Feb Fest Launch Party 23rd February

'Imagining Environments' Lecture by Prof. Dean Hawkes 21st February in the Robin Evans Room

The room has now been changed to Evans (M416)

Interior Architecture Lecture Series 2017: Professor Sadie Morgan 1st February

Sadie Morgan, co founder of award winning practice De Rijke Marsh Morgan and Professor in Interior Architecture at the University of Westminster, launches the Interior Architecture lecture series 2017.  This is the first of 6 lectures on projects and issues that are central to the practice of interior architecture and design.

2 pm 1st February 2017
Wood Lecture Theatre,
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS.

Regularly lecturing both nationally and internationally as a keynote speaker, Professor Morgan has sat on numerous competition jury and advisory panels, including the RIBA National Awards Advisory panel and the World Architecture Festival super jury. She became the youngest and only third ever-female President of the Architectural Association in 2013, and was shortlisted for The Architects’ Journal (AJ) Woman Architect of the Year award 2014.Professor Morgan was appointed as Design Chair for High Speed Two (HS2) in March 2015, reporting directly to the Secretary of State. As of November 2015, she is also a member of the newly formed National Infrastructure Commission, led by former Cabinet Minister Lord Adonis.

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

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

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

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