Urbanistas

Roca London Gallery presents the work of six women that represent the highest standards of cohesive design, women that are “changing the design of our cities today”.

Liza Fior and Katherine Clarke, Muf Architecture/Art: Site of Ruskin Square, East Croydon

“Urbanistas: women innovators in architecture, urban and landscape design” – on view at the Roca London Gallery – showcases the ideas of some of the finest women practitioners based in, or working in, the UK today.

Each is a role model for their peers and those entering the profession, showing incredible ingenuity and resourcefulness as they tackle societal needs through their designs for urban living.

**Top**: Liza Fior and Katherine Clarke, Muf Architecture/Art: Site of Ruskin Square, East Croydon. **Above**: Liza Fior and Katherine Clarke, Muf Architecture/Art Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel

The five exhibitors are Irena Bauman, co-founder of Bauman Lyons Architects, Leeds; Alison Brooks, founder, Alison Brooks Architects, London; Alessandra Cianchetta, co-founder of AWP, Paris; Liza Fior and Katherine Clarke, co-founders of Muf Architecture + Art, London; and Johanna Gibbons, co-founder, J&L Gibbons, London.

With projects completed and ongoing for sustainable urban and suburban mixed-use developments, a variety of housing types (including live-work), landscape architecture and masterplanning frameworks, the “Urbanistas” represent the highest standards of cohesive design.

Alison Brooks, Alison Brooks Architects: Western Riverside housing

Exhibition highlights include: Alison Brooks’ innovative reinterpretation of the archetypal London garden suburb, Barnet, compact live-work housing, Harlow, and variations on the Bath Crescent housing typology on a former industrial site; Irena Bauman’s versatile retrofitting strategies with the community in Dewsbury and Holbeck, Leeds; multi-scalar urban design by Alessandra Cianchetta at AWP – from long-term strategic planning to detailed retrofitting work, at La Défense, Paris, regenerating 100,000 sqm of unused space for public use; Muf’s inspired integrative regenerative strategies, identifying and nurturing the community assets of areas such as Dalston, east London; and Johanna Gibbons’ vision of the city as a conceptual landscape.

Exhibition designers, the architectural firm Feix & Merlin, described their approach: "We designed a family of five objects, each individually adaptable to the selected exhibits, as a series of geometrically folded ribbons that echo the nature of the exhibition as well as respond to the interior design of Roca London Gallery itself.”

Johanna Gibbons, J&L Gibbons: Angel Building, Islington

Alison Brooks, Alison Brooks Architects: Park Up Hill, Dollis Valley

Irena Bauman, Bauman Lyons Architects: Tower Works, Holbeck, Leeds

AWP: Malmo Quay, Newcastle

AWP: Malmo Quay, Newcastle

6 March – 27 June 2015
Urbanistas
The women changing the design of our cities today
curated by Lucy Bullivant
exhibition design by Feix & Merlin
Roca London Gallery
Station Court, Townmead Road, London

Urbanistas

Roca London Gallery presents the work of six women that represent the highest standards of cohesive design, women that are “changing the design of our cities today”.

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