When: Friday, 25th of January, 9:30-18:00 Where: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA What will urban planning be like in 2052? This one-day conference brings together policy makers, researchers and practitioners to envisage the role of urban planning in the future. Planning for the profound political and social shifts that the future […]
When: 25th of January 2019, 7:00PM Where: RICH MIX, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA British architect David Chipperfield and Swiss urbanist Simon Kretz will explore how planning shapes the city. In 2016, acclaimed British architect David Chipperfield and the Swiss urbanist and researcher Simon Kretz began working together for the Rolex Mentor […]
The next Expanded Territories Reading Group will be held on Tuesday 11th of December at 18.00 in M330. Dr. Beth Cullen will introduce Tim Ingold’s The Life of Lines, (London: Routledge, 2015).
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 13th of December Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Alessandra Cianchetta is an architect and founding partner of AWP, an architecture practice working across scales and genres.
Who: Jason Bruges, Jason Bruges Studio When: Thursday, 6th of December, 18:00 Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Jason Bruges Studio has become internationally renowned for producing innovative installations, interventions and ground breaking works. This practice involves creating interactive spaces and surfaces that sit between the world of architecture, site specific installation […]
When: Monday, 3rd of December 2018, 6.30 — 7.30pm Where: The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly How have the urban spaces of Lisbon, Cairo and Jerusalem been shaped by colonialism? Join our panel as we discuss the impact of colonialism on contemporary urban landscapes. Architecture has been used politically, […]
Who: Christian Male and Andy McConachi, Simpson Haugh When: Thursday, 22nd of November, 18:00 Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 22nd of November Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Lindsay Bremner is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture + Cities and Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded Monsoon Assemblages project.
Who: Jonathan Adams, Jonathan Adams + Partners When: Thursday, 15th of November, 18:00 Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 15th of November Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Jane Tankard (ARB/RIBA) teaches full-time in the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster.
Supercrits are the brainchild, originally, of Cedric Price, but came to fruition through Professor Kester Rattenbury at the University of Westminster and EXP – the research centre for experimental practice. Supercrits take projects which ‘changed the weather’ of architectural practice, and bring them ‘back to school’ for crit by international experts and a student and […]
When: Friday, 16th of November 2018, 09:00 – 17:00 Where: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL Landscape Citizenships: Grounded in the discourses of ecological, watershed, and bioregional citizenships, this symposium seeks to evaluate belonging through the idea of landscape as landship. This describes substantive, mutually constitutive relations between people and place. The […]
Who: Esther Rivas-Adrover, University of Cambridge When: Thursday, 8th of November, 18:00 Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
The Norman Foster Foundation is awarding ten scholarships to participate in the upcoming Digital X workshop to be held at the Norman Foster Foundation headquarters in Madrid, Spain, 18–22 February 2019. The Digital X workshop, mentored by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and former director of MIT Media Lab, will comprise a team of granted scholars drawn […]
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 1st of November Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Peter Barber is a founding director of Peter Barber Architects. He is a Reader and MArch Studio tutor at the University of Westminster. In 2017 he won the Royal Academy Grand Prize for Architecture.
Who: Catherine Ramsden, Useful Studio When: Thursday, 25th of October, 18:00 Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
When: Friday, 26th of October 2018, 9:30 – 18:00 Where: AA Lecture Hall, Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES 8,000 meters above sea level exists what climbers call the ‘death zone’. This altitude marks the limit for human habitation, above which our species cannot survive. We thrive in the ‘life zone’ – […]
The RIBA Student Support Fund is now open for the Autumn application cycle. The purpose of the RIBA Student Support Fund is to alleviate financial hardship for students of architecture enrolled in RIBA Part 1 and 2 courses in the UK. Applications are welcomed from students who have encountered recent financial barriers during their studies, […]
AIA UK Student Charrette 2018 When: 27 October 2018, 9am to 6pm Where: Roca London Gallery, Station Court, Townmead Rd, London SW6 2PY The annual AIA UK Student Charrette offers UK students the opportunity to take part in a juried day-long event hosted by the Roca Gallery. CALLING ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS! £10 per student (includes lunch […]
Who: Stephen and Annabelle Harty, Harty + Harty When: Thursday, 18th of October, 18:00 Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Who: Christina Seilern from Studio Seilern Architects When: Thursday, 11th of October, 18:00 Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday 4th Of October Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus At the 2018 EAHN conference in Tallinn I gave a paper under the session theme of Architecture’s Return to Surrealism. The session asked how the reanimation of surrealism in the work of architects active in the 1970s and ‘80s – at […]
Technical Studies Lecture Series is back! During the first semester the School of Architecture and Cities hosts the Thursday evening ‘Technical Studies’ lecture series to highlight new developments in the fields of architecture, engineering and environmental design. The series attempts to capture a contemporary philosophy of architecture and technology and introduce students to current and […]
When: Saturday 23rd June 2018, 19:00 Where: Auditorium de L’Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France If in Paris on the 23rd of June, don’t miss DS22’s tutor Yara Sharif‘s presentation at “Décoloniser les esprits via le design et l’architecture” event at L’Institut du monde arabe , and as part of the Palest’In&Out Festival. More info on the event […]
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has opened an international call for ideas to re-imagine Grosvenor Square in London. We are calling on urban visionaries, whether individuals, groups or companies, to submit ideas – strategies, projects, experiments and solutions – to reinstate Grosvenor Square as one of London’s leading squares. The best ideas will form the detailed […]
When: Tuesday 19th June 2018, 18:30-20:30 Where: The Architectural Association Bookshop, 32 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES THE WESSEX PROJECT: THOMAS HARDY, ARCHITECT by Kester Rattenbury, Published by Lund Humphries, 2018 Who is the most famous member of the Architectural Association, past or present? Rem Koolhaas? Richard Rogers? Peter Cook? Or maybe Thomas Hardy: poet, […]
Here Lies Geoffrey Barkington by Patrick McEvoy, Jubilee Gardens Geoffrey Barkington was a Square Mile dog whose final resting place is within Jubilee Gardens, Houndsditch. Houndsditch marks the route of a ditch outside part of the London Wall, first dug in Roman times, and known for the disposal of deceased dogs. Several dog skeletons were […]
When: Saturday 30 June, 9:00 – 16:45 (with a break for lunch) Where: St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in New Street, Lymington Tickets are £15 (£12.50 concs) and include refreshments. DS2.5 tutor Camilla Wilkinson, is the Keynote Speaker, presenting her Dazzle research, at the Southampton University Study Day in Lymington. For more info and bookings […]
Tower blocks have had a chequered history and their survival in the UK remains uncertain. In this one-day event, we look at their history, their changing technical characteristics, the reception of them by residents and the public, the maintenance and upkeep of them by their owners, their safety and their prospects for the future. Among […]
Plans are currently underway for the 2018 RIBA Research Matters conference, with this year’s event to run over two days in Sheffield, co-hosted by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. As you may already be aware, the Research Matters conference has been developed to provide early career stage researchers an opportunity to present […]
Borough Market hosts debate as part of the London Festival of Architecture When: 6.30pm – 8.30pm, Thursday 28 June Where: Jubilee Place, Borough Market, Winchester Walk, London, SE1 9AG How has food production, distribution, storage, preparation, consumption, waste and culture changed London’s built environment? How has London changed food? What does the future hold? […]
The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years. (Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times) The next Expanded Territories Reading Group will take place on Wednesday 3rd October at 17.30 in M330. We will be discussing Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman, introduced by David Chandler.
Award winning architectural practice, Allies and Morrison are recruiting a number of paid undergraduate work placements, which will be for a minimum of 6 weeks. These opportunities are linked to the development of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, so they are particularly keen to here from applicants who live and study in the Boroughs of […]
When: 12th June 2018, 19:00 Where: Room MG14, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London, NW1 5LS
The RIBA’s Traditional Architecture Group (TAG) will be awarding a prize at the end of the year to encourage classical and traditional architecture in students projects. A prize of £1,000 will be awarded for the best classical or traditional scheme designed by a student studying architecture at a university in the UK. The rules are […]
Researcher Links Travel Grants provide financial support for early-career researchers to undertake an international research placement to strengthen links for future collaboration, build research capacity in developing economies, and enhance the researcher’s career opportunities. Researchers that reside in the UK can apply for funding to visit a university or research institution in one of the […]
When: Friday 29th June 2018, 12:00-19:00 Where: Room M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS A half-day symposium bringing together diverse research currently being undertaken at the University of Westminster School of Architecture and Cities exploring the intersections between heritage, identity, politics and the built environment. Keynote by Liza Fior, MUF architects, on […]
When: 13th June 2018, 18:30 Where: 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS (Sign in at reception and follow directions) This studio-as-book is not predicated on a fixed research agenda identified with a design studio’s performative practice or a theory of architecture. MArch 2 Studio DS11 has rather been conceived as a self-critical framework, so this book […]
When: Launch -13th June 2018, 18:00-21:00 | Exhibition Continues – Thursday 14th June to Friday 13th July Where: Rear of Learning Platform, Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS A new Oculus Pavilion, designed and built by third year Architecture students from the University of Westminster, will open […]
FAB FEST is a week-long celebration of design and making, hosted by the Fabrication Lab at the University of Westminster. For the third year running, it invites creative designers from around the world to envision and build their ideas about architecture and the city. It will feature over 80 pavilions and installations designed internationally, manufactured […]
When: 28th – 29th JUNE 2018 Deadline: 20th June 2018 The Robotic Carving A.R.T. 2018 summer workshop will investigate ways to transform abstract, intangible data, such as material distribution or density, into physical form. Participants will learn how to apply structural analysis and topology optimization on shell structures and how to translate structural data into […]
When: 25th-27th June 2018 Deadline: 20th June 2018 The Textile Robotics A.R.T. 2018 summer workshop will investigate the ways in which industrial robotic arms can generate large scale structural textiles and automate a generative design process through robotic fabrication. Using structural analysis and topology optimization, participants will explore different pattern combinations and learn how to […]
When: 18th – 22nd June 2018 Deadline: 15th June 2018 The Architectural Gateway summer workshop is a collaboration with the critically acclaimed Finnish architect Sami Rintala. Sami’s work is based on narrative and conceptualism, resulting in a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic re-sources of a site. The workshop will culminate in a large-scale […]
When: 21st – 28th August 2018 Where: Delft University of Technology (NL) with fieldwork in Amsterdam (NL) The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), the Delft Deltas, Infrastructures & Mobility Initiative (DIMI), the University of Paris-Est and ARENA Architectural Research Network join Delft University of Technology in the organisation of the interdisciplinary 2018 Summer […]
Newcastle University is delighted to announce two new PhD scholarships in Architecture at their School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, both open to creative practice and written thesis routes in any area of architectural research, with deadlines of 15th July for applications. These are great opportunities for outstanding candidates to join their flourishing PGR and research […]
We want to see your best architectural images. This year there’s a new category for practitioners and a link with the RIBA’s world-famous Drawings Collection Eye Line, the RIBA Journal’s acclaimed annual award for architectural image-making skills, is now open for 2018 entries. Once again we are delighted to be in partnership with architectural visualisation […]
When: 11th to 15th June, 10.00 – 17.00 Where: 184 – 192 Bermondsey Street, London If people live in houses where do the houses live? If they are homeless all we are left with is the typical endless, featureless suburbia. (Gordon Cullen, Maryculter, 1974) The week-long exhibition of projects by the practice explores the […]
Alma-nac is looking for an architectural assistant to join its team in London. Alma-nac is an award-winning London based design studio committed to producing high quality architecture whilst maintaining a lively and engaging work environment. They undertake a range of projects of varying scale and sector and are currently looking for an experienced architectural assistant […]
When: Friday 15th June 2018, 11:00-18:00 Where: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House entrance Piccadilly London W1J 0BD / 6 Burlington Gardens entrance, London W1S 3ET Tickets: free tickets available for Westminster students (worth £15). Email rosa@londonfestivalofarchitecture.org The London Festival of Architecture is proud to present Does Identity Matter? – the inaugural LFA Symposium on Friday […]
When: Wednesday 6th June, 18:30-20:00 Where: Ondaatje Theatre, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2SR This year’s Annual Lecture is one of the highest profile events in the NLA calendar and a headline event of the London Festival of Architecture in June. Amanda Levete CBE is a RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect and recent recipient […]