Architectural and urban design firm studjurban and the Planning Authority are presenting Architecture Alive, a series of design talks by world-renowned architects every two to three months in Malta.
The project is being held with support of the Chamber of Architects, Places:Design & Living magazine, and Marsovin.
The series was launched on October 6 at the Maritime Museum when one of Austria's foremost architects Peter Lorenz, delivered a stimulating presentation entitled ‘Renaissance of Urbanity – the Responsibility of the Architect’.
The second Architecture Alive design talk shall be held in the Gran Salon at the National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, on Saturday, November 24. Doors open at 6.30pm and Richard Murphy’s talk will start at 7pm. This will be followed by questions and drinks provided by Elia Caterers and Marsovin.
Murphy is both a practising architect and lecturer.
He is a director of Richard Murphy Architects Limited in Edinburgh, which he founded in 1991 and he is an authority on the works of the great 20th century Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978).
Richard Murphy Architects has won twenty-two RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Awards, has twice been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize and once for the RIBA Lubetkin Award. The practice’s work is wide ranging, including single-family dwellings, student, social and private housing, educational and health buildings, offices and hotels, master-planning, galleries, theatres and two British Embassies. Much of this work has been won in architectural competitions. The practice has built in all four countries of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Macedonia, Sri Lanka and Malta.
In 2006 Murphy was voted Scottish Architect of the Year by readers of Prospect Magazine and was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Honours List 2007. The tickets for this event may be purchased via https:// www.ticketline.com.mt. General admission tickets at €15, and reduced student tickets at €7. For more information visit www.architecture-alive.com