Architects Datafile - 08.2019

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Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto are the
founders and principals of New York
practice RUR Architecture. Their new
lavishly-produced hardback volume
‘Projects and Their Consequences,’
published by Princeton Architectural Press is
described as a “genre-blending monograph
presenting 30 years of the firm’s work.
The 35-page, fully illustrated tome is,
say the publishers, “autobiographical,
technical, prophetic and meditative.” The
book certainly does present a “unique view
of the intersections of the visionary, the
speculative and the practical work of
architecture and its relationship to art and
culture.”
A total of 15 key projects are presented,
“tracing innovative, multidisciplinary
investigations of form, structure, technique
and planning.” However there are also
interviews and essays, alongside 400
original drawings, collages and
paintings. “Multiple, overlapping
perspectives describe projects that vary
widely in scope and approach.”
These include large-scale infrastructure
studies for the East River corridor and
Hudson Yards in Manhattan, the Alishan
Railway in Taiwan, and schemes for
cultural institutions including New York’s
New Museum, the Children’s Museum of
Pittsburgh, and the University of Applied
Arts Vienna.

“Carefully conceived” smaller projects
are documented too, from an imaginative
water garden, to the Sagaponack House in
New York. There are also “thought-
provoking textual projects,” i.e. narrative
works that “blur the boundaries of art and
architecture,” such as a “meditation on
language in the context of the Globe
Theatre.” Reiser is also principal of
architecture at Princeton University,
and Umemoto has taught at numerous
institutions. They jointly authored ‘Atlas of
Novel Tectonics’ in 1996.
Projects and Their Consequences (priced
at £45) is certainly of interest not only to
those who are keen to know more about
what motivates this firm, and the thinking
behind their projects. It’s also
an intriguing demonstration of the
multi-dimensional nature of architecture
itself (as well as running a practice), from
the problem-solving to the highly artistic.

Projects and Their Consequences


Medical Architecture has secured
planning consent for a new Fracture
Clinic at the Princess Alexandra Hospital
in Harlow. The new facility will enable
the orthopaedic department to expand the
range of services provided by the hospital.
Medical Architecture co-designed the
layout with clinic consultants who
preferred consult and exam rooms laid
out in a ‘butterfly’ configuration, with
an exam room either side of a single
consultation room. “This arrangement

provides an efficient modern clinical
environment to support excellent NHS
acute services,” said the architects.
Bob Wills, director at Medical
Architecture commented, “This modest
project illustrates how good planning,
architecture and technical design can
deliver facilities which expand clinical
capacity and improve operational
efficiency in a complex hospital setting.
Patients and staff will benefit from
this new purposeful, accessible and

well-ordered building.”
Rose Frawley, senior technologist at
Medical Architecture said, “Forging a new
relationship with the Princess Alexandra
Hospital Trust, we have worked closely
with clinicians aiming to provide a new
standard of excellence for the hospital. By
restoring the Fracture Clinic services to
Harlow, a bright, therapeutic new
environment has been developed with an
emphasis on quality and efficiency
through good design.”

Go-ahead for Medical Architecture’s


fracture clinic at Princess Alexandra


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