Open Studio is an interactive project run by the School of Architecture + Cities at the University of Westminster to make its design, research and practice-based work available online while it is happening. The site acts as a real time teaching and learning environment in which the work of both students and staff is curated and documented – the work of its design studios, or its other teaching and research groups and workshops. Read more in Blog, follow us on Twitter and like us on Instagram.
Join Orkidstudio in designing and constructing new doctors’ housing for Sachibondu Hospital in rural Zambia.
When: June – September 2018
Where: Mwinilunga, Zambia
Application deadline: 9th February 2018
To find out more and download the application form go to: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q55jd9pljhfpgks/AADIyukADcvP58IvxKchOrYfa?dl=0
Franco-British Union of Architects (L’Union Franco-Britannique des Architects) is inviting candidates to apply for various bursaries:
The Elaine Lloyd Davis Drawing Workshop Bursary: The 2018 workshop will take place in Bordeaux France from 6th to 8th April 2018 . There will be 4 bursary places each for British and French nationals. Drawing materials will be provided and travel expenses to the venue will be paid for. There will be a food and subsistence allowance per recipient.
Study Bursary: British candidates are eligible to apply for the Bursary to extend their understanding of an aspect of architecture in France. One bursary of up to £1,500 will be available to support the architectural study and cover travel and accommodation costs. Applicants for both Bursaries must be British or French nationals under 30 years of age at the date of application, and either architects or students at a recognised UK or French school of architecture.
Deadline for each bursary is Monday 15th January, 5pm.
You can find out more about each bursary and apply here.
Two Senior Fellowships are offered annually to established scholars in the field of British art and architectural history to complete a manuscript or book for publication or to undertake a sustained period of research towards a major project. The fellowships are for senior scholars only and are for nine months each.
Three Mid-Career Fellowships are offered annually for research in the field of British art and architectural history. These fellowships offer a four-month period of research to applicants who already have a significant publishing record and are working on a subsequent research, publishing or curatorial project. The four-month period may be used to undertake research for an article, book, exhibition or catalogue.
Five Postdoctoral Fellowships are offered annually for the purpose of transforming doctoral research in the field of British art and architectural history into publishable form. The fellowships are for six months
Four Junior Fellowships are offered annually to scholars in the advanced stages of their doctoral research in the field of British art and architectural history to pursue further study in the UK (based at the Paul Mellon Centre) or in the USA (based at the Yale Center for British Art). The fellowships are for three months
Grants to contribute towards travel and subsistence expenses for scholars engaged in research on the history of British art or architecture. Grants, of up to £2,000, may be used towards the expenses incurred in visiting collections, libraries, archives or historic sites with the United Kingdom or abroad for research purposes.
Grants to support lectures, symposia, seminars or conferences on British art and architecture. Educational programmes eligible for awards up to £3,000 include lectures, conferences, symposia and seminars for scholars or provided at a scholarly level for the general public.
Find out more here.
Featured image sourced from Paul Mellon Centre’s web-site.
Tuesday 22 May 2018
University of Wolverhampton, UK
The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invites submissions for a workshop that explores the architecture, material environmement, objetcs and material culture of retailing and distribution.
Papers focusing on any historical period or geographical area are welcome, as are reflections on methodology and / or theory. We invite both experienced and new speakers, including speakers without an institutional affiliation. Potential speakers are welcome to discuss their ideas with the organiser before submission (please see details below). Some of the themes that might be considered include (but are not limited to):
Individual papers are usually 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We also welcome shorter, 10 minute ‘work in progress’ presentations, also followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
To submit a proposal, please send title and abstract of c.300 to 400 words, specifying whether you are proposing a 10 or a 20 minute presentation to Prof Laura Ugolini, at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk by 2 March 2018.
If you are unsure whether to submit a proposal or would like to discuss your ideas before submission, please e-mail Prof Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk.
The workshop will be held in the Mary Seacole (‘MH’) Building, Wolverhampton University City Campus Molineux, a short walk from Wolverhampton’s bus and train stations. Maps and directions are available here.
The call for papers is available here.
Find out more about this and other CHORD events at https://retailhistory.wordpress.com
For further information, please e-mail Prof Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Featured image: Marks and Spencers Edgware Road, London store in 1912 © Marks and Spencers Company Archive
Yes, we have been a bit slow with this one, having to battle through all the Christmas turkey and minced pies, but what better way to celebrate the end the year than with yet another amazing achievement by Arthur Mamou-Mani and his beautiful design Galaxia for Burning Man 2018 Temple.
Galaxia celebrates hope in the unknown, stars, planets, black holes, the movement uniting us in swirling galaxies of dreams. A superior form of Gaia in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Galaxia is the ultimate network, the fabric of the universe connecting living beings into one entity.
Galaxia is shaped of 20 timber trusses converging as a spiral towards one point in the sky. The triangular trusses form different paths towards a central space holding a giant 3D printed mandala, the heart of Galaxia. The timber modules start large enough to hold small alcoves in which people can write in peace. As participants walk through the path, the timber modules lift up and become thinner and thinner towards the sky as people reach the central mandala.
Read more about Galaxia and Arthur’s work here.
Arthur Mamou-Mani is a MArch DS10 studio leader and tutor (alongside Toby Burgess) and the director of architecture practice Mamou-Mani Ltd. He is also a lecturer at the UCL-Bartlett and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called Fab.Pub.
In November he was selected as one of RIBA J’s Rising Stars for 2017.
Many congratulations to Arthur on this year full of successes!
The Journal of Public Space is a joint research project developed by City Space Architecture, a non-profit organization based in Italy, and the Queensland University of Technology, based in Australia, in partnership with UN Habitat, the United Nations Programme for Cities and Human Settlements.
The Journal of Public Space is the first, international, interdisciplinary, academic, open access journal entirely dedicated to public space. It speaks different languages and is open to embrace diversity, inconvenient dialogues and untold stories, from multidisciplinary fields and all countries, especially from those that usually do not have voice, overcoming the Western-oriented approach that is leading the current discourse.
The Journal of Public Space is welcoming full papers for 2018 issues, to be published in April, August and December.
Deadline for April issue: January 10, 2018
Deadline for August issue: May 10, 2018
Deadline for December issue: September 10, 2018
Find out more about the journal, as well as about the submission requirements here.
Featured image taken from the journal’s website: FESTA Festival of Transitional Architecture in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Credits: (top right) University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning, Orbis, CityUps, FESTA 2014. (bottom right) Unitec Architecture Dept, Influx, CityUps, FESTA 2014. Photo: Erica Austin. (top center left) University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning, Antigravity, (top center right) CityUps, FESTA 2014. Photo: Bridgit Anderson. Photo: Erica Austin. (top left) Lonnie Hutchinson, I Like Your Form lit by Gap Filler for FESTA 2014. Photo: Erica Austin. (bottom left) Unitec, Aurora, CityUps, FESTA 2014. Photo: Jonny Knopp.
The CA²RE community and Aarhus School of Architecture proudly announces the third CA²RE conference 13-16 April 2018 in association with ARENA, EAAE and ELIA
The Architectural Research European Network Association (ARENA), the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) are seeking to offer a joint platform for research in all fields of architecture, design and arts. This includes subjects such as environmental design, sustainable development, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design/urbanism, music, performing arts, visual arts, product design, social design, interaction design, etc.
One of the objectives is to support early-career researchers, PhD students and Postdocs in the fields of architecture and the arts, and to improve the quality of their research. Another objective is to show that senior researchers CARE about the work that is being done by more junior researchers.
CA²RE, the Conference for Artistic and Architectural (Doctoral) Research will be hosted in April 13-16, 2018 at the Aarhus School of Architecture, in association with ARENA, EAAE and ELIA. CA2RE is intended to bring together senior staff and early-career researchers to improve research quality through an intensive peer review at key intermediate stages. It wishes to contribute to the open and diverse fields that exist in architectural and artistic research, not giving priority to any single approach.
Deadlines
15 Dec 2017 Abstract submission deadline, registration opens
15 Jan 2018 Notification of acceptance
28 Feb 2018 Full text submission deadline
1 April 2018 Registration deadline
13-16 Apr 2018 Conference dates
For further information, please visit the conference website.
Featured image taken from: http://aarch.dk/info/research/ca2re/about-the-ca2re-conference/
The Philip Webb Award is an annual award for recent graduates and Part II students at UK Schools of Architecture.
2018 competition will be held in 2018 for current Part II students, and recent graduates of UK Schools of Architecture who completed their studies in 2016 or 2017.
The students are invited to propose a scheme: “to revitalise a building which has been decayed or neglected, but which can be repaired and adapted for a sympathetic new use.”
The submission period for entries will open on 20 July and close at 5pm on 14 September 2018.
Read more here.
Featured images (from left to right): (2017 Third Place) Kate Nicholson; (2017 Winner) Marta Ascenso; (2017 Second Place) Alanah Honey.
Congratulations to Rhiain Bower, our MArch student who won the RIBA President’s Dissertation Medal 2017 for her thesis ‘Baricsio: The Slate Quarrymen’s Barracks in North West Wales’.
Tutored by Professor Harry Charrington, Rhiain used a combination of fieldwork, archival data, newspaper clippings, poetry and local accounts, to write a compelling study of the 19th-century barrack dwellings constructed for workers at a slate quarry in Wales. You can see parts of Rhiain’s dissertation here.
‘The remote architecture was not particularly well-documented at the time, so Bower combined her own visual documentation with accounts gleaned from the time to draw a portrait of the harsh conditions experienced by the quarrymen who lived in the stark barracks from week to week for the opportunity of a salary.’
This is the fourth year in a row that a student from the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment has won an award in the RIBA President’s Medals. An outstanding achievement!
3-7 September 2018
Krakow, Poland
Call for Papers
Deadline: 9th April 2018
Over the centuries, cities across Europe and around the world have been impacted by their Jewish communities; as places of both presence and absence. Being held as part of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, this Conference is dedicated to addressing Urban Jewish Heritage and the multi-layered issues it faces, and will bring together academics, planners, policy makers and community leaders to examine the pasts, presents and futures for cities with Jewish Heritage, particularly in Europe.
The Conference recognises that the threats to Jewish heritage are complex and dynamic and there is a need to identify new thinking to preserve and sustainably manage both the tangible and intangible aspects of Jewish culture and to communicate this to a wider audience. As such, it seeks to address the following questions:
• What are the pressures upon Jewish heritage in the urban context?
• How can new and sensitive uses be found for Jewish heritage in towns and cities?
• What management models can be applied to Jewish heritage to ensure its sustainability?
• What forms of relationships exist between Jewish heritage sites and urban tourism?
• What are the touristic experiences with Jewish heritage?
• To what extent is the interpretation of Jewish heritage effective and geared to an increasingly cosmopolitan and younger audience?
• What is the role of the museum in the mediation and representation of Jewish heritage?
• How is the intangible cultural heritage of the Jewish community communicated?
Organised by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, in association with the City of Krakow and Villa Decius Association, we invite abstracts of 300 words to be submitted as soon as possible but at the latest by 9 April 2018.
Please visit our website for more details: www.urbanjewishheritageconference.wordpress.com
