TALK BY TED CULLINAN

Location: 2 Baldwin Terrace N1 7RU

Date: 2nd July 2010

Time: 6.30 - 9pm

Ted Cullinan gave a talk on the work of our practice, which took place at our Making Places Open Studio Exhibition.

RIBA Royal Gold Medallist Ted Cullinan is an inquisitive, inventive and passionate composer and maker of buildings. He was educated at Cambridge, the Architectural Association and Berkeley. He trained with Denys Lasdun where he designed the student residences at the University of East Anglia before setting up his own practice in 1959. While teaching at Cambridge in 1965, he established Edward Cullinan Architects as a co-operative.

Ted has taught and examined extensively in this country and abroad. He has five Professorships and three honorary doctorates. Ted is a Royal Academician, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and in 1987 he received a CBE for services to architecture. In 2008, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in recognition of a lifetime’s work in architecture. He is Chair of Urban Vision North Staffordshire and has been an active trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Construction Industry for Youth Trust, the Building Experiences Trust and the Koestler Award Trust for art in prisons.

Ted’s tenacious commitment in striving for excellence in design continues to inspire our practice. He delights in trying out design ideas through the hands-on experience of construction. With the help of friends and students, Ted has designed and built six houses, including his own house in Camden Mews, completed in 1965.