Will Alsop

Will Alsop is one of the most prominent UK architects. Locally, he is best known for designing the Sharp Centre for Design, or “The Table Top”, at the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Alsop’s practice is an international operation, guided by the principle that architecture is both a vehicle and symbol of social change and renewal. The philosophy extends from the design of individual buildings to embrace broader principles of urbanism and city development. By abandoning the hegemony of an acceptable style, he has rendered the whole process of architecture, one of increasing fluidity and transparency, with a new and refreshing position. Will Alsop follows a parallel path as an artist, feeling that it is a discipline inseparable from architecture.

His works have been exhibited at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Milton Keynes Gallery, the Cube Gallery, Manchester, the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale and many others.