Ecology

Plant Consciousness

Towards an Architecture of Expanded Kinship Article by Andrew Todd on the teachings of plants in architecture. Written on commission by...

I Feel Wood: Nordic Talks at Les Echos

Andrew Todd spoke to Les Echos Editor in Chief Daniel Barroux along with Nikolaj Sveistrup about the status of wood in construction...

World Building (excerpt from Common Sense)

A building site is a four-dimensional crime scene, a mirror of our fallen world. The architect is a sleuth, doggedly uncovering...

Wood Would (excerpt from Common Sense)

How biomaterials bring us together socially and ecologically. I have -lately- been thinking and building almost exclusively in wood. I...

Background: a Performance Lecture

Andrew Todd was invited -along with Robert Wilson, Daniel Libeskind, William Forsyth and Richard Beacham- to engage with the Appia/de...

Tempus Lignum

Keynote lecture at the 2016 Holzbau Forum in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. How wood brings us into the flow of time: Time to grow Time to build...

Common Sense

Andrew Todd's 2016 book Common Sense was published by Rightangle. You can buy it here. "Using the theatre and space for performance as a...

Portrait of Bruno Latour in The Guardian

Interview with Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati.

Eleanor Young on Hardelot in the RIBA Journal

Eleanor Young was one of the first correspondents to visit the completed Hardelot Elizabethan Theatre: "If ever a building was destined...

Kengo Kuma: Killed by Concrete

Andrew Todd interviews Kengo Kuma

Grounding

A chapter by Andrew Todd from the book 'The Open Circle: Peter Brook's Theatre Environments,' published by Faber and Faber in 2003.

Three-way Street: Todd on Japan in the RIBA Journal

Andrew Todd recounts his 2015 Villa Kujuoyama residency for the RIBA Journal. Read the article here.

WIRED on the Paper Theatre

WIRED reviewed our Paper Theatre project in this article from 2013. Read it here .

Larochelle sur Hardelot dans Le Monde

Jean-Jacques Larochelle décrit pour Le Monde le Théâtre Elisabéthain du Chateau d'Hardelot dans le cadre du vandalisme de motivation...

Zitzmann on Hardelot in NZZ

Marc Zitzmann covers Hardelot in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Download pdf:

Roussel sur Hardelot dans Libération

Frédérique Roussel décrit le Théâtre Elisabéthain du Chateau d'Hardelot au moment des 400 ans depuis le décès de Shakespeare, quelques...

Portrait of Andrew Todd on France Culture

Andrew Todd était l'invité de Lucille Commeaux sur 'La Grande Table d'Eté' pour ce portrait. Leur conversation, qui commence à 46'16"...

High Alpine Architecture

Guardian article on extreme building at high altitude, featuring Herzog + de Meuron, Decalaage and Hermann Kaufmann. Andrew Todd visited...

Guardian Obituary of Ivan Illich

Illich introduced Andrew Todd to Franco la Cecla in 2002, leading to a rich collaboration. One of their first common acts -six months...

Akira Kuzumi, Superstar Plaster Crafstman

During his residency at the Villa Kujoyama in 2015, Andrew Todd visited the important plaster artisan Kuzumi-san with his residenecy...