Flood House

16/11/2021

On Friday Flood House designer and founder Matthew Butcher will be presenting at an event organised by the Korean Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.

The event is associated with the An Atlas of Global and Local Imaginaries, the Korean Pavilion and P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research. It will take place at 17.30 (GMT) on Friday 19th November. For details of the event please see details below.

Zoom link will be released on the day at: https://futureschool.kr/en/an-atlas-of-global-and-local-imaginaries

Info:

An Atlas of Global and Local Imaginaries presents:

Global/Local: Symposium to celebrate the launch of P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research, Issue VIII.

19th November
18:30-20:00 (C.E.T), 05:30-07:00 (GMT), 02:30 – 04:00 20th November (K.S.T).

To celebrate the launch of Issue 8 of the architectural journal P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research, An Atlas of Global and Local Imaginaries presents the symposium Global/Local. This event will showcase a series of architects and researchers, who have contributed to this latest issue of P.E.A.R and
who’s work explores how architecture, manifested as spatial, temporal, material and programmatic conditions, can operate critically within complex social, ecological, political and cultural
systems. As integral to the discussion at the symposium will be the intent to explore questions about how architecture can seek to engage with, negate and even enhance circumstances – whether economic, social, aesthetic or political – that exist in specific urban and rural locations, but are driven by dynamic and complex forces at national and international scales.

Participants: Ana Betancour, Matthew Butcher, Ana Monrabal Cook, Shahed Saleem, Heidi Svenningsen and Carl-Johan Vesterlund.

14/03/2018

We are very excited to announce that Flood House designer Matthew Butcher has had his Bartlett International Lecture now posted to view on line. The lecture includes detailed discussions around the development of the Flood House and related work.

Please follow the link to view:

Matthew Butcher giving a lecture at the Bartlett International Lecture Series on 31 January 2018.

05/03/2018

Flood House designer Matthew Butcher will be giving a lecture on his recent work, as well as Flood House, at the University of Greenwich Department of Architecture & Landscape. The lecture is part of the schools’ Hawksmoor International Lecture Series and will take place on Thursday 8th March at 6.30pm in the Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre.

05/03/2018

Matthew Butcher Newsletter -

Matthew Butcher has been commissioned with Luke Pearson to guest edit a new issue of Architectural Design (AD). The issue, titled “Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde: revisiting the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s”, will seek to explore the reasons for the increased interest, by contemporary desig...

19/09/2016

Flood House being lowered on to the roof of the Arthouse Foundation.

19/09/2016

The Flood House structure is to be exhibited on the roof of the Arthouse Foundation in Hackney, from the 22nd September till the 15th October. The presentation follows the completion of the structures Journey around the Thames Estuary in April.

Evening drinks viewing:
Wednesday 21st September 6 – 8 pm

Exhibition opening times 22nd September - 15th October 2016
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 12 – 6 pm

The Arthouse Foundation
53 - 55 Laburnum St, London, E2 8BD

http://www.arthousefoundation.org

16/06/2016

The Flood House legacy continues in this month's Art Monthly - a project that 'saliently reconnects social practice with landscape'. Great review by Matthew Bowman.

22/05/2016

Really excited to have Flood House in todays Observer! Thanks to Lucy Siegle for the piece.

17/05/2016

Photos of Flood House still coming in. Those purple ones were taken just before FH was moved to Dauntless Boatyard from Southend.

17/05/2016

Rob Hart from Hart Marine has done an amazing job of tugging Flood House around the Estuary. Here are some photos of him and his colleagues digging the mooring point at Southend a few weeks back.

Flood House is now back at Dauntless Boatyard. If you fancy a trip, get the train to Benfleet and walk 10 mins to the boatyard. You can get a drink at Barge Gladys.

13/05/2016

A really fascinating talk by Ken Worpole at Focal Point Gallery last night in which he challenged the reputation of Essex as "a place of benighted ignorance and political misanthropy" and highlighted the rich history of alternative communities and radical architecture in the county over the past century (Othona Community, Silver End, Frinton, The Peculiar People, Hadliegh Farm Colony, Bata). And he got Flood House in there too!