Introduction
ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE & INTERIOR DESIGN Julian Bicknell & Associates is a highly specialised, design-led, architectural practice based in central London.
The design studio remains small, with a staff rarely exceeding eight in number, but works on projects of every scale by drawing on a wide circle of independent specialists and professional associates: landscape designers, engineers, interior designers, artists, quantity surveyors, craftsmen, computer specialists and model makers.
The office and the associated professionals have in common a concern to integrate all aspects of building, from strategic planning to the detailed design of furniture and fittings; and to identify as closely as possible with the needs of their clients and building users.
Since Julian Bicknell established the practice in 1983, the office has worked on over a hundred and fifty design and building projects, covering a wide range of building types in a variety of locations: private houses, offices, workshops, theatres, churches, college residences, hotels and a golf club, as well as the restoration and adaptation numerous existing and historic buildings. Designs have been produced for buildings throughout the UK and in Russia, Japan and the USA. The tight focus of the practice and the extensive network of associated professionals makes it possible to work efficiently on jobs of varied scale and in many parts of the world.
Biography
JULIAN BICKNELL MA DipArch RIBA FRSA AWG (b 1945) studied architecture at Cambridge University and subsequently worked with Edward Cullinan (1969-72). He joined the teaching staff at the Royal College of Art under Sir Hugh Casson in 1972, becoming director of the Royal College of Art Project Office (1973-79). In 1979 he joined Arup Associates. He set up his own practice in 1983. His principal concern had been with modification, alteration and restoration of existing buildings, many of them of considerable historic importance.
Since then he has been increasingly involved in the design and construction of new buildings in which the lessons of history are combined with contemporary architectural thinking and technology. His work in the UK includes new interiors at Castle Howard, a number of significant private houses (Henbury Rotonda, Upton Viva, Carden Hall), projects for Oxford and Cambridge Colleges and other projects involving sensitivity to complex historical contexts. In 1983 he won the competition for a new residence for H M Ambassador in Moscow.
Since 1990 he has built a number of English style buildings for the leisure sector in Japan, restaurants, a golf club, banqueting facilities and a complete - and historically authentic -Shakespearean village. Despite a growing number of building projects, he continues to teach in Britain, and abroad.
He was deeply involved in the development of the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture between 1990 and 2000, both on the Academic Board and as a teacher - firstly at the Institute itself and also at the ground-breaking international summer schools in Italy, Germany France and the UK. He has also taught and lectured in the USA, Russia and Japan. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Art Workers Guild, of the College of Practitioners of INTBAU, and of the Traditional Architecture Group
EXHIBITIONS
‘Vision of Britain’ Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 1990 ‘Formula Function and Fantasy’ ‘Building America’ Conference, Alexandria Virginia, USA 1992: ‘Vision of Europe’ Exhibition, Bologna 1994 ‘Julian Bicknell & Associates’, Exhibition at The Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture 1996.
PUBLICATIONS
The Design for Need Papers; Pergamon, Oxford 1978 (joint Editor with Liz McQuiston) Rehabilitation and Conversion; Newnes-Butterworth, London 1980 (Contributor) Building Classical; Academy Editions, London 1993 (Contributor) Hiroshige in Tokyo; Pomegranate, San Francisco 1994 Great Buildings of the World; Potter, New York 1995 (with Steve Chapman) Julian Bicknell - Designs and Buildings 1980 - 2000; published by Julian Bicknell & Associates, London 2000
Contact details
Work tel: 020 3274 1070
Website: http://www.julianbicknell.co.uk
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