When: Thursday, 2nd of October 2025 at 6pm (BST)
Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online
“Bamboo has a real part to play as a low-carbon material, and it needs to be part of the toolkit that we have moving forward”.
Chris Matthews talking to Dezeen
Chris Matthews is a chartered structural engineer and an Associate Director at Atelier One. Since joining Atelier One in 2011, Chris has been involved in a broad array of projects. Specialities include structural engineering for unusual structures; staging and stadium shows; film engineering; timber structures; bamboo structures; art installations; geometrical optimisation of form-active roof structures. Some key projects include the staging for the London 2012 Olympic Ceremonies, Spaceframe (a carbon fibre LED framing system used globally, previous winner of the Structural Awards innovation category), the First Light Pavilion at Jodrell Bank (the first concrete shell structure in the UK for 25 years) and SEE Monster (a repurposed North Sea oil platform brought to Weston Super-mare). Chris has also designed two world record-breaking Walls of Death! Chris will be talking about how we should be using bamboo as a low (no) carbon construction material in the UK.
Before and after the talk Jan Balbaligo (Natural Builder) has kindly arranged for the sale of Jörg Stamm and Munir Vahanvati’s book ‘Bamboo Architecture Unboxed’.
For details please contact Dr Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk