Where Design Meets Life With Alice Rawsthorn

01/10/2013 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely, it can bring us pleasure, choice, strength, decency and much more. But if its power is abused, the outcome can be wasteful, confusing, humiliating, even dangerous. None of us can avoid being affected by design, whether or not we wish to. It is so ubiquitous that it determines how we feel and what we do, often without our noticing.

The International Herald Tribune’s Design Critic Alice Rawsthorn will discusses these issues in her new book, Hello World (Hamish Hamilton, 2013). Rawsthorn will be joined by curator, writer and editor Omar Kholeif for a conversation where they will discuss how warlords, scientists, farmers, hackers, activists and designers have used design to different ends throughout history.

Tuesday 1st October

at The White Building Unit 7, Queen's Yard White Post Lane London E9 5EN

Price: £4.50/3

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Open House London – 21 & 22 September 2013

Open House London celebrates all that is best about the capital’s buildings, places and neighbourhoods. It gives a unique opportunity to get out and under the skin of London’s amazing architecture, with over 700 buildings of all kinds opening their doors to everyone – all for free.

more here: http://www.londonopenhouse.org/

Drawings by Perry Kulper

Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Wai says "Each of Perry Kulper’s architectural drawings is a cosmos of information and possibilities that resist the banal and simplistic reductionism so typical of contemporary architectural representation. Series after series, his drawings display objects as background, and background as object in a constant visual journey of an architecture that doesn’t settle and always evolves: an architecture of ideas."

more at archimorph.

'model:making' exhibition at the CAA 06.09.13-.09.11.13

model : making is an exhibition which looks at the increasing use of new technologies by both craftsmen and architectural model makers. Devised to celebrate the London Design Festival, CAA will collaborate with architects Allies and Morrison to present ‘digital’ sketches, early prototypes and finished work, offering the viewer a unique insight into the early stages of the development of an idea.

model : making will explore how the use of new technologies is influencing and changing the aesthetic demands of various creative disciplines.
model : making will be accompanied by a series of talks.

89 Southwark Street
London
SE1 0HX

Admission is free

'Second Nature'

Second Nature is a 20-minute documentary on skater and budding landscape architect, Janne Saario of Finland. The short film allows a glimpse of Saario’s thoughts and dreams, which float between design, art and skateboarding. Though it also reveals the important concurrence of post-industrial areas, sustainable concepts and natural environments, and unfolds the demanding obligation, towards today’s generation and those to come, to create positive and inspiring, local communities.

Dwell says: "Saario started skating when he was six, eventually got sponsored, and through his experience riding around the world he developed an interest in designing landscapes. He's got his own firm now, with a specialty in skate parks."

Turning Weapons Into Instruments: Pedro Reyes “Disarm”

Artist Pedro Reyes, and new media studio Cocolab, are turning dismantled weapons into mechanized musical instruments.


more and a video at BOOOOOOM.

University of Westminster: PG 2013

THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE INVITES YOU TO PG2013:

An exhibition of thesis projects from the MA Architecture; MA Architecture and Digital Media; MA Cultural Identity and Globalisation and MA Interior Design

PREVIEW
Friday 13 September
6 – 9pm
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS

EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY

Saturday 14 September
to Saturday 21 September
9am – 9pm

westminster.ac.uk/abe
openstudiowestminster.org

Bartlett School of Architecture B-Pro Show 25-28 September 2013

London Design Festival: 14 - 22 September 2013

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.

This year's Festival will be held 14 - 22 September 2013.

More information on over 300 exhibitions and events here:
http://www.londondesignfestival.com/

HOUSE (AFTER 5 YEARS OF LIVING)

A film made by Charles and Ray Eames about their house, Case Study House #8.

from twbe

Mercato by Neri & Hu Design and Reserch Office

"Stripping back the strata of finishes that have built up after years of renovations, the design concept celebrates the beauty of the bare structural elements."

more from archdaily.

Westminster Interior Architecture at FreeRange 2013