Nick Van Woert

Nick van Woert is an artist based in New York. The material used in the pieces above for the 'drips' is polyurethane plastic.  The colorful components in the piece below are cast urethane rubber applied to a fiberglass statue.

.

Jenny Sabin Studio

Pictured above: 'Branching Morphogenesis' installation, 2008

The studio investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design, fabrication and production of material structures. They collaborate with scientists and engineers and employ architects, designers and artists. Their applied projects are diverse and operate across multiple length scales including adaptive materials, tapestries, rugs, installations, pavilions and architectural interventions.

More here.

Technical Studies - Open Lectures

TECHNICAL STUDIES – OPEN LECTURES

The 'Technical Studies - Open Lectures' starts next week.

The lectures are organised for our architecture students, but everyone is welcome.

All lectures in room M421

Thursday 3rd October, 6.30pm - Stelarc - The Cyborg Artist

Thursday 10th October, 6.30pm - Graham Stevens - Desert Cloud and other Lightweight Wonders

Thursday 17th October, 6.30pm - Neil Thomas and Aran Chadwick (Atelier One) Liquid Threshold

Thursday 24th October, 6.30pm - Tim Lucas (Price & Myers) The Kew House Project

Thursday 31st October, 6.30pm - Daniel Ptacek (Kinnickkinnic) 'The Adjacent Possible'

Thursday 7th November, 6.30pm - Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt (University of Kent) Environmental Experimentation

Thursday 14th November, 6.30pm - Nick Crosbie (Inflate) Air Structures

Thursday 21st November, 6.30pm - Paul Bavister (UCL) Sound, Acoustics, Music and Architecture

Thursday 28th November, 6.30pm - TBC

Thursday 5th December, 6.30pm - Jaisha Reichardt - 'Our Dreams Change, We Don't'

Thursday 12th December, 6.30pm – TBC

The first lecture:

'Universal Everything & You' at the Media Space, September 21st 2013 - February 7th 2014

Universal Everything & You is a new digital installation of two artworks by art and design collective Universal Everything specially commissioned for the Virgin Media Studio.

The first work, 1000 Hands is created by contributions from the public through a smart phone app. In the gallery space it takes the form of a circular projection onto multiple screens, with each one showing an individual artwork generated by app users.

Presence, the second work, is a collaboration with the LA Dance Project and has been created by using motion captured performances of dancers which will be played back with evolving digital ‘costumes’.

Universal Everything, founded in 2004 by Matt Pyke (b.1975) are a UK based digital art and design collective who work with a global network of designers, artists, musicians, producers and programmers. For Universal Everything & You Matt Pyke has collaborated with composer Simon Pyke, Benjamin Millepied’s LA Dance Project and architect Irene Shamma.

Opening 21 September 2013 at the Media Space at the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD

Open seven days a week, 10.00-19.00 during the school holidays. Entry to the Museum is free.

Frieze Sculpture Park in Regents Park, 17 - 20 October 2013

Located in Regents Park, a two minute walk from the Marylebone Campus, The Sculpture Park is part of Frieze London. This year it will exhibit contemporary sculptures alongside historical pieces, with new works by both established and emerging artists.

Entry to the Sculpture Park is free to the public.

The Sculpture Park at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2013 is selected by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Artists include
Joan Miró, David Shrigley , Rachel Whiteread and Judy Chicago

Where Design Meets Life With Alice Rawsthorn

01/10/2013 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely, it can bring us pleasure, choice, strength, decency and much more. But if its power is abused, the outcome can be wasteful, confusing, humiliating, even dangerous. None of us can avoid being affected by design, whether or not we wish to. It is so ubiquitous that it determines how we feel and what we do, often without our noticing.

The International Herald Tribune’s Design Critic Alice Rawsthorn will discusses these issues in her new book, Hello World (Hamish Hamilton, 2013). Rawsthorn will be joined by curator, writer and editor Omar Kholeif for a conversation where they will discuss how warlords, scientists, farmers, hackers, activists and designers have used design to different ends throughout history.

Tuesday 1st October

at The White Building Unit 7, Queen's Yard White Post Lane London E9 5EN

Price: £4.50/3

///BOOK HERE///

Open House London – 21 & 22 September 2013

Open House London celebrates all that is best about the capital’s buildings, places and neighbourhoods. It gives a unique opportunity to get out and under the skin of London’s amazing architecture, with over 700 buildings of all kinds opening their doors to everyone – all for free.

more here: http://www.londonopenhouse.org/

Drawings by Perry Kulper

Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Wai says "Each of Perry Kulper’s architectural drawings is a cosmos of information and possibilities that resist the banal and simplistic reductionism so typical of contemporary architectural representation. Series after series, his drawings display objects as background, and background as object in a constant visual journey of an architecture that doesn’t settle and always evolves: an architecture of ideas."

more at archimorph.

'model:making' exhibition at the CAA 06.09.13-.09.11.13

model : making is an exhibition which looks at the increasing use of new technologies by both craftsmen and architectural model makers. Devised to celebrate the London Design Festival, CAA will collaborate with architects Allies and Morrison to present ‘digital’ sketches, early prototypes and finished work, offering the viewer a unique insight into the early stages of the development of an idea.

model : making will explore how the use of new technologies is influencing and changing the aesthetic demands of various creative disciplines.
model : making will be accompanied by a series of talks.

89 Southwark Street
London
SE1 0HX

Admission is free

'Second Nature'

Second Nature is a 20-minute documentary on skater and budding landscape architect, Janne Saario of Finland. The short film allows a glimpse of Saario’s thoughts and dreams, which float between design, art and skateboarding. Though it also reveals the important concurrence of post-industrial areas, sustainable concepts and natural environments, and unfolds the demanding obligation, towards today’s generation and those to come, to create positive and inspiring, local communities.

Dwell says: "Saario started skating when he was six, eventually got sponsored, and through his experience riding around the world he developed an interest in designing landscapes. He's got his own firm now, with a specialty in skate parks."

Turning Weapons Into Instruments: Pedro Reyes “Disarm”

Artist Pedro Reyes, and new media studio Cocolab, are turning dismantled weapons into mechanized musical instruments.


more and a video at BOOOOOOM.

University of Westminster: PG 2013

THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE INVITES YOU TO PG2013:

An exhibition of thesis projects from the MA Architecture; MA Architecture and Digital Media; MA Cultural Identity and Globalisation and MA Interior Design

PREVIEW
Friday 13 September
6 – 9pm
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS

EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY

Saturday 14 September
to Saturday 21 September
9am – 9pm

westminster.ac.uk/abe
openstudiowestminster.org

Bartlett School of Architecture B-Pro Show 25-28 September 2013

London Design Festival: 14 - 22 September 2013

The London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world, and as the gateway to the international creative community.

This year's Festival will be held 14 - 22 September 2013.

More information on over 300 exhibitions and events here:
http://www.londondesignfestival.com/