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ArchiIMPACT Symposium: ONEPROJECT | Monday, December 2, 10:00-16:00, M416, Marylebone Campus

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Architects, Students and Academics were invited to each present a single project from their practice, University design project or academic research that can be discussed in regard to (all/some of) the following principles of low energy architecture. 

This is deliberately a mixture of architectural practitioners at all stages of their careers  showing built and un-built projects, the successful and the unsuccessful (?!), side-by-side in an effort to collectively learn from one another, presenting a single project each with regard to the same set of criteria across all projects.

Each presentation will last around 30 minutes in sets of 3 presentations, with a conversation afterwards.

The chosen projects address the following issues:

  • Site Specific: Does the building employ existing features of the site as part of its environmental strategy? Utilising orientation, topography, existing structures, water and trees?
  • Climate Responsive: Does the project respond to local (micro) climatic conditions and environmental factors such as heat, light, sound, wind and air quality?
  • Efficient in Use: Is the building suited to its purpose, appropriate in its size and optimised in its use?
  • Climatic Envelope: Does the building have a highly energy-efficient building envelope suited to its location and use?
  • Energy Use: Has the design minimised operational energy, is the building a low carbon (CO2) emitter and a net producer of energy?
  • Material Construction: Has the use of (local) resources been optimised and embodied energy (CO2) reduced through appropriate material choices?
  • Waste and Water: Has the material waste, pollution and water use been minimised? Could the project collect and treat water?
  • Time Dependent: How does the building operate diurnally, annually and throughout its life? Is the building flexible, adaptable, easy to maintain and does it allow for reuse of all or some of its parts at the end of its life?

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “House in a Garden and Other Projects” Gianni Botsford, University of Westminster, Thursday, November 21, M416, Marylebone Campus, 18:30

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When: Thursday, 21st of November, 18:30

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

In our culture, daylight and sunlight are intrinsically linked to our happiness and comfort. 

Gianni Botsford

Gianni will present projects that explore daylight and sunlight as a starting point of a project not only for the form, but also in the organisation of a number of private houses.

Gianni Botsford, was born in Venice, Italy. He originally studied Interior Design at Kingston University and worked for a number of practices in London from. He completed his education at the Architectural Association, London (94-96), with Professor John Frazer, before setting up Gianni Botsford Architects in 1996 which he continues to direct. He was appointed AA Research Fellow in 1997 and has taught at the AA, London Metropolitan University, and Cardiff University as well as being a visiting critic at the AA, Bartlett, Cambridge and Bath Universities. He is a recent member of the RIBA Awards Group and sits on the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Architecture Appraisal Panel. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Lubetkin Prize for Casa Ki-Ké in Costa Rica, he has also lectured in the UK, India, the USA, and Mexico on the work of the practice. His research work at the AA and subsequently with Arup into the optimisation and the control of natural light has been used throughout the projects the studio has built and developed. Built projects include Light House, House in a Garden, and The Layered Gallery in London, Casa Ki-Ké, Costa Rica, Palazzo di Riflessione, Venice and Pink Sand Pavilion and Tower in the Bahamas.

House in a Garden won the AZ Awards Best Single Family House 2019, and currently is long-listed for the RIBA House of the Year and shortlisted in the annual Architectural Review House Awards 2019.

For lecture details contact Will McLean

w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

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Open Lecture Series: “Creating The Extraordinary” Mungo Denison, Monday, November 18, M416 Robin Evans Room, Marylebone Campus, 17:00

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When: Monday, 18th of November 2019, 17:00

Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS

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Mungo Denison CEO of award winning Opening Ceremony and Show Design studio NEWSUBSTANCE.

About this Event

NEWSUBSTANCE is one of the most imaginative show design studios in the world, specialising in opening ceremonies, festivals installations and global band tours. The session looks at trends to amaze audiences and create memorable experiences through combination of creativity with technical expertise.

Learning outcomes:

  • Understand the unique technologies behind some of the most extraordinary opening ceremony and band tour experiences in the world
  • Understand how architecture and engineering can be used to create WOW factors
  • Understand how bespoke hardware and software can be used to create WOW factors

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Tackling Climate Change with Affordable Green Housing” Ripin Kalra, University of Westminster, Thursday, November 14, M416, Marylebone Campus, 18:30

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When: Thursday, 14th of November, 18:30

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

Ripin Kalra has been working in Disaster Risk Reduction, Low Carbon Development and Climate Resilience since 1992. He has first-hand experience in over 30 countries across Caribbean and Latin America, South and South-East Asia, Middle-East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

He has been a technical manager, project director and adviser on several climate resilience and resource efficiency projects and co-authored the EU-ACP/GFDRR-supported “National Climate Resilience Investment Plan – CRIP” for Belize with the World Bank. Between 2012 and 2013 he carried out an independent review of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF). He was Low Carbon Infrastructure/ Risk reduction adviser on the “Physical Development Plan” for Montserrat, with DfID between 2011 and 2012. In 2010 he provided pro-bono housing and planning support in Port-au-Prince, Haiti following the earthquake. He led the World Bank/ IFC supported ‘Affordable Green Housing’ work in Kenya and India. In 2014 he worked with DfID on the “Nigeria Urban Infrastructure Facility”, and in 2012 was Team Leader for the World Bank’s “Assessment of Insurance Instruments for Climate Risk in sub-Saharan Africa”. He has also worked on safe, green and efficient education and health infrastructure in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. He was Project Director for the Remediation Co-ordination Cell work supported by ILO in 2017-18 on garment factory safety in Bangladesh and UK FCO supported ‘Climate proofing Indian smart Cities’ in 2017-18.    

Ripin has been working at University of Westminster since 2000 and currently leads post-graduate modules entitled “Urban Risk and Resilience” and ‘Environmental assessment, policy and climate change’.

Ripin is a pro-bono Trustee of Commonwealth Human Ecology Council, the Commonwealth Housing Trust (CHT).

For lecture details contact Will McLean

w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

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Open Lecture Series: “Celebratory Design” Sarah Haywood, Monday, November 11, M416 Robin Evans Room, Marylebone Campus, 17:00

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When: Monday, 11th of November 2019, 17:00

Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS

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Sarah Haywood award winning Wedding Planner

About this Event

Sarah Haywood was voted top of US Vogues list of Wedding Planners in 2018. Her wedding clients are international billionaires and celebrities. She works globally. In this session we learn how Sarah creates the WOW factors for celebratory events.

Learning outcomes:

  • Understand the expectations of high net worth individuals and celebrities’ celebratory events
  • Understand how do interpret the views of multiple stakeholders in the design process (especially weddings)
  • Understand how to provide a unique experience in a very competitive environment by creating new intellectual property

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Risk Management in London Underground” James Macrae, Transport for London / Senior Risk Manager, Thursday, November 7, M416, Marylebone Campus, 18:30

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When: Thursday, 7th of November, 18:30

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

James Macrae graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge in 1976 with a degree in Engineering, and joined Taylor Woodrow International as a Graduate Civil Engineer. He became a Chartered Engineer (MICE) in 1980, and worked in West Africa, Dubai and the Caribbean. James left to do an MBA at City University in 1987, and then joined Euro Log, a small project risk management consultancy, where he worked in many different industry sectors, including Oil & Gas, Defence, Construction and Transportation. He spent 4 years as Director of Risk and Planning at the New British Library project at St Pancras. In 2005, he joined London Underground as a risk manager, where he has worked on many large projects, including the £15Bn Crossrail project. He now manages risk for the TfL Stations, Capacity and Infrastructure portfolio, which includes the Bank and Elephant and Castle Station Capacity Upgrades, and all TfL involvement in the HS2 Project. James is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and of the Institute of Risk Management.

For lecture details contact Will McLean

w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

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Exhibition | Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive

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When: 25 October 2019 to 24 November 2019

Where: Ambika P3, University of Westminster, Marylebone, London, NW1 5LS

Opening Hours: Wed-Sun 11am-7pm

Admission: FREE

The largest-ever exhibition devoted to menswear Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive is now open to the public and features a collection of previously unseen examples of Alexander McQueen’s early menswear.

Situated in a vast 14,000sq ft subterranean space opposite Madame Tussauds Invisible Men will showcase 167 garments from over 50 different designers, the vast majority of which have never been on public display before, including a section devoted to Alexander McQueen. 

If tutors or course leaders would like to book for their class to visit the exhibition, please email mensweararchive@westminster.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Groves, the co-curator of Invisible Men, said:

We are thrilled to be able to display a selection of McQueen’s early menswear covering the years from 1997 to 1999 within the exhibition. There were no examples of McQueen’s menswear included in the V&A’s Savage Beauty exhibition, so this is the first chance for the public to see his early menswear designs. They will be able to study the exceptional tailoring skills that he learnt on Savile Row – these were the skills that informed the radical womenswear he was creating during the same period.

As well McQueen, the show also features the work of over 50 other designers covering sportswear, tailoring, uniforms and workwear and aims to redress the balance in fashion exhibitions that usually solely focus on displaying womenswear.

Drawn exclusively from the Westminster Menswear Archive the show explores the story of British menswear over the last 120 years, presenting designer garments alongside military, functional, and utilitarian outfits. It explores the design language of menswear, which predominately focuses on the replication of archetypal functional garments intended for specific industrial, technical or military use.

Contemporary designers featured include Craig Green, the current menswear Designer of the Year, and Samuel Ross, whose label A-COLD-WALL* won the BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund award in June.

Examples of menswear from British brand Burberry include a tailored evening tailcoat dating from 1925, and a Hi-Viz jacket from Christopher Bailey’s last Burberry collection in 2018, almost a century later. 

A section devoted to wearable technology includes an example of the world’s first Graphene coated jacket and a solar-powered trenchcoat designed by Junya Watanabe.  A section devoted to C.P. Company’s Urban Protection from the late 1990s includes garments that inflate, light up, detect toxic gas, or turn into chairs.

Also on display is a section devoted to Britain’s obsession to sportswear that includes garments from Gieves, Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Palace, Mr Fish, Stone Island, Umbro, Aitor Throup and BodyMap. The exhibition includes several items from Stone Island’s very first collection from 1982, an Italian brand that went on to become firmly established as a favourite of British football casuals in the 1980s. 

Alongside the designer garments, there are examples of British workwear covering the last 100 years including prison uniforms, postman’s uniforms, a police taser suit, and military camouflage. These pieces highlight how influential utilitarian workwear and uniform have been in inspiring fashion designers to create new fashion.   

Invisible Men is curated by Professor Andrew Groves and Dr Danielle Sprecher.

DESIGNERS IN THE EXHIBITION INCLUDE:

A Cold Wall*, Adidas, Aitor Throup, Alexander McQueen, Austin Reed , Belstaff, Bernhard Willhelm , Blades, BodyMap, Burberry, Burton, C.P. Company, Calvin Klein, Carol Christian Poell, Christian Dior, Comme Des Garcons, Craig Green, Dege & Skinner, Gieves, H&M, Harrods, Helmut Lang, Irvine Sellars, Issey Miyake, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jeremy Scott, John Stephen, Junior Gaultier, Junya Watanabe, Left Hand, Levi’s, Lewis Leathers, Liam Hodges, Mackintosh, Martin Margiela, Massimo Osti, Meadham Kirchhoff, Michiko Koshino, Mr Fish, Nigel Cabourn, Palace, Paul Smith, Peter Saville, Prada, Sibling, Stella McCartney, Stone Island, Umbro, Undercover, Vexed Generation, Vivienne Westwood, Vollebak, Zegna Sport.

MONSTER MASH UP Halloween Party! Thursday, October 31, from 17:00 to 21:00, Robin Evans Room (M416)

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When: Thursday, October 31, 5pm to 9pm

Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

Join us for an evening of Halloween fun!

Free Witches Brew. Halloween face painting. Fun activities. Spooky photo booth. Prizes for best costumes. Arrive at 5pm for the make up counter. Doors open at 5.30pm. Event closes at 9pm. Ticket price includes first drink free (beer, wine or soft drink). Cash bar – cards accepted.

Cloakroom and changing facilities

A secure cloakroom to leave bags and coats will be provided in M321. The cloakroom will be open from 5.00pm.

There are also changing facilities available. These are situated in the basement. There are separate Ladies and Mens showers and changing areas.

To access the changing area go through the double doors to the right of the Student Union office to the outside area, and take the lift down to Floor B. The change rooms are immediately found to the right as you leave the lift.

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Open Lecture Series: “Designing Participant Journeys” Carina Bauer, IMEX Exhibitions, Monday, November 4, M416 Robin Evans Room, Marylebone Campus, 17:00

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When: Monday, 4th of November 2019, 17:00

Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS

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Carina Bauer CEO of IMEX Exhibitions

About this Event

IMEX is arguably the premier exhibition for event professionals around the world, that takes place in both Frankfurt and Las Vegas each year. But how does the organiser keep the show fresh and make sure that regular attendees are always seeing something new on show?

Learning outcomes:

Understand the attendees changing expectations year on year

Understand how to collaborate with new partners in a changing industry year on year

Understand how to design ‘cutting-edge’ activities and design features into a large show on a budget

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Material Matters!” Carmen Rist-Stadelmann, Institute of Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein, Thursday, October 24, M416, Marylebone Campus, 18:30

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When: Thursday 24th of October, 18:30

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

Materials influence the design and outward appearance of our built architecture. Therefore it is important to perceive of material as a whole, as a unity of form and construction, and to make it understandable as a driving force, as the origin of form and construction in the design process. But how do we offer our students a way to understand the meaning of these aspects? To achieve this, the tectonic discourse, promoting a sensitivity for the material, in short, about generating a sense of joy in and curiosity about the interaction between material, its design and construction, that is, the symbiosis between art and technology in the design and realization. The cultivation of working with materials at full (1:1) scale in the University of Liechtenstein during the past ten years has been an attempt to contribute to the tectonic discourse in combination of different materials in the teaching of architecture in Europe.


Carmen Rist-Stadelmann graduated in Architecture from the Technical University Vienna, Austria and received her PhD from the same university in 2015. During her studies, she was an exchange student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She has practiced professionally in Austria and Malaysia and is currently a senior lecturer at the Institute of Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein. She runs design studios at undergraduate level and her current research project “Hands- on: An added value for teaching in architecture” focuses on building on a scale of 1:1 with students and professionals as part of their architectural education. Her publication “Crafting the façade: stone, brick, wood”, published by the Swiss publisher park books in 2018, presents the findings of an interdisciplinary design process with the materials stone, brick and wood, which was funded by the European Commission and carried out by three European architectural schools. Her current teaching project, also funded by the European Commission and titled “Wood: Structure and expression”, focuses on the tectonic method for connecting wooden joints to a structure on a scale 1:1. The course is run in cooperation with the industry and three European architectural schools and its results will be completed and published in 2020.

For lecture details contact Will McLean

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