Graham Morrison delivered the keynote speech for the Institute of Historic Building Conservation’s (IHBC) London Branch day conference, "From Bauhaus to Brutalism and Beyond: Conserving Post-War Buildings and Places".

1. What needs to be
considered in the
conservation of post-war
buildings and places?
Talk at IHBC Conference: From Bauhaus to Brutalism and Beyond
Graham Morrison, Partner
10 Oct 2019
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Allies and Morrison

5. History in Architecture – Construction techniques
‘As hangs a flexible line, so but inverted will stand the rigid arch’
Robert Hooke’s Law of Inversion (1675)

6. • Nature: Chicken egg Ratio 1:100
Shell structures– span to width ratio

7. Romans: Pantheon (126 AD) Ratio 1:26 span 43m
Shell structures– span to width ratio

8. Camelot: CNIT Paris (1958) Ratio 1:850 Span 219m
Shell structures– span to width ratio

9. • Wimberly: Windward city market (1957) Ratio 1:1000
Span 78m
Shell structures– span to width ratio

10. • Matthew: The parabola (1962) Ratio 1:500 Span 40m
Shell structures– span to width ratio

13. Completed Structure 1962

16. John Pawson

80. night view of original facade