ATCH Visiting Fellows Program: 2019 The ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History) Research Centre invites Expressions of Interest for the Visiting Fellows Program 2019. The program welcomes Expressions of Interest from scholars with varying levels of experience who are carrying out critical research in architecture. ATCH is located within the School of Architecture at The University […]
Research Culture in Architecture – International Conference on Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Architecture Where: Fachbereich Architektur der TU Kaiserslautern (fatuk), Germany When: September 27 – 28, 2018 Deadline: Jun 1, 2018 During the Gothic period, Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa (1180-1240) established the foundations of theoretical geometry. Back then, the masters of building were architects, artists and […]
8,000 metres above the 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 earth’s land surfaces and oceans, its geological layers beneath, the dynamic atmosphere above – all affected by gravitational magnetic forces […]
Event details When: Friday and Saturday, 7-8 September 2018 10am-5pm Where: The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London We’re delighted to announce the launch of the first ever Old House Show, in partnership with Period Living, a free event taking place at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich over two days this September. The Old House […]
CFP Land, Air, Sea: Environment during the Early Modern Period 72nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Where: Providence, Rhode Island, USA When: April 24 – 28, 2019 Deadline for abstracts: Jun 5, 2018 Contrary to certain strands of scholarship, environmental thinking about ideas of climate, energy, and habitat were at stake […]
Calendar of Events PREVIEW : THURSDAY 14 JUNE, 6 – 9PM To be opened by Dr Peter Bonfield OBE Register at open18.eventbrite.co.uk STUDENT AWARDS EVENING AND ALUMNI RECEPTION: FRIDAY 15 JUNE, 6.30 – 8.30PM (Registration from 5.30PM) RSVP to alumni@westminster.ac.uk EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY: FRIDAY 15 JUNE – TUESDAY 10 JULY 10AM – 5PM (WEEKENDS 10AM […]
The HistBEKE project will very soon have a set of recommendations to send to Historic England for their agreement, following which they will be put into action. We are keen to ensure that the heritage sector, including those in academia, is fully on board with these and that everyone has been able to have an […]
Douglas Spencer, lecturer at the University of Westminster and the leader of the MArch Dissertation module, will be speaking at: Postmodernism Now: Politics, Culture, Context This symposium investigates the revival of postmodernism, and what it might mean for our current moment. When: Saturday 30 June, 11:00-18:00 Where: Design Museum London In this symposium, leading architects, designers, artists and critics reflect […]
Philip Webb Award 2018 is an annual award from the SPAB for recent graduates and Part II students at UK Schools of Architecture. Judged by an expert architectural panel, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Philip Webb Award is a design-orientated competition encouraging sympathetic reuse of existing buildings and sensitive new design […]
Douglas Spencer, lecturer at the University of Westminster and the leader of the MArch Dissertation module, will present his work at: SUPERSTRUCTURES: THE NEW ARCHITECTURE 1960–1990 CONFERENCE See below for dates / £50/£37.50 concessions, Free for students. Pre-booked tickets only / The Julian Study Centre and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts To book please call Visitor Services 01603 593199 […]
London Festival of Architecture and Team London Bridge announce London Bridge public realm competition The London Festival of Architecture and Team London Bridge have announced a design competition to improve a pedestrian triangle outside London Bridge station. As London Bridge becomes one of the focus areas for this year’s London Festival of Architecture, the competition […]
Introduction My friends and I have very little time to chat because we work overtime every day. What’s important is that my friends and I don’t want to live like this. We want a place with certain standards; i.e. with enough equipment and a bathroom inside, with enough space to live in. (Hem Sela, 26) […]
Where: Kent State University, Cleveland When: 01-02 November 2018 Deadline for abstracts: 05 June 2018. To download form and more info: http://architecturemps.com/cleveland/ Context: Alternatives to the Present…… The New Urban Agenda of the United Nations presents itself as a blueprint for governments globally. Through it, UN-Habitat seeks to combine the material, social and environmental agendas molding […]
KESTER RATTENBURY: “WHAT ABOUT DESIGN?” The Research Assessment and You Westminster has an amazing body of active, diverse, internationally recognised staff teaching our students design. Their outputs – your outputs – include buildings, competition designs, exhibitions, books, collaborations, products, blogs, new ways of working. This work is recognised locally, nationally and internationally. But is it […]
Congratulations to MArch DS16 tutor and studio leader Stuart Percy of Piercy&Company on winning this highly competitive and prestigious international award! The “Office Architect of the Year 2018” recognises Piercy&Company‘s work across the sector; from new builds, to refurbishments, co-working, and occupier fit-outs. The judging considered a cross section of our completed and in-progress office […]
1) Who is eligible for this scholarship? The CRL scholarship is open to: First-year undergraduates only Students who have a confirmed place at a recognised UK academic institution for a degree in one of the following disciplines: engineering, construction, architecture Home, EU and International students in the UK only 2) How will your application be […]
The second edition of the Roca One Day Design Challenge UK will take place in London on Saturday, the 26th May. Once again, the event will take place at the Roca London Gallery, emblematic building in the city designed by the renowned architectural firm Zaha Hadid Architects. As usual, the challenge will consist of a […]
As part of the London Festival of Architecture programme, Davide Deriu (Director of Research and MA Architecture course leader) will be chairing a panel on Knowledge Territories at the Italian Cultural Institute on the 4th June. The authors of a recent book about the architecture of higher education will discuss (in English!) university buildings and the […]
The second Expanded Territories reading group will meet in M330 on Wednesday 06 June at 17.30. Christina Geros will introduce: Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin. The book is available for download or purchase here: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/architecture-in-the-anthropocene/ Discussion will be accompanied by wine and nibbles. All […]
All RIBA-accredited schools are invited to submit the final project of one undergraduate and one postgraduate student The AJ has launched a free-to-enter prize aimed specifically at UK-based architecture schools, open to all students on RIBA-accredited architecture courses. We are inviting all schools to submit the final-year projects of their two best students – one […]
OASE #102 Educating architects in Europe. From critical intellectual to successful entrepreneur? Christophe Van Gerrewey, David Peleman, Bart Decroos (eds.) In an interview from 2003, writer Sandro Veronesi talks about his education as an architect: When you’re born in Florence, architecture is the ideal approach to learn the best of one’s tradition. It is a […]
Calls for papers for three Island Dynamics conferences taking place in the first half of 2019 DARKNESS, 13-17 January 2019, Svalbard Special Territorial Status and Extraterritoriality, 20-24 January 2019, Svalbard Culture in Urban Space: Urban Form, Cultural Landscapes, Life in the City, 8-12 April 2019, Macau, China 1. DARKNESS, 13-17 January 2019, Svalbard http://www.islanddynamics.org/darknessconference.html This […]
THE COLIN ROWE LECTURE SERIES: TIM BENTON Conversation on the role of the image in architecture. When: 22 May 2018, 6.30pm to 8pm Where: RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD Contact: valeria.carullo@riba.org Tickets: £5; £2.50 for students (includes glass of wine) For more info and to book tickets: https://www.architecture.com/whats-on/the-colin-rowe-lecture-series-tim-benton
When: Mon 30 April 2018, 18:30 – 21:00 Where: RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NR Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/refugee-shelter-design-building-and-engagement-tickets-43742106819?aff=es2 ‘Toward Healthy Housing for the Displaced’, the winning entry to the RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2017 Housing category, was written by a team of researchers from the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering at the University […]
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain ANNUAL ESSAY PRIZES IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY Submissions due by 31 May 2018 The Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain (SAHGB) is accepting submissions for two of its internationally-renowned essay prizes. These awards are the most prestigious in the country for the discipline of architectural history. They are […]
The Faculty has run the Constructionarium for Construction students for the past 10 years – with great success. The Constructionarium offers Year 2+ students a week at the CITB HQ in Norfolk building scale models of various structures, and is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands on experience of managing and constructing a real construction project, […]
Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt are currently considering applications from talented and enthusiastic Part 1 & 2 qualified individuals to work on some exciting new projects. The current workload includes housing, education, cultural, community buildings and one-off houses. The chosen candidates will be exposed to a broad range of works and will benefit from our stimulating and […]
ROBERTO BOTTAZZI & HARRY CHARRINGTON: Ecological Standardisation In 1966, Aino and Alvar Aalto worked together with Leonardo Mosso on a prototypical project for a series of warehouses for the Ferrero Company. Though the project was shelved shortly before going onsite, their collaboration had produced an original outcome. A former intern in Aalto’s office, Mosso had […]
James Phillips Travel Prize Background The James Phillips Foundation is a charity established in 2015 in memory of James Phillips who died, aged 27, on Sunday 27 September 2014. James was a partner at Make Architects, and studied architecture at the University of Kingston. The day after he died would have been his first day […]
Yesterday, as a part of their Detailed Design Study module, 2nd Year BA Architecture students had an opportunity to meet up with practicing architects and UOW staff to discuss their projects and detail design as required per their current brief. The study is made up of the following 4 sections: To draw/ sketch/ explore a […]
This special issue of IJIA focuses on the experience of carrying out archival work or fieldwork in architectural research, including research-led practice. How might this experience, with all its contingencies and errancies, be made into the very stuff of the architectural histories, theories, criticisms and/or practices resulting from it? This question is rendered all the […]
When Architecture & Culture, the Journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, was first launched in November 2013, the intention was to include book reviews. We have a designated editor for book reviews, and we have sporadically published essays that review books, when those essays concern the theme of a particular journal issue. What we […]
The Expanded Territories Research Group in the Department of Architecture has started a reading group, which will meet at 17.30 on the first Tuesday of every month in the Monsoon Assemblages Project Office, Room M330, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS. We will read one agreed book or essay per month related to the anthropocene, more-than-human […]
BA Interior Architecture presents a lecture by Project Leader Stepan Martinovsky on The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (the MOCAA project) by Heatherwick Studio. When: Monday, 26th March, 6pm Where: Room MG14, Marylebone Campus
Detail Design Clinic offered to 2nd Year students on their Des2B:Design and Detail Module is taking place today in M416. The Detailed Design Study (DDS) is an investigation into materials and technology, at both detailed and strategic level, supporting the development of the Des2B developed design project. The making of architecture – its construction and […]
When: Monday 19th March, 6pm Where: Robin Evans Room [M416], Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster Free drinks after, as always! Stirling prize winner and alumnus Michael Wilford will be the last guest in our popular Alumni Lecture Series! Composition and character are primary aspects of the art of architecture. To demonstrate how these aspects have […]
Caukin Studio is still looking for volunteers to fill a couple of places on their Masama Project in Sierra Leone in November 2018, and the last four weeks of Savundrodro project, Fiji in August / September 2018. More information along with the briefing documents can be found on the Caukin Studio’s website.
Christine Cai’s final project with the MArch Design Studio 22 is titled the “Journey of Object [X]”. The project is based on an open research strategy used to study the communities of Persian Gulf particularly of the Strait of Hormuz. As a part of the initial brief Christine was asked to design and make a […]
When: 5th April 2018, 6.30pm – 9.00pm Where: Robin Evans Room M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Join the author Yara Sharif and a number of outstanding speakers and panellists for the book launch of Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict published by Routledge. Robert Mull, Sarah […]
YARA SHARIF & NASSER GOLZARI: Subver-City: the Green Urban Lab typology After the devastating war on the Gaza Strip in 2008-09, which left most of it in ruins, we took up the challenge of trying to think how Gazans could manage to reconstruct their city under such conditions. The presentation discusses the development of a […]
LATE Conversations #2 Landscape, Architecture and Tourism Explorations When: Monday 12 March 2018, 6-8pm Where: Robin Evans Room [M416], Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS RURAL[scapes] Never mind the countryside [Ben Stringer] In the shadows of urbanisation the countryside is changing. Familiar tropes of tradition, nostalgia […]
The Architecture Scholarship of £1,500 will be awarded to the most promising candidate to enable him/her to further his/her understanding of creative architecture. The scholarship is open to those under 25 years before 31 August 2018 and born in Wales, or with one of their parents born in Wales, or who have lived or worked […]
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 largest ever MegaCrit and first inter-uni MegaParty! Sign up for FREE via Eventbrite to confirm your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/megacrit-and-megaparty-at-the-westminster-school-of-architecture-tickets-43219088457 Join the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/408377592938990/ MEGACRIT […]
VALUE Inherently, the discipline of architecture seeks to respond to changing demands and societal concerns. Historically, the need to respond has typically been self-declared. Even in times of disciplinary crisis, architecture has self-confidently declared the problem and prescribed the solution. Recent decades however, have seen an erosion of confidence, turning the discipline into one which […]
When: Saturday 17 March, 10am – 5:30pm Where: Room G.12, The Bartlett School of Architecture 22 Gordon Street, WC1H 0QB Dis/Ordinary Spaces is a one-day conference exploring ways of approaching disability differently. Participants will imagine access and inclusion as creative generators, not merely as technical or legal ‘problems’ for architectural design. Keynote speaker: Aimi Hamraie […]
The next edition of FAB FEST will take place from 2nd to 10th July 2018 in Ambika P3. The festival will broadly follow the same format as the previous two events, although some changes are to make it even bigger and better. Notes from the organiser on the changes for FAB FEST ’18: We are […]
The launch of Shahed Saleem‘s new book The British Mosque will take place on Monday 12th March, following a conference on “The Heritage of Minority Faith Buildings in the UK” organised by Historic England and the Society of Antiquaries. When: Monday, 12th March 2018 Where: Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE […]
LATE Conversations #1 Landscape, Architecture and Tourism Explorations When: Monday 05 March 2018, 6-8pm Where: Robin Evans Room [M416], Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS URBAN[scapes] Staging the city: recreating the urban as eventscape [Andrew Smith] Like other theatrical metaphors, the idea of the ‘city as […]
An evening with Professor Richard Sennett will be hosted on Monday 5th March by Southwark Cathedral and Penguin Random House, to mark the release of his new book Building and Dwelling: Ethics for a City. This event is a part of a series of events on the theme of creating ‘A Good City for All’. […]
ALESSANDRO AYUSO: Accounting for Alognon Pragma: Recent work in the Studio and On-site My work explores the intersection of human bodies and architecture by envisioning non-ideal, deviant, playful, and personal images of embodied conditions. It is de ned by artefacts generated in the pursuit of three interconnected strands. The first investigates the potential of representations […]