Westminster Interior Architecture at FreeRange 2013

'Amid the Ruins' at Daniel Blau Gallery

AMID THE RUINS
The glare of many fires and sweeping clouds of smoke kept hiding the shape.  Then a wind sprang up.  Suddenly, the shining cross, dome and towers stood out like a symbol in the inferno.  The scene was unbelievable.  In that moment or two, I released my shutter.'

-- Herbert Mason on his iconic 1940 photograph of St.  Paul's Cathedral

Taking its cue from the the vintage 1940's photographs comprising BLITZ: WWII in LONDON (Daniel Blau Gallery, London), Amid the Ruinscombines poetry, spoken word, live video and electronic sound performances.

+ Allen Fisher
+ Kreider + O'Leary with Audialsense perform 'Blitzkreig Sonata'
+ Stephen Willey

'Amid the Ruins' at Daniel Blau Gallery, 51 Hoxton Sq, London N1 6BP, 7pm start.

Serpentine Pavilion 2013 at Kensington Gardens (until 20 October)

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.

Occupying some 350 square-metres of lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery, Sou Fujimoto's delicate, latticed structure of 20mm steel poles will have a lightweight and semi-transparent appearance that will allow it to blend, cloud-like, into the landscape and against the classical backdrop of the Gallery's colonnaded East wing. Designed as a flexible, multi-purpose social space - with a café sited inside - visitors will be encouraged to enter and interact with the Pavilion in different ways throughout its four-month tenure in London's Kensington Gardens.

Until 20 October 2013, Open to the public, free admission.

AA Summer Show 2013

PROJECTS REVIEW 2013

AA School22/6/2013 - 13/7/2013

Monday to Friday 10am-7pm, Saturday 22 June 1-5pm, All other Saturdays 10am-5pm.

The AA Projects Review exhibition is celebrated in the AA's main building and Bedford Square garden.

Bartlett Summer Show 2013

June 22-29 2013

University of Westminster OPEN Exhibition 2013

Open until 5 July.

David Byrne on how architecture helped music evolve

Atlas of the Unbuilt World (Model Exhibition)

10:00 07 June - 20:00 27 June 2013

Location: The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL,  Royal Ear Hospital, Ground Floor, Capper Street (corner of Huntley Street), London, WC1E 6APFor 2013 

Atlas of the Unbuilt World will provide a snap-shot of a new world through architectural models and artefacts. It will feature example works by some of the most interesting international architects from around the world. Each model will illustrate a new future for the country involved through a series of 'real' projects, those either in planning or under construction, which are due for completion in the coming years.

As an Initiating Partner of the, now annual,  London Festival of Architecture (June 1-30) the British Council coordinates the International Architecture Showcase, a diverse programme of international exhibitions and events in collaboration with London’s embassies and cultural institutes.

Wick Session #12: Informal & In-situ

This talk will be about recent work done with students in a former industrial / warehouse part of Johannesberg which has over a number of years been occupied and turned into living accommodation via 'informal processes'. For those interested in informal urbanism and the kinds if issues and difficulties it raises for architectural agency and education, the talk will be extremely interesting. 

more info at http://wicksessions.net/

King's Cross Filling Station by Carmody and Groarke

Architects Carmody Groarke have transformed an abandoned canal-side petrol station in north London into a temporary restaurant and events space with fluted walls.

More at dezeen.

James Turrell at the Guggenheim in NYC

For those of you planning to visit New York over the summer break (I know a few of you will be)...

James Turrell
21.06.2013 – 25.09.2013
Guggenheim Museum, New York

James Turrell’s first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site-specificity in his practice. At its core is Aten Reign (2013), a major new project that recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light.

from here.

more here.

and video of installation fabrication here.

Architecture and the Interior Conference at Delft University

more information here.