The first KASA Open Lecture of 2020 will be given by Architect and designer, Jamie Fobert with his talk titled, ‘Art and Architecture’ on Tuesday 4th February at 6pm in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1.
Since he established Jamie Fobert Architects in 1996, Jamie has consistently produced innovative and inspiring architecture in projects ranging from individual houses to high quality retail and significant public buildings for the arts. The practice has won a number of major public commissions for galleries including Tate St Ives in Cornwall and Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and the present major development of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Jamie Fobert Architects has grown into a substantial architectural practice with an outstanding reputation and has garnered several awards including the RIBA and English Heritage ‘Award for a building in an historic context’ and the Manser Medal. Tate St Ives was awarded the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year and shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018. In 2019, Jamie Fobert Architects was chosen as ‘BD Architect of the Year’ in recognition of the practice’s work on public buildings. Jamie was appointed CBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours in 2020.
Jamie has developed a very careful language of form and materiality that responds with great specificity to every project and its place. He makes architecture that is built with and around light, driven by functionality, ease of use, and the sociability that architecture can foster. Through intense and careful consideration of these issues, he is able to arrive at an architecture of practicality and beauty.
All welcome!