WESTON, Richard
Richard Weston is Professor of Architecture at Cardiff University and director of Richard Weston Studio. His monograph on the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto won the 1995 Sir Banister Fletcher Prize, while Modernism received the International Book Award of the American Institute of Architects in 1996.
Recent books include the first comprehensive account of the work of Jørn Utzon, architect of Sydney Opera House; Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century; and Materials, Form and Architecture, hailed as ‘a wonderfully perceptive and readable book’ in The Architects’ Journal.
Weston has contributed widely to architectural journals and appeared extensively on national radio, including Radio 4’s In Our Time and Turning World. He also edits the refereed journal Architectural Research Quarterly published by Cambridge University Press,
As a designer Weston has won prizes in national competitions for architecture, landscape and public art, and exhibited on several occasions in the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. His current work involves using natural materials – mostly minerals – to create images and fashion and interior design materials using the latest digital scanning, printing and manufacturing technologies. The results are featured in the book Formations: Images from rocks and Quartz and have been exhibited in public galleries in the UK and Denmark.
‘Richard Weston’s Materials, Form and Architecture is a formidable survey of the relationship between material and culture and is destined to become a standard reference.’ – Christine Hawley, The Journal of Architecture