'Geological Frame' Installation by Huy Bui

For "New York Fashion Week of Fall 2016, Huy Bui was commissioned to re-contextualize Geological Frame, to a series of suspending landscapes at the Glass House in New York City. The presentation featured a new jewelry collection, JR x DD (Julia Roitfield for Didier Dubot)"

More about Bui's practice and his idea of 'pocket parks' here. 

Nigel Coates' Tales of the City' Lecture 30 November

Nigel Coates
30 November | 18.30 – 20.00
Christopher Ingold Auditorium, UCL
20 Gordon Street | WC1H 0AJ | Map
No booking required | first-come, first-seated

Tales of the City

Forget the boulevard and the block: it’s an inherent confusion that makes cities so vital. Against a background of mutating functions, and accidental superimpositions, switching scales and flashes of desire, Nigel Coates has always drawn inspiration from the entire breadth of the urban environment. Architecture always needs to celebrate its contingency on life in the city and raise the bar for the citizen. In our role as architects and designers, how can we channel this turbulent mix? In his own form of architectural storytelling citing installations exhibited in various galleries over three decades, Coates will explore his recurring theme of the fictional urban model. From 'Ecstacity' to 'Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens', these mix photography, found objects, 3D printed buildings and occasional film and furniture of his own design.

Wilton's Music Hall Lecture by Tim Ronalds, Adam Goodfellow and Jade Yianni Tuesday 29 November

Full scale section by 2nd year BAIA students

As part of their site study of the Wilton's Music Hall, last week 2nd year BAIA students 'drew' a part of the section of the building at full scale, using tape on the floor of the studio.

Adapt-r exhibition 23 November-18 December at P3

Jan Kaplický ‘drawings’ exhibition November 9th – December 16th 2016

"This exhibition commemorates Jan Kaplický, who was one of the most gifted and visionary architects working at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. His death in 2009 at the age of 71 robbed the world of a designer whose virtuosity was only just coming to wider public attention, having been a benchmark in the world of architecture for nearly three decades. 

His trademark ‘futuristic’ style was formed from the intersection of the bold elegance of Czech modernism, the sweeping lines of the Baroque and intricacy of the exploded technical diagram. His work moved beyond a simple categorisation as High Tech into a realm where technology was both a utopian image and absolute fact. 

Kaplický always felt that drawings were the epitome of the ‘decisive creative act’ and the care and intricacy of his drawings show the workings of a man who was passionate in the pursuit of precision. Produced before the rise of computer aided drafting (CAD), the complexity of form and the delicacy of line are astonishing, and coupled with a wit and originality around programme and a genuine commitment to an ethical use of technology and materials Kaplický’s works represent a liberating and joyful approach to architecture. 

The exhibition re-presents material from a book published last year by Circa Press, featuring Kaplický’s most iconic projects produced on his own and in collaboration with Future Systems partners David Nixon and Amanda Levete. The book is an exquisite testimonial to a man whose quest for a synthesis between technology and form was manifest in the detail and care that are apparent in every line. The drawings are presented at various scales to communicate Kaplický’s obsessions and to demonstrate to a generation of brought up on CAD that the complexity of an idea maybe found in the economy of lines and not solely in their abundance. "

The exhibition has been designed and curated by Nic Clear, Head of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich and a long time Kaplický fan.

University of Greenwich Galleries
Stephen Lawrence Gallery
11 Stockwell Street
London SE10 8EY
http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk
Dates: November 9th – December 16th 2016
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 11am – 5pm, Saturday – 11am – 4pm

Enric Ruiz-Geli (Cloud 9) Lecture 20th October

Enric Ruiz-Geli (Cloud 9)
Media ICT and El Bulli
Thursday 20th October, 6pm
Robin Evans Room (M416)
University of Westminster
Department of Architecture




Enric Ruiz-Geli is an architect based in Barcelona who works with a group of collaborators and researcher’s as Cloud 9. Enric works at the interface between architecture and art, digital processes and technological material development. The architects’ multifaceted projects include stage designs and buildings, installations and technical patents. In 2011 he was awarded the prize for best building by the World Architecture Festival (WAF) for his groundbreaking net zero-energy building project ‘Media-ICT’ in Barcelona, which featured bioluminescent fireproof paint and an interactive smoke filled ETFE wall.



Key projects of Enric Ruiz Geli / Cloud 9 include the Villa Nurbs in Empuriabrava, an organically formed, ecological and futuristic house; Media-ICT building in Barcelona and the elBulliFoundation for the chef Ferran Adrià. Designed as a living laboratory in Cap de Creus on the Spanish/French border, the elBulliFoundation (culinary institute) is designed to sustainably regenerate its site within a national park using a mixture of ancient and contemporary environmental design strategies and is being developed in partnership with the national parks authority.



For details contact Will McLean - w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

Technical Studies website - www.technicalstudies.tumblr.com

Lecture by Jonathan Hill 'A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction' 18:30, 19 October 2016

18:30 - 20:00 19 October 2016

A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction

Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The catalyst to this tradition was the simultaneous and interdependent emergence in the eighteenth century of new art forms: the picturesque landscape, the analytical history, and the English novel. Each of them instigated a creative and questioning response to empiricism’s detailed investigation of subjective experience and the natural world, and together they stimulated a design practice and lyrical environmentalism that profoundly influenced subsequent centuries.

Associating the changing natural world with journeys in self-understanding, and the design process with a visual and spatial autobiography, this lecture analyses an enduring and evolving tradition from the picturesque and romanticism to modernism. Creative architects have often looked to the past to understand the present and imagine the future. Twenty-first-century architects need to appreciate the shock of the old as well as the shock of the new.

Location: UCL Campus, Darwin Lecture Theatre, Gower St, London WC1E 6XA

more info here.

Geoff Morrow Lecture 'Engineering Humanitarian Projects' 6th October Robin Evans Room

Geoff Morrow (Structuremode)

‘Engineering, Pavilions, Research and Humanitarian projects’

Thursday 6th October, 6pm, Robin Evans Room (M416)

University of Westminster

Department of Architecture

35 Marylebone Road

London NW1 5LS

To launch the Technical Studies Thursday evening lecture series Geoff Morrow will discuss a series of recent humanitarian projects, pavilions and lightweight structures on which he has worked. Geoff is a structural engineer and the founder and director of StructureMode, established in 2007. Geoff is driven by his passion for beautiful design through an innovative and collaborative approach to structural engineering and materials. He has over 20 years’ experience designing many types of bespoke buildings and structures.

In the last five year Geoff has led a number of humanitarian projects in partnership with Orkidstudio where the creative use of novel engineering strategies and local materials has created some exceptional projects including Fabric cast concrete for Bomnong L´Or Project, Cambodia (pictured) and a prototype for a Pop-up Cardboard Classroom for Nairobi.

Geoff lectures and tutors students in a number of architecture departments, most recently the Bartlett, Oxford Brookes University and here at the University of Westminster as a part of the Technical Studies team.

For details contact Will McLean

w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

Technical Studies website

www.technicalstudies.tumblr.com

Lee John Phillips 'The Shed Project'

"..artist Lee John Phillips has undertaken a project of epic proportions to celebrate the memory of his late grandfather. Phillips estimates that it will take him about 4-5 years to draw all 100,000+ items left behind in the shed by his grandfather, who passed away roughly 20 years ago... Phillips has been numbering each object in his meticulous project, and has drawn nearly 4,000 at this point."
(from Bored Panda)

more information here.

Odile Decq Lecture 'Architecture Thinking' 5 October 18:30

Odile Decq is a French architect and landscape designer. International renown came in 1990, with her first major commission: La Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes. Since then, Odile Decq has been faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalising her research. Her early and unusual career was acknowledged in 1996 by the Golden Lion of Architecture at the Venice Biennale. Other than just a style, an attitude or a process, Odile Decq’s work materialises a complete universe that embraces urban planning, architecture, design and art. Her multidisciplinary approach was recently recognised in 2016 with the Jane Drew Prize and with the Prix Femme Architecte in 2013.

Among her most recent projects there are: Le Cargo [Paris, 2016]; La tour Saint-Ange [France, 2015]; Fangshan Museum [Nanjing, 2015]; GL Events Headquarters [Lyon, 2014]; MACRO [Rome, 2010]; FRAC Bretagne [Rennes, 2012] and Phantom, Opera Garnier’s restaurant [Paris, 2011].

Odile Decq has been teaching architecture for the past 25 years, a commitment ratified by the opening in 2014 of her own school in Lyon, France.

18:30 - 20:00 05 October 2016

Location: Christopher Ingold Auditorium, UCL Chemistry Building, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ
Architecture Thinking

Drawing of the Year Competition- Entries due 1st November

Aarhus School of Architecture, schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA, and Danish Arts Foundation proudly announce the fourth joint venture competition Drawing of the Year 2016. This year’s theme is Habitation.

Technology has transformed how architects work — and how their work is perceived. Therefore Drawing of the Year 2016 will focus exclusively on sketches and drawings created using digital technology. The aim of the competition is to continuously explore new tendencies in architectural drawing and challenge the use of new techniques and mixed media.

This year’s competition examines the potential for developing architectural ideas through a digital format. How can digital drawing push the boundaries of our perception of Habitation? How can digital drawings express artistic skills? And how can digital technology contribute to the understanding of drawing as a craft?

 

more info here.

 

 

Jerwood Prize Exhibition 14 September- 24 October

Selected from original drawings, the Jerwood Drawing Prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice. The exhibition provides a platform to showcase the work of UK-based drawing practitioners, from student to established, and as a project helps to define a wider understanding of the role and value of drawing in creative practice.

 

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Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN

Qalindiya International III 5-29 October

PG 2016 Exhibition 16-23 September

An exhibition of thesis projects from the MA Architecture; MSc Architecture & Environmental Design,
MA Interior Design, MA International Planning & Sustainable Development and MA Urban Design

PREVIEW
Friday 16 September 2016 6 – 9pm


UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
Architecture Studios - 4th Floor
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS


EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY
Saturday 17 September
to Friday 23 September
9am – 9pm


westminster.ac.uk/abe
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/architecture-and-interiors/postgraduate-courses
Image credit: Lina Alsafarini

London Design Festival 17-25 September

alison brooks architects' curving 'smile' at london design festival

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. The next Festival will be held 17-25 September 2016.

more information here.

Mapping Memories Exhibition 15 September Koppel Project Gallery

"Mapping Memories is a researching tool and visualisation platform that stands for the recognition of Latin Americans in the UK. The project is carried out by Verónica Posada (critic for BAIA) and Lorena Raigoso. In London, Mapping Memories aims to make visible the cultural practices of the Latin American community whilst strengthening community cohesion and a reinforcing a sense of belonging in the areas in which Latin Americans live, work and meet. We advocate for the protection of Latin American spaces that are at risk of demolition due to the dynamics of regeneration and gentrification in the city of London."

next Thursday 15 of September at 6:30 pm at The Koppel Project - 93 Baker Street, W1U 6RL.

BAIA Graduate Laura Metcalfe wins National Interior Educators Award for Best Student Project

Opening the Black Box by Laura Metcalfe, viewing lines for open air theatre

Laura Metcalfe has won the National Interior Educators Award for Best Student Project for her project entitled Opening the Black Box.  

Congratulations, Laura!

More about her and other BAIA student's recent awards here.

BAIA at Free Range 2016

OPEN 2016 Opening 16 June

The BAIA contribution to the show on the 4th floor of the Marylebone building.

Sadie Morgan joins BAIA as Professor

Co-Founder of drMM Architects, and winner of the 2015 CBI First Woman Award, Professor Sadie Morgan will be joining the University of Westminster as a Professor in Interior Architecture.

 

Clapham Manor Primary School by drMM Architects

more information here.

BAIA students shortlisted for the New Blood Awards

Congratulations to a team of BAIA 3rd year students including Kitty Heston, Linda Tentori, Salwah Joonus, Roxanne Magnusdottir Bjarnason and Radima Gudieva, who have been shortlisted for John Lewis's New Blood Award.

More information on the competition and the team's entry here.

RIBA Eye Line Competition entries due Monday 13 June

drawing by Emma Gibb, 2nd Prize winner 2013

Hugh Pearman, editor of RIBA Journal writes:

"It's that pleasurable time of year when we invite entries for our annual architectural drawing competion, Eye Line. All 2D media and combinations of media are allowed (not film). Entries are now coming in from all over the world - we have a month to go before deadline on June 13.

This is an award which distinguishes the drawing skills from the project itself, and which is now in its fourth year. Students, teachers and practitioners alike may all enter, in individuals or groups. It is free of charge and easy to enter electronically.

In previous years we have had strong entries from the likes of Yale, Harvard, RMIT, TU Delft and of course many British schools such as the Westminster, RCA and AA and Greenwich, as well as from practising architects. It would be great to see a strong entry from Westminster and its friends again this year. Winners and commendations are published in August's RIBA Journal.

So if this appeals, do spread the word. All details plus link to downloadable entry form here: https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/eye-line-the-time-to-enter-is-now "

 

University of Westminster BAIA students at Parsons The New School for Parallel Cities 1

Parallel Cities 1 explored the process of craft techniques combining digital and analogue media with film and physical models to uncover relationships between bodies, networks, and spaces in New York City.

The workshop brought together 8 graduate and undergraduate students from Parsons’ Temporary Environments course and 8 second year students from the University of Westminster’s BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Course. The students received training in Rhino and Grasshopper, in addition to digital fabrication processes focused on networked workflows. Individually, they developed their own site study of a portion of Long Island City, while contributing to the overall workshop goals of the design and fabrication of a larger group installation.

more information here.

Architectural Details: Elissa and Alvar Aalto’s Patchwork Wall of Bricks

"Aalto’s idiosyncratic courtyard walls are this building’s defining feature, and form a beautiful example of how a unique architectural language can be produced by deviating from conventional construction techniques. The walls are composed of a patchwork of different brick patterns, forming a collage of texture and color that evokes the patina of the surrounding forest."

more at architizer.

'Furnitecture' by Anna Yudina

"Furnitecture is a sourcebook exploring the furnishings, interior environments, and solutions for small spaces at the meeting point between design and architecture. The book features the work of a rising generation of designers across the globe who are starting to think about furniture in an architectural way, resulting in pieces that brilliantly transform interior spaces."

seen at artwords bookshop.

Fab Fest 2016 Registration Open

Fab Fest is a new International Fabrication Festival hosted this summer by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Fabrication Laboratory at the University of Westminster. It will feature 50 or more innovative cardboard pavilions designed and built by students from Westminster as well as by guest teams from across the UK and around the world.

Feb Fest will run from June 28th - July 2nd.

You can find more information about the brief and how to register here.

Robin Evans Memorial Series Inaugural Lecture Thursday 3 March 2016

Robin Evans, “Projection and its analogues: The Arrested Image,” 1995

Robin Evans Memorial Series Inaugural Lecture: About Bob Evans

This free event reflects on, commemorates and celebrates the life, work and influence of Bob Evans, the architect and educator.

A Senior Lecturer at University of Westminster between 1986 and 1993, Bob Evans was much loved by his colleagues and students, and used his penetrating intellect and brilliantly creative mind to enlighten at every level and promote enthusiasm and optimism in the field of architecture. Evans lectured widely at world renowned institutions including Harvard, Cambridge and the Architectural Association and his many essays and reviews were regularly published in journals such as Casa Bella, Architectural Review and AA Quarterly. Bob Evans died suddenly at his home in 1993, tragically young and at a moment when his career promised so much more.

This event is open to current and former students and staff and members of the public. Please extend this invitation to those who may be interested.

When: 6pm (5.30pm doors), Thursday 3 March 2016.

Where: Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London.

Book: This event is free, but please register your place online. Book Now.

Talk synopsis: This first lecture, in what is to become an annual series, will focus on the life and work of Bob Evans and his exploration of the world of ideas in architecture from the perspective of those who were influenced by him, his former students and colleagues. 

Welcome, and Introductions 

• Harry Charrington and Katharine Heron,  Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, University of Westminster

Confirmed Speakers: 

• Professor Anne Boddington, Dean of Arts & Humanities, University of Brighton
• Dr John Bold, Reader, University of Westminster
• Richard Difford, Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Westminster
• Joseph Ryqwert CBE, RIBA gold Medallist, Professor Emeritus University of Pennsylvania.
• Fred Scott, Fellow Teacher

This event will be followed by a chance to network with students, staff and alumni over a glass of wine. 

Converted Warehouse Office in LA by Domaen

Domaen created the interior for Pasadena-based creative agency Conscious Minds, whose clients include Nike, Levis and Red Bull.

The curved, folded, and faceted object forms the centrepiece of the 6,000-square-foot (550 square metres) former warehouse, providing seating and meeting areas, and also incorporating video screens and lighting.

more at dezeen.

Mindfulness Pods by Oyler Wu Collaborative

How do you design a public space for a private activity? That was the problem posed to the architects at Oyler Wu Collaborative recently byHeadspace, a five-year-old startup dedicated to creating a platform for mindfulness principles.

More at Fast Co. Design

Suzie Attiwill Lecture, 10 March 1PM at University of Westminster

poster design by Kitty Heston

Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2016

Sou Fujimoto Lecture 10 February

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto will discuss the relationship between nature and architecture, as well as that between nature and artificial environments. As a practicing architect he will demonstrate how he bridges architecture and nature using different design approaches and the fact that sometimes architectural design doesn’t intervene, but rather respects and works with what already exists.

Sou Fujimoto established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000 after graduating from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University

10 February | 18.30 – 20.00
The Bartlett

Rm. G02
140 Hampstead Road | NW1 2BX | Map
No booking required | first come, first seated

Artek: The Aaltos go to London, lecture by Professor Harry Charrington 25 February

poster design by Kitty Heston

Unveiling the models of Brad Cloepfil

more here.

'Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture' Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts 26 January — 20 April 2016

"...this exhibition focuses on Britain and twelve architects who have broken the mould of British architecture in their own individual ways across its history, united only by the unpredictability of their particular kind of maverick-ness. Celebrating the original and the unorthodox, the exhibition and the book it accompanies ask us to question what we think we know about the course of British architecture."

Featuring the work of FAT (including Sean Griffiths, University of Westminster Professor).

at the RA.

more here.

Model practice: maquettes by Roz Barr Architects

Architects Journal 22 JANUARY, 2016

New National Augustinian Centre and Priory, 2015

This 1:10 model was …...preceded by 1:100 and 1:50 models and facade studies. Scale is always an important decision, and for this we wanted to experience the wall-to-window relationship along with the depth of the facade. This section is through the new priory and the chapel at roof level. It also is a study of our proposal’s most important junction, where the new steel tower connects to the 1960s building. The facade changed as we built the model and it now informs the next stage of the detailed design. (Tulip, black MDF · L 600mm D800mm H 1,800mm)

Kirkton Steadings, Argyll, 2015

This model is a study about mending a ruin. The birch ply conveys the underpinning methodology below the existing 18th-century stone wall. This is a working model, which we can change and remake as we test options for staircases, the positioning of a mezzanine, the form of the roof structure and so on. It is one of many models made for this project for a tower house in the Scottish landscape, and this is a study of how we ‘adapt’ the existing stone steading. This model embodies why we make. (Birch plywood pine, cardboard · L 320mm D200mm H 300mm)

New Valer Church, Norway, 2012

This model was part of our competition entry in 2011. ….the model was built on a meeting table over a long weekend. The formwork was CNCd in blue foam, and is almost the most important element of the model. . (Jelutong, plywood, brass · L 320mm D320mm H 575mm).

The models made in our studio are not simply additional tools or objects made at the end of a design stage to showcase a building or interior. Rather, they are maquettes that may be numerous iterations of an idea, or the beginning of some other idea…….The majority are never seen, as they are part of a conversation in a moment of a process that may have come from a sketch, or the testing of a first thought. The act of making is a process of engaging with an idea that requires a decision that can be ‘made’, rethought, and ‘un-made’. This form of adaptation is about the discourse of architectural thinking, and is a critical part of our process in making and realising an idea. We imagine, we make, and the process is adapted through discussions and decisions about materiality and form. Nothing is fixed in this process. Our ideas are always evolving as we transform them into the physical.