Category: Events

T R A J E C T O R I E S Talk Series: “Community” with Cassie Li and Robert Newcombe, Thursday, February 23, 18:00 GMT | Online

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When: Thursday, 23rd of February at 6pm GMT

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T R A J E C T O R I E S  TALK SERIES | THURSDAYS from 6PM GMT

A new series of talks inviting architecture graduates to reflect on their time as students and their exciting next steps. Each week two speakers will explore personal creative aspirations, ideas and agendas, and present the somewhat unexpected trajectories of their early careers. Looking forward to seeing you all there! 

Cassie studied her Part 1 at the University of Westminster with a semester abroad at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Whilst studying her BA, she worked with the architectural group CAUKIN Studio on designing and building community projects in Fiji as both a participant and project leader, where she gained hands-on experience in local timber construction. After graduating Cassie went on to work at dRMM Architects for a year before joining CAUKIN Studio full-time in January 2021.  She is now working on developing international humanitarian projects as well as UK-based projects with a focus on social impact. 

Robert completed his MArch and BSc Architecture degrees in the Bartlett School of Architecture, which culminated in designing spatial interfaces for inclusive participatory processes, to facilitate meaningful community-led design outcomes. During his studies and after having graduated Robert co-directs the Aldea Foundation in Chile, working with an interdisciplinary team to design architectural and public space interventions, organise public city-wide architecture festivals and run educational workshops for young people. 

Decolonising Performative Architecture Seminar Series: “Architecture for Automation” Mollie Claypool from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, Tuesday, February 23, 2pm GMT | Online

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When: Tuesday, 23rd of February at 2pm GMT

Blackboard link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/a1f67e76494344a3ba9b0a002be29c38

The seminar is organised by Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga in the frame of Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A “Decolonising Performative Architecture” seminar series.

Mollie Claypool is an architecture theorist working on issues of social justice including the future of housing, labour and work. She is concerned with the social and economic implications of new technologies and automation on architectural production and disciplinary practices. She is Director of Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR), a design and technology consultancy and Co-Director of AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where she has been a Lecturer since 2015. Mollie is co-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future” (2019). 

T R A J E C T O R I E S Talk Series: “Circularity” with Sharil Bin Tengku Abdul Kadir and Robert Beeny, Thursday, February 18, 18:00 GMT

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When: Thursday, 18th of February at 6pm GMT

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T R A J E C T O R I E S  TALK SERIES | THURSDAYS from 6PM GMT

A new series of talks inviting architecture graduates to reflect on their time as students and their exciting next steps. Each week two speakers will explore personal creative aspirations, ideas and agendas, and present the somewhat unexpected trajectories of their early careers. Looking forward to seeing you all there! 

Sharil recently graduated from The Bartlett School of Architecture, where he conducted research on rethinking sustainable and collective methods of design. His graduate project, “One Tree Manual”, was awarded the RIBA 2020 Bronze medal as well as the AJ Student’s Sustainability Prize. He is currently working as a Part 1 Architectural Assistant at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in London.  

Rob is a Part II Architectural Assistant working for Piercy & Co in London. He completed his BA at the University of Liverpool and then studied for his MArch at the University of Westminster. Graduating in 2020, Rob won the RIBA Silver Medal for his project “Devil’s Valley Geothermal Co-operative”.  

 

Joint online lecture by Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows and Paolo Cascone, Tuesday, February 16 from 3.30pm GMT

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When: Tuesday, 16th of February at 3.30pm GMT

Blackboard link: http://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/a1f67e76494344a3ba9b0a002be29c38

The lecture is organised by Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga in the frame of Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A “Decolonising Performative Architecture” seminar series.

Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows is a Senior Lecturer and a Course Leader for BSc Architectural Technology (Year 2) at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster. She’s an award winning British architect who co-founded the inter-disciplinary practice Our Building Design (in 2018), the charity Mannan Foundation Trust  (in 2012), and the two organisations that promote and support architects from the ethnic minority in the UK: FAME Collective and Asian Architects Association. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster where her teaching draws on her research methodologies on interdisciplinary approach to design. Her practice-based research focuses on community participatory methods and architectural responses to the changing climate, landscape and social practices in the UK and Bangladesh. Tumpa was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Rising Star Award in 2017 and she has received a commendation for the RIBA President’s Award for Research in 2019. For her architectural work, she received the SEED/Pacific Rim Community Design Network Award 2018 and Architecture Sans Frontieres Award 2017 (commendation). In June 2019, Tumpa was appointed to be on the Design Review Panel for the Southwark Council Planning Department in an advisory role.

Paolo Cascone was born in Italy and grew up between West Indies and East Africa. He started his research between urban ecologies, digital fabrication and self-construction during his Master’s at the AA-School in London, and continued it while accomplishing a PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Rome. Paolo has started to teach ecological design at ENSAP – Malaquais and ESA schools of architecture  in Paris where he founded CODESIGNLAB. His work has been exhibited widely and published in international design magazines. Paolo is a scientific director of the African Fabbers School and a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Architectural Design at the University of Westminster.

MORE 2020 Online Exhibition Launch and Webinar | Friday, January 22 at 17:00 GMT

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When: Friday 22 January 17:00 GMT

Where: More2020.net

The School of Architecture and Cities cordially invites you to attend the opening of our graduating students’ online degree show, MORE 2020, an online exhibition of the University of Westminster’s Master’s students thesis projects featuring work from Architecture MA, Interior Architecture MA, Architecture and Environmental Design MSc, Urban Design MA, International Planning and Sustainable Development MA and RIBA Part III.

The exhibition will launch with a webinar at 17:00 on Friday 22nd January with contributions from participating courses staff and students, presentation of awards for work in the show and a live performance.  A link to the webinar will be available on the MORE2020.net website from 17:00 on the day, and can also be accessed directly here

The degree show is part of the School of Architecture and Cities and the first online edition of its annual Exhibition of work, following on from the hugely successful OPEN 2020.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED INVITATION FOR DETAILS AND TO REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE.

You can also RSVP to DCDI-Events@westminster.ac.uk

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Mycelium and other Bio-based Construction Materials ” Ehab Sayed , Biohm, Thursday, December 3 at 18:00 [online via BB]

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When: Thursday, 3rd of December at 6pm

Event Link (no need to register):  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/3ea897faf8b14916a16d1b200581b1e9 

Ehab Sayed has over six years of experience as a sustainable designer, engineer, circular economy strategist and built environment innovator with a passion for creating a biomimetic (nature- inspired) circular future. Through extensive research on the global construction industry, he founded Biohm to champion a transformation towards the integration of biological processes in manufacturing.

Biohm have produced a mycelium thermal insulation panel that will be the world’s first accredited mycelium insulation product. We are also developing new products and alternative applications for mycelium, which is the vegetative part of a fungus. Biohm is a multi-award-winning research and development led, bio-manufacturing company. We allow nature to lead innovation, to revolutionise construction and create a healthier, more sustainable, built-environment. Biohm work in symbiosis with industry, local and national government, communities and academia to lead a step-change towards a circular future that is inspired by nature and driven by human, environmental and economic needs. 

For more details contact Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

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Technical Studies Lecture Series: “U-Build” Nick Newman, Studio Bark, Thursday, November 26 at 18:00 [online via BB]

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When: Thursday, 26th of November at 6pm

Event Link (no need to register): https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/df0e3de2a217453cb18c4d6f76fa0d9a 

Nick Newman is a Director of Studio Bark and the U-Build construction system. 

His experience spans environmental architecture, climate activism, circular economy construction and deep energy retrofits. Nick is a Passivhaus Designer and has contributed to a number of journals and publications, including the Environmental Design Pocketbook, the Passivhaus Designer’s Manual and an upcoming journal for the RIBA focusing on the Climate Emergency.  He speaks regularly at events on behalf of the studio and was named a ‘Rising Sustainability Star’ by Building magazine in 2014. Nick is an advocate for radical responses to the Climate Emergency, and, was arrested for his involvement with ‘protest architecture’ at the Extinction Rebellion protests in 2019 and 2020, which brought Central London to a standstill. 

For more details contact Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk 

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FAME: Exposing the Barriers in Architecture | Friday, December 4, 18:00-19:30 GMT [Online event hosted by Architecture Foundation via Zoom]

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When: Friday, 4th of December, 6pm-7.30pm

Eventbrite link

FAME will be hosting their first event to expose the barriers female architects of minority ethnic face in the architecture industry today

About this Event

FAME: Female Architects of Minority Ethnic: founded by Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows and Tahin Khan.

FAME Collective is a research-based network founded to support women of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities in architecture and the built environment. Their aim is to raise awareness of the barriers, inequality and lack of diversity in architecture and to demand change that responds to our collective challenges. This event is part of a series of events which will be documented and shared with those in power to change and address the inequality that exists in architecture.

Join us for the launch of FAME’s first symposium ‘EXPOSING THE BARRIERS IN ARCHITECTURE’ hosted by Architecture Foundation via Zoom, and presented by Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows. Our distinguished keynote speaker Sumita Singha (recent RIBA Presidential candidate). Our panel of speakers include Annette Fisher (from Let’s BUild), Hilary Satchwell (from Tibbalds and Part W), Femi Oresanya (from HOK and the Chair of the RIBA Architects for Change Expert Advisory Group) and Anna Liu (Director of Tonkin Liu, won the 2018 Stephen Lawrence Prize for Old Shed New House).

This is a participatory event to explore the impact of racism, injustice and inequality contributing to the barriers in architecture. We want to hear about the lived experiences of practitioners, academics and students from BAME backgrounds, to unpack the grievances.

FAME is responding to an urgent need for understanding how race and gender affects established practitioners, young scholars and students, from diverse backgrounds, knowledge and practices by engaging in conversations about the barriers in architecture and the built environment. Our aim is to collectively respond and to demand change and the much-needed support to overcome barriers of racial and gender inequality both in academia and in practices. Our Q + A and participatory sessions will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences of racial and gender inequality in architecture and the built environment.

This event is being hosted by the Architecture Foundation via Zoom.

The details for all participants will be announced soon.

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Post Pandemic Housing,” Kristofer Adelaide, Kristofer Adelaide Architecture (KA–A), Thursday, November 19 at 18:00 [online via BB]

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When: Thursday, 19th of November at 6pm

Event Link (no need to register): https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/ef03d69ea2934064a205c2159e77e760 

It is always a pleasure to welcome back former students and we are delighted to host a talk by Kristofer Adelaide (School of Architecture alumnus, 2009). Kristofer Adelaide Architecture (KA–A) was established in 2016 and is formed of a diverse range of architects, an artist, and accounts and management team. They are a young BAME led practice based in South London. KA–A employs a diverse team of ARB registered Architects, Designers, Architectural Assistants and a BIM Coordinator. They share resources with other architects when required as part of the London Architects Group and Paradigm networks, promoting BAME representation in the built environment. 

KA—A have developed an excellent reputation, obtaining difficult planning consents and successfully delivering projects across London and the South East. These consents have varied from small extensions and alterations in conservation areas, through to new build and multi-unit schemes. Our clients have been a mixture of private residential and medium scale developer led schemes. The practice has recently developed – the Architecture for (the) Reasonably Ordinary (A.F.R.O) House – A concept dwelling, that uses modular construction to satisfy high housing demand, with quality manufacturing, working toward a zero-carbon and passive design standard. Inspired by the Garden Cities movement, this initiative seeks to provide affordable housing in a flexible, scalable way to meet local demand. 

In October KA–A were awarded RIBA London practice of the month, and the practice were recently one of Seven practices shortlisted to pitch ideas for post-pandemic housing that addresses the needs of young people to a panel led by residential developer HUB. In August 2020 they were one of six practices selected for the Brick by Brick – housing infill project in Croydon, working in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Trust.  

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Creating Civilised Cities,” Chris Williamson, Weston Williamson and Partners, Thursday, November 12 at 18:00 [online via BB]

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When: Thursday, 12th of November at 6pm

Event Link (there is no need to register): https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/8cfdaba2b81a485d803c0a3181bc6da7 

Weston Williamson and Partners have gained a reputation for the elegant design and craft of complex design challenges. Their work includes significant infrastructure projects such as the new station at Barking Riverside, the centrepiece of a massive regeneration scheme. Other recent rail projects include two new stations on the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) at Woolwich and Paddington Station. The Paddington project has been described by the client as “…the jewel in the Crossrail crown.” 

When Chris was asked to work with Andrew Weston for group projects at Leicester School of Architecture (for no other reason than they were next to each other alphabetically) he discovered that their skills didn’t overlap but dovetailed perfectly. Their shared ambition made for a perfect business partnership. Forty years later Chris manages and directs the studio and has recently published WW+P’s vision for the next 20 years, which talks about a diverse, collaborative design studio with strong delivery skills. In addition to being a chartered architect, Chris has an MSc in Project Management and believes strongly that the art of architecture requires excellent business skills in order to be realised. Chris has recently been the International Vice President of the RIBA responsible for setting a strategy to grow into a global membership institution and to encourage more UK architects to seek work globally.  

Chris and Weston Williamson also generously provide academic partnership and support to March studio DS22 run by Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif. 

For more details contact Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk 

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