements by two artists, Rut Blees Luxemburg[23] and Joel Tomlin.[24]

The Victoria Public Library, also for Land Securities, is part of a development called Victoria Circle,[25] with other buildings by Benson and Forsyth[26] and PLP.[27] Lynch’s design proposal sits beside the listed 19th century Victoria Palace Theatre and includes affordable housing as well as the library, and a small office block that involves the reconstruction of a listed façade. The project will accommodate sculptures by a number of artists, including Hilary Koob-Sassen.[28]

The design of the Madder 139 Gallery[29] in Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, London, converted two Georgian terrace houses, into galleries on the ground floor and in a double-height basement and rear courtyard.

Lynch Architects contributed a 36-house scheme to the development masterplan for Brent Cross and Cricklewood drawn up by Allies and Morrison.[30] Lynch’s design expresses a modern, strongly anti-pastiche interpretation of Georgian terraced housing.

The practice’s competition-winning scheme for Barking Abbey Green[31] will create a series of structures whose abstracted forms are derived from the deeper history of the site. Their competition design for the Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre[32] expressed recent history, geography, ancient myths and geological time. Lynch Architects have also been shortlisted to design an intervention that will accentuate the presence of Westminster Cathedral’s piazza.[33]

Teaching and writing

Patrick Lynch has taught at the Architectural Association, University College Dublin, London Metropolitan University and Kingston University, and lectured at the Cooper Union in New York City, the Casa da Musica, Porto, and the University of Pennsylvania. His written work includes the book ‘The Theatricality of the Baroque City: The Zwinger and Dresden’;[34] a chapter in ‘Why do architects love his buildings? Jim Stirling and the Red Trilogy: Three Radical Buildings’;[35] and the long essay ‘Everything Flows: The Architecture of O’Donnell & Tuomey’.[36]

References

  1. ↑ Woodman, Ellis (2005-12-02). "Young and gifted | Competitions | Building Design". Bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  2. ↑ Slavid, Ruth (2008-09-16). "Irish pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale: see a slideshow | News". Architects Journal. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  3. ↑ "David Chipperfield Architects". Davidchipperfield.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  4. ↑ "Venice preview: Introduction | The Critics". Architects Journal. 2012-08-16. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  5. ↑ "Public Views 3". Architecture Foundation. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  6. ↑ "Marsh view house". iconeye.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  7. ↑ "izé: details". Ize.info. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  8. ↑ http://www.herechickychicky.com. "merrellpublishers.com". merrellpublishers.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  9. ↑ Woodman, Ellis (2011-05-05). "Victoria development is Lynch's big break | Analysis | Building Design". Bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  10. ↑ "hatch the new architectural generation". laurenceking.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  11. ↑ "The New Modern House Redefining Functionalism". laurenceking.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  12. ↑ "BRAUN - Publishing". Braun-publishing.ch. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  13. ↑ "Great Buildings Online - the World of Architecture". Greatbuildings.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  14. ↑ "Architect Álvaro Siza Homepage". Alvarosizavieira.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  15. ↑ Moore, Rowan (2010-07-27). "Luigi Moretti: From Rationalism to Informalism, Rome, Italy | Reviews". Architectural Review. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  16. ↑ "Francesco Borromini (Italian architect) - Encyclopedia Britannica". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  17. ↑ "Michelangelo (Italian artist) - Encyclopedia Britannica". Britannica.com. 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  18. ↑ "PennDesign | Dalibor Vesely". Design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  19. ↑ "PennDesign | Joseph Rykwert". Design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  20. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120813180614/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/architecture/research/phd-programme.cfm. Archived from the original on August 13, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ↑ "MEASURING_MATTER_AND_MEMORY_PATRICK_LYNCH_2001" (PDF). lyncharchitects.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  22. ↑ http://www.landsecurities.com/london-portfolio/our-major-london-properties/kingsgate-house. Retrieved August 24, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ↑ "Rut Blees Luxemburg". Rut Blees Luxemburg. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  24. ↑ "The Office of Joel Tomlin, LLC". Joeltomlin.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  25. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120913093153/http://www.landsecurities.com/london-portfolio/our-major-london-properties/victoria-circle. Archived from the original on September 13, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ↑ Benson + Forsyth LLP Architects. "Benson + Forsyth LLP Architects". benson-forsyth.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  27. ↑ "PLP Architecture". PLP Architecture. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  28. ↑ "Hilary Koob-Sassen". Hilary Koob-Sassen. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  29. ↑ "Madder Rose Art Gallery - Whitecross Street London". e-architect. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  30. ↑ "Allies & Morrison | Brent Cross Cricklewood". Alliesandmorrison.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  31. ↑ Waite, Richard (2009-11-19). "AJ Exclusive: Lynch Architects wins Abbey Green design competition | News". Architects Journal. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  32. ↑ "Giant's Causeway Visitor's Centre (Coleraine, Ireland) « Lynch Architects". Lyncharchitects.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  33. ↑ "Westminster Cathedral Piazza London SW1 (London SW1) « Lynch Architects". Lyncharchitects.com. 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  34. ↑ "The Theatricality of the Baroque City, 978-3-639-35670-0, 3639356705 ,9783639356700 by Patrick Lynch". Morebooks.de. 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  35. ↑ "Frances Lincoln". Frances Lincoln. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  36. ↑ http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-25/Everything_Flows.aspx. Retrieved August 24, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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