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

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

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 at Free Range 2016

OPEN 2016 Opening 16 June

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

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.

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

'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.

'Peckham Catalysts' Exhibition 19 Jan- 30 Jan

An exhibition designed, fabricated and installed by University of Westminster Interior Architecture BA Honours students of their models, drawings and videos. 

Starting from the question of how small-scale interventions and adaptive reuse could catalyse development and activity connected to Peckham's community, history and future, these designs put forward ideas for the alteration and expanded use of the existing building at 95A Rye Lane.

Exhibition opening: Monday 18 January 2016, 6 – 8pm 

Exhibition times: Tuesday 19 January 2016 – Saturday 30 January 2016

Peckham Plex

95A Rye Lane 

London, SE15 4ST

Entry is free.

more information here, here, and here.

Sectional Perspective by Interior Architecture BA Honours student Linda Tentori

The World of Charles and Ray Eames at the Barbican until 14 February

The World of Charles and Ray Eames

21 October 2015 - 14 February 2016

Charles and Ray Eames are among the most influential designers of the 20th century. Enthusiastic and tireless experimenters, this husband and wife duo moved fluidly between the fields of photography, film, architecture, exhibition-making, and furniture and product design.

at the Art Gallery 

Barbican Centre

Silk Street London 

EC2Y 8DS

Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy until 13 December

"Ai became widely known in Britain after his sunflower seeds installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2010 but this is the first major institutional survey of his work ever held in the UK and it bridges over two decades of his extraordinary career.

Curated in collaboration with Ai Weiwei from his studio in Beijing, we present some of his most important works from the time he returned to China from the US in 1993 right up to present day. Among new works created specifically for our galleries and courtyard are a number of large-scale installations, as well as works showcasing everything from marble and steel to tea and glass. 

With typical boldness, the chosen works explore a multitude of challenging themes, drawing on his own experience to comment on creative freedom, censorship and human rights, as well as examining contemporary Chinese art and society."

It's recommended that you book ahead of time.

Royal Academy

Burlington House

Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

more here and here.

'Interior Tales' Book Presentation, Syracuse University London, 9 December

'Housing Social Life', Technical Studies Lecture by Peter Barber, 10 December

Peter Barber – Peter Barber Architects

The Social Life of Housing

Thursday 10th December, 6.30pm, Room M416 (Evans)

Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment

University of Westminster

35 Marylebone Road

London NW1 5LS

“We think that space conditions, and is in turn conditioned by, society and culture and that architecture can create the potential for social action and activity” Peter Barber Architects

Peter Barber previously worked with Richard Rogers, Will Alsop and Jestico+Whiles prior to establishing his own practice in 1989. He is currently a design tutor at the University of Westminster, teaching MArch Studio with Ben Stringer. He has lectured about the work of the Practice at many institutions, including the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architectural League in New York, and numerous international and domestic university schools of architecture including Genoa, Frankfurt, Brighton, Kingston, Glasgow and The Bartlett.

In October 2001 the Practice won first prize in the Architecture Foundation's prestigious Innovations in Housing Competition. The project won a Housing Design Award, runner-up in Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, AIA Award and RIBA Award. It was also short-listed to the last 10 for the 2006 Stirling Prize. A series of radical urban housing projects have followed which have variously won Housing Design Awards, RIBA Awards and AIA Awards. Peter Barber Architects have won the Building Design Architect of the Year for Housing in 2007 and 2010. In 2015, Peter Barber Architects landed the Royal Academy’s top architecture prize for its alternative vision for low-cost housing on London’s Mount Pleasant.

Peter Barber will talk about the development of his practices work and in particular the evolution and reinvigoration of housing typologies such as the terrace/courtyard hybrid at Donnybrook Quarter and the McGrath Road project where Barber reexamines the back-to-back housing typology.

For details contact Will McLean / Pete Silver

w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

'Mirroring Tarkovsky' at BFI, October and November

Director 'Andrei Tarkovsky strove to transcend the limits of his subjects with each new film, thereby expanding our conception of film as art. Ivan’s Childhood remakes the war film into a child’s vision of play and revenge. Andrei Rublev reimagines the Russian history epic through an artist’s unblinking eyes. Solaris stretches science fiction into new realms of psychological disquiet. Mirror’s use of fractured time and vivid recall creates a unique and unforgettable memoir. Cold War conspiracy and paranoia can be found in the mind games of Stalker. An exiled writer’s despair gets tested by Italy’s beauty and mystery in Nostalgia, and The Sacrifice brings Tarkovsky’s belief in self-denial to a blazing conclusion. These films – shown in gorgeous new digital prints – are among the most imaginative, moving and powerful you are ever likely to see.' -Nick James, Sight & Sound Editor

Tarkovsky's films are being shown at the BFI throughout November.  Times and tickets here. 

Asif Khan lecture: 28 October

Asif Khan
28 October | 18.30 – 20.00
UCL Chemistry Auditorium
20 Gordon Street | WC1H 0AJ | Map
No booking required | first come, first seated


Sensory City
Kenya Hara coined the term ‘Senseware’ to describe forms of matter which stir our sensory perception. Through a series of reflections on current and past projects Asif Khan will explore the meaning and possibilities offered by a sensory approach to design. Could this thinking offer us a new way of creating architecture?

Bartlett alum Asif Khan established his London-based architecture office in 2007. The studio’s interest ranges from cultural buildings and masterplans to houses, temporary pavilions, exhibitions, installations and products. The design solution in each project is highly distinct, yet unified by a meticulous understanding of place, purpose and potential.

Technical Studies Lecture 22nd October: Sang Hoon Kim

TECHNICAL STUDIES OPEN LECTURE SERIES

Sang Hoon Kim – Populous
Olympic Stadium Transformation
Thursday 22nd October, 6.30pm
Room M416 (Robin Evans Room)

Sang joined Populous in 2001 to work on the redevelopment of Ascot Racecourse. As a member of the core team responsible for design of the building, he established the complex geometry of the tensile fabric roof structure. The project was opened to great acclaim by her Majesty the Queen in June 2006 at Royal Ascot.

Following completion of the Ascot Racecourse project, Sang joined the design team of another award-winning project, the London Olympic Stadium and Sang has been involved in this project from initial conceptual design stage through to final completion and transformation.

More recently, Sang has helped to develop the Strategic Masterplan for Lord’s Cricket Ground. Sang has continued his involvement with Lord’s, by leading the coordination of the architectural and engineering design for the redevelopment of the Warner Stand. Sang’s extensive knowledge of sport facility design allowed him to contribute to the sport chapter of the latest edition of the Metric Handbook (Planning and Design Data).

Sang will talk about the London Olympic Stadium, and the Olympic Stadium transformation recently completed for the Rugby World Cup.

Sang Hoon Kim is an alumnus of the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster.

For lecture details contact Will McLean / Pete Silver
w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk
www.technicalstudies.tumblr.com

Funambulist Magazine Launch 2nd November

The Westminster Law & Theory Lab kindly invites you to

the London Launch of The Funambulist Magazine: Politics of Space and Bodies

on Monday, 2nd of November, at 7pm

at The Pavilion, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish St, W1W 6UW

Presentations of her article for the third issue by Reina Lewis, University of the Arts, on Islamic Fashion

Presentation of the first three issues by Leopold Lambert 

Reina Lewis is professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion, and the author of Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures (Duke University Press, 2015)

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is the Director of the Westminster Law and Theory Lab and the author of Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere (Routeledge, 2014)

Leopold Lambert is the founder and editor of The Funambulist Magazine and the author of Weaponized Architecture (dpr-barcelona, 2012) 

The Funambulist Magazine is a bimestrial publication about the political relationships of the designed environment with the bodies. It operates alongside a blog and a podcast (Archipelago) that both share the same editorial line. 

List of the first four issues:

- 01 September 2015: Militarized Cities

- 02 November 2015: Suburban Geographies

- 03 January 2016: Clothing Politics

- 04 March 2016: Carceral Environments 

Followed by drinks reception

The event is free but places are strictly limited.

Please RSVP via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-launch-of-the-funambulist-magazine-politics-of-space-and-bodies-tickets-19004492950