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Join us for this special conversation between architects Adam Caruso, Peter St John and writer Owen Hatherley to celebrate the release of Collected Works: Volume 3 2010-2020.
Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided experiments in restoration, materials, and colour.
Transforming buildings for reuse – from beloved public institutions to long-abandoned industrial sites – their designs for memorials, exhibitions, and museums further developed an engagement with memory and an aliveness to the past.
The third volume of Caruso St John’s acclaimed Collected Works series covers this prolific period via a sequence of resonant themes. Projects are presented with extensive drawings, photography, and new commentaries, interleaved with competition entries, contemporary reviews, and material that inspired and informed the architects, including texts by Elizabeth Wilson and Grace Ndiritu and references from Alberti to Roger Diener and Pissarro to the Bechers.
Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided experiments in restoration, materials, and colour.
Transforming buildings for reuse – from beloved public institutions to long-abandoned industrial sites – their designs for memorials, exhibitions, and museums further developed an engagement with memory and an aliveness to the past.
The third volume of Caruso St John’s acclaimed Collected Works series covers this prolific period via a sequence of resonant themes. Projects are presented with extensive drawings, photography, and new commentaries, interleaved with competition entries, contemporary reviews, and material that inspired and informed the architects, including texts by Elizabeth Wilson and Grace Ndiritu and references from Alberti to Roger Diener and Pissarro to the Bechers.
Bios
CARUSO ST JOHN was established in 1990 by Adam Caruso (b. 1962) and Peter St John (b. 1959).The practice has offices in London and Zurich, undertaking projects that range in scale frommajor urban developments and cultural projects to intricate interventions in complex historicsettings. The practice first rose to prominence after winning the competition for the New ArtGallery Walsall and is known for its museum and gallery projects and frequent collaborationswith artists, including the redevelopment of the Tate Britain, Nottingham Contemporary, andthe V&A Museum of Childhood. Adam Caruso is Professor of Architecture and Constructionat ETH Zurich and Peter St John is Professor of Architecture at London MetropolitanUniversity
Owen Hatherley is a writer and editor living in south-east London. He works as a freelance writer, most often for Architectural Review, Jacobin, the London Review of Books, Sidecar and Tribune. He’s the author of seventeen books on aesthetics and politics, including Militant Modernism (Zer0, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Landscapes of Communism (Penguin, 2015), Red Metropolis (Repeater, 2020) and Modern Buildings in Britain – a Gazetteer (Penguin, 2022). His most recent books are Transitional Objects (the modernist, 2023), an annotated photobook about Poland in the 2010s, Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects (Repeater, 2024), about social housing and public transport in New York and Washington DC, and The Alienation Effect (Penguin, 2025), a history of Central European artists and intellectuals in Britain and their influence on public life between the 1930s and 1970s.
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06:30 pm
Thu, 26 Mar 2026
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