'3 Standard Stoppages' by Marcel Duchamp, 1913

"In 1964 Duchamp explained: 'This experiment was made in 1913 to imprison and preserve forms obtained through chance, through my chance. At the same time, the unit of length, one meter, was changed from a straight line to a curved line without actually losing its identity [as] the meter, and yet casting a pataphysical doubt on the concept of a straight edge as being the shortest route from one point to another.' (Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine, eds., Marcel Duchamp, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, pp.273-4.) 

Duchamp used each wooden template three times in mapping the diagrammatic painting Network of Stoppages, 1914 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)."

more at the tate modern.

Performing MDM Opera House By Jie Shen

In this "...design for an opera in Warsaw by the London based architect Jie Shen... the model is not so much a representative tool than a diminished scale building in which materials match with their potential real application...the proposed opera introduces a rough vocabulary which recalls the one used in naval construction." 

more at the funambulist.

Symposium: 'Interior Design: Dead or Alive' at the ICA

Bar Ten, Glasgow. Interior design by BKD in 1991

14 Mar 2015

11:15 am | Cinema 1 | £5.00 to £12.00

Book Tickets

As part of his campaign as Chair of Interior and Spatial Design at UAL, entitled Popular Culture and the Interior, Professor Ben Kelly hosts Interior Design: Dead or Alive.

This symposium will take stock of the ability of iconic interiors to affect and influence the direction of popular culture and the wider world. A range of speakers with the widest variety of perspectives and disciplines explore the cultural significance of the subject and practice of interior design in relation to the contexts of art, design, business, media and culture.

Architect @ Work

Second year student Gareth passed along the information for this conference, geared towards practitioners but open to students.

VENUE

Olympia London

Hammersmith Road

Kensington

London

W14 8UX



DATES

Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 January 2015

13:00 - 20:00



ENTRANCE FEE

£ 25,00 or free of charge if you pre-register online with a personal invitation code.

In need of such a code, please mail us at unitedkingdom@architectatwork.eu.



ITINERARY AND CAR PARK

You can find out how to get to Olympia through the following link.



CATERING

Continuous free nibbles, sandwiches and drinks in the lounge areas.


CONTACT INFORMATION

ARCHITECT@WORK is organised by:

Xpo Organisations Ltd.

8 Northumberland Avenue

London

WC2N 5BY

T: +44 (0)207 125 05 83

F: +44 (0)207 125 05 93

E: unitedkingdom@architectatwork.eu

W: www.architectatwork.eu

History & Theory open lecture series, 2014-15

Thursday 19th February

Dragan Krstevski: From Modern Past to Historical Present

Thursday 26th February 

Katrin Bohn & Andre Viljoen: Second Nature Urban Agriculture. Designing Productive Cities 

Thursday 12th March 

Ben Campkin: Regeneration: Imaginaries of Decline and Renewal

Thursday 19th March

Dominic Severs: Fear of Non-street Housing


Department of Architecture, University of Westminster, 6.30pm Thursdays

Open lectures, no charge, all welcome.

Room M/421, Marylebone Campus,

University of Westminster,

35 Marylebone Road,

London NW1 5LS

Prada Window Installations by Martino Gamper

"Italian designer Martino Gamper has created a 'homage to the humble corner' in the shop windows of fashion house Prada. The installations, named Corners, used panels of wood veneer to form enclosed angled spaces in which the mannequins are placed..."

from dezeen.