Postmodernism

Sir Terry Farrell obtained a first class honours degree from Newcastle University (his home town) and then a masters from the University of Pennsylvania, on a Harkness Fellowship where he studied under Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In 1965 he set up in partnership with Nicholas Grimshaw and then in his own right in 1980 to the present time where he now has offices in London and Hong Kong. He has won many architecture and planning awards, including the RTPI Gold Medal (2017) and a knighthood (2001) for services to architecture and urban design. From a long career his built achievements include MI6, Embankment Place, and headquarters for the Home Office in London and in China, Beijing South and Guangzhou stations, KK100, with The Peak and British Consulate in Hong Kong. He has written and published extensively, including Shaping London and The City As A Tangled Bank: Urban Design versus Urban evolution. At the request of the UK government he led the recent ‘Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment’, described by the culture minister as ‘the most thorough and wide ranging exercise that has taken place in this sector for generations.’ Adam Nathaniel Furman is a London based designer whose practice ranges from architecture and interiors to sculpture, installation, writing, public art and product design. They co-edited the multi-award winning “Queer Spaces, An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories”, co-founded ‘Saturated Space’ at the Architectural Association, the influential Research Group on Colour as an active agent in architecture and urbanism, and was a key figure in bringing the need for the protection of Postmodern Architecture to the attention of Heritage groups worldwide, including submitting the successful application to list Comyn Ching.