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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

The SPAB’s Philip Webb Award_Entry period from July 19 to September 13, 2019

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The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) is pleased to announce details of this year’s Philip Webb Award architectural competition, which is open to current Part II students at UK Schools of Architecture and recent graduates who completed their studies in 2017 or 2018.

The entry period will open on 19 July and close at 5pm on 13 September 2019. More details, Notes for Entrants and entry forms are available at: https://www.spab.org.uk/about-us/awards/philip-webb-award

Entrants are invited to devise a scheme which sympathetically revitalises a historic building of their choosing, which has decayed or been neglected, but which can be repaired and adapted for a new use. Schemes should incorporate both careful repair of existing fabric and a significant element of new construction in a contemporary design.

The competition will be judged by an expert panel of architects comprising:

  • Rebecca Harrison – of Harrison Brookes, whose Old Court House was longlisted for House of the Year 2018
  • Shahed Saleem – of Makespace, author of The British Mosque: an architectural and social history
  • Charles Wellingham – of Connolly Wellingham, SPAB Scholar and past winner of the Philip Webb Award

Contested Legacies: New Conversations – 2018 competition winners event

The winners of the 2018 Philip Webb Award will present their schemes and receive their prizes an evening event in London on 13 June 2019.

Speakers will be:

  • Chris Hamill (1st prize) on his scheme for Armagh Gaol, combining repair of the historic building with establishment of a craft skills centre on site, bringing together trainees from all parts of the community to work on temporary structures that could also form the basis of a permanent facility.
  • Rachael Moon (2nd prize) on her proposal to recast the former Pit Head Baths building at Chatterley Whitfield colliery as a spa and leisure facility for the local community.
  • Joe Copp (3rd prize) on for his leisure use concept for Bristol’s Floating Harbour, focusing on the fire damaged Bristol United Brewery Malthouse building.

More details and tickets are available now via the What’s On section of the SPAB website: https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on/lectures/contested-legacies-new-conversations

The SPAB and New Design for Old Buildings

The book New Design for Old Buildings [RIBA/SPAB 2017] co-authored by SPAB’s Chairman Iain Boyd and heritage and sustainability writer Roger Hunt remains available from bookshops, the RIBA, and the SPAB: https://www.spab.org.uk/shop

Details of 2019 Autumn Lecture series and other forthcoming SPAB events exploring New Design for Old Buildings – more information will be available soon at: https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on

Featured image: 2018 1st prize winner Chris Hamill “Armagh Gaol”

Architecture Research Forum: “Retrofit of a 1970s House” Scott Batty, Thursday, March 28, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor

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When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 28th of March

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

Scott Batty is a practising architect mainly designing one-off homes. He studied and previously taught at the Bartlett, and is now a part-time Senior Lecturer at SA+C.

Summer School: Living With Earthquakes, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Fermo, Italy_12th-21st of July 2019

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The present programme builds on the LIVING WITH EARTHQUAKES conference held in Cambridge in October 2017, which discussed earthquakes that affected the Apennine regions, causing widespread destruction and damage to cultural heritage. This summer school is therefore part of a wider research initiative, involving a dialogue between the SCIENCES (Seismic Engineering, Geotechnics, Construction) and the HUMANITIES (Philosophy, Sociology, Architecture and Urban Studies, History of Art and Architecture).

The new programme is based on the successful experience of the 2018 edition, held in Amandola and takes advantage of the surveys and design proposals produced and presented in the final exhibition on the 1st of August 2018.

Aims and Strategies:

Advanced Master students and PhD candidates in landscape architecture and planning, architecture, engineering, art history and philosophy will be based in Falerone and will make a comparative study of three hill towns in the province of Fermo: Falerone, Amandola and Motefortino.

Field studies and teaching will include:

  • understanding the urban landscape
  • understanding the value of the tangible and intangible heritage
  • principles and problems in the conservation of historic fabric
  • the use of archival material in preparing design appraisals and reports

Students will be given the opportunity to present their research for critical review.

Applications:

Master and Doctoral students from different fields are invited to send their applications, consisting of a motivation letter and a CV to cultureofcity@gmail.com 

Fees:

The summer school fee of 150€ per participants covers essential course materials, including digitalised information, visits to case study sites in the three towns, and a joint dinner. Accommodation (bed and breakfast) has been arranged in Falerone at a cost of 30€ per night.

Key Dates:

20th of May 2019 – Application deadline

1st of June 2019 – Accepted students confirmed

10th of June 2019 – Fee payment to confirm participation

For full programme, teaching staff and participating universities please refer to the poster.

Monsoon [+ other] Grounds – Full Programme_Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of March,

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Monsoon [+ other] Grounds is the third in a series of symposia convened by the Monsoon Assemblages project. It will comprise a key-note address, inter-disciplinary panels, and an exhibition. The event will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to engage in conversations about geologies, soils, histories, spatialities, and modifications of monsoon [+ other] grounds.

The confirmed keynote speaker is:

Tim Ingold, Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His early work involved ethnographic research amongst the Skolt Saami of northeast Finland. This led to a more general concern with human-animal relations. Most recently, he has been working on the connections between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture, conceived as ways of exploring the relations between human beings and the environments they inhabit, as mutually enhancing ways of engaging with our surroundings. Ingold is author of numerous books, anthologies and essays, including, most recently, The Life of Lines (Routledge, 2015) and Anthropology: Why it Matters (Polity Press, 2018).

Event Programme

Thursday 21 March

15.30 Registration / Tea

15.45 Welcome: Simon Joss, University of Glasgow

16.00 – 17.00 Exhibition walk-about led by John Cook

Exhibitors: Alexandra Arenes, Matt Barlow, Blue Temple, Hari Byles, Corinna Dean, DS18 students, Tumpa Fellows, MONASS, Ben Pollock

17.00 – 18.00 [multi]grounds

Chair: Ed Wall, University of Greenwich

Lindsay Bremner, MONASS: On sediment as method

Ifor Duncan, Goldsmiths College: Sedimentary Witness

18.30 Keynote Lecture: Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen

Chair: Lindsay Bremner

Friday 22 March

09.45 Registration / Coffee

10.00 Welcome + introduction: Lindsay Bremner, MONASS

10.15 – 11.30 [over]ground matters

Chair: Godofredo Pereira, Royal College of Art

Alexandra Arenes, University of Manchester: Mapping the Critical Zones

Christina Leigh Geros, MONASS: Here be Dragons

Avi Varma, Goldsmiths College: Unjust Intonations

11.30 – 11.45 Tea

11.45 – 13.00 [inter]ground matters

Chair: Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen

Owain Jones, Bath Spa University: Monsoon + Tide

Jonathan Cane, University of the Witwatersrand: Permeability, Ocean, Concrete

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch: Convivial Grounds

14.00 – 15.00 [under]ground matters

Chair: Tim Waterman, The Bartlett UCL

Anthony Powis, MONASS: The Materiality of Groundwater: Leaking, Seeping, Swelling, Cracking

Matt Barlow, University of Adelaide: Floating (under) ground

15:00 – 16:00 [in]ground matters

Chair: Alfredo Ramirez Galindo, AA

Eric Guibert, University of Westminster: Architectural Soils

Harshavardhan Bhat, MONASS: About a Monsoon Forest

16.00 – 16.15 Tea

16.15 – 17.30 [with]ground matters

Chair: Radha D’Souza, University of Westminster

Naiza Khan, Goldsmiths College: Sticky Rice and Other Stories

Beth Cullen, MONASS: Brick

Labib Hossain, Cornell University: Wetness and the City: A Critical Reading of the Dry and Permanent Ground Through the Practice of Muslin Weaving in Bengal

17.30 – 17.45 Closing Remarks: David Chandler

17.45 -19.00 Drinks

Interiors Lecture Series: Tomasz Fiszer, MJP Architects “Reusing Buildings, Reimagining Interiors”_Thursday, March 21 at 13:00 in MG14, Marylebone Campus

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The next lecture in the Interiors Lecture Series will take place on Thursday 21st March at 1pm in MG14, at which Tomasz Fiszer, Associate at MJP Architects, will give a talk titled: Reusing Buildings, Reimagining Interiors. Tomasz will present three case studies and discuss how the past and present of the buildings can inform the rethinking and redesign of interiors and take their users into the future.

MJP Architects is an architectural practice established in 1972 and based in Spitalfields, London. The practice, which changed its name from MacCormac Jamieson Prichard in June 2008, works in a wide variety of sectors and on projects of differing scales; from master planning to exhibition design and from corporate headquarters to furniture.

All welcome!

RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 Bursaries_Deadline: 12pm Friday, April 19, 2019

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is now open for applications for the 2019 RIBA Part 1 Bursary and RIBA Part 2 Bursary.

Full details of the eligibility criteria and application process can be found here.

RIBA Part 1 Bursary

To be eligible to apply for a RIBA Part 1 Bursary, students must be enrolled in the first year of an RIBA Part 1 course in the UK. Recipients of these bursaries will receive a maximum of £6,000 distributed in £1,000 termly instalments throughout the second and third years of study. Successful part-time applicants will receive the same maximum amount in payments proportionate to the length of studies. The deadline for receipt of applications is 12pm on Friday 19 April 2019.

RIBA Part 2 Bursary

To be eligible to apply for a RIBA Part 2 Bursary, students must be in the process of applying for an RIBA Part 2 course in the UK beginning in September 2019. Proof of enrolment will be required before the bursary is paid to successful applicants.

Recipients of these bursaries will receive a maximum of £6,000 distributed in £1,000 termly instalments throughout the course of the Part 2. Successful part-time applicants will receive the same maximum amount in payments proportionate to the length of studies. The deadline for receipt of applications is 12pm on Friday 12 April 2019.

Reminder that the RIBA Student Support Fund, Spring 2019 application cycle is still open and current Part 1 and Part 2 students ARE eligible to apply.

Full details about this scheme are available here.

The deadline to apply is 12pm on Friday 29 March 2019.

Featured image: RIBA website – courtesy of Jordan Green, past recipient of a RIBA Part 2 Bursary

Competition for Students: COINS Grand Challenge “Building the Future”_Deadline: 12th of April

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The COINS Grand Challenge is a global competition to uncover students, innovators and leaders with ideas that have the power to positively impact the built environment, and our society. We are searching for viable ideas that use a new or emerging technology to radically reduce costs, to increase efficiency or to improve sustainability, quality or compliance during construction or throughout the built life cycle.

To win cash prizes and gain exposure to influential leaders, all your students need to do is write an essay or create a short video to please describe their idea and its potential impact, and enter it on the Grand Challenge application website.

Entries should be submitted before 12 Apr 2019. Apply here: https://coins.secure-platform.com/a/

Take a look at some of the 2018 Grand Challenge finalists and their winning ideas and get inspired to submit and complete your application.

Finalists travel for free…

If selected as a finalist, undergrads will present their idea to the judging panel in Manchester, UK on Wednesday 12th June 2019. And COINS will get them there expenses paid.