The latest call for contributions to issue 9(1) of Charrette, under the theme Beginning Architecture: Contextualising thresholds in architectural education, is now live, with Raymond Quek (Norwich University of the Arts), Angeliki Sioli (TU Delft), Jodi La Coe (Marywood University) as guest editors. The deadline for Call for expressions of interest (500 words) is 8th July 2022, and the deadline for Submission of full […]
Pete Silver, Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Cities has been awarded a patent from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office for his design for a helical structural framework. Hopefully, we shall be able to prototype and construct this at a large scale on campus.
When: Wednesday, 27th of April 2022, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (EST) Where: Online | New York Institute of Technology To register, please go here. Based on almost 10 years of applied research by Paolo Cascone between Europe and Africa, his work investigates the potential role of indigenous and spontaneous architecture in the contemporary debate on sustainability in […]
When: Friday, 13th of May 2022 from 10am to 6pm (BST) Where: M416, University of Westminster, Marylebone campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Register via Eventbrite. Background The ‘Emerging Territories’ research group hosts a one-day symposium on current research initiatives of the School of Architecture and Cities, which contributes to the global agenda of […]
The workshop will take place from 6-10 June 2022 in Madrid, Spain and will bring together international experts and students to explore the development of tools, models and design methods to address the displacement crisis in the face of climate change, and the role of architecture and design in doing so. To this end, the […]
Lindsay Bremner and an interdisciplinary and intersectoral team of researchers from India, the UK and Canada have been awarded a British Council Knowledge Frontiers: International interdisciplinary Research 2022 grant for a two-year project titled ‘Reimagining the Good City from Ennore Creek, Chennai.’ Ennore Creek is a coastal wetland and backwater of the Kosasthalaiyar River in […]
Julian Williams, Principal Lecturer at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster is pleased to invite you to join ClimateDemonstrator 2022: A free live-build summer school involving students from across the School of Architecture and Cities, other Schools in the University and primary school pupils in Camden and Westminster. The brief is to […]
When: Wednesday, 21st of April (from 10am BST) – Thursday, 21st of April (to 7pm BST) Where: University of Westminster, Marylebone campus, Room MG14, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Register via Eventbrite. The AHRA Research Student Symposium 2022, “Voices in Architecture”, considers voices in architectural research, posing the critical questions: who speaks and for […]
When: Friday, 29th of April 2022, 15:00 – 21:00 BST Where: Online and at University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS To register via Eventbrite please go here. Join us for a celebratory event, marking 50 (+) years of the Transport Studies Group (TSG) at Marylebone, reflecting on teaching and research, […]
When: From 5th to 30th of April 2022 Where: Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins, Granary Square, N1C 4AA The work of Monsoon Assemblages and the Manifest Data Lab visualises geophysical and atmospheric data as ways of making climate change perceptible and public. Through drawings, maps, animations and models saturated with data from multiple sources, Planetary […]
We’d like to invite you to an evening workshop in the Fabrication Lab to raise funds for Ukraine. The workshop is a one-off opportunity to try out the Lab, and to work with our robots and digitally fabricated tools to help you design and make your very own ceramic patisserie. We’ll provide all the materials, […]
Big thank you to Ro Spankie, Tony Madgwick and Chris Meloy for realising this initiative. Now awaiting their first guests!
Art in Offices are running and organising The Landmark Student Art Prize on behalf of Landmark, one of the country’s biggest providers of flexible office space. Landmark are about to launch a new space in King’s Cross at The Lighthouse. As a company they have a rich history of investing in and displaying art in […]
The event is arranged by the Worldwide Network of Port Cities AIVP with prominent speakers on board: Alistair Gale, CEO London Port Authority – communicating their recent strategies Professor Carola Hein, Professor & Head, History of Architecture & Urban Planning Chair, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Jamil Ouazzani, SAPT Tangier Maurice Jansen, Senior researcher, Department Urban Port & Transport Economics, Maritime […]
The Worshipful Company of Woolmen Charitable Trust and The Company of Merchants of the Staple of England in conjunction with the Campaign for Wool are seeking submissions that showcase wool in new, inspirational applications which can be either apparel, interior, novel or other scientific wool applications. For more information please go here.
Amidst political instability in Europe, this is a call for architecture students to come together in solidarity and across borders to show the world that sustainable architecture can be a framework for reconciliation! This summer school will centre around a 2-week on-site residency (July 18th-29th) in the war-torn Prijedor region in B&H, led by peacebuilding […]
Where: Online When: Wednesday, 30th of March 2022 from 6.30pm to 8pm Eventbrite booking here. The University of Westminster and Lund Humphries are delighted to celebrate the launch of Revolution? Architecture and the Anthropocene, a new book that asks why architecture has lagged behind the environmental curve for the last fifty years. Susannah Hagan in conversation with Harry […]
Congratulations to Nedal Harris Ghoshesh, Jessica Abdul Matin and Jack Morris, BA 2nd year students, who will be participating in the London Student Sustainability Conference on Thursday the 24th of February, presenting their design studio semester 1 projects. The conference is entirely student-led; with students exhibiting their research and projects through presentations, posters and demonstrations. This is the first time […]
When: Tuesday, 1st of March, 2.30pm – 4pm Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS and online Link to join: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/5c1973fe40fa4b74acfc946a1f26c354 Dean Hawkes is emeritus professor of architectural design at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, and an emeritus fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He taught and researched at Cambridge from 1965 […]
Wednesday, 23rd of February – Growing Space Workshop Get hands on with our growing spaces and learn how to grow fresh vegetables from food waste! No booking required. 10am-11am Marylebone Campus, Growing Space located on Luxborough Street 12pm- 1pm Cavendish Campus, Growing Space, behind the Pavilion (1st floor) Thursday, 24th of February – Dr Bike […]
On Tuesday, 8th of February, The School of Architecture + Cities hosted Barnabas Calder, who introduced his important new book Architecture: From prehistory to climate emergency. The book provides the first history of architecture with the climate emergency as the central focus, and was reviewed in The Guardian. The lecture is now available for viewing:
The Architecture + Cities Climate Action Taskforce is starting a monthly online reading group. We will begin with Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn. This will take place on 2nd March, 16.00 – 17.30. If you wish to join the reading group, please contact Ro Spankie at r.spankie@westminster.ac.uk and she will send […]
A Talks Series about Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability and Design Projects by tutors and friends of the School of Architecture + Cities — Paolo Zaide Floodscapes The issue is the fluid edge between city and water and is captured in the term ‘floodscape’, to give definition to a cityscape affected by fluctuating water levels. Manila, […]
When: Tuesday, 8th of February at 6pm GMT Where: Online Eventbrite booking here. Join us online at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster and Barnabas Calder who will introduce his important new book Architecture: From prehistory to climate emergency, which provides the first history of architecture with the climate emergency as the […]
Co-convenors: Maja Jovic and Kate Jordan The AHRA Research Student Symposium 2022 “Voices in Architecture” considers voices in architectural research, posing the critical questions: who speaks and for whom? How do we give voice without assuming authority? How do we listen without judgment? How do we adjust the volume of our own voices? A key […]
When: Friday, 14th of February at 6.30pm (GMT) Where: The School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Please join us from 6.30pm on Friday 4 February for the launch of MORE 2021, an exhibition of the School’s Postgraduate Students’ thesis projects from the following courses: MA Architecture MA Interior Architecture […]
The Norman Foster Foundation (NFF)’s Education + Research programme is organising the 2022 NFF Energy Workshop, which will take place from 25-29 April 2022 in Madrid, Spain. The workshop aims to bring together international experts and students to explore the development of tools, models and design methods to address global energy challenges, and the role of architecture and […]
Many congratulations to Peter Barber, Reader in Architecture, MArch Design Studio 12 tutor, alumnus, and the UKs leading building and campaigning social housing architect who has been elected a Royal Academician. For more information please go here. Featured image: Peter Barber RA, Donnybrook Quarter, 2005 (via Royal Academy)
When: Saturday, 22nd of January at 9.15am Where: Online Event (to book tickets please go to Eventbrite) In recent years, there is an increasing awareness of climate change and environmental sustainability. To act on climate change and explore environmental concerns, 8 universities from the UK and Singapore have come together to organise an environmental conference to raise awareness and discuss potential solutions to related […]
Archisource have just launched their third, annual, free-for-students, Drawing of the Year competition and would like to invite our students to enter! Archisource instagram.com/archisource is an architecture and design platform for students and professionals with a growing creative community – now 230,000 on Instagram. Having published our students’ great work over the past year they […]
Thanks to the support of our VC Peter Bonfield, and the efforts of Dain Son Robinson and Matt and Jessica in the University’s design team, an ArCCAT flag has been produced and is hanging outside the Regent Street building this week. Once it is taken down, it will find a permanent home in the M416, […]
When: Wednesday, 26th of January 2022 from 2pm to 3pm (GMT) Where: Online event The School of Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce will convene a Forum in January for all interested in finding out what the taskforce has accomplished since its formation last year, what its current projects are and what it plans for the new […]
When: Wednesday, 19th of January, 4pm-6pm (GMT) Where: Online event Book tickets via Eventbrite here. The Sustainable Cities and the Urban Environment Research Community and the Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce invite you to a panel discussion to reflect on the successes and failures of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November and its […]
When: Thursday, 9th of December at 6pm (GMT) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Link to join livestream […] it turned out that TiO2 (titanium dioxide) is excellent for photocatalytically breaking down organic compounds. Allison Dring Frustrated by a sustainable architectural palette of parsimony and the […]
When: Monday, 29th of November at 6pm (GMT) Where: In-person in M416 (Robin Evans Room), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS + Online Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite. The launch of the School of Architecture + Cities Equity Forum will introduce its members, explain its values, and its place within the School’s […]
When: Thursday, 2nd of December at 6pm (GMT) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Link to join livestream ‘… if we are to develop truly sustainable architecture, we don’t necessarily need more materials. We need smarter ones.’ Doris Sung In her ‘Bloom’ project, architect and inventor […]
AAA are excited to be launching their first ever photography competition, which is free to enter and open to all. AAA would love to have participants from all backgrounds (don’t have to be Asians only) participate in this exciting creative opportunity. The theme of the competition is ‘’Joy in Architecture’’ (which doesn’t have to […]
In the second of two special evenings, Architecture on Stage presents four of Britain’s best emerging practices. One of these is Spheron, founded by Tszwai So (Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Cities ) and Samuel Bentil-Mensah. Spheron has a particularly rich portfolio of community projects including the Belarusian Memorial Chapel (featured image), which […]
The RIBA Student Support Fund is now open for the Autumn 2021 round of applications! Students enrolled in RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 courses in the UK and experiencing financial hardship can apply for a bursary of up to £3,000. Guidance notes and application details are available on the RIBA website. The deadline to apply […]
When: Thursday, 18th of November at 6pm (GMT) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Ton will be giving the talk in person and the talk will also be live-streamed via this link. As the construction industry works towards a more sustainable post-pandemic future, Ton presents a timely, expert […]
When: Thursday, 11th of November at 6pm (GMT) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Andy Watts is Grimshaw’s Director of Design Technology and oversees the application and exploration of innovative technological approaches across all Grimshaw studios, covering areas such as computational design, BIM, virtual […]
When: Thursday, 4th of November at 6pm Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Online: Live stream link Thomas Hesslenberg is a Senior Structural Engineer at Elliott Wood, a Structural & Civil Engineering practice based in London. Elliott Wood are committed to making “[…]engineering […]
Following the completion of the week-long design Student Competition on the ‘Material ReUse Station’ as part of the Climate Action Week (24-29 October) Group 5: The Slice was announced the winner! Congratulations to Julie Beech (BA Interor Architecture), Adam El Hafedi (BA Architecture), Zuzanna Jodlowska (BSc Architectural Technology) and Ruhan Zaman (BSc Architecture and Environmental […]
PROCESS WEEK Please join us for a week of Events, Workshops and Reviews across Year 1/2/3 – BA Architecture __ Monday 01 November 2021, 1PM Year 1 Display: Very Very Vernacular BA Architecture Studios, 4th Floor Exhibition of 1:20 and 1:50 models of a range of vernacular typologies. Could turning to the past and looking at the […]
Interior Matters//Practices When: Thursday, 28th of October 2021 at 1pm Where: Room M416, Marylebone Campus, School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster The Rural Urban Synthesis Society is a volunteer-led Community Land Trust based in Lewisham, constructing 36 permanently affordable new homes, the largest self-build community housing project of its kind ever undertaken in London. Hear Architect and […]
When: Thursday 28th October 6.30pm, M416 Where: M416, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS + Online: A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that looks at lifecycle, embodied energy and energy use. To coincide with the university […]
When: Tuesday, 26th of October 6pm – 8pm Where: Robin Evans Room (M416) and online | to book tickets please go to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practicing-sustainability-from-portfolio-to-practitioner-tickets-191649176847 Organiser and Moderator: Harry Charrington Speakers: Chris Morgan, John Gilbert Architects, Glasgow. Gordon O’Connor-Read, Rural Urban Synthesis Society and Laing O’Rourke. How do you take the ideas and commitment of your […]
When: Monday, 25th of October at 5.30pm – 6.30pm Where: Marylebone Learning Platform Speaker: Peter Bonfield Curators: Lindsay Bremner, Grace Lancto, Francois Girardin and David Scott, with the assistance of Chris Meloy and John Whitmore. An exhibition of staff and student work from the school of Architecture and Cities supporting sustainability goals accompanied by the […]
When: Monday, 25th of October, 4pm (BST) Where: Robin Evans Room (M416) and online; book at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kings-cross-journey-to-carbon-neutrality-tickets-183433162527 Organiser and Moderator: Johannes Novy Speaker: Stephen Kellett, Sustainability Manager, Ardent Services LLP Discussant: Roudaina Alkhani The King’s Cross Estate is one of Europe’s most significant regeneration projects – this talk will highlight the key decisions made […]
When: Monday, 25th of October 13:00-14:00 Where: Studio, Marylebone Campus Who: Diony Kypraiou, Stefania Boccaletti, Paolo Zaide and Tabatha Mills. For both students and architectural designers, the physical model is a manifestation of ideas. The act of physical model-making is central to architectural education and our studios. It presents the opportunity to test, explore, speculate, […]