0:24 Introduction by Richard Sommer
10:42 Burton Hamfelt presentation
The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design welcomed architect Burton Hamfelt, of the firm Burton Hamfelt Architectuur Stedebouw Prototypes (BHASP), to speak as part of the bulthaup lecture series on October 9, 2012.
Hamfelt’s lecture explored the wide range of projects he has done around the world — from his firm’s award-winning development plan for the Circus, Bodem, and Gasfabrik area in the Dutch city of Groningen, to the regeneration of Tarling Estate, a four-story residential block in East London. The core of his lecture focused on a number of inner-city mixed-use housing projects, which he views as new forms of urban infrastructure, as well as school buildings and educational landscapes that not only address the needs of students, but also the contemporary cities that they are located in. Hamfelt’s projects explore how to better integrate often isolated housing, commercial blocks and educational centres into their urban environments.
Before establishing BHASP in 2008, Hamfelt was co-founder and director of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning international bureau, S333 Architecture + Urbanism, Amsterdam / London. Prior to this, he worked with Xaveer de Geyter Architects in Antwerp, Neutelings Riedijk Architects in Rotterdam, and Bruce Mau Design in Toronto.
The Daniels Faculty would like to thank bulthaup Toronto for its generous sponsorship of this lecture: www.toronto.bulthaup.com
For more information about the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, visit us at http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca
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