REGISTER - AMIN TAHA

In this episode Kate Ivinson and Dan Ryder-Cook both interview the London architect Amin Taha. Amin’s work, and that of the practice he established (Groupwork) is heavily invested in exploring the potentials for contemporary technology to allow a re-engagement with materiality, ornament and civic expression - particularly in the making of facades. This approach, at once playful and rigorous, has resulted in work which is beautifully detailed, robustly made and historically situated. In this conversation Amin teases out the underlying ideas of the practice, including the way that memory, and misremembering, have always been the way our cities have been made - placing his work in this tradition of continuity. Kate and Dan were both students of the course when they made this interview, and they bring an incisive lens on the work which makes for enjoyable listening. ———— Credits Register is the Reseach Group for the Departmetn of Architecture & landscape. This episode was made in collaboration with the students architecture society K.Arch Head of Department: Mary Johnson Producer: Kate Ivinson / Dan Ryder-Cook Interviewer: Kate Ivinson / Dan Ryder-Cook Editor: Andrew Clancy Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture