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2019 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships and the RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship_Deadline: 5pm Friday 7 June 2019

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is now calling for applications for the 2019 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships and the RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship.

To be eligible to apply for the RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships, applicants must:

  • have graduated from a RIBA Part 1 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education institution in the UK, and
  • at the time of application, be enrolled in a RIBA Part 2 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education institution in the UK and be starting the final year in September 2019

There are five Wren scholarships worth £6,000 each available in the 2019 application cycle. For more details about these scholarships and to download an application form, please visit here.

To be eligible to apply for the RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship, applicants must:

  • have graduated from a Part 1 programme validated by the RIBA in the UK, and
  • at the time of application, be enrolled in, or have been granted a placement offer for, an RIBA-validated Part 2 professional qualification in the UK or abroad starting in September 2019, or
  • be enrolled, or have been granted a placement offer, in a Masters course (non-RIBA Part 2) related to architecture, at a university department that also offers courses validated by the RIBA in the UK or abroad starting in September 2019

There is one AHR scholarship worth £6,000 available in the 2019 application cycle. For more details about this scholarship and to download an application form, please visit here.

The application deadline for both scholarships is 5pm Friday 7 June 2019.

Featured image: Landscape Imaginal by Farid Abdulla, 2018 RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholar

24-hour Studio Openings Ahead of Portfolio Submissions + OPEN2019

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In the run-in to portfolio submission and OPEN2019, the School of Architecture + Cities has agreed with Security extra cover to enable 24h opening of the Marylebone studios for the nights of:

  • Wednesday 8 May
  • Monday 13 May
  • Tuesday 14 May
  • Wednesday 15 May
  • Monday 20 May
  • Tuesday 21 May
  • Wednesday 22 May
  • Wednesday 12 June

Any infringements of the 11pm closing time on all other nights will automatically lead to the withdrawal of these additional opening times.

Call for entries: Eye Line 2019_Deadline: Monday, 10th of June

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It’s Eye Line time! RIBAJ’s free-entry annual award for celebrating excellence in architectural drawing.

This international award is a proven opportunity for exposure and career advancement – for both practitioners and students.

Winners and commendations will be exhibited at the RIBA for a month and will be published in The RIBA Journal and online at RIBAJ.com. Our colleagues at the RIBA’s world famous Drawings and Archives Collections (DAC), based in the V&A Museum, will study the winners for potential inclusion in the collections. ​You will also be invited to the winners’ event at the RIBA attended by leading architects.

Judges are Patty Hopkins, founding partner of Hopkins Architects; Wen Quek, partner, Cullinan Studio; Anne Desmet RA, artist; Tszwai So of Spheron Architects, last year’s winner; Neil Spiller, architect, academic and editor of AD magazine; and Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal.

There is no distinction between ‘hand drawing’ and computer rendering skills but you can find out all the entry details in the RIBA Journal article.

Key dates

Deadline: Monday 10 June, 23:59

Judging: end June.

Winners and commendations announced: August issue of RIBAJ and online.

Exhibition opening: August.

Correspondence: eyeline.ribaj@riba.org

 

Featured image: last year’s winner Tszwai So (Spheron Architects, SA+C DS2.6 tutor)

Architecture Research Forum: “On the Estrangement of the Real from its Representations” Sean Griffiths, Thursday, May 2, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor

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When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 2nd of May

Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus

Sean Griffiths is Professor of Architecture at Westminster and currently practices as Modern Architect. He is a former director of FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste).

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion.

Expanded Territories Reading Group: “The Companion Species Manifesto” by Donna Haraway, Tuesday, May 7, 18:00, M330

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The Expanded Territories Reading Group in the School of Architecture + Cities invites all college staff and students who might be interested, to join us in reading some of the foundational texts of new materialism and post humanism over the coming months. We meet once a month in M330 on the Marylebone Campus.

The next reading will be Donna Haraway’s “The Companion Species Manifesto” introduced by Harshavardhan Bhat. This will take place at 18.00 in M330 on 07 May.

The text is available for download here:

http://xenopraxis.net/readings/haraway_companion.pdf

If anyone would like to be added to the Expanded Territories Reading Group mailing list, please let Lindsay Bremner know at l.bremner@westminster.ac.uk.

+ Detail Design Day

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On Monday 8th of April, second year BA students from the School of Architecture + Cities had the opportunity to meet and have tutorials with a number of professionals from the industry.

The tutorials ran throughout the day, providing the students with invaluable insight and help with their final projects. The students were asked to bring in 1:20 model of a part of their project, as well as some drawings to help contextualise the model. The professionals took on the role of tutors, and were there to assist the students in understanding and solving the issues regarding detailing and construction. With only five weeks left until the portfolio submission, the aim was to use the model, alongside tutorials, as an “exploratory” investigation into the building envelope of the project, which would help pinpoint the building design that is, for most students, still in flux.

The participants: All Year 2 Architecture Students (UOW) Scott Batty Architect (UOW), Dr Stanislava Bošković (Imperial College), Todd Courtney (HUT), Rachel Eccles (HUT), Peter Greves (MAKE Architects), Matt Haycocks (UOW), George Jamieson (HUT), Vlad Luchian (HUT), Elena Marshall (Morph Structures), Dr William McLean (UOW), Sangkil Park (MAKE Architects), Paulo Pimentel (IP Design Studio), Jim Potter (Waind Gohil + Potter), Graham West (West Architecture), Julian Williams (UOW), Fran Williams (Technical Editor, The Architects Journal)

MegaCrit + MegaParty: “Who has the right to the city?”, Monday, April 15, 10:00-22:30, Ambika P3, Marylebone Campus, NW1 5LS

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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. – Jane Jacobs

OPEN TO ALL ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES

The University of Westminster and Westminster Architecture Society, in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation, invites all architecture students and recent graduates to the second edition of the Megacrit and inter-uni MegaParty!

MEGACRIT 10am-5pm

This year’s Megacrit asks the question: “Who has the right to the city?” and explores the theme of Architecture and Power.

Students will present throughout the day, exchanging ideas and engaging in a discussion with guest critics and visiting tutors from around the capital.

After presenting, students will exhibit their work around the space creating an inter-uni architectural exhibition of work for all to view! All students from any university and recent graduates are invited to come and watch the crits throughout the day, please sign up for a FREE ticket through eventbrite to confirm your attendance.

Last year, the Westminster Megacrit was a great success with 7 units, 40 students and 14 guest critics participating. With over 1700 people signing up for the event, it became one of the largest Megacrits hosted in London. We hope to have as much fun this year, and look forward to seeing you all there!

#makearchitecturegreatagain

#megacrit2019

MEGAPARTY 6pm-10:30pm

All students from any university and recent graduates are invited to celebrate at the MegaParty. Come along for a night of great music, student deals on drinks (£2.50 Peroni, £3 Wine, etc), explore the exhibition of work from the day and meet fellow architecture students from other universities! Please sign up for a FREE ticket via eventbrite to guarantee entry.

TIMETABLE FOR THE DAY

10:00 Megacrit – Morning Session

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Megacrit Afternoon Session

17:00 Panel Discussion

18:00 MegaParty starts

22:30 End

Additional Information

To access P3 please enter through University of Westminster main entrance reception on Marylebone Road. Please register for the MegaCrit and MegaParty through Eventbrite. We may contact you following the event to invite you to other similar inter-uni events run by the Westminster Architecture Society.

Please bring your student or alumni ID for entry.

By signing up you agree to receive emails regarding the MegaCrit and MegaParty and other events of relevance to the wider architecture student community.

Book tickets here.

 

Conference: Building-Object/Design-Architecture_From 6th to 8th of June 2019, Birkbeck, London

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When: 6th to 8th of June 2019

Where: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, 27 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7JL

Building-Object/Design-Architecture

Jointly supported by the Design History Society, the European Architectural History Network, and the Architecture Space and Society Centre (Birkbeck).

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. (Roland Barthes, 1957)

This two-day conference will explore old, new and future interconnections between Design History and Architectural History. It will address the disciplines’ shared historiography, theory, forms of analysis and objects of critical enquiry, and draw attention to how recent developments in the one can have significant implications for the other. It will attend to areas of difference, in order, ultimately to identify new areas for discussion and set future agendas for research between the disciplines.

Book Fair, Walking Tours and Keynote Speakers including: Ben Highmore (Sussex), Adrian Forty (Bartlett) and Doris Behrens-Abouseif (SOAS)

Programme and further info

Book tickets

Architecture Research Forum: “The Gardener Architect: Designing with the emergent natures of places” Eric Guibert, Thursday, April 4, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor

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When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 4th of April

Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus

Eric Guibert is a practising gardener architect who teaches design studio at SA+C. He did a PhD through Reflective Practice as an ADAPT-r Research Fellow at KU Leuven.

aae2019: “Learning through Practice”_ Wednesday 24th – Friday 26th of April, Hogg Lecture Theatre Marylebone Campus

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The fifth international peer reviewed conference of the UK association of architectural educators, aae2019 Learning through Practice, will be hosted by the University of Westminster.

The conference aims to invite contributions from educators, researchers and architectural practitioners on the theme of contexts for learning architectural practice, and how the nature of these contexts shape the nature and form of the learning itself.

The conference will be a place to reflect on the value of studio-based practice for both student and professional practitioner, to examine the role of workplace located learning, to share knowledge of current and past radical or alternative models, and to speculate on future forms of architectural education.

Click here for the conference website.

Tickets cover entry to the main keynote lecture plus the preceding debate(s). You are welcome to come along to the debate at 16:00 or 16:30 or just head to the lecture at 18:00 or 18:30.

  • Professor Ray Land Wed 24 April 18:30 plus 16:30 debate on ‘Architecture and Professionalism’ (organised by Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture)
  • Liza Fior and Professor Clare Twomey In Conversation Wed 25 April 18:00 plus debates starting at 16:00 on ‘Partnership Studios: Conflicts and Expectations’ (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and 17:00 on ‘Archi-Culture: Is Studio Culture Dead’ (London School of Architecture)
  • Meejin Yoon Fri 26 April 18:00 plus debates starting at 16:00 on ‘Ethics and Sustainability in Architectural Education’ (Cardiff/Sheffield Hallam University) and ‘Models for Shared Learning’ (Architecture Foundation UK)

Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aae2019-debates-and-evening-lecture-tickets-tickets-59154989165