At the end of April, DS3.6 set off on an adventure into the wilderness of Finland. Destination was Lusto – The Finnish Forest Museum, some 4h drive northeast of Helsinki. Under the guidance of a Finnish architect Sami Rintala and the DS3.6 tutors, Harry Paticas and Tom Raymont of Arboreal Architecture, fifteen students were tasked with designing […]
Design Studio [02] 05 have been invited to exhibit their Semester 1 design project ‘Indoor Weather’, a speculative pavilion design for the Imperial College Science Festival, at Imperial Festival 2017. The festival takes place over the weekend of 6/7th May. With the support from the Quintin Hogg Trust 125 Fund, our students have had the opportunity to work on the production […]
FAB FEST team is delighted to announce that FAB FEST ’17 will also feature the launch of the Architectural Robotics Theatre. A.R.T. is a series of research projects exploring how our industrial robots might be used to invent and develop new ways of working with a particular material to create innovative architecture. The projects will […]
The RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships were established in March 2013 following a generous donation by The Wren Insurance Association Limited, the architects’ professional indemnity mutual that currently comprises 60 of the UK’s leading architectural practices. The scholarships aim to support outstanding Part 2 students who have the potential to make a significant contribution in […]
Technical Studies are organising Visiting Consultant Sessions for the 3rd year BA students and 2nd year MArch students to meet and discuss their work with various professionals in the field of architecture, engineering and environmental design. To sign up please go to the notice board next to M503. The available consultants are: Dave Heely – […]
The James Phillips Foundation is a charity established in 2015 in memory of James Phillips who died, aged 27, on Sunday 21 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 on Westminster’s Part 3 course. His […]
The closing date for FAB FEST applications is drawing near, so please make sure you apply by Friday 31st March. More info on how to apply at: http://fabfest.london/
Monsoon [+ other] Airs is the first of three annual symposia that will be convened by the ERC funded Monsoon Assemblages project at the University of Westminster. It will interrogate questions of monsoon atmospheres, politics and media and comprise a keynote lecture (Thursday 20th April) followed by a one-day long symposium (Friday 21st April). It will […]
Each year, at the beginning of their first term, a full second year cohort of architecture students is given a workshop in the use of digital routing and 3D printing – so called additive and subtractive digital fabrication, as well as in more traditional casting techniques. The students are given an introductory lecture on the […]
Technical Studies are organising Visiting Consultant Sessions for the 3rd year BA students and 2nd year MArch students to meet and discuss their work with various professionals in the field of architecture, engineering and environmental design. To sign up please go to the notice board next to M503. The consultants this year are: Scott Batty […]
The last Teaching and Learning Forum of this year will be held 1-2pm this Thursday 23rd March in the Ralph Erskine Room, M523. Douglas Spencer will give a brief talk and then chair a discussion. All staff and students are welcome.
Negotiation in Architecture will be an open floor discussion with a distinguished panel. The aim is to look at the issues regarding negotiating design decisions which will lead to a debate on the current and possible future role of the architect within the construction industry. The event will take place on the 27th March at […]
Shumi Bose, writer and academic, who teaches the M.Arch History and Theory module and runs Dissertation Group I: Design of the Deal at the University of Westminster will chair a panel discussion Mies&Stirling: Contemporary Reflections on the 21st March, 19:00, at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The key figures involved in two of the most […]
The Westminster Architecture Society is pleased to announce the last Open Lecture of the term. James Stirling: Inspiring Places and Spaces will complement the month-long events held by the RIBA to honour Stirling’s contribution to modern architecture in anticipation of the eponymous annual Stirling Prize. The lecture will take place on 3rd April, 13:00 in Robin […]
The series of lectures organised by the M.Arch History and Theory continues on Thursday 16th March at 18:30 in Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus with Professor Teresa Stoppani’s Architecture & Paradigm. ‘Paradigm’ (Gr. paradèigma, ‘example, exemplar’) is an action and relation word that contains within itself the possibility of variation and movement; it indicates oscillation and […]
On 23rd February 2017 the FabFest team announced the return of the International Fabrication Festival, which will take place at the University of Westminster from 2nd to 10th July 2017. The theme for this year is Pop-up City and the participants are encouraged to apply as teams rather than individuals. The teams don’t have to be fully formed […]
Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning. (Diane Ackerman) Following the success of previous year, PLAYWeek 2 was back in November 2016, with more than ten workshops on offer. The play-dates took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th November, on Marylebone campus and various locations around the city. Judging by the voting results, […]
Hello Everyone, And welcome to Open Studio Westminster! This is an interactive project run by the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster to make its design, research and practice-based work available online, while it is happening. The key idea is that the site acts as a ‘real time’ teaching and learning environment in […]