Vaissnavi Shukl
Before we begin today’s episode, we wanted to wish you a very, very happy Diwali from all of us at Architecture Off-Centre. We hope this year brings you lots of love, light and interesting architectural discourses like the one today on facadism. I thought I vaguely knew what facadism was, until I spoke to Clemency Gibbs, a PhD researcher at the Bartlett, and then very quickly realised that I knew nothing about it. I was somehow under the impression that facadism had to do with the design of facades, you know, the whole building and its envelope thing where the facade acts as a skin for the building skeleton. But no, that’s not all. Facadism or facadism practices as Clemency, refers to them stands for privileging of the facade over other aspects of the building. Within the context of development, there is an intriguing conservation practice where entire buildings are gutted for development or free development depending on how you see it, but their facades are kept intact to retain a certain architectural character at a scale of the street, the neighbourhood, or even the city. So today we’re taking a deep dive into what facadism means, especially in London.

My name is Vaissnavi Shukl and this is Architecture Off- Centre, a podcast where we highlight unconventional design practices and research projects that reflect the emerging discourses within the design discipline and beyond. Architecture of Center features conversations with exceptionally creative individuals who have extrapolated the traditional fields of Art, Architecture, Planning, landscape, and urban design.

That kind of sounds like a nice thing to do on a rainy day. It’s just like wrap up and be interviewed for a podcast.

Clemency Gibbs
Exactly, exactly.

Vaissnavi Shukl
So, let’s begin shall we. Yep. Okay, I have a habit of prefacing my questions with a fairly detailed context. I like go on and on and on, but I want to start our conversation very simply, what is facadism?

Clemency Gibbs
Okay, that’s actually a… it’s more complicated question than it sounds. Because the sort of the ‘ism’ suffix of facade ism actually makes it sound as though there’s some kind of coherent criteria, with a coherent set of effects, but actually facade ism as a term is used to describe quite a range of different architectural practices, which aren’t limited to those that deal with historic buildings but in my PhD research that’s the area that I focus on. And so maybe I’ll just, I’ll give you the definition I use which I think is, I find it the most useful way. As please, which is the privileging of the facade, above other aspects of the building, within the context of the development. So, historically, this might have looked like, I don’t know if you have this but in England, it would have looked like the refacing of the existing kind of timber frame structures in brick, which was kind of like an architectural facelift, which was, it was particularly common in like 18th and 19th centuries in Britain. For people that essentially wanted to stay up to date with the factions who maybe couldn’t afford to like build a whole new house so you just get a new front. And you might also have had. We call them. Here we call them like set peace like Palace facades, which is quite a mouthful, but it basically is, you probably would recognise them from like period dramas, television, we have the royal crescent and bath, and a lot of the terraces designed by Nash along Regent’s Park, which are essentially just yeah they’re like set pieces right you have a looks like a pallet from the outside or looks like a continuous development but actually behind is speculative development and each houses, completed individually so there’s this disconnect between inside and outside. But in terms of modern practices of facade design, and these are the kind of the inverse really of these earlier examples because what you’re doing is maintaining the essentially the face of an old building, either by retaining an existing facade, or even by constructing a replica or kind of pastiche, whilst completely reconfiguring the internal layout to provide, I don’t know whether it’s the modern amenities or kind of nice, open plan living space if it’s a residential building or maybe large open plan offices, so actually here is kind of, you have the historic exterior giving us essentially a social cachet really crucially only to a particular audience usually a middle class one, where having a historic facade, yeah, It’s a value signal that in the past, a new facade might have played that same role, if that makes sense. You do also get postmodern facadism, which is kind of a…it I am super interested in but it’s a slightly… It’s a whole nother beast.

Vaissnavi Shukl
Would you say then it’s something that is not exclusively, relevant to questions of preservation or, you know to heritage but also kind of a blanket term that can be used for all modern developments also which look at facade in a certain way and…

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah, I think that I mean certainly even in the context of conservation it was previously used as a kind of denigrating term to describe pastiche, where you might be designing a new building, but in a historical style, so that would have been referred to as facade design. There’s a lot of moralistic language that surrounds it, to imply a sort of falsity basically and I guess in postmodern architecture that was kind of the aim right to have this stylistic and sometimes physical separation of the exterior and interior and debunk the idea of form following function. So yeah, it’s, I’ve sort of had to tailor it to my definition, so that I can narrow down my research but as a term, yeah it’s used very broadly to encompass a whole range of things to very unhelpful word, which is why I tend to refer to it as facadism practices right rather than just facade, because you could really be talking about, you could be talking about anything.

Vaissnavi Shukl
Yeah, I think this is a perfect transition into what I was getting at, because I want to think about the practice of facade isn’t through an economic lens rather than a design lens. I think a lot of people are familiar without knowing that they’re promoting a facade artistic practice when they work on adaptive reuse projects or, you know, large scale urban regeneration projects but I want to probe a little bit into how it evolved as a practice so if I were to think of facadism, as an economic phenomenon, especially in today’s day and age, I tend to think about things even while I’m doing my own research in two ways that it can be broken down in terms of cause and effect relationship right so it can either have exogenous factors, such as gentrification, preservation policies, heritage tags, blah blah blah, that have influenced the adoption of facadism, or it can have endogenous factors such as a dilapidated structure or high maintenance costs or difficulty in integration of modern services, or even a combination of both. Now, I know in your PhD fieldwork you’re looking at a particular area in East London. Have you had any insights into why this practice emerged as a preferred one, especially in the area that you’re looking at and if there were any specific factors that led to its popularity, I mean you did say that it was not a new thing it’s been going on since centuries but why today and why this particular area?

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah, I mean, I think, as you say when you identify all of those different factors I would say that exactly that, it’s a… it’s a culmination or really a kind of perfect storm of lots of different things, but I’ll try and unpack a few of them for you. So, I mean part of my research has involved a pretty comprehensive overview of UK planning policy as relates to historic buildings and I’m not going to give you an account of all of that I think that that might not make it past the cutting room floor, but, but, in terms of what we see in policy, there’s a shift that reflects the growing conservation movement in Britain in the 20th century, which involves a desire to kind of expand the idea of what’s worth conserving to include not just grand country houses and monumental structures of national importance, but broadening it to say, industrial structures, and smaller scale, vernacular buildings. And it’s pretty common for people to lay this shift towards conservation at the door of postwar urban planners in Britain who redevelop large areas of many of Britain’s cities. But actually this is only really a kind of…that is a contributing factor to raising conservation within the public consciousness but it had been brewing before then, and it starts to be reflected in policy in the 1960s, and I don’t want to… I don’t want to go into the kind of granular legal acknowledgments that take take place, but the thing that does happen, is that within policy, we get the first recognition that buildings can have a group significance, they might not be particularly remarkable by themselves, not important enough to list which is like the highest level of protection that you can give a building in the UK, but as a group, or townscape which is the phrase that you starts to get a lot of currency at this time, they contribute to the identity of the area. And this was an idea that a group at the British Journal the Architectural Review, and one of whom was Gordon Cullen who’s often associated with townscape, really helped to kickstart but I mean it is important to say at this point that we’re really, we’re still talking about these buildings in a pretty traditional architectural historical way right we’re not, we’re looking at their appearance, and that is a sort of quite long winded way of saying that the most obvious milestone to me that has led to the proliferation of facadism practices in the UK is this introduction of conservation areas, I don’t know if you have the equivalent, they’re basically the areas designated by the local planning authority and though they don’t offer full protection, they provide an extra layer that means that people couldn’t just come in and demolish whatever they wanted.

Vaissnavi Shukl
Or make changes, I don’t know, does it…

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah it just means that you have to apply, you have to… you have to ask, basically, whereas previously wouldn’t have needed planning permission, we wouldn’t have needed special permission to do that. So, once this extra level of protection is introduced and is combined with the, the need or the desire to develop this essentially ends up being a kind of to and fro between conservationists and developers, the local authorities caught in the middle, and you get this compromise that one of the products of which is facadism. And it’s interesting because initially like in the late 60s and early 70s which was really when this was starting to happen more and more, this was seen as a success actually from a conservation perspective, because obviously it’s better in their, in their rights than demolishing the whole building. But, you know you’re being kind of throwing scraps. But it gets kind of out of hand in the 1980s because Margaret Thatcher comes to power. And at this point facadism really accelerates because we have the conservatives, pushing an association between national identity and historic buildings we get this idea of what perfect Britain looks like and that is very much tied up with traditional historic architecture. But that also comes hand in hand with like quite serious deregulation of planning legislation. So those two things meet in the middle and what you end up with is like a lot of facade retention, particularly in central London and I mean this is, this comes back to what you’re saying about economic factors right, It’s. It happens most where land value is higher. Yeah, because there’s development pressure. So, you know, you can… you can follow the money. But it’s, I don’t know, I think that since the idea, like when we talk about heritage, now, this idea, especially in an academic context that’s really, it’s evolved. And so practises a facadism just feeling increasingly tokenistic whereas previously that compromise might have been acceptable. Yeah, it feels tokenistic. And I think if you, if you think of the palimpsest analogy, which is often, which is often used to describe the city…

Vaissnavi Shukl
It’s my favourite architectural history it’s just love the idea yeah I talked to Elliot about it

Clemency Gibbs
Yes, no, I know I was gonna say, I remember.

Vaissnavi Shukl
It’s… it’s like nothing explains things better than a tabula rasa or palimpsest it’s…

Clemency Gibbs
I think, well, I’m gonna… I’m gonna add one, I’m gonna add another analogy here for you, because I think. I think you’ll like it. Yeah, cause we have the palimpsest analogy and the idea of layers right but what facadism is actually doing is, in many cases, is negating that like the ability of people to experience a city like that, because once the building is built back behind it, if you’re talking about facade retention. You know you might not… might not know, if you’re walking down the street, actually that anything could change, because the proportions might stay the same. So essentially, and I remember you talking to Elliot about this like you freeze that building in a particular time, at least in the public consciousness, maybe not if you’re the person that lives there or works there. But if all you can see is that, yeah, this frozen facade like that’s the period that you’re choosing to keep the public appearance of the building as, which doesn’t really create any meaningful dialogue between the old and the new. But I had this, this is a shout out to one of my old professors, because I read one of her papers she’s called Nadia Bartolini, and she didn’t ask me to promote her but I just think it’s such a cool idea, which is to, rather than thinking of this city as a palimpsest, to think about the, I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, it’s I had never come across it before but it’s this geological process called Brecciation.

Vaissnavi Shukl
No, first time.

Clemency Gibbs
Okay, so I never heard of it either, because I’m not a geologist, but it’s basically the irregular compiling of matter into a sort of conglomerate formation, where the process of evolution is made visible so I mean, to betray my millennial status if you, if you imagine like 3d to Ratan, so it’s kind of like, it’s kind of like that where you can see all of the different bits, it’s almost like it’s been, it’s all of these different parts that stuck together. And she uses this metaphorical use of the term brecciation which actually Freud also used in reference to different elements that can bind in the dream making process which is also I like the idea that you could use those two things.

Vaissnavi Shukl
So it’s like say it’s sedimentation but like an advanced form of sedimentation that also talks about how like things that develop or like advance or evolve over time so…

Clemency Gibbs
It’s to do with sort of constantly evolving elements that can’t be disentangled because the layers are so intermingled, right, you’re not whereas I think often like rather than a sort of stratification that is just one layer upon another layer upon another layer, it’s this idea that bits of these different periods can, if you’re talking about it in a building sense are kind of not necessarily tangible but visible at the same time, so they’re all in there, they’re in conversation with each other. And I kind of like that as an idea because actually, that is what, like a good redevelopment of a historic building like works with the building rather than just like placing things inside of it or placing things on top of it. So yeah, I got really obsessed with that. I don’t..

Vaissnavi Shukl
No, I mean I get when he’s when you’re talking about the fact that it feels like these practices are very tokenistic in nature, and we’ll put up some of your fieldwork images on social media and as from the but the images is very provocative in the sense that, okay, that metaphors and so we’re doing metaphors today, you know, I don’t eat meat but you know when you go to eat like shawarma and they peel off a layer on top of it, and it looks like these buildings, only have that layer that’s peeled off that standing, and the entire mass of like the shawarma is is gone and replaced with something else.

Clemency Gibbs
That’s amazing. I would never have I also didn’t eat meat, so I would never have thought was that

Vaissnavi Shukl
I want to talk about onions in terms of layers but with onions like each layer is the same. This is very different because it’s like, it’s not intermingling, it’s not talking to each other, they’re not in any conversation, and this makes me think about whether any preservation practice has ever been holistic because by default what comes with preservation is like a huge price tag right so it’s, it’s, it’s on easy to keep these buildings as they are or keep them up to date with the integration of your heating and cooling services with something as simple as like fibre cable for WiFi. It’s expensive to maintain these buildings, then I start thinking about, again, when I see those images is, how different is it in the process of keeping the front facade softening at the scene, how different is it from a Potemkin village? Which is something that, there was a seminar that a friend and I were teaching and a student brought up the suddenness like, this is fancy. So Potemkin village for whoever doesn’t know is, I think it has a fancy story of how there was, there was a lover who wanted to impress his fiance I wanted to ask this girl to marry him, and he wasn’t that great, but he wanted to show her that you know he owned this town, and…

Clemency Gibbs
I think it was Catherine the Great. In Russia, right. Yeah, I think so.

Vaissnavi Shukl
And he’s like he built this entire tower just to impress her, but the entire town only had facades of buildings, there was nothing behind it, like it was all, it was just like holding these cardboard doll houses’ front facade…

Clemency Gibbs
Like a stage set really.

Vaissnavi Shukl
Yeah, exactly like it’s like a stage set only because he wanted to keep up with the appearance of the whole place looking like from a certain time or that it looked like a personalised, but I’m almost thinking about the area you’re looking at and how, if you were to take away or like the fancy new developments, behind those facades, how different would it be for Potemkin village, I would think it’s quite exactly a Potemkin village if you take away everything else because there’s nothing that speaks to the facade, as it exists right now.

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah, I mean, I think it would be pretty shocking if you could, if there was a way that you could visualise that it would be, you’d have a lot of empty shells, I mean when you say that those images of provocative, that’s actually how I came to the research in the first place was the fact that I was, I was wandering around London and I just kept seeing these structures and it’s kind of amazing, you know, requires such a kind of incredible metal exoskeleton that has to be constructed around the unit so much more work than just refurbishing and building or building an entirely new one like you’re going to quite like financial and time intensive costs to do this. And you know those images are kind of haunting. I’ve been thinking about them in terms of ruins really, because I have a, my background is a classicist, and then my Masters is kind of archaeology, so, to me, they, they feel like ruins right they feel like contemporary…. contemporary ruins. But you don’t have any of that sense of the passage of time which is what a more romantic conception of ruins, sort of requires for the enjoyment of them, because you know that testament to a previous time where you can get you can see that passion is jammed between whereas these sort of fast ruins were, you know, one day, down the road and you see the building and then I don’t know, next time you pass by and suddenly there’s just this shell, and it’s really weird like we I don’t know how we, I don’t know how we conceive of those things, because, you know, they, they seem to kind of defy the defy gravity they define like what we think of as being the three dimensional nature of a building, and then suddenly they’re back to normal again it’s this very weird transition period. All for the sake of, as you say, just kind of keeping up appearances.

Vaissnavi Shukl
And at the same time while looking at those images, I couldn’t help but think about the role of interiors, so usually in buildings across Europe, even in India, I mean in India it’s relatively new this practice of romantically looking at old buildings and because the existing or the previous owners could not keep up with the maintenance required to, you know, have that building up and running, you often have luxury brands come in, take up those buildings, redo those buildings, and then a programme like a bank, which is inherently very inclusive in nature which is a building where you can just walk in is certainly like an Hermes showroom, are a government office because it sat in a certain colonial building. And because the tenants kept on moving outside and there was nobody who could take care of the charges suddenly becomes a Zara showroom. So in Bombay actually i i wrote a paper about this a few years ago…

Clemency Gibbs
I’d love to read it. Yeah, I said it I mean,

Vaissnavi Shukl
Now that I read it I sound really naive, that happens but…

Clemency Gibbs
I happen to have things that I wrote like a month ago…

Vaissnavi Shukl
And I just like, “Oh, poor child, you could do better”. But I’m looking at this, like, 10,000, square feet, building which used to be a bank, and in a very prime location in South Bobby was actually taken over by the parent company that owns Zara. They redid of course the building from the outside so we can span internally they absolutely gutted it. And it looks like any other Zara showroom in the world. I mean, It’s also a question of interior design because they have a few firms on retainer than the same firms design their showrooms across the world so that they all have a consistent brand identity. I don’t know if there was just like a movement happening in Bombay where all these beautiful old buildings are being converted into very high end retail shopping places. So, while thinking about facadism I’m also thinking about the role of interior design, most people will agree that a building comes to life only once it is occupied, which means a building’s programme and its users contribute to its identity just as much as its physical forms that includes the ornamentation symbols and everything that they signify in that sense, ideally, the interior of a building should contribute, just as much to the value of its heritage as the architectural features on the exterior, ideally. And under the practice of facade ism, there is an overbearing emphasis on preserving the exterior, without any due regard for the interior. So if one’s main argument for Heritage Preservation is that the building is much more than its aesthetic frontage, what is the reverse this phenomenon of facade ism, and keep the interiors of a heritage building intact while shedding its facade. Is it a better act of conservation as compared to retaining only the shell?

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah, I mean, I think that one of…one of the main things that we have to deal with with the facadism question is, is the fact that you know, a facade plays a dual role. Right, you know, it obviously is part of the structure, and it, you know, it’s the threshold between public and private, so it has a private role, which relates to its interior, but it also has a public, which is the role that plays on the street, and that is the way that most people interact with most buildings. But yeah, so to privilege the facade is to privilege the public face of the building as much as it is to concentrate on it’s kind of grand aesthetics, but I think about this question, the first thing I’d probably say is that whilst our understanding of heritage is now much broader and encompasses the intangible as well as, so, uses as well as the physical aspects of our environment. In more practical, pragmatic terms conservation practice I mean at least in the UK hasn’t found really satisfactory way to connect the use of an average building not like a grand, you know, not on brand building just an average building that you might not necessarily look up twice that, but is historic, and has some level of interest, just due to its age, usually, but we haven’t found really a way to connect the use of these buildings with their heritage value because the partly because the use of a building is often transitory…

Vaissnavi Shukl
That’s a very interesting way to look at it, yeah.

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah and I think that one of the solutions to this and something that I’m kind of interested in my research is trying to achieve,like a much more local understanding of a building’s value, and to its surrounding communities. That’s partly because I’m looking at East London where they’re not necessarily like large shopping streets and, you know, the scale of everything that exists already is a bit smaller, that’s obviously changing. Because it’s easy to make the argument I guess that keeping, keeping the facade maintains the streetscape and the urban grain, which as I said is obviously like how most of us interact with buildings, but actually if you’ve got a building, as you say, right, if you’ve got a building that houses, existing industries, or is residential and then you replace it with open plan offices that have this is where the economic argument comes in getting like you replace them with open plan offices that have the kind of floor plates that attract global or corporate businesses, then the character of that area has been changed even though the public appearance hasn’t. I mean the problem is that this is pretty far away from how the system works at the moment. I’m doing a PhD, so I have licenced to be a little more idealistic and speculative about these things. But you know when I was a heritage consultant before the PhD and I could have told you all about, you know, this is Zara, I could have told you all about the history of the building, its historical context. But in terms of like the communal value, which often is largely to do with the use of the building, rather than the appearance of the building. That’s really difficult to assess from a desk or from an archive, but responding to what you’re saying about keeping the interiors and shedding the facade, I mean this will be, that would be kind of to revert back to the historic definition of facadism. But I think that even though you definitely would be shifting the dial in terms of what you were taking the value of a building to be. I think again you will be avoiding the larger issue by just privileging another aspect, whereas, I guess what I’m suggesting is a more holistic approach, which I’m not sure it’s going to be the role, sadly, of people like me and people who work in heritage. I think more likely like the argument that’s going to have more… most traction is, is going to be the environmental one and the one to do with embodied carbon, because it’s actually just more sustainable, to keep knocking down buildings that could actually be repurposed. And again, this comes back to finances in the UK, retrofitting a building is subject to VAT, whereas, new construction isn’t so at the moment there’s literally no financial incentive for people to repurpose buildings. And interestingly, keeping the facade, so if you can keep three walls of… if you keep three walls of a building, but get rid of everything else that still counts as a new build. So facadism is exempt from VAT, in most cases. Which is also interesting, and that is obviously a kind of a factor at play with all of this.

Vaissnavi Shukl
So hypothetically, if you were to write, I don’t know, preservation policy or an urban planning policy or a policy of any sort for East London, which is the… the area that you’re working on right now, what would that policy look like…like the best practice that in your mind has a good balance of everything that you just talked about?

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah, okay so if I’m being idealistic, and I’m pretending that the higher level, the Metropolitan level of government can’t intervene, and trump my policy or legislation…

Vaissnavi Shukl
Always yes okay, just hypothetically.

Clemency Gibbs
Okay so, we live in that world. That’s awesome. Yeah, I mean that’s a great question, I haven’t. To be honest I haven’t really let myself think about that yet, that’s. I’ve really been tackling more what the problems are at the moment. I think that what I am I also allowed as many heritage professionals in my…

Vaissnavi Shukl
As many of your like former archaeological friends as many heritage experts

Clemency Gibbs
Great, we’re going to have such a good time. Everyone at your disposal, everyone is at my disposal with as much money as I like. Yes, sure, why not incredible, because that’s also

Vaissnavi Shukl
All the environmentalists, all the activists, all the artists, everyone in need.

Clemency Gibbs
Okay, we’re all on retainer, and this sounds so awesome. I think it would have to be like, you would need your conservation department would have to be not just a department that was like set up by itself, then would need to be like, much more dialogue between the different departments, right. So that urban design, conservation, and community engagement, are all in dialogue with each other on a decision making level, rather than just each coming in and like trying to get as much as they, you know, because essentially that is that is often what happens, people are, you know, they’re just coming in to try and get like a little bit of what they want and they know they’re not going to get the whole thing. But I think that could be a dialogue with a lot more, yeah, a lot more kind of community interaction. I don’t know in my ideal world, local authorities have like a presence on the high street. That you know there’s a face to them, so that you can actually find out what people want, rather than just coming to them once you’ve already had an idea, and telling them that they can object if they want to, for it to be a much more kind of proactive rather than reactive process. I mean, as I’m saying that I feel sad because I know that that’s not gonna happen, but if we’re living in this awesome dream world. I think that’s what I would like I would like to actually know what people wanted from their environment, rather than presuming to tell them, or just kind of presuming that by just keeping the historic face of a building you could trick them into thinking that that area wasn’t being like massively gentrified, or they weren’t being pushed out by the expansion of the City of London, which in part is kind of how it’s often justified, it’s like, “People want… People want to keep things the same.” It’s like well, “Did you ask them? Who told you that?”

Vaissnavi Shukl
Well, on that note…

Clemency Gibbs
It’s such a depressing note.

Vaissnavi Shukl
No, no, no, no, it’s not a depressing note but I’m curious, what’s next for you. I know you still have some time before you finish your dissertation, but is this arc you might potentially be exploring?

Clemency Gibbs
Yeah, I mean, I…yeah so I have one year left of my PhD and I mean, in an ideal world, I would love to work for a local authority. If they’d have me. Not maybe if they listen to this because they might be a bit worried that I mean that, that, that’s what I would like to do when I finish. I’m working on a cool project at the moment with the UN Habitat, just like the branch of the UN that works with human settlements, which is a two year research project for which I’m the London representative, which is really exciting, it means that I kind of, there’s a lot of cross pollination and I get to talk about my research with other people that are interested in it like you.

Vaissnavi Shukl
What are you working on, unless it’s confidential.

Clemency Gibbs
I don’t think it is. Well, it’s, It’s a, it’s a project called ‘Heri-topolis’ like heritage in the metropolis. And so there’s… there’s a researcher from like 15 cities, I think, from across the, across the globe. Yeah, it’s amazing because, you know, obviously the context for each of these places is completely different. It’s different but you know there’s a shared desire to have heritage be something that can help you know make these places better in the future, so it’s very early stages at the moment, but that’s a super exciting thing that’s going on at the moment.

Vaissnavi Shukl
Hey Clemency that sounds amazing. I want to thank you for your time on this ready shady gloomy day. It was fun to speak to you. And as I said earlier, I think you have the perfect voice for a podcast.

Clemency Gibbs
Thank you so much.

Vaissnavi Shukl
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