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Studio based in London, EnglandJohn Lyall RIBA FRSA, Architect
John Lyall has devoted much of his career to the integration of cultural buildings into
commercial development. He trained at the Architectural Association. He
subsequently worked for Cedric Price and Piano + Rogers, and then formed the firm
of Alsop & Lyall with Will Alsop. John Lyall Architects was created in 1991. His
practice has gained an international reputation for successful mixed-use urban
regeneration schemes and arts buildings. John Lyall Architects work started on the
Ipswich Waterfront in 2002.
John Lyall’s interest in dance began 25 years ago at London’s Riverside Studios,
where he was a resident architect with Will Alsop. This was the period when
Riverside was leading the way with new contemporary dance in the UK, hosting
Dance Umbrella and providing a workplace for Michael Clark, Rosemary Butcher,
Gaby Agis and others. While at Riverside Studios, John Lyall master-planned new
studios at Riverside which emphasised dance. The scheme was never realised.
However, 1982 he did design and build Sundance Studio, a professional dance
rehearsal space in Hammersmith.
Later, during the 1990s, John Lyall was invited to collaborate with Rosemary Butcher on d2, a dance piece for Christ Church Spitalfields. This was followed by two other works: 3d and Body as Site, which were performed at diverse venues including Tate Liverpool, Guildford Cathedral, Tramway Glasgow and in the Gulbenkian Galleries at the Royal College of Art. John Lyall also led student dance and architecture workshops in London and Edinburgh.
John Lyall is a registered Client Design Adviser and also serves on CABE’s national
Design Review Panel. He is a design advisor for English Partnerships, CABE and the British Library. His publications include ‘John Lyall: Contexts and Catalysts’ published internationally by L’Arcaedizioni and he contributed a chapter to the Architectural Press publication, ‘Context; New Buildings in Historic Settings’.
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