Paul Klee - Making Visible at Tate Modern 16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014

Paul Klee is a giant of twentieth-century art and one of the great creative innovators of the time. The heart of the exhibition will focus on the decade Klee spent teaching and working at the Bauhaus, the hotbed of modernist design.

Making Visible

Tate Modern: Exhibition

16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014

Adult £16.50 (without donation £15.00)

Concession £14.50 (without donation £13.10)

Daniel Silver: 'Dig' 12 September - 3 November 2013

"From a deep hole in a derelict site in central London, yards from the traffic of the Tottenham Court Road, evidence of an apparently ancient and peculiar civilisation has emerged: gods and philosophers, fertility goddesses with 12 breasts, smashed plaster torsos and a giant bearded head with its features almost washed away evidently by millennia of rain or sea water.On the upper level scores of pieces lie cleaned and sorted. Down below all is dank and dripping, and life-sized figures and heads on concrete plinths stand in pools of mud and water. All were made by the sculptor Daniel Silver, for Dig, an installation commissioned by Artangel..." from the Gaurdian

Daniel Silver: Dig
The Odeon Site
24 Grafton Way (off Tottenham Court Road)
London WC1E 6DB

12 September - 3 November 2013

11am - 6 pm, Tuesday - Sunday
Admission: free

+FARM 2014: Winter Studio at the Five Sisters Farm, NY, USA

Open Call: the Sweat Lodge in the Snow

The project for this 5 day intensive design, fabricate, and construction workshop is to build a Sweat Lodge for a weary farmer. The fabrication studio will focus, and participants will learn, digital practices that enhance work flow methods between design, metal fabrication, and installation by using the latest software + techniques.

Participants will warm up with a charrette to produce the design, then will quickly transition to digital techniques geared toward fabrication. Six applicants selected from an international open call will be invited to work with a metal fabrication shop including practicing professionals on site, developing practical, technological, and construction skills. Professional training will be provided in using a plasma cutter, press break, sheer, and basic welding techniques.

Applications Due Friday November 29th

For more information please visit: www.plusfarm.org

'Thinking With the Body' at the Wellcome Collection. Until October 27th.

Wayne McGregor is well known for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. In 2000, he and his company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance embarked on a series of projects investigating aspects of creativity in dance with researchers from other fields such as cognitive and social science.

This exhibition, staged during the run-up to the first performances of his new work for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, 'Atomos' at Sadler's Wells, offers a glimpse into this interdisciplinary research process and the impact it has in the rehearsal studio. Find out more about the process of choreography and how mind, body and movement interact in each of us.

From Saturday 28 September to Sunday 13 October there will be opportunities to meet dancers who have experience of working with the ideas discussed in the exhibition. The dancers will offer a unique insight into and practical demonstration of physical thinking techniques. Sessions will run on Thursdays 18.00-21.00, Saturdays and Sundays 14.00-17.00.

Admission to Wellcome Collection is free

Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

Richard Serra: 'Drawings for the Courtald' 19 September 2013 – 12 January 2014

Richard Serra: Drawings for The Courtauld presents twelve of Serra’s most recent drawings, created especially for this installation at The Courtauld Gallery.

Rising to prominence on the New York art scene more than forty years ago, Serra is now celebrated internationally, notably for his groundbreaking sculptures and for his radical approach to drawing.

Serra’s Drawings for The Courtauld are extraordinarily powerful works. Produced using dense black litho crayon on transparent plastic sheets, their forms only just seem to cohere, as if still in the process of creation. Serra’s innovative technique pushes the boundaries of drawing in new directions.

This is an opportunity to see radical new drawings by one of the most important and revered

artists working today.

at The Courtauld Institute of Art 
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN, UK

Happy Magic Water Cube waterpark in Beijing

"Since its opening last year, Happy Magic Water Cube waterpark (the best name for anything, ever?) has become Beijing's second most popular destination, enticing visitors with a lazy river, wave pool, and speed slides, among other attractions. Blatant representations of underwater life in the form of inflatable jellyfish and seaweed irreverently brush up against the more austere (read: "serious") architecture. It turns out that the much celebrated ETFE membrane is the ideal backdrop for the playful proceedings, providing plenty of daylight by day, and turning the perfect shade of ocean blue at night.

There may be some naysayers who protest at the "debasement" of an architectural landmark. But there are many more who question the motives and decisions behind the making of Olympic-scale projects. No one pays more for these projects than citizens of the host city, who not only fork over tax dollars, but also powerlessly forfeit tracts of their metropolis in the name of "urban renewal". Olympic stadiums never make good on their investments, so why do city planning boards continue to eagerly sign off on the whims of a starchitect? It's time to say "no" to the Pritzker laureates and "yes" to more waterparks."

from architizer.

(the host building in its first incarnation.)

'Paper' at the Saatchi Gallery, 18 June - 3 November

"The role of paper is in decline: paperless offices are encouraged, emails reign supreme, and monetary transactions are conducted via credit cards and transfers. In Paper at the Saatchi Gallery, thoughtful, technically impressive and engaging examples of work in which paper features heavily or exclusively, attempt 

to redress this imbalance."-John Patrick Egan

Opening hours:
10am-6pm, 7 days a week, last entry 5:30pm

Address:
Duke of York's HQ
King's Road
London
SW3 4RY

Admission is free.

Nick Van Woert

Nick van Woert is an artist based in New York. The material used in the pieces above for the 'drips' is polyurethane plastic.  The colorful components in the piece below are cast urethane rubber applied to a fiberglass statue.

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Jenny Sabin Studio

Pictured above: 'Branching Morphogenesis' installation, 2008

The studio investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design, fabrication and production of material structures. They collaborate with scientists and engineers and employ architects, designers and artists. Their applied projects are diverse and operate across multiple length scales including adaptive materials, tapestries, rugs, installations, pavilions and architectural interventions.

More here.

Technical Studies - Open Lectures

TECHNICAL STUDIES – OPEN LECTURES

The 'Technical Studies - Open Lectures' starts next week.

The lectures are organised for our architecture students, but everyone is welcome.

All lectures in room M421

Thursday 3rd October, 6.30pm - Stelarc - The Cyborg Artist

Thursday 10th October, 6.30pm - Graham Stevens - Desert Cloud and other Lightweight Wonders

Thursday 17th October, 6.30pm - Neil Thomas and Aran Chadwick (Atelier One) Liquid Threshold

Thursday 24th October, 6.30pm - Tim Lucas (Price & Myers) The Kew House Project

Thursday 31st October, 6.30pm - Daniel Ptacek (Kinnickkinnic) 'The Adjacent Possible'

Thursday 7th November, 6.30pm - Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt (University of Kent) Environmental Experimentation

Thursday 14th November, 6.30pm - Nick Crosbie (Inflate) Air Structures

Thursday 21st November, 6.30pm - Paul Bavister (UCL) Sound, Acoustics, Music and Architecture

Thursday 28th November, 6.30pm - TBC

Thursday 5th December, 6.30pm - Jaisha Reichardt - 'Our Dreams Change, We Don't'

Thursday 12th December, 6.30pm – TBC

The first lecture:

'Universal Everything & You' at the Media Space, September 21st 2013 - February 7th 2014

Universal Everything & You is a new digital installation of two artworks by art and design collective Universal Everything specially commissioned for the Virgin Media Studio.

The first work, 1000 Hands is created by contributions from the public through a smart phone app. In the gallery space it takes the form of a circular projection onto multiple screens, with each one showing an individual artwork generated by app users.

Presence, the second work, is a collaboration with the LA Dance Project and has been created by using motion captured performances of dancers which will be played back with evolving digital ‘costumes’.

Universal Everything, founded in 2004 by Matt Pyke (b.1975) are a UK based digital art and design collective who work with a global network of designers, artists, musicians, producers and programmers. For Universal Everything & You Matt Pyke has collaborated with composer Simon Pyke, Benjamin Millepied’s LA Dance Project and architect Irene Shamma.

Opening 21 September 2013 at the Media Space at the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD

Open seven days a week, 10.00-19.00 during the school holidays. Entry to the Museum is free.

Frieze Sculpture Park in Regents Park, 17 - 20 October 2013

Located in Regents Park, a two minute walk from the Marylebone Campus, The Sculpture Park is part of Frieze London. This year it will exhibit contemporary sculptures alongside historical pieces, with new works by both established and emerging artists.

Entry to the Sculpture Park is free to the public.

The Sculpture Park at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2013 is selected by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Artists include
Joan Miró, David Shrigley , Rachel Whiteread and Judy Chicago