The carefully argued text by William Mann, who served as supervising architect for Witherford Watson Mann Architects, is conceived as a meticulous historical reading of the Whitechapel complex. The text characterises the attitude of the designers, who clearly immersed themselves in the history of the construction and the institution in order to contribute a new layer with a full knowledge of the facts. T... Read more

The following text is part of a contribution to the catalogue of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, titled Cities, Architecture and Society, and was written while the architects were working on several vast projects within historic city centres. The article was illustrated by project images of Leopold De Wael Square in Antwerp... Read more