Finn Williams

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Architecture

  Programme

  MA Architecture, 2007

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  http://www.iamthegreenman.com

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• ADS 1: Barking Reach, Barking and Dagenham

  Instant Heritage for the Thames Gateway: A Monument to Suburbia

  As the world gets covered in brand new culture, heritage has become an increasingly valuable and mutable resource. Whether recalled as a knee-jerk reaction against homogenization, or invented to encourage further tourism, heritage is the new currency of globalization. Fabrication of the past, or -instant heritage- is instinctively mistrusted and frequently misused, but how can it be used to influence a place positively? The proposal is a masterplan for Barking Reach commemorating a fictional, improved version of suburbia; a large white lie as a better precedent for future development.

• Experience

• Collaborator, General Public Agency, London, 2007; Co-Founder, The Green Man, Architecture & Amusement, London, 2006-present; Visiting Critic, Architectural Association, London, 2006-present; Architectural Assistant, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004-5

• Exhibitions

• Revisit: Urbanism Made in London, Architekturforum Oberosterreich (AFO), Linz, Austria, 2007; Babylon:don, Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy, 2006; Airspace: What Skyline Does London Want?, Architecture Foundation, London, 2006

• Awards

• UK Winner, Corus Undergraduate Architects Awards, 2005