Rook Lane Blog

March 21, 2017

In the 1970s Walter Segal developed a radical approach to affordable housing which allowed community groups to build their own cheap, easy-to-construct timber-framed homes on sites that were unsuitable for conventional housing. As an architecture student Duncan Roberts […]

March 21, 2017

Unaffordable house prices? Rising rents? Hidden homeless? This is a public meeting for anyone concerned about their current or future housing in Frome, or who cares about social justice and the future of our town. It will be […]

March 10, 2017

Friends of St John’s School present The Great Lego Build fundraiser with parent’s competiton, raffle, games and more! Design, create, build and play! Competition and prizes in three age categories: Rec / Yr1 Yrs 2/3 Yrs 4/5 Bring […]

February 16, 2017

Giants! By Lisa Schneidau and Ronnie Conboy. Stories from the Bedrock of the British Isles “There were giants on the earth in those days….” Lisa Schneidau and Ronnie Conboy present a storytelling journey through some of the old […]

January 13, 2017

Charlie will be exploring some of the traditional supply myths and build an argument for scaling alternative modes of housing which can help solve acute issues of affordability in high demand areas. This talk will feature case studies on innovative land and finance strategies from the UK and abroad with a focus on a number of ongoing projects in Oxford.

November 16, 2016

Taylor has pioneered a number of educational programmes including the Studio in the Woods where students use making to test ideas at 1:1, and also the Design and Make masters programme at the AA where students design and construct buildings over 16 months at the AA’s Hooke Park Campus. Taylor delivered the Assembly Workshop at Hooke Park, which used small-scale juvenile ‘waste’ timber in the construction of big span structure, which was built by students alongside skilled carpenters.

October 21, 2016

Director of Pushkin House, Clem Cecil has been recording the abandoned churches of rural Russia since 2004. Find out more about this unique and threatened architectural heritage.

August 3, 2016

Steve leads the Performance Design Studio at architects Haworth Tompkins. He will be talking about the studio’s approach to these specialised public buildings and presenting a selection of key projects, including the Royal Court, the Young Vic, Snape Maltings, the Bath Egg and the National Theatre, leading to the RIBA Stirling Prize winning Everyman Theatre in Liverpool’s Hope Street.

July 28, 2016

Join Architectural Historian Tim Skelton to discover the story behind the extraordinary legacy of war memorials created by the great Architect Edwin Lutyens.

May 23, 2016

The British folk memory of the Battle of the Somme is dominated by one moment: 7.30am on 01 July 1916. It was a bright summer’s day, the sun well up, and falling from the east on the backs of the German defenders and into the faces of the British. Officers sounded their whistles, and their men scrambled up ladders to get out of the trenches and into No Man’s Land…