The Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing: Co-design Workshop, led by the Assistant Head of School and the ArCCAT lead Dr Ro Spankie, was one of the three projects from the University of Westminster that were named finalists for prestigious 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & Ireland. Dr Spankie said: “All of us involved are delighted […]
Westminster academics, University colleagues and postgraduate researchers came together on Tuesday 6 June to explore what the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mean to them, to share best practice and to discuss ideas on how to overcome challenges while embedding them into the curriculum and their work. The University also announced a new commitment to Education […]
When: Thursday, 12th of October, 6pm (BST) Where: M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online (see tumblr page below for link) Architect Hugo Braddick (Haworth Tompkins Architects) talks with client Amandeep Singh Kalra (Be First) about the incredible new ‘Industria’ building in East London. Hugo has 20 years’ experience in delivering […]
When: Monday, 16th of October 2023 at 1pm (BST) Where: Online [link below] The next Architecture + Cities research seminar will be held online on Monday 16 October, 13.00 – 14.00. At this seminar, John Cook and Ben Pollock will present the work of Climate Cartographics, a proof of concept grant to test the mapping techniques developed […]
When: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 6pm (BST) Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS To register, please go to the Eventbrite. We are pleased to be joined by journalist and Architect Alison Killing for the 2023 Robin Evans lecture, both in-person and as an online streamed event. ‘Investigating Xinjiang’s […]
When: Friday, September 22, 2023 | 9.30am-5pm & 5pm-10pm Where: Fabrication Lab + Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Please join us this Friday for a one-day international conference on creative technologies for the design, creative + digital industries. Following the conference, we invite you to attend a Private View in Ambika P3 […]
When: Friday, 22nd of September 2023 at 6pm (BST) Where: 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS To register please go to Eventbrite. Join us on Friday 22 September for the launch of MORE 2023, an exhibition of the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture + Cities Master’s students’ thesis project, across the following disciplines: The celebratory […]
Now that OPEN2023 has closed, please enjoy these wonderful videos of the MArch design studios at this year’s graduating students’ exhibition. They were made by our talented 1st year MArch student Kevin Wong from DS10. Credits (videos + featured image): Email: wongkevin2020@gmail.com Instagram: Kevinwth Web: www.wthproduction.work
When: 25th of July 2023, 9am to 5pm (BST) Where: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE) To mark the Centre’s relaunch, the new leadership team of the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE […]
On Friday, June 23 an ‘experimental walk’ organised by ArCCAT (Corinna Dean and Diana Periton), as a part of London Festival of Architecture 2023, took place along the River Lea. The walk started at Bromley-by-Bow and ended at Cody Dock, where the group gathered in the newly built ‘Growing Space’, a project designed and realised […]
When: Friday, 23rd of June 2023, 15:00 – 18:00 Where: Meet at Bromley-by-Bow tube at 3pm (BST) Register on Eventbrite Rowland Parker’s book The Common Stream tells the history of a Cambridgeshire village through the stream that sustains it. The stream is water source, sewer, communication channel, and common element around which the village coheres. […]
When: Saturday, July 1, 2023 from 10.30am to 1pm (BST) Where: Learning Platform, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS The School of Architecture + Cities is delighted to host this year’s Architecture LGBT+ Pride Breakfast together with the RIBA. It will take place at 10.30am-1pm, Saturday 1 July, on the […]
When: Thursday – Saturday, September 21st – 23rd, 2023 Where: Ambika P3 + Fabrication Lab, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS The School of Architecture + Cities is excited to invite you to join us for a new international conference and exhibition on creative technology. It will be held this September 21-23 jointly in Ambika […]
When: Thursday, 22nd of June at 2pm (BST) Where: MG14, University of Westminster Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS How does a school of architecture + cities pursue school-wide equity? How are questions of equity emerging in student projects, and how could these projects inform school strategies? What can practitioner perspectives offer the […]
When: Wednesday – Friday, 28th – 30th of June 2023, 10am-7pm daily Where: Ground Floor Learning Platform Room MG28, University of Westminster Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS We are delighted to invite you to Re-Imagining Coral Reefs – a virtual reality (VR) experience aimed at communicating the climate science of coral reef research to a wider […]
When: Friday, June 16 – Sunday, July 2 (Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm; Saturday-Sunday: 10am-4pm) Where: School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS London On Thursday, June 16 we launched OPEN2023, our graduating students’ degree show, featuring work from: The School is committed to its Polytechnic inheritance, and its aim remains to […]
When: Monday, 12th of June 2023 at 13:00 (BST) Where: Online (link below) The final Architecture + Cities Reserch Seminar for this academic year will take place on Monday, 12th of June, 13.00 – 14.000, online. Corinna Dean will present her work on the River Lee in a presentation titled: Let’s Talk about Contamination: Green, Blue and Grey Corridors. The […]
When: Saturday, 3rd of June 2023 from 11am to 1pm Where: Cody Dock, 11c South Cres, London E16 4TL Staff and students from the University of Westminster have designed and built a QHT funded Therapeutic Horticulture Centre in collaboration with Cody Dock, OfCA and WebbYates Engineers. The pavilion is designed as a lightweight timber structure […]
On May 22, 2023 a group of staff and students from four courses within the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster attended a Fire Experience Training Day hosted by the Fire Service Training College. The day was sponsored by Axa Insurance, Fire Protection Association (FPA) and School of Architecture + Cities, UoW. The experience […]
The School of Architecture + Cities is dighted to announce that the shortlisted project of Rūta Perminaitė, MArch student from last year’s DS22 cohort, has gone to the next stage and has been selected as one of the 12 finalist projects for the prestigious EU Mies Van der Rohe Young Architecture Talent Award, an EU […]
When: Thursday, 15th of June 2023 at 6pm (BST) Where: Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO OPEN 2023 REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE Head of School Harry Charrington cordially invites you to attend the opening of the graduating students’ degree show, OPEN […]
When: Thursday, June 8, 6.45pm-7.45pm Where: MG14, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS The School of Architecture + Cities is excited to host its alumnus Hamza Shaikh, who will be speaking about his recently published and timely book on architecture and social media. Drawing Attention – Architecture in the Age of […]
When: Monday, 15th of May at 13:00 (BST) Where: Online (link below) The next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar is taking place on Monday, 15 May, 13:00 – 14:00 online. Alessandro Ayuso of the Making and Practice Research Group in the School of Architecture + Cities will present his work in a seminar titled BUILDING THE LEAP’S WORLD: DRAWINGS FOR THE EASTWAY STUDIOLO. […]
Dr Paolo Zaide, a Filipino-British architect and Course Leader of the School of Architecture + Cities’ Architecture BA Honours course, has presented his ideas on Rethinking Architectural Education at the 48th UAP National Convention on 19-22 April 2023 in Manila. His talk explored how schools of Architecture in the Philippines could step up to the extreme immediate […]
When: Wednesday, 3rd of May at 13:00 (BST) Where: Online (link below) The next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar is taking place on Wednesday, 3 May, 13:00 – 14:00 online. PhD student, Didem Ertem will be presenting her research on ‘Small-scale Events and Everyday Multiculture in Finsbury Park.’ The link to this seminar is here.
When: Workshops on Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd, and Monday 24th of April 2023 | Conference on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th 2023 Where: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS The School of Architecture + Cities is hosting Shape To Fabrication 2023. This is the first time that the industry leading event has been hosted […]
When: Wednesday, 3rd of May 2023 at 3pm Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS To book you place via Eventbrite, please go here. The acclaimed Supercrits series returns on May 3, with Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch and Juan Lucas Young presenting Sauerbruch Hutton’s groundbreaking project GSW, completed in […]
When: Thursday, 30th of March 2023 at 6pm (BST) Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS “The making of a photograph is constructing a microworld: it has its own technique, craft and aim. Through this lecture, we will explore thirty-five years in the making.” Over a period of more […]
The exhibition of models is open to the public from 21th of March to 6th April 2023 and is the foyer of the Keyworth Centre, LSBU. The Symposium will take place in: Lecture Theatre A, Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University (LSBU), Keyworth Street, London SE1 6NG To register please go here. Since the early 20th century […]
Re-Imagining Coral Reefs is a VR Design Summer School that invites student co-creators to contribute to an immersive VR installation that communicates the vital climate science of coral reef restoration to a wider audience. Working with marine biologists from ZSL London, students will explore the vital scientific research on coral reefs, an ecosystem that provides habitats […]
When: Thursday, 27th of April 2023 at 6pm (BST) Where: Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, or Online/ Watch Later Ticketed, free This lecture will explore the technologies that make tall buildings possible. With the current climate crisis in mind, what is the carbon footprint of a building, and how can it be reduced? Finally, the lecturer will […]
When: Tuesday, 25th of April 2023 at 6pm (BST) Where: Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, or Online/ Watch Later Ticketed, free Design excellence should be at the heart of all development. But what makes design good or bad? How can you build in beauty and longevity? Looking at both policy and projects, from the National […]
When: Thursday, 16th of March at 18:00 (GMT) Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS + online Due to the rail strike this lecture will also be live streamed via MS Teams: Click here to join the lecture online via MS Teams In this lecture, Joseph Cook (UCL Anthropology) […]
When: Wednesday, 8th of March at 13:00 (GMT) Where: Online (link below) The next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar will be given by Nick Beech, Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture, a member of the Architectural Humanities Research Group and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment […]
When: Tuesday, 14th of March, 13:30 (GMT) – Wednesday, 15th March, 16:30 (GMT) Where: School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Gender Ecologies is a programme of the British Council launched to support the development and delivery of projects that explore the intersection of women, climate change and […]
Where: Exhibition Road Courtyard, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL When: Friday, March 3 to Monday, May 1, 2023 Congratulations to Shahed Saleem, Reader in Architecture in the School of Architecture + Cities and BA Architecture DS2.3 tutor. Since the Pavilion’s inception in the days before the pandemic, Saleem has involved students in […]
The Athens school takes place in the summer. It runs daily, during 5 days in a week. Participants are expected to produce work individually and in collaboration. The rich cultural, social and political background of Athens and the history of performance of the city provides endless inspiration, ground for study and opportunities for creativity. The […]
Three bursaries are offered to assist registered students or professionals in the early years of their career to attend the Vernacular Architecture Group’s spring conference in the Greater Manchester area on 11-15 April 2023. During three full days, delegates will tour the locality, visiting and interpreting lesser traditional buildings. Lectures and discussions will be held […]
When: Wednesday, 22nd of February, 13:00-14:00 (GMT) Where: Online The next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday, 22nd of February 2023, 1pm-2pm, and will be given by two colleagues from the Active Travel Academy, Ersilia Verlinghieri and Charlie Couve. The seminar will take place online (link available above).
The School of Architecture + Cities at the University of Westminster is pleased to offer three full time studentships and three full time fee waivers only, for three and a half years, for prospective PhD students starting in October 2023 or February 2024. Amongst others, we welcome applicants looking to undertake joint PhDs in partnership […]
When: Friday, 24th of February 2023 at 1pm Where: Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW To book tickets please go here. Join the University of Westminster’s Schools of Architecture + Cities, the Humanities, Law, and the Social Sciences for a screening of the new film The Oil Machine on 24 February, 13.00 […]
When: Wednesday, 1st of March 2023, 11am – 5.30pm (GMT) Where: V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL For the second Make Good symposium the V&A brings together international speakers from a wide range of disciplines, spanning science, design, architecture and forestry to look at the opportunities and challenges of sourcing and making with natural, renewable […]
Conference dates: 28th to 30th of June 2023 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15th of April 2023 Organisers: Czech Technical University, with Amps, Intellect Books, and UCL Press Publisher: Intellect Books Formats: Fully In-person, Virtual, Hybrid Themes: Art & Design Practice, Museums and Places of Memory, Local Histories – Regional Cultures, Art History, Heritage and Identity Disciplines: Art, […]
The UCL Press Journal ArchitectureMPS ISSN 2050-9006 is looking to develop special issues on several themes through 2023-24. One theme under consideration is Education for Sustainability. These themes are picked up in the 2023 conferences below. Papers submitted here will be considered for these publications. Applying Eduction in Complex World Dates: April 26-28, 2023 Abstracts: […]
When: From 10th to 12th of July 2023 Where: Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK The 55th Universities’ Transport Studies Group (UTSG) Annual Conference will take place at Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, between 10 and 12 July 2023: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/utsg2023/ The Conference, which has more than half a century’s excellent history in the UK and Ireland has now […]
When: Thursday, 9th of February, 09:30-14:30 (GMT) Where: Ground Floor, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS
When: Monday, 6th of February, 13:00-14:00 (GMT) Where: M321, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS The next Architecture and Cities Research Seminar will take place on the 6th of February, 2023, 13.00 – 14.00 as an in-person presentation in M321 (note the change of venue from previous seminars). It will be given by Elias Pajeres, a researcher […]
The University of Westminster School of Architecture and Cities (UoW), in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation (ZHF) welcome applications for an interdisciplinary PhD studentship funded by Technē under its Doctoral Training Partnership Scheme, to begin in September 2023. Applicants will be shortlisted via the UoW online application and interview arrangements and be subject to […]
Heritage Dot is a conference bringing together heritage + digital, taking place online on 22nd March 2023. The University of Lincoln is hosting the second Heritage Dot Conference with the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and other partners, exploring digital horizons in relation to cultural heritage. Heritage Dot will offer a platform for sharing, challenging, disrupting and interrogating what […]
The second round of the Mayor’s Green and Resilient Spaces Fund is now open for applications from councils and other organisations, with £3m available for projects to create or improve green spaces and an additional £800,000 for large scale tree planting to boost London’s climate resilience. Grants on offer include Project Grants of between £250,000 […]