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AIA UK Student Charrette 2018, Roca London Gallery, 27 October 2018, 9am-6pm, Deadline for Registration: Wednesday 24 October, 6pm

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AIA UK Student Charrette 2018

When: 27 October 2018, 9am to 6pm

Where: Roca London Gallery, Station Court, Townmead Rd, London SW6 2PY

The annual AIA UK Student Charrette offers UK students the opportunity to take part in a juried day-long event hosted by the Roca Gallery.

CALLING ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS!

£10 per student (includes lunch and refreshments, and reprographic services throughout the day)

The Charette is a CAD-free event, and students are asked to present drawn, modelled and collage proposals only. Students may bring their favourite drawing medium and tools with them. AIA UK will also be providing additional materials to support students, including drawing materials and reprographic services.

Students can self-assemble in teams of 8 or sign up individually and be assigned to a team on the day.

Deadline for Registration Extended: Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 6pm

One team per university per course.
Registration is strictly limited to 80 students in total.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aia-uk-2018-student-charrette-tickets-49951133184?utm_source=Universities&utm_campaign=47e997bc9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_06_03_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e23dbaf630-47e997bc9d-425607793

Generously hosted by Laufen and Roca London Gallery.

Jury Members:

Carsten Hanssen, Atelier 27 Architects, Paris.
Dr. Patrick Lynch, Lynch Architects, London.
Dr. Stephen Gage, University of Reading.

Technical Studies Lecture Series: Stephen and Annabelle Harty, “The Rookery Studio”, Thursday October 18, 18:00, Room M416

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Who: Stephen and Annabelle Harty, Harty + Harty

When: Thursday, 18th of October, 18:00

Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Technical Studies Lecture Series: Christina Seilern “Recent Projects”, Thursday October 11, 18:00, Room M416

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Who: Christina Seilern from Studio Seilern Architects

When: Thursday, 11th of October, 18:00

Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

 

 

Architecture Research Forum:”Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi & Raymond Roussel”, Victoria Watson, Thursday October 4, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor

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When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday 4th Of October

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

At the 2018 EAHN conference in Tallinn I gave a paper under the session theme of Architecture’s Return to Surrealism. The session asked how the reanimation of surrealism in the work of architects active in the 1970s and ‘80s – at the ‘tangled, asynchronous juncture of the modern and the postmodern,’ – allowed architecture to ‘formulate a critical project in reaction to the neoliberal economy that was producing its own dreams, needs and desires.’ Based on my conference paper, this presentation looks at Aldo Rossi and the connection to surrealism in his work through the influence of the writer Raymond Roussel. I argue that Rossi used Roussel to make memory an active ingredient in the architectural imagination, hence the reference to surrealism within the formulation of architectural projects after modernism.

Victoria Watson teaches in the School of Architecture + Cities and practices as Doctor Watson Architects.

Technical Studies Lecture Series: Jason Flanagan “Sound, Acoustics + Architecture” Thursday October 4, 18:00, Room 416

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Technical Studies Lecture Series is back!

During the first semester the School of Architecture and Cities hosts the Thursday evening ‘Technical Studies’ lecture series to highlight new developments in the fields of architecture, engineering and environmental design. The series attempts to capture a contemporary philosophy of architecture and technology and introduce students to current and future trends in the development and understanding of architecture. This years talks include, a glass skyscraper in Southwark, a new ‘rusty’ steel footbridge in Chiswick, self-build housing in South London and a brand new type of ‘deployable’ structure.

The series starts with Jason Flanagan (Flanagan Lawrence Architects) talking about the importance of sound and acoustics in the design of new performative architecture.

When: Thursday, 4th of October 2018, 18:00

Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Rd., London NW1 5LS

“Decolonizing minds and spirits through architecture and design” with DS22 tutor Yara Sharif, L’Institut du monde Arabe, Paris, 23rd June

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When: Saturday 23rd June 2018, 19:00

Where: Auditorium de L’Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France

If in Paris on the 23rd of June, don’t miss DS22’s tutor Yara Sharif‘s presentation at “Décoloniser les esprits via le design et l’architecture” event at L’Institut du monde arabe , and as part of the Palest’In&Out Festival.

More info on the event (in French): https://www.imarabe.org/en/rencontres-debats/decoloniser-les-esprits-via-l-architecture-et-le-design

“Decolonizing minds and spirits through architecture and design” will be one of many fantastic events including film screenings, workshops and installations to take place during the festival.

Palest’In & Out 2018: Discover what Palestinian contemporary art has to offer, and reimagine Palestine from a new perspective.

The Festival programme (in French) : http://www.institut-icfp.org/category.php?id=9498y38040Y9498

International call for ideas to re-imagine Grosvenor Square in London_Deadline 26th October

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Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has opened an international call for ideas to re-imagine Grosvenor Square in London.

We are calling on urban visionaries, whether individuals, groups or companies, to submit ideas – strategies, projects, experiments and solutions – to reinstate Grosvenor Square as one of London’s leading squares. The best ideas will form the detailed brief for a design competition next year in preparation for delivery.

We would love to hear from you.

An independent panel of experts convened by Grosvenor and chaired by Yana Peel, CEO, Serpentine Galleries, will oversee the call. The panel will offer challenge and insight to help us shape our thinking and select the ideas we wish to develop further.

Grosvenor Square should be a defining public space for London. However, from our research we know it has a low profile and that as a more welcoming and engaging space it would better reflect the capital’s character and appeal to a broader range of locals, visitors and Londoners.

Following our public polling last year, and with the return to Grosvenor of management responsibilities for the square, we see a chance to gather the best ideas from around the world.

The call’s simple brief can be found here and a short overview of our call here. To find out more, visit cornertocorner.london or watch the short film here.

The results of last year’s crowdsourcing for ideas and poll of Londoners can be viewed here.

This professional call for ideas closes on 26 October 2018.

Book Launch: “The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect” by DS15 tutor Kester Rattenbury, Architectural Association Bookshop, Tuesday 19th June, 18:30-20:30

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When: Tuesday 19th June 2018, 18:30-20:30

Where: The Architectural Association Bookshop, 32 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES

THE WESSEX PROJECT: THOMAS HARDY, ARCHITECT

by Kester Rattenbury, Published by Lund Humphries, 2018

Who is the most famous member of the Architectural Association, past or present? Rem Koolhaas? Richard Rogers? Peter Cook? Or maybe Thomas Hardy: poet, novelist, architect; and creator of one of the most famous part-real, part-imagined realms the world has seen?

The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect by Kester Rattenbury is the first in-depth study of Hardy’s work by an architectural critic, and it opens a startling new perspective on this world-famous author. Through it, we begin to see Hardy as someone who never gave up architecture: not just as a highly architectural writer, but as someone experimenting in all kinds of representation, including drawing, mapping, photography, stage design and writing; not just as a seminal English storyteller, but as England’s most influential conservation campaigner too; not just as a leading voice in literature, but as the creator of one of the greatest ever conceptual architectural projects.

Kester Rattenbury is Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster. This book offers both a new way of looking at Hardy’s great works and an exploration of the how architects see, imagine, and work.

London Festival of Architecture: “Here Lies Geoffrey Barkington” by Patrick McEvoy is one of the winners of City Benches competition

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Here Lies Geoffrey Barkington by Patrick McEvoy, Jubilee Gardens

Geoffrey Barkington was a Square Mile dog whose final resting place is within Jubilee Gardens, Houndsditch. Houndsditch marks the route of a ditch outside part of the London Wall, first dug in Roman times, and known for the disposal of deceased dogs. Several dog skeletons were discovered here in 1989 during construction works. Geoffrey’s gravestone was made with the help of Solid Geometry, Tarmac, Kilnbridge, University of Westminster and Prewett Bizley Architects.

Keynote Lecture by DS2.5 Tutor Camilla Wilkinson at Dazzle Study Day, Southampton University, 30th June

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When: Saturday 30 June, 9:00 – 16:45 (with a break for lunch)

Where: St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in New Street, Lymington

Tickets are £15 (£12.50 concs) and include refreshments.

DS2.5 tutor Camilla Wilkinson, is the Keynote Speaker, presenting her Dazzle research, at the Southampton University Study Day in Lymington.

For more info and bookings please go to: https://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/discover/news.php?p=2018-05-09-dazzling-event-to-mark-centenary-of-first-world-war

The exhibition, “Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art”, is at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in New Street, Lymington, from 16 June – 23 September. It includes work by Norman Wilkinson, Edward Wadsworth, Montague Dawson, John Everett and many more artists, on loan from national, regional and private collections, including the Imperial War Museum and British Maritime Museum.