San Salvatore

Pierre d'Avoine is an architect and teacher based in London. The lecture “San Salvatore” is based on Pierre d’Avoine’s recent publication 'Dwelling on the Future: Architecture for the Seaside, Middle England and the Metropolis'. The lecture is part of the online lecture series 'The Complex Interior'.

The lecture focuses on the design of dwellings and their varied environments, and questions how an architect responds to the challenge of providing humane places in which to live for a growing, multifarious population in an increasingly divided world.

The issue is never just housing. People – individuals, groups and societies – can and do have different goals and aspirations. Is it possible to imagine and implement a world in which a level of comfort and stability is available for even the poorest members of societies?

About Pierre d'Avoine
Pierre d’Avoine is an architect and teacher based in London, and practices, teaches and exhibits internationally. He was born in Bombay, India in 1951.

d'Avoine set up Pierre d’Avoine Architects in 1979 and studioDA with Pereen d’Avoine and Nilesh Shah in 2017. Pierre and Pereen teach MArch Unit 14 at the Cass School of Architecture. Pierre has also taught at Bath School of Architecture and at the AA. He has been Visiting Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture and at the Royal Danish Academy. 

Lecture Series: The complex interior
'The complex interior' is organized by the master programme Spatial Design, the PhD School and The Royal Danish Academy - Center for Interior Studies. 'The Complex Interior' addresses the interior as a multi-layered phenomenon present at and in various scales, sensations and situations, and discusses the interior across disciplines involving anthropologists, design historians and practising architects. Each lecture will be followed by an online discussion. 

08.04.2021 - Pierre d'Avoine
15.04.2021 - Alison J. Clarke 
22.04.2021 - Elli Mosayebi 
06.05.2021 - Oliver Lütjens & Thomas Padmanabhan 
20.05.2021 - Lois Weinthal