• Wednesday 16th November 2016, 6.30pm
• Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]
• Chaired by Nic Clear

Eva Jiricna’s long career began with a job at the Greater London Council on her arrival in the UK in 1968, followed by the Louis de Soissons Partnership and subsequently Richard Rogers Partnership. With Jan Kaplický and his practice Future Systems, she designed the Way In store at Harrods, an award winning scheme that influenced a generation of retail interiors, and which enabled her to start her own practice. Over the years, Jiricna’s contribution to architecture and design has been recognised with many prestigious awards, including the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), a CBE (Commander of the British Empire); she has been elected a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, and made Hon Fellow A.I.A. (American Institute of Architects), and been bestowed a unique Lifetime Achievement Award by the Czech Ministry of Culture.

David Nixon is a senior partner of Altus Associates, architects, designers and planners. From 1971 to 1979 he worked at a series of leading architectural offices in England, including the office of Sir Hugh Casson and the early offices of Lord Norman Foster and Lord Richard Rogers. After a period in Chicago in 1977 with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, he returned to Britain to establish the office of Future Systems with architect Jan Kaplický with whom he collaborated for over 10 years on the design of many award-winning projects. From 1985 to 1989, he directed a research study for NASA on the design of astronaut quarters through his firm, Altus Associates. David has completed a broad spectrum of space projects for clients from government agencies to start-up companies in the USA and Europe, and has received several awards and distinctions in the fields of architecture and aerospace design.

Deyan Sudjic, OBE is a British writer and broadcaster. He is the director of the Design Museum, London. He was the design and architecture critic for The Observer, the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, and co-chair of the Urban Age Advisory Board. In 1983, he co-founded, with Peter Murray and Simon Esterson, Blueprint, a monthly architecture magazine and went on to be the magazine’s editor and then its editorial director. From 2000-04, he was the editor of Domus. He was the director of Glasgow‘s UK City of Architecture and Design program in 1999, and the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. He was also a juror for the design of London Aquatics Centre, which was designed and built for the 2012 Olympics by Zaha Hadid. Sudjic took up his post as director of the Design Museum in 2006.