Architecture and 'Origins': a discussion with Ordinary Architecture, Joseph Rykwert and Kieran Reed

Charles Holland and Elly Ward of Ordinary Architecture discuss the ideas that informed the 'Origins' project at the RA, and reflect on its implications for the ways architecture is typically created and understood. The distinguished architectural writer Joseph Rykwert and artist Kieren Reed both respond, before a panel discussion and questions from the audience. 'Origins' is a series of interventions which form an intriguing contemporary counterpoint to various ‘origin myths’ of architecture that have arisen over history. Realised through a number of techniques and materials, the interventions are grouped according to particular themes, which together pose a new set of origin myths for how architecture is both created and experienced.