'3 Standard Stoppages' by Marcel Duchamp, 1913

"In 1964 Duchamp explained: 'This experiment was made in 1913 to imprison and preserve forms obtained through chance, through my chance. At the same time, the unit of length, one meter, was changed from a straight line to a curved line without actually losing its identity [as] the meter, and yet casting a pataphysical doubt on the concept of a straight edge as being the shortest route from one point to another.' (Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine, eds., Marcel Duchamp, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, pp.273-4.) 

Duchamp used each wooden template three times in mapping the diagrammatic painting Network of Stoppages, 1914 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)."

more at the tate modern.

Performing MDM Opera House By Jie Shen

In this "...design for an opera in Warsaw by the London based architect Jie Shen... the model is not so much a representative tool than a diminished scale building in which materials match with their potential real application...the proposed opera introduces a rough vocabulary which recalls the one used in naval construction." 

more at the funambulist.

Symposium: 'Interior Design: Dead or Alive' at the ICA

Bar Ten, Glasgow. Interior design by BKD in 1991

14 Mar 2015

11:15 am | Cinema 1 | £5.00 to £12.00

Book Tickets

As part of his campaign as Chair of Interior and Spatial Design at UAL, entitled Popular Culture and the Interior, Professor Ben Kelly hosts Interior Design: Dead or Alive.

This symposium will take stock of the ability of iconic interiors to affect and influence the direction of popular culture and the wider world. A range of speakers with the widest variety of perspectives and disciplines explore the cultural significance of the subject and practice of interior design in relation to the contexts of art, design, business, media and culture.

Architect @ Work

Second year student Gareth passed along the information for this conference, geared towards practitioners but open to students.

VENUE

Olympia London

Hammersmith Road

Kensington

London

W14 8UX



DATES

Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 January 2015

13:00 - 20:00



ENTRANCE FEE

£ 25,00 or free of charge if you pre-register online with a personal invitation code.

In need of such a code, please mail us at unitedkingdom@architectatwork.eu.



ITINERARY AND CAR PARK

You can find out how to get to Olympia through the following link.



CATERING

Continuous free nibbles, sandwiches and drinks in the lounge areas.


CONTACT INFORMATION

ARCHITECT@WORK is organised by:

Xpo Organisations Ltd.

8 Northumberland Avenue

London

WC2N 5BY

T: +44 (0)207 125 05 83

F: +44 (0)207 125 05 93

E: unitedkingdom@architectatwork.eu

W: www.architectatwork.eu

History & Theory open lecture series, 2014-15

Thursday 19th February

Dragan Krstevski: From Modern Past to Historical Present

Thursday 26th February 

Katrin Bohn & Andre Viljoen: Second Nature Urban Agriculture. Designing Productive Cities 

Thursday 12th March 

Ben Campkin: Regeneration: Imaginaries of Decline and Renewal

Thursday 19th March

Dominic Severs: Fear of Non-street Housing


Department of Architecture, University of Westminster, 6.30pm Thursdays

Open lectures, no charge, all welcome.

Room M/421, Marylebone Campus,

University of Westminster,

35 Marylebone Road,

London NW1 5LS

Prada Window Installations by Martino Gamper

"Italian designer Martino Gamper has created a 'homage to the humble corner' in the shop windows of fashion house Prada. The installations, named Corners, used panels of wood veneer to form enclosed angled spaces in which the mannequins are placed..."

from dezeen.

The Waterhouse at South Bund by NHDRO

"Chinese architects NHDRO have transformed this disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel, maintaining the building's stripped concrete and brick walls while adding a new Corten steel extension on the roof."

See more about NHDRO along with films and interviews at dezeen here and here.

Van Alen Institute by collective-LOK in New York City

"the design team collective-LOK, comprised of new york and boston-based architects jon lott (PARA-project), william o’brien jr. (WOJR), and michael kubo (over,under), titles the ground floor space ‘screen-play’, for its use of different elastic partition elements. among these veil layers is a modular and porous coffer-like ceiling that diffuses lighting and acoustics while concealing projectors and mechanical equipment. additionally, a wall of accordion walls along with sliding translucent panels divide the open-program area from the private and semi-private spaces."

from designboom.

Lucy McRae Lecture- 26 Nov 2014

"In this lecture, body architect Lucy McRae tiptoes on the edge between imagination and innovation.

Lucy McRae is a body architect exploring the relationship between the body, technology and the grey areas of synthetic and organic materials. She invents playful, imaginary worlds underpinned by the tools of science fiction and technology, to create portals of possibility that provoke the way people embody the future.

Trained in classical ballet and interior design, Lucy staked her claim as the world’s premier body architect during her formative years at Philips Design. Working in the far future design research lab she developed stretchable electronics, an electronic tattoo and a range of emotional sensing dresses awarded Time Magazine's Best Fashion Invention in 2007."

Wednesday 26 Nov 2014
6.30pm – 8pm
No booking required / first come, first seated
Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL

Bunker 599 by RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon

"...a redundant Second World War bunker in the Netherlands was turned into a sculptural visitor attraction by slicing it down the middle to reveal its insides.... It took 40 days to slice through the solid concrete bunker, which was one of 700 constructed along the New Dutch Waterline, a series of water-based defences used between 1815 and 1940 to protect the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem."

from dezeen.

3D Printed "Touchable Memories" by pirate3D

"‘touchable memories’ by pirate3D, turns photographs into 3D-printed objects for people without vision. the social experiment project aims to increase the awareness of the endless possibilities of using technology to improve lives. using an affordable home printer called buccaneer, the visually-impaired can re-experience images by fabricating a tangible scene of it."

from designboom.

New issue of a + t: 'Workforce: A better place to work'

"The contemporary workplace has derived from successive compression/decompression. First there was the hierarchical Taylorist office. Then came the rational well-lit well-organized office with individual cubicles which allocated each employee the exact amount of air they needed to breathe. Later there was a return to the open landscape office, with free layouts, shrouded in vegetation, which was the forerunner of the de-materialization of the workplace.

Today we are in a far more fluid state which envisages the specialization of space and brand expression. Diversity and identity. The workplace should encompass, not only the two basic tasks already known - individual and group work - but also tasks involving learning and socializing.

A Better Place to Work is the first volume of the WORKFORCE series, dedicated to the design of workspaces."

Portions of the issue available digitally here.