Sir John Soane’s Museum will be hosting a talk by Joseph Grima on Wednesday 28th February at 7pm. Joseph Grima, Creative Director of Design Academy Eindhoven, will speak as part of the talk series ‘Architecture on Display’. In this series, Sir John Soane’s Museum and James Taylor-Foster are inviting curators and thinkers to reflect on the […]
Monsoon Waters is the second in a series of symposia convened by the Monsoon Assemblages project. It will comprise inter-disciplinary panels, key-note addresses and an exhibition. It will bring together established and young scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines, knowledge systems and practices to engage in conversations about the ontologies, epistemologies, histories, politics, […]
An evening symposium celebrating the launch of The Social (Re)Production of Architecture co-edited by Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal will take place on Thursday, 1st March. MArch DS22 studio leaders and tutors Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari will present their contribution to the book followed by discussion. When: 1st March 2018, 6.30pm Where: LVMH Lecture […]
Meet in the studios by the kitchen at 10am Friday morning to join a workshop and learn a new skill! Organised by Westminster Architecture Society.
Yesterday morning, MArch Design Studio 23 visited Brunel Building construction site. Brunel Building is an innovative new workplace located on the Grand Union Canal opposite Paddington Station. The scheme includes significant improvements to the public realm, and when complete will create a new section of canal towpath to link the Paddington Basin with Little Venice. […]
JULIAN WILLIAMS: On the Estate What makes an estate, and what does it mean to be part of one? What do estates embody and how do they act as vehicles for change, or resistance to change? These questions form the research context for an emerging networking project which examines the concept of the estate as […]
Fri 16 February 2018 11:00-17:00 BRE Innovation Park Launched in 2005, the Park at BRE’s headquarters in Garston, Watford, continues to set the standard for BRE’s Innovation Parks across the world. The Park started life as a small-scale demonstration of modern-methods-of-construction (MMC) and quickly developed in a facility rich in innovation. The Innovation Parks feature full-scale […]
Prix W 2018: Competition for Students and Young Architects For 12 years, the Wilmotte Foundation has promoted the positive interaction between architectural heritage and contemporary design through the W Award, dedicated to students and young architects. For this 8th edition, the Willmotte Foundation is pleased to ask the participants the opportunity to give a fresh […]
Learn the basics of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Photobomb a celebrity pic, designer style! Organised by Westminster Architecture Society.
Let us take you by the hand … : Feeling anxious or stressed? We can help. The Architects Benevolent Society will talk about AnxietyArch – a free, quick, and confidential mental health support service for architects and students. Sign up to AnxietyArch and you also get a free subscription to Headspace. Organised by Westminster Architecture […]
Come along and make your own architectural hat. Card is provided. Take part in the catwalk at the end of the day and the most popular hats win prizes! More details to follow. Organised by Westminster Architecture Society.
PLAYweek Event Talk by John Spittle – Wiehag Title: Engineered Timber When: Friday 16th February, 1pm Where: Room M416 Wiehag is a family-owned company in its fifth generation, with 160 years of experience in manufactured, timber products. John has worked in the offsite industry for over 30 years, the last five of which have been […]
AIR GRID – PLAYDAYsew An intensive one day workshop run by Doctor Watson & Samir Pandya for the Department’s PLAYWeek. AIR GRID is a kinaesthetic structure responsive to light and vision. We will be working with line colour and thread in an experimental workshop designed to test the possibilities of team-work in air grid production […]
In December 2017 it was announced that Arthur Mamou-Mani’s project Galaxia won the Burning Man 2018 Temple Design Competition. Galaxia is the temple for Burning Man 2018. It 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 […]
Call symposium ‘ENABLE’ A tribute to Prof. Johan Verbeke The Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven proudly announces the symposium ENABLE on April 20-22 2018 in association with EAAE, ARENA, EURICUR, eCAADe and ELIA The European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), the Architectural Research European Network Association (ARENA), the European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (EURICUR), […]
Call for Participation The Society invites proposals for the 2018 Architectural History Workshop, hosted on Saturday 17 March at The Gallery, 70, Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EL. This is the SAHGB’s annual event for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Scholars to share and develop their ideas through ‘lightning’ rounds, where contributors are invited to speak […]
The History and Theory Open Lecture Series for the academic year 2017/2018 begins today, with Peg Rawes‘ lecture “Housing, Biopolitics, and Care”. When: Tuesday, 6th February, 18:00 Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus Peg Rawes is a Professor in Architecture and Philosophy, Programme Director of the MA Architectural History, and a PhD Supervisor for […]
The next guest in the Alumni Event Series will be Ian Ritchie with his talk “What it Takes to Design with the Mind in Mind”. When: Tuesday, 20th February, 18:30 Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus Free drinks and refreshments provided. ALL WELCOME!
Lecture organised by Alessandra Cianchetta and Juan Pinyol, MArch DS24 studio leaders and tutors When: Wednesday, 14th February, 18:00 Where: Robin Evans Room, M416, Marylebone Campus Ute Schneider studied architecture and urban planning at the technical universities of Constance, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Delft. During her studies she worked in various German and Dutch internationally operating […]
CALL for WORKSHOPS & EVENTS It should be noted that children at play are not playing about: their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. ( Montaigne 1580 ) Introduction PLAYweek is organised by the Department of Architecture and the Westminster Architecture Society, WAS. It is a creative and disruptive 2-day event that cuts […]
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Wandsworth Council have launched a competition to improve the appearance and feel of Thessaly Road Railway Bridge, and important gateway to the Nine Elms regeneration area near New Covent Garden Market. The competition, which is open to architects, designers, artists and students, is an opportunity to transform an […]
There’s some exciting overseas mobility opportunities coming up for students in April. The AlSadi Changing Lives programme in Jordan will run for the 4th time and the Westminster Working Cultures programme is rolling out another trip to Hong Kong. The structured activity costs of both programmes are fully funded (please note: should a student be […]
Elusive landscapes of ‘design’ in the city Session convenors: Gabriele Schliwa (University of Manchester) and Robert Cowley (King’s College London) Although design was historically associated with the form of industrial and commercial products (and with the professional field of ‘urban design’), processes of ‘design thinking’ and the conceptual language of design have become commonplace in […]
The Architecture Exhibition as Environment A special issue of Architectural Theory Review, edited by Alexandra Brown & Léa-Catherine Szacka Deadline: Jun 1, 2018 The rise and professionalization, around the 1960s, of the figure of the “curator” marked an important point in the configuration of an exhibition’s authorship and process, including artist-curator overlaps, restaging or reframing […]
CHRISTINE WALL: Talking about building/s: oral history and modern architecture The place of oral history within the historiography of modern architecture is not yet fully accepted, understood or theorised. Faced with a wealth of tangible evidence found in photographs, plans, documents and models, architectural history rarely includes the voices of those involved in the construction […]
AWMA Studio‘s Mohammed Rahmany, recent FABE graduate, will give a talk about his practice’s project Hubb, which was built as a part of the Brixton Design Trail and has been widely publicised. In his talk, Mohammed will also us give an insight into the crowdfunding projects, and what does it mean to set up a […]
Sachibondu Externship Opportunity 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 […]
Senior Fellowship Grants 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. Mid-Career […]
Call for Papers CHORD workshop: ‘Retailing, Architecture and Material Culture: Historical Perspectives’ 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
To celebrate the end of another busy and successful year, The Department of Architecture in collaboration with Westminster Architecture Society invites you to join us for the Studio Christmas Party this Thursday, 14th December at 18:30 in the 4th floor master studio. Drinks provided, we only ask you to bring one ornament for our Christmas […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sir John Sloane’s Museum in Holborn is hosting a series of lectures in collaboration with James Taylor-Foster. The series is called ‘Architecture on Display’ and aims to tackle head-on the ideas, ideologies and assumptions that underlie how we present and display architecture, whether through exhibitions, installations, pavilions, biennales, triennials, debates, lectures or other projects. In […]
Robert Barker, Stolon Studio : Aquatecture – Building for Flood Zones When: Thursday 7th December, 6pm, Where: Room M416 Robert Barker is one of the co-founders of Stolon Studio Ltd along with Westminster alumna Jessica Barker. He trained at the Royal College of Art before working for a number of innovative firms such as Birds […]
Benson Lau: White Light and Black Shadow – The Poetics of Light in Le Corbusier’s Sacred Architecture This presentation will disseminate the research outcome of a RIBA Research Trust funded project that explored the interplay of space and light in Le Corbusier’s sacred buildings from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Measurable and unmeasurable aspects of […]
Pete Silver – The Electronic Architect When: Thursday 30th November, 18:00 Where: Room M416, Marylebone Campus Pete Silver is an architect with experience of the construction industry, public sector housing, teaching, research and private practice. During the 1970s, he worked for five years as development manager for Solon Housing Association where he was responsible both […]
Lecture: Clancy Moore Architects When: Tuesday 28th November 2017, 19:00 Where: Marylebone Hall, Marylebone Campus, NW1 5LS Access to this event is free of charge. A cash bar will be open after the talk. Read more about Clancy Moore Architects here. Featured image: Shatwell stairs model photograph © Clancy Moore Architects
Schedule Wednesday 10th January 1:30 – 2:15 Introduction to PS3: Jane Tankard + Leo Skoutas (FABE Placements) 2:15 – 3:10 The Role of the Architect: Jane Tankard 3:30 Finding the right practice: Sofia Karim, Doone Silver Kerr Architects Thursday 11th January 10:30 – 11:30 Work Stages: Scott […]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence 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 […]
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Human Comfort: A one-day symposium on environmental design and architecture When: Monday 27th November 2017, 10:00-17:00 Where: Marylebone Campus, M416
On Wednesday 22nd November Ben Stringer (DS12), will participate in the Hyper Rural: The End of Urbanisam, international symposium at the Manchester Metropolitan University, as a part of the Designing the Future Rural; imagining the future rural landscapes, settlements & economies panel, alongside Stefan Petermann (OMA/OSA) and Dr Rosemary Shirley (Art Deptartment, MMU). The symposium is partly […]
Professor Sadie Morgan – dRMM Hastings Pier Reinventing traditional pier design, Hastings Pier provides an open space, able to support a variety of events and uses from circuses to music events, fishing to markets. Professor Sadie Morgan of dRMM will discuss the community-led regeneration project of Hastings Pier, which is this year’ winner of the […]
Shahed Saleem: In What Style Should We Build? In what style should we build? This question, which has resonated throughout European architectural history for some 150 years, is revisited and reapplied in my talk to the predicament of mosque design in Britain today. Style became an existential battleground for the Victorians, representing contested notions of […]