Category: Events

OPEN2019 – Preview: Thursday 13th of June, 18:00 – 21:00, Marylebone Studios, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

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THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO OPEN 2019

An exhibition of the work of Architecture BA, Interior Architecture BA, Architecture and Environmental Design BSc, Architectural Technology BSc, Designing Cities BA and MArch

PREVIEW

THURSDAY 13 JUNE, 6 – 9pm
To be opened by Angela Brady OBE PRIBA
Click here to register

STUDENTS AWARDS EVENING AND ALUMNI RECEPTION

FRIDAY 14 JUNE, 6.30 – 8.30pm (Registration from 5.30pm)
RSVP to DCDI-Events@westminster.ac.uk

EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY
FRIDAY 14 – SUNDAY 30 JUNE, 10am – 6pm (Weekends 10am – 2pm)

GOOD FENCES, BAD FENCES

3 JUNE 7PM
An interdisciplinary approach to the theme of boundaries, as understood by architects, planners, tourism and property students and experts.
For more information click here.

BLURRING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN INHABITING, DESIGNING, AND MAKING

6 JUNE 6:30 – 9.15PM
Five practices in the fields of architecture, landscape, and art, discuss co-design and co-making processes through the presentations of five case studies.
For more information click here.

AIR GRID: ARISTIPPIAN STRUCTURES

3 – 30 JUNE
A family of four, new AIR Grid structures. The work process will be open for public viewing and participation across the duration of the festival.
For more information click here.

WOVEN PAVILION

13 JUNE – 13 JULY
The Woven Pavilion has been developed on the Rear Podium and built by DS 3(2) using advanced parametric software and CNC cutting at the FabLab. Funded by the Quentin Hogg Trust.
For more information click here.

SPIRITUAL, SACRED, SECULAR: THE ARCHITECTURE OF FAITH IN MODERN BRITAIN

20 – 21 JUNE
This ground-breaking conference, organised in partnership with the RIBA, examines the boundaries between the sacred, spiritual and secular in modern British architecture.
For more information click here.

All exhibitions take place at:

University of Westminster,
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

T: 020 3506 7003
westminster.ac.uk/events

Image: Adam Todhunter

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.

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

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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

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.