Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things

Join author and architecture writer Rebecca Roke when she talks about her new book: 'Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things'. Nanotecture illustrates how internationally established and emerging architects embrace the freedom to experiment with materials and design concepts when working on a small scale. Roke will explore the concept through some of the best examples of the last decade including pavilions, installations, sheds, cabins and tree houses, homes for dogs, cats and bees, and portable inflatable and flat-packed structures, each accompanied by a colour image and short text.

This event is presented by RIBA in partnership with Phaidon.

Speakers include:
Rebecca Roke (author) has contributed to more than 350 published works about architecture and design, drawing on her architectural background and extensive experience writing, editing, researching and teaching. She has written widely about the work of leading practitioners, such as Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Thomas Heatherwick, Rem Koolhaas and Hella Jongerius. Rebecca was editor of Monument magazine in Australia and for Foster + Partners in London, and was the London Correspondent for Inside Interior Review. Roke is based in London and Nanotecture is her first book.

Yael Reisner is an architect, designer, academic, researcher and writer. Born in Tel Aviv, she has lived in London since 1990 where she is the director of Yael Reisner Studio. She has a PhD in architecture (by design) from RMIT Melbourne, Australia, a Diploma from the Architectural Association in London, and a BSc in Biology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Yael has taught architectural design in Greenwich University as well as in UCL at the Bartlett, school of architecture.

Wendy Perring was a founding partner in Perring Architecture and Design, which became PAD studio Ltd in 2013. PAD studio, specialising in sustainable small scale spaces, has won numerous national and international awards and was shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Award in 2014. Wendy is also a part time studio teacher at the University of Portsmouth, visiting critic at Arts Institute Bournemouth, student mentor at Oxford Brookes and a trustee and collaborator with SPUD.

Nina Tolstrup is a Danish designer based in London. Nina founded Studiomama in 2000 with husband and design collaborator Jack Mama. Studiomama work across furniture, electronic products, jewellery, glassware, exhibition-design, NGO collaborations, interior and architectural projects.

Image: PlayLAND, LIKE Architects, Paredes de Coura, Portugal, 2014. Photo by © Dinis Sottomayor Photography.