Marking Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble's new publication Building Collective, Alice Edgerly from Assemble will be in conversation with Hazel Tilley and Eleanor Lee from Granby Four Streets.
Assemble have transformed the definition of a successful young architecture practice by working on temporary, small-scale, community-based projects, often reusing sites and materials. Their projects range as widely as a brewery in rural Japan and a train depot in Arles, France. In 2015 they won the Turner Prize for their work with Granby Four Streets in Toxteth, Liverpool. For this project they worked closely with local residents to renovate derelict housing in the area.
Biographies
Assemble
Assemble are a London-based collective who work across the fields of art, design and architecture to create projects in tandem with the communities who use and inhabit them. Their architectural spaces and environments promote direct action and embrace a DIY sensibility.
Granby Four Streets
Granby Four Streets is an ongoing community-led project that aims to rebuild Granby in Toxteth. Once a lively and diverse community in Liverpool, the neighbourhood was nearly made derelict and fell into a state of disrepair. Starting from 2011, regeneration schemes brought these streets out of dereliction and back into use.