Category: Events

Angela Brady “What It Takes To Design Great Social Spaces” – WAS Alumni Lecture Series, Tuesday 24th October, 18:00, M416

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The pressures of proposing new models that not only fulfil an aesthetic brief, but also are environmentally friendly, keep up with technology, economy, and other restraints falls mainly on the architects. Buildings can strongly influence our welfare and general happiness, be it where we live, work, or play. Join us to hear from Angela Brady about the social life of buildings and how architects can design to encourage interaction in communities in the changing contemporary urban context.

Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus

When: Tuesday 24th October, 6pm

Speaker: Angela Brady, Co-Founder of Brady Mallalieu Architects OBE PPRIBA FRIAI

Angela is co-founder and director of the award winning private practice Brady Mallalieu Architects Ltd, with Robin Mallalieu. Their design studio specialises in contemporary sustainable architecture and their buildings prioritise occupiers’ wellbeing whilst still maintaining remarkable elegance and style.

Past President of RIBA (2011-2013), and currently a Design Council CABE ‘Built Environment Expert’ as well as President of the Architects Benevolent Society, Angela reaches a wide public audience as a professional TV broadcaster, promoting architecture on TV and radio. Angela also publishes articles in books, magazines, and Twitter as well and runs design workshops in schools and galleries as a STEMnet ambassador.

RSVP: https://your.westminster.ac.uk/form/design-great-social-spaces

BAIA & BSc AED “Light Narratives: Sun Rose” Workshop with Benson Lau

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Last week, on Thursday 5th October, BA Interior Architecture second and third year students joined the BSc Architecture and Environmental Design students for a one-day workshop lead by the BSc AED’s course leader Benson Lau.

The aim of the workshop was to introduce the unmeasurable and measurable aspects of light and teach the students how to construct a solar design tool initially developed by Le Corbusier to accurately appreciate and visualise the interplay between space and light in an interior based on the latitude coordinates.

 

 

The workshop started with a lecture by Benson Lau, on the theme of “Poetics of Light in Architecture” with a focus on how to qualitatively and quantitatively visualise and selectively quantify the light dramas in architecture.

The students worked in groups of 5 to construct the Sun Roses based on the latitudes they’ve been given, as well as based on their understanding of the Solar Azimuth Angle and Solar Altitude of a particular latitude.The idea behind the workshop was to equip the participants with the skills that will enable them to read the sun path diagram and define the solar azimuth and solar altitude of a particular latitude on Summer Solstice (21st June), Equinox (Spring or Autumn Equinox 21st March or September) and Winter Solstice (21st December).

In addition to that, the students gained knowledge on how to conduct accurate light and shadow testing and analysis, and are now able to present the light testing results in a well-composed matrix showing the light and shadow in a selected interior on Summer Solstice, Equinox and Winter Solstice at 9:00am, 12:00pm, 15:00pm and 18:00pm.

Architecture Research Forum: MONASS “Reporting from the Field” with Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen and Christina Geros_19th October, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00

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MONASS: Reporting from the Field

With: Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen and Christina Geros

Monsoon Assemblages is a five-year-long European Research Council funded research project investigating relations between rapid urbanisation and changing monsoon climates in South Asian cities. The MONASS team spent six weeks in Chennai over the summer conducting field work for the project. In this seminar, we will briefly sketch out the monsoon assemblage thesis and the questions that framed this field work. We will take you to a number of the sites we studied and discuss how our engagement with them has both challenged and extended our thesis and shaped future work.

Lindsay Bremner is a Professor and Beth Cullen and Christina Geros are Research Fellow at the University of Westminster

Where: Erskine Room (M/523), Marylebone Campus

When: Thursday 19 October, 13:00–14:00

ALL WELCOME!

Premier: “A Story of Dreams” film about Jaime Lerner – RIBA, 17th October, 19:00-21:00

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On Tuesday 17th October, RIBA will host a European premiere of “A Story of Dreams”, film on Jaime Lerner’s groundbreaking work as a mayor of Brazilian city of Curitiba.

Jaime Lerner is a community architect and transformational city leader who believes ordinary people, with their positive energy can upgrade their environment. As Parana State Governor, Curitiba Mayor, and practicing architect within the America’s and Africa, he believes sustainability succeeds by releasing ordinary people’s latent energy to survive and prosper.

To find out more and book tickets: https://www.architecture.com/whats-on/premier-a-story-of-dreams-a-film-about-jaime-lerner# 

Paolo Cascone: About Urban Fabrication Laboratories – AA Lecture Series “What’s Next?”, 23rd October, 18:30

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The lecture will tell the story of COdesignLab, from its theoretical background to its experimental practice, oscillating between COllaborative design, COmputational thinking and self-COnstruction. After a decade of engagement in both professional and academic practices around the world, Paolo Cascone started to investigate how to redefine the role of urban designers and independent researchers in order to bridge technological and social innovation. These investigations have generated a series of urban fabrication laboratories between Africa and his hometown of Naples in Italy. 

Where: Architectural Association, Lecture Hall

When: Monday, October 23rd, 18:30

More info: http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3726

Habitat: Applying the Lessons of Vernacular Architecture to our Changing Planet – Wednesday 11th October, 18:00-20:00, The Hogg Lecture Theatre, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster

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Please join us for the second session in the series of HABITAT events which are taking place in New York, London, Brussels, Milan, COP23, Bonn, Paris, Abu Dhabi and Novosibirsk, aimed to explore global socio-economic and cultural potentials of technology development and transfer.

The culmination of years of specialist research, HABITAT: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet is a once-in-a-generation large format publication. It gathers together an international team of more than one hundred leading experts across a diverse range of disciplines to examine what the traditions of vernacular architecture and its regional craftspeople around the world can teach us about creating a more sustainable future.

The publication has been reviewed in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/19/habitat-vernacular-architecture-changing-planet-sandra-piesik-review 

Speakers:

  • Professor Harry Charrington, Head of Department of Architecture, University of Westminster Moderator
  • Professor Marjan Colletti, Professor of Architecture and Post Digital Practice, The Bartlett School of Architecture
  • Dr Louise Cooke, Building Conservation, The University of York
  • Dr Nasser Golzari, Architect, University of Westminster
  • Lucas Dietrich, Editorial Director of Thames & Hudson
  • Henry Fletcher, Associate Director at BuroHappold Cities Consulting in London
  • Dr John Hemming, Explorer
  • Alexander Maitland, Architect and Sir Wilfred Thesiger Official Biographer
  • Dr Sandra Piesik, General Editor of HABITAT, and Director, Architect of 3 ideas Ltd Convenor
  • Dr Beniamino Polimeni, Architect, De Montfort University Leicester
  • Professor André Singer, President of The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI)

Where: The Hogg Lecture Theatre, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

When: Wednesday 11th October, 18:00-20:00

RSVP: info@3ideasme.com

Register on the Eventbrite: www.thamesandhudson.com I thamesandhudson.com/events Iwww.westminster.ac.uk I www.3ideasme.com I #HABITAT:Coalition I #HABITAT:London

Purchase book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Habitat-Vernacular-Architecture-Changing-Planet/dp/1419728806

To download full programme: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gtgsz9fzzhd8l7g/AAD6vPZj2cS1Uxt0HvXiGgfaa?dl=0

 

Technical Studies Lectures: Amin Taha + Jason Coe, Thursday 5 October, 6pm, M416

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Technical Studies Lectures are back!

Join us for the first in the series of lectures starting next Thursday 5th October at 6pm, with Amin Taha and Jason Coe of Amin Taha Architects.

159-168 Upper Street and other Projects

Replacing a gap site which was never redeveloped after WWII, Amin Taha architects have reconstructed an extraordinary but ‘misremembered’ facsimile of the bookend of a late 19th Century terrace opposite Islington Town hall. All external mouldings, window surrounds and features as well as internal skirting, dado rails, cornices and anglypta wallpaper were 3D modelled and then robotically routed into an expanded polystyrene formwork. The entire façade (including roof) was then cast insitu in a special terracotta/concrete mix. The walls are half a metre thick, are load-bearing, and perform as thermal barrier, and internal/external finishes. The terracotta structural skin was then filled with a series of cross laminated timber floors threaded through the outer shell. Up close the remarkable and innovative process of construction is revealed in the subtle ‘cast’ quality of eccentric details and features in a structural shell, which also contains secret panels and openings only visible on closer inspection. Amin Taha architects were established by Amin Taha in 2005 and the practice have recently been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize for their brick and wicker housing project in Barrett’s Grove, London.

when: Thursday 5th October, 6pm

where: Marylebone Campus, Room M416

Postgraduate Architecture Exhibition PG2017 Launch: 15 September from 18:00 to 21:00, Marylebone Campus

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And just before we start the new academic year, we will say goodbye to yet another excellent generation of MA students who have worked tirelessly over the last year, and especially over the summer, to put together the final exhibition for the 2016/2017 academic year.

Join us for the opening of PG2017, tomorrow, Friday 15 September, from 6pm to 9pm in our Marylebone studios. The exhibition will be on show until Friday 22 September, and is open to public from 9am to 9pm every day, with the exception of Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September (10am – 5pm)

The versatility and the impressive breadth of work will be shown by students from five different master programs: Architecture MA, Architecture and Environmental Design MSc, Interior Design MA, International Planning and Sustainable Development MA and Urban Design MA, alongside work from Westminster Working Cultures and recent sustainable Urban Design Charrette Florence in Italy.

Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity – Exhibition in Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, 28th July-5th November

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Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender & Identity

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
28 July – 5 November 2017

The Walker Art Gallery will mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexual acts in England and Wales (1967 Sexual Offences Act) with a major exhibition drawn from the Arts Council Collection and its own collections.

Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity will bring together a diverse range of artists who have used their work to explore sexuality and gender identity since 1967. The exhibition will reveal the findings of over two years of research by the Gallery into LGBT history, visual culture, its collection and the Arts Council Collection, revealing hidden queer histories and institutional blind spots that will be addressed through the exhibition’s programme of events and performances.

The exhibition will include artists David Hockney, Steve McQueen, LINDER, James Richards and Sarah Lucas among others, as well as new acquisitions to the Walker’s collection, including work from Alien Sex Club, generously funded by the Art Fund New Collecting Award scheme. The show will travel to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in December 2017 where it will be re-presented within the major Gas Hall exhibition space.

CPD: Approved Document Part B Fire Safety – Thursday 27th July, 19:00-21:00, M212

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On Thursday 27th July, a CPD course on fire safety held by Neil Badley of MLM Building Control, will be held at our Marylebone campus, from 19:00 to 21:00 in M212.

To register, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/approved-document-part-b-fire-safety-tickets-36095499611

Refreshment will be provided.