Shifting Paradigms and High-Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building, with Sustainability in Mind.

Yioutani-Iacovides, Maria; Moustaka, Athina; Walker, Peter

Abstract

The Centenary Building in Salford was designed to embody a fusion of
design and technology (Fig. 1), serving as a hub for the University‘s Departments of Spatial, Graphic, and Industrial Design.
The building’s brief required the young architect Stephen Hodder to
align its purpose and function, to its location, by bridging the gap between the city and the academic campus.
Hodder’s work on the Centenary Building “enabled him to demonstrate commitment to the importance of placemaking”, contribute to local
identity, and “resolve one of his most overt exercises in structural expressionism”, showing “commitment to articulation of craft and materials’ (Gregory:2017:144) (Fig 4,5).

Citation

Yioutani-Iacovides, M., Moustaka, A., & Walker, P. (2023, September). Shifting Paradigms and High-Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building, with Sustainability in Mind. Poster presented at High-tech Heritage: (Im)permanence of Innovation, Zurich, Switzerland

• Presentation Conference Type: Poster
• Conference Name: High-tech Heritage: (Im)permanence of Innovation
• Conference Location: Zurich, Switzerland
• Start Date: Sep 14, 2023
• End Date: Sep 16, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jan 29, 2024
• Keywords: High Tech Heritage, Innovation
• Publisher URL: https://eahn.org/2022/08/high-tech-heritage-impermanence-of-innovation/