The world today has become aware of the reckless utilization of natural resources and is now making conscious efforts to move towards a sustainable future. In this endeavor, it has become imperative to rethink our approach towards building materials to ease the pressure on the conventional ones. The Shipping Container is one such potential building […]
Congratulations to Dagmar Zvonickova, a MArch DS13 student who won a first prize in the prestigious CTBUH 2017 student competition in Sydney, Australia. Well done to DS13‘s tutors Andrei Martin and Andrew Yau for their support to Dagmar in development of her project.
The next guest in the Technical Studies Lecture Series will be Prof John Chilton from Nottingham University, who will give a lecture titled “Timber Grid Shells”. When: Thursday 9th November, 6pm Where: Room M416, Marylebone Campus, NW1 5LS All welcome!
Congratulations to Arthur Mamou-Mani, the director of Mamou-Mani Architects and an MArch DS10 tutor who has been selected as one of the RIBA Journal‘s Rising Stars 2017! The winning Cohort 2017 has been selected from 16 shortlisted architects, all of whom have qualified professionally within the last 10 years. This year’s award includes many young practices as […]
Artists, architects, actors, teachers, photographers, film makers and families get together in London and Gaza to inaugurate the exhibition Here, There, Everywhere. Join us at P21 gallery 6.30 pm today –with a live streaming from Gaza at 7 pm — and get a taste of the work from an adaptation of of Tolstoy’s War and Peace […]
On Tuesday 24th October, Angela Brady, the Co-Founder of Brady Mallalieu Architects, past president of RIBA (2011-2013) currently a Design Council CABE ‘Built Environment Expert’ as well as President of the Architects Benevolent Society, launched the Alumni Lecture Series organised by Westminster Architecture Society, and gave a talk titled “What it Takes to Design Great Social Spaces.” Crista Popescu, MArch DS23 […]
Monsoon Waters Call for Papers Deadline: 08 January 2018 Symposium Dates: 12-13 April 2018 Venue: University of Westminster, London, UK Proposals for papers are invited for Monsoon Waters, the second in a series of symposia convened by Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 […]
AA XX 100: AA WOMEN AND ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEXT 1917-2017 The Head of the Department Prof Harry Charrington and Senior Lecturer Julia Dwyer are to participate in AA XX 100: AA Women in Architecture in Context 1917-2017, an international conference convened by the Architectural Association and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art […]
University of Kent, KSA Create Biennial Conference 2018 Cultural landscape refers to landscapes shaped by humans through habitation, cultivation, exploitation and stewardship, and has influenced thinking in other fields, such as architecture. Generally, architecture has been subsumed within cultural landscape itself as a comprehensive spatial continuum. Yet standard architectural histories often analyse buildings as isolated […]
Douglas Spencer: Still Dreaming? Space After Spectacle and the Indifference of Architecture Susan Buck-Morss, in her Dreamworld and Catastrophe, observed that the end of the Cold War was marked by the passing of the dream-forms of modernity — capitalist, socialist and fascist — as sustained through the experience of the built environment. If, following Walter […]
Merck, in association with World Architecture Festival and the Architectural Review, is launching a competition for architecture students registered with any architectural school in the world. The aim of the competition is to encourage thinking about developments in dynamic glass manufacture which relates to efficiency in energy performance, and in the possibilities of using liquid […]
Enter the JCT Student Competition 2018 and tell us what inspires you about construction. You could win £1000! You can base your answer on any of the following elements: Describe a public building, which could be local to you or a famous international landmark, and explain what aspects of the building or its construction you […]
Congratulations to Arthur Mamou-Mani, the director of Mamou-Mani Architects and a DS10 tutor, who has been shortlisted by the RIBA Journal in the first round for its Rising Star award in association with Origin Doors and Windows. The shortlist consists of 16 practitioners, all within 10 years of qualifying as Part II architect. The winning cohort will be profiled on ribaj.com […]
DS22 student Anna Malicka was one of five outstanding MArch students to receive this year’s RIBA and the Wren Insurance Association award. Congratulations! The partnership between the RIBA and the Wren Insurance Association was established in 2013 to reward excellence in architectural education and support outstanding students as they embark on a career in architecture. […]
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 […]
A JURIED ONE-DAY DESIGN COMPETITION From 09:00 – 18:00 Entry Fee: £10 PER STUDENT Teams of up to 8, and individuals can register. Individuals will be assigned a team on the day. Each team will be mentored by a practicing architect. The charrette is a CAD-free event. Drawn, modelled and collaged proposals only. Bring your […]
Chris Peach, principal director of fdcreative, recently gave an introduction to lighting design for interiors called “Ruled of Thumb” to second and third year BA Interior Architecture students, as a part of the “Light Narratives” three week workshop. The lecture covered issues of design, design with light, practical planning, colour and perception.
“Architecture After California” is an essay written by Douglas Spencer and recently published on e flux architecture, as part of their Positions section. Read an excerpt from the essay below, or access full text here. Neoliberalism delegitimates participation in the political on the ethical grounds that all planning leads to dictatorship, and on the ontological ones […]
CALL FOR PAPERS TRANSLOCAL #1 (TRANS)LOCALITY & URBAN CULTURES Deadline for submissions: 10 NOVEMBER 2017 Cosmopolitanism without provincialism is empty, provincialism without cosmopolitanism is blind. (Ulrich Beck, Cosmopolitan Vision) Translocality draws attention to multiplying forms of mobility without losing sight of the importance of localities in peoples’ lives. (Oakes and Schein, Translocal China, Linkages, Identities […]
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 […]
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 […]
Call for Papers for the next themed issue of Architecture and Culture journal. Spaces of Tolerance Vol. 7, Issue no. 1, March 2019 Igea Troiani and Suzanne Ewing, Editors. Academic journal publishing worldwide has become increasingly watched over and policed by funding bodies and institutions demanding that scholarship be seen to have direct and […]
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, […]
How can buildings be designed today to ensure they are resilient to the challenges they will face tomorrow? Students and professionals are invited to offer innovative, unusual and radical ideas in response to this question. This is a great opportunity to: Engage with a vitally important subject Apply developing technical and theoretical knowledge Be featured […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Two former DS18 students, John Cook and Ben Pollock, will have their drawings featured at the upcoming international conferences and exhibitions in Michigan, USA and Toronto, Canada in September / October 2017. John Cook’s drawing “CSP Plant Jupiter Overview 3000” was produced for his project “Camdeboo Solar Estate” located in South Africa in 2014/2015 for Design […]
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. […]
A cloud tethered above Great Ormond Street Hospital providing a great place for children and family to escape and ‘to go crazy’ with a strong architectural response, sensitive to patient needs.(Architects for Health Student Design Awards 2017) On the 26th June, an Interior Architecture (BA Hons) student Pamela Jankowska received 2 prizes at the Architects for […]
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.
Recent graduates from our Interior Architecture (BA Hons) course will be exhibiting their work as a part of Interior Educators at Free Range 2017 , from 13th until 15th July in The Old Truman Brewery. Part of the exhibition will be dedicatedto the work produced as a part of a Parallel Cities 2, a collaborative project / workshop […]
Hello and welcome to Part 2 of our report on OPEN2017. Here we bring you some of the MArch RIBA Part II, Interior Design (BA Hons) and Architectural Technology (BSc Hons) students’ work, which had been on show in our Marylebone studios from June 15th until July 2nd. MArch RIBA Part II The MArch programme is […]
This blurry shot through the window of our 5th floor studio captured the beginning of the long anticipated OPEN2017; the end to an intense and productive year, and for many the beginning of a new chapter, be it in their professional or academic lives. Running as a part of London Festival of Architecture, the show opened on June 15th and […]
Following the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire an urgent discussion about tall buildings, fire safety and social housing will take place on Friday 30th June from 6.pm to 8.30pm at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The panel of 6 expert speakers chaired by Dr Stephen Games will discuss whether the high-rise still has a future […]
Congratulations to John Wildsmith, this year’s winner of the BFF-sponsored Project Illustration Prize! John is a Year 1-MArch DS22 student, whose drawing Resurrection from the Rubble: Exploring & renewing the edge condition of Gaza won him the prestigious prize. The award is given to the best individual drawing at the University of Westminster’s end-of-year student exhibition. To find out more […]
In autumn 2017 the Survey of London will publish two volumes on the history of Marylebone’s buildings and places, focussing on the south-eastern parts of the historic parish, the area between Oxford Street and the Marylebone Road. The study has made extensive use of the archives of the Howard de Walden Estate. It also explores […]
Kurt Schwitters ‘DIY’ Summer School for architects, craft/design artists and art students will take place between 14th and 22nd July 2017 at the Merz Barn site, Elterwater, Cumbria – the site of Kurt Schwitters’ last Merzbau experiment. “Schwitters’ Merzbau experiments were an important influence on the development of early modern architecture..” (Rem Koolhaas, OMA) The Summer […]
Last Wednesday, 7th of June, an art show called “Let Us Take You by the Hand”, organised in support of the Architects Benevolent Society , was opened at Brady Mallalieu Architects. Curated by Nouha Hansen and Crista Popescu, our MArch students who also run Westminster Architecture Society, the exhibition features over 40 pieces from both beneficiaries of the Architects […]
Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) Pocket Parks and Planters Design Scheme What is the Marylebone LEN? The Marylebone LEN is a partnership project developed by Westminster City Council and local stakeholders, to improve air quality throughout the Marylebone area. The LEN includes developing a Marylebone ‘Green Spine’, introducing physical changes to the landscape to make […]
Skills Academy 2017 is a series of 40 seminars and workshops arranged by the Career Development Centre, aimed at helping the students find work opportunities and establish a career path. The sessions are delivered by industry professionals and employers. They will share their knowledge and provide the students with practical advice, to help them prepare for […]
Site Diary is a twelve-week module run by the Technical Studies team and it’s a part of the 2nd year BA’s curriculum. The aim behind this project is to introduce the students to the construction site and the site team. The idea is to give students a chance to “witness, record and speculate on the Architect’s role […]
An MArch, DS11 student Cristina Popescu‘s proposed water research centre project on Obudai Island in Budapest was featured on AJ pin up. AJ pin up is the AJ Student Tumblr – gallery of students work aimed at showing “what tomorrow’s architects are working on.” Browse their gallery: http://architectsjournal.tumblr.com/
We are exactly one month away from the OPEN 2017 – the end of year exhibition, which will showcase the work of our BA, MArch, IABA and Architectural Technology students. Every year, alongside the exhibition, a catalogue of students’ work is published. We spoke to Clare Hamman, the catalogue designer, to tell us what we […]
London Works is a student ideas competition asking you to engage with a real place, a real client, and a pressing topic: how to retain and future-proof London’s work spaces and put on sustainable footing the heterogeneous qualities that make this city what it is. It will launch at the end of June and run for […]
As part of the London Festival of Architecture the WORK Gallery in Kings Cross will be holding an exhibition of Simon Conder‘s work over the last 20 years. The exhibition will run from 1 – 30 June, and the launch of their book Small Works will take place on Wednesday 14th June, 6-9.30pm in the […]
Industrial Heritage in the UK: Mutations, Conversions & Representations is a one-day conference organised by the University of Rennes 2 in France and will take place on Tuesday 10th October 2017. The ambition of this one-day conference is to explore changes in the field of industrial heritage, its instrumental role in the provision of spaces for […]
Organised by RIBAJ in partnership with the architectural visualisation expert AVR, the Eye Line competition is celebrating its fifth year anniversary. This prize is all about architectural drawing, not the project – originating in any medium or combination of media, from anywhere in the world! The entries are welcome from both students and practitioners, so make sure […]
The One Day Challenge competition is aimed at the young designers and architects under the age of 30, and on the 17th June the Roca London Gallery by Zaha Hadid Architects will host the first UK edition of the challenge. Participants are invited to create a new design related to the bathroom space in less than […]