Search every Part 2 studio in London by theme, site and school

Model by Grant Shepherd, University of Westminster, DS16 

The Architecture Foundation’s database of all Part 2 studios in London is now live. It can be accessed at www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/schools

The Architecture Foundation has "developed this free resource with the aim of opening up lines of communication between students and tutors exploring similar fields of research in different universities.

The 88 studio descriptions are tagged with keywords relating to the topics being investigated and the places where projects are being developed. A student at the Cass concerned with the future of light industry in the Old Kent Road can therefore quickly establish that colleagues at the Bartlett are also focused on manufacturing while others at the AA are working in the same part of London."

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

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

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.

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.

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.

'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

Body Building Workshop

For PLAY week, a week of diverse workshops meant to inaugurate the newly renovated studio spaces at University of Westminster, BAIA tutors teamed up with David Scott and Ed Lancaster of the fabLAB to produce 'body agent' figures.  The body agents were conceived, built and installed by groups of Interior Architecture and Architecture students to question, surprise and inspire ideas about occupation and use of the new space.

new issue of a+t: 'Design Techniques'

"How do architects deal with the design process? What inspires them? Design Techniques looks at different approaches to the creative moment. The architects themselves reveal their modus operandi, explain how they tackle the project and discuss motivation, devices, influences, justifications, effects and the origins of their design techniques.

a+t magazine and Harvard GSD initiate the SOLID series, Harvard Symposia on Architecture. Design Techniques is the first volume in the series. Faculty, critics and theorists, and students discuss the different approaches contributing personal experiences, working practices, and opportunities encountered in the field of design."

more here.

Sound Installation in Estonia by Birgit Õigus

At Pähni Nature Centre in Estonia... "art academy students have developed and set up huge wooden megaphones to make the never-ceasing but scarcely noticeable calls and movements of forest inhabitants completely audible. The student Birgit Õigus designed the funnel-shaped megaphones for a project in the "Outdoor" auditorium at the academy. Hannes Praks, Head of the Interior Architecture Departments, explains, 'Being three metres in diameter at their widest point, the megaphones create a bandstand for the sounds that the forest produces.' Visitors can settle down comfortably inside the megaphones to enjoy the surreal backdrop of sounds."

more at DETAIL blog.

University of Westminster BAIA 'Selfie Series' project

selfie at the West India Quay/Canary Wharf and Stratford by 3rd Year student Marilyn Masen

The 2nd and 3rd Year design students started the term off with a charrette that had to do with the theme of 'being a tourist in your own city.' They were asked to visit a place in London that they hadn't previously and document that through a series of selfies. The selfies were meant to reconsider the conventional selfie to not only show themselves but also an embodied experience of place. 

 You can see the results here.

Bartlett B-Pro Show 2015. 29th September-10th October

Exhibition of the work of students from The Bartlett School of Architecture's post-professional Masters programmes, B-Pro:

MArch AD (Architectural Design)
MArch UD (Urban Design)

Exhibition party and speeches
Tuesday 29 September 18.30 – 22.00

Exhibition open to the public
Tuesday 29 September – Saturday 10 October
Wednesday 30 September – Sunday 4 October 10.00 – 19.00
Monday 5 October – Friday 9 October 14.00 – 19.00
Saturday 10 October 10.00 – 19.00

Venue
The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL
140 Hampstead Road
London NW1 2BX

PG 2015: 12-18 September

An exhibition of thesis projects from the MA Architecture; MSc Architecture & Environmental Design and MA Interior Design

PREVIEW

Friday 11 September

6 – 9pm

UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER

Ground Floor Concourse - 35 Marylebone Road

London

NW1 5LS

EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY

Saturday 12 September

to Friday 18 September

9am – 9pm

westminster.ac.uk/abe

http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/architecture-and-interiors/postgraduate-courses

Image credit: MA Architecture student Anna Ekonomova

Camberwell Postgraduate Summer Show 2015, 16 Jul - 22 Jul 2015

Show includes examples of MA work from Book Arts, Designer Maker,Fine Art Digital, Illustration and Printmaking

Location:
Camberwell College of Arts
45-65 Peckham Road, London
SE5 8UF

open to general public:
Friday 17 July - 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
Saturday 18 July - 11.00 am - 5.00 pm
Sunday 19 July - Closed
Monday 20 July - 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
Tuesday 20 July - 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
Wednesday 22 July - 10.00 am - 5.00 pm

more here.

Westminster Interior Architecture at Re_Work: Interior Educators UK

                      

Interior Architecture students from the University of Westminster exhibited their work in custom made  'inserts' and books placed into the interiors of drawers taken from studio plan chests. Re_Work was an exhibition by Interior Educators UK for interior architecture, design and spatial design students from all UK member courses. It was held at Free Range, Truman Brewery, East London, July 9 -13 2015.