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Lightness and Delicacy Chris Wilkinson

Wilkinson Eyre• Architects

 Adriaan Beukers and Ed van Hinte, professors from the

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the University of

Technology in Delft, in their recently published book

Lightness, refer to ‘the inevitable renaissance of minimumenergy structures’. For them lightness is not just concerned

with buildings, or aeroplanes, but with ‘the structure of all

things made and grown’. Their main message is ‘the lighter

the better’, which follows on from Richard Buckminster

Fuller’s dictum of ‘more with less’. But in architecture

lightness is not only about weight but also appearance.

Perhaps a better description is supplied by the poet Milan

Kundera: ‘the unbearable lightness of being’.

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01 Detail: Kalwall cladding of South

Elevation, Stratford Market Depot,

London UK, 1996 – Wilkinson Eyre

 Architects / Photographer - Dennis

Gilbert/View

02 Japanese Shogi

03 Dyson Headquarters,

Malmsbury UK, 1996 –

 Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Photographer & Copyright - Morley

 von Sternberg04 Model of translucent cladding,

Merry Hill Multiplex, Rotherham UK 

2000-1 – Wilkinson Eyre Architects

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