Upcoming Talk: Edward Hollis

Wednesday 24th September 2025

This September we are very excited to be joined by self-described ‘recovering architect’, author and teacher Edward Hollis.

Edward writes stories about buildings, the interiors they contain, and the ways in which they change over time and the ways in which stories do not just describe, but are the agents of those processes of change. He started his career practicing in Sri Lanka, and then in Edinburgh and in 1999, he began lecturing in Interior Architecture at Napier University, Edinburgh, moving to Edinburgh College of Art in 2004, where he is now Professor of Interior Design.

His first book, ‘The Secret Lives of Buildings’: a collection of folk tales about mythical buildings was published in 2009; and his second ‘The Memory Palace: a book of lost Interiors’ was published in 2013. His fourth book, ‘A Drama in Time’, a guide to the interiors of the oldest house in Edinburgh, was published in 2018. He is currently working on a series of short stories about an eighteenth-century glass room in Rajasthan, and the ruins of a colonial mining town in West Bengal, India

“A story is a thing not told but retold, not built, but built on something already built. Conversely, buildings, passed down from generation to generation, something added, something taken away, something forgotten, something remembered each time, are like stories.”

Edward will be discussing how we can use storytelling to help understand, and work creatively with, existing buildings at the offices of Tuckey Design Studio at 58 Milson Road, London W14 OLB in West London at 7:30pm on Wednesday 24th September 2025.

This event is free to attend but as space is limited and we anticipate a lot of interest, please reserve a place here.