Andy Bow // Architecture in the 21st Century

Last night Andy Bow, Senior Partner of Foster + Partners and Visiting Professor at Yale and the Bartlett School of Architecture, invited as part of the Fall Lecture Series 2016, inspired the audience with his lecture: Architecture in the 21st Century.

Andy Bow – IAAC Lecture Series

“When I was born there were three billion people on the planet. If I live to be 80, there will be nine billion people. In my lifetime alone there will have been a threefold increase in the number of people we have to house, feed and educate” said Bow, “Between 1903 and 2003 there were 630 million flights, there will be another 630 million flights by 2030.”

This means that everybody and everything is on the move. For reasons such as these, the architectural profession has changed beyond all recognition in the 21st century.

In his talk Andy Bow illustrated how the current work of Foster + Partners tackles some of the issues that these immense global changes have brought to light – from large scale masterplans to driverless cars.

Andy Bow – IAAC Lecture Series

Andy Bow was born in Edinburgh and studied Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. After graduation in 1988 he moved to London and worked with Sir Jeremy Dixon and Ed Jones, and thereafter with Sir Terry Farrell where he became a Design Director.

He joined Foster + Partners in 1996, became a project director in 1997 and was promoted to senior partner in 2006. In his 20 years with the practice he has worked on buildings and masterplans in 32 different countries.

Recent projects have included the Old Port in Marseille, the Museum of Roman Antiquities in Narbonne and the Ilham Baru Tower in Kuala Lumpur.

Andy Bow – IAAC Lecture Series