When: Monday, 25th of October 2021 at 1pm Where: M523, Marylebone Campus UoW students-as-co-creators project team 2021: Dana Al Khammach, Elantha Evans, Rebecca Kelly, James Mason and Lavinia Peninno. Join us for a curated, interactive and enjoyable 15-20 min session at 13:00 on Monday 25th October 2021. This is about what YOU think we can […]
Spiritual, sacred, secular. Places of faith in the twenty-first century The special issue of Architecture and Culture (Volume 11 Issue 1) seeks to broaden notions of how the sacred, spiritual and secular are imagined and constituted through new architectures. We invite expansive interpretations of faith, religion and spirituality and the spatial and architectural encounters between them. We […]
The symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss the agency of falling in contemporary culture. Metaphors of falling are often evoked to describe the current period of insecurity and instability. At the same time, the built environment reflects and in turns reproduces this state of suspension: while […]
A huge congratulations to Jamie Williams, a MArch DS18 student last year and his tutor, Ben Pollock who have won the overall prize (Jamie) and an honorary mention (Ben) for their submissions to MIT’s Projection 16 – Visualizing Cities awards. These awards celebrate data visualizations that analyze city dynamics to inform urban planning practice and advocate for just, safe, and […]
The Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce (ArCCAT) has developed an exciting, slightly-longer-than-a-week programme of events between October 18th and October 28th to support the University’s Sustainability Month, a lead-in to COP 26 in Glasgow at the beginning of November. Go here for further details of the University’s programme: here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-university/vision-mission-and-values/sustainability-month. The ArCCAT programme is as follows: Monday 18 October 18.30 – […]
ArCCAT would like to congratulate Hugo Reis Santos (BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Year 3) for his winning design for a logo for the Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce (ArCCAT), as well as Grace Lancto, Stefano Towli and Winander Rachbuakao as runners-up. Thank you to all who participated in the competition. The awards will […]
When: Thursday, 21st of October at 6pm Where: Room M416 + Livestream, School of Architecture and Cities , University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Livestream Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fc7cfc71b9534b29830ec5e4ae564d16 Before air conditioning, people paid attention to materials and orientation for the natural regulation of heat. Nzinga Mboup Senegal’s traditional dwellings were made of earth, but that construction method […]
When: Thursday, 14th of October 2021, 15:30 CEST (14:30 London) Where: You can find the link to join the session in the attached programme or directly via zoom here: https://zoom.us/j/97320816756 Giulio Verdini (BA Designing Cities) is moderating a session on ‘Climate Justice in Pedagogy and Practice‘ at I4C ‘Innovate 4 Cities’ conference IPCC / UN-HABITAT / GCoM https://www.innovate4cities.org. The session will be an […]
When: Thursday, 14th of October at 6pm Where: Room M416 + Livestream, School of Architecture and Cities , University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Link to join livestream https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/954cdae480dd42c7b74ca7c02d5e59df HANNAH is an experimental design and research studio working across scales from furniture to urbanism. HANNAH’s projects mine the tension between machine means and architectural […]
The School of Architecture + Cities launched ArCCAT on 20th May 2021. It is made up of staff and students from across the school committed to bringing about the cultural shift in education to meet climate biodiversity and planetary system challenges. Current students of the School of Architecture + Cities or those who graduated in 2021 are […]
Where: Gallery Café, 309 Regent St, 18 October – 15 November When: 18 October, 18.30-19.30 Speakers: Lindsay Bremner, PI of Monsoon Assemblages in conversation with Tom Corby, Associate Dean of Research, Central St Martins. This exhibition shows a selection of maps drawn by John Cook for Monsoon Assemblages, a research project in the School […]
When: Thursday, 7th of October at 6pm Where: Room M416, School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS The design and architecture studio of Steve McCloy and Bongani Muchemwa has its roots in Africa and is based in London. The studio’s work is an inventive exploration into design thinking […]
ONLINE EVENT On the 7th of October LET’S BUILD is organising their 7th event in the series LET’S TALK: Changing the Culture of Architecture to Fit All. Each event brings together a diverse group of construction professionals to share their experience. We will be discussing the architecture and construction industry and how we could make […]
Congratulations to Jan MacBean who was presented with the runner up prize for his proposal: A Paddington Pollution Solution and the Westway Garden Path. Jan’s proposal compromises two phases. Phase one looks to manage the dangerously high level of air pollution around the Paddington Basin by sequestering CO2 and NO2 with algae from the canal. […]
The work of DS15 and MArch 2021 graduate, Gemma Mohajer has been shortlisted for this year’s Arts Thread Global Design Graduate Show 2021 in collaboration with GUCCI. The public vote is now officially open, so please follow the below link to vote for her project! It takes about 2 seconds. https://www.artsthread.com/events/globaldesigngraduateshow/product-architecture-interiors/#/project/the-mycology-institute Featured image: Gemma Mohajer, […]
DMJournal–Architecture and Representation is a new publication dedicated to the exploration of practices, histories and material cultures of drawing in architecture and related fields. Initiated by Drawing Matter in collaboration with the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), it builds upon the kind of wide-ranging inquiry into architecture’s graphic forms evident in the rich […]
The School of Architecture + Cities launched ArCCAT on 20th May 2021. It is made up of staff and students from across the school committed to bringing about the cultural shift in education to meet climate biodiversity and planetary system challenges. Current students of the School of Architecture + Cities or those who graduated in […]
The Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce (ArCCAT) was formed in May 2021. It comprises staff and students from the School of Architecture + Cities, the Westminster Business School and members of the University Estates team committed to meeting climate, biodiversity and planetarysystem challenges. Over the next three years it aims to: develop short, medium […]
Huge congratulations to Michelle Barratt, a DS15 graduate from 2020 whose painting Room was selected to be featured in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show. The painting was a part of Barratt’s MArch project Technical College, Barking. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021 features over 1, 000 works selected by the coordinator Yinka Shonibare and a […]
Architecture LGBT+ are launching an OPEN CALL for an exhibition of talent from beyond professional practice to be exhibited at the Roca London Gallery for the month of September. The exhibition will be part of the Open House festival, London Design Festival and within the Pride In London month. Alongside the opportunity to be part […]
Please join us on Friday, 2nd of July from 5pm to 7pm (BST), for the last in the series of events around our graduating students’ virtual degree show OPEN2021. We will host our last year’s graduate, Hamza Shaikh, the founder and the host of the Two Worlds Design podcast, and a maker at Make Architects. Through recounting his architectural […]
Recording of the online event that celebrates University of Westminster‘s work exhibited at the prestigious 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale (22nd May-21st Nov), which took place on the 9th of June 2021, is now available for viewing here. Academics based within the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries have co-produced three different installations to respond to the theme: How will […]
This online symposium will focus on the importance to architectural practice and research of listening. To listen effectively is not just to hear: it means actively seeking perspectives from those people in society whose voices are often the least audible. In exploring a wide range of voices in architectural practice, theory and history, the symposium […]
Massive congratulations to architect and our MArch DS12 tutor Peter Barber who was awarded an OBE for his services to architecture. He is in great company of architects named in Queen’s Birthday Honours, which include Steve Tompkins of RIBA Stirling Prize-winning Haworth Tompkins, author, academic and architect Sumita Singha, and Peter Murray, curator-in-chief at New […]
Hackney Wick is changing fast. Is it ‘the new Shoreditch’? What does that mean and why should we care? Who controls the story as the post-Olympic new-builds radically change the face of what was once the biggest artist colony in Europe? Where does its industrial past fit in? Is the culture and heritage of this […]
Please join us on 11 JUNE 21 @ 5 pm (UK time) for an online panel discussion on Practices of Care, reflecting on a Co-Production Workshop held between the University of Westminster and Imperial College London. How does one educate a professional – an architect, a doctor? Competencies are one thing, but what about qualities such as ethics, or duty […]
The Workshop will take place in Madrid from 18-22 October 2021. As with previous workshops, ten grants will be awarded to a selection of exceptional students from around the world to attend and work on collaborative projects throughout the week-long programme. These grants will cover all visa, transportation and accommodation costs associated with the workshop. In order to […]
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + CITIES INVITES YOU TO OPEN 2021 Thursday 17th June To be opened by Sunand Prasad Head of School Harry Charrington cordially invites you to attend the opening of our graduating students’ virtual degree show, OPEN 2021, featuring work from Architecture BA, Interior Architecture BA, Architecture and Environmental Design BSc, […]
Are you interested in construction and making? Please come on Tuesday, 8th of June between 10.30am and 2pm, and have some fun taking apart the Woven Pavilion at the rear podium at the Marylebone Campus and learn about the construction process. After revarnishing and making good off-site some of the QHT funded arches it will be reassembled at Harrow Campus. […]
We are pleased to announce the launch of Climate Demonstrator: a live build summer for Westminster students in collaboration with St John the Divine School Kennington. Be part of a two-week live build summer from 14th to 25th June. Work as part of team to design and fabricate an exciting, interactive playground installation that demonstrates […]
When: Wednesday, 9th of June 2021, 16:00-18:00 (BST) Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-will-we-live-together-westminster-at-the-venice-biennale-tickets-155634983425 Join us for an online event that celebrates University of Westminster‘s work that is being exhibited at the prestigious 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale (22nd May-21st Nov). Academics based within the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries have co-produced three different installations to respond to […]
Please join MArch DS22 tutors and the founders of Palestine Regeneration Team, Senior Lecturers at the UoW, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, on the 10th of June 2021 at 6pm (BST) for a webinar and a book launch for Open Gaza: Architectures of hope, co-edited by the late Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp. In an attempt […]
This year’s RIBA President’s Awards for Research call for papers is now open. We are inviting submissions from academics, practitioners and collaborative groups from all disciplines engaging in architectural & built environment research (completed after January 2020). This year’s annual theme is ‘Education’ and the submission deadline is 5 July 2021. The 2021 RIBA Research Fund is now open […]
Join the online presentation of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal to Sir David Adjaye OBE, live from Accra, Ghana and London, UK. Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a […]
Foster + Partners are currently looking for Part 1 and Part 2 Assistants. Part 1: https://www.fosterandpartnerscareers.com/vacancy.aspx?VID=1478 Part 2: https://www.fosterandpartnerscareers.com/vacancy.aspx?VID=1461 All other opportunities: https://www.fosterandpartnerscareers.com/
AALTO is a documentary film journey into the life and work of one of the greatest modern architects Alvar Aalto. The film shares the love story of Alvar and his architect wives Aino and Elissa Aalto. It takes the viewer on a cinematic tour to their creative processes and iconic buildings all over the world. […]
When: Tuesday, 18th of May 2021, 17:00 – 18:30 BST Eventbrite booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/architecture-wont-be-relevant-on-a-dead-planet-tickets-154547462621 Since the beginning of civilization, the human race has used architecture as a form of protection from the changing climate, sometimes referred to as the Third Skin. However, significant global climate change has brought to light the impact humanity has had on […]
Architecture students are encouraged to apply to design and build workshop in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland that will take place between 29th of July and 9th of August. The workshop will be located in Kangerlussuaq where the students during a period of 14 days will construct one of the several installations / structures by recycling materials from […]
‘Cartographies of the Imagination‘ festival of drawing in collaboration with Drawing Matter The workshop is open to all students of architecture, landscape, visual arts and related. Key information: Weekend drawing workshop 17-18 July at OmVed Gardens (RIBA 2019 London award winning space designed by HASA) Speculative and experimental drawing workshop run by Sayan Skandarajah and Kirsty Badenoch of The […]
Five scholarships of £6,000 each are now available to support architecture students starting the final year of their Part 2 course in September 2021. The winners will also have the opportunity to be mentored by an architect from of one of the 67 leading UK architectural practices that make up the Wren Insurance Association, an […]
Here’s your chance to be Part of Cinema History! Just make a “sequel” to any of the Lumiere Brothers’ films. The best films will be projected at the Regent Street Cinema in the summer, at the very place where the Lumiere Brothers first screened their originals to an astonished British audience, exactly 125 years ago. […]
ASF-UK are offering two funded scholarships on our new part-time educational offer, Practices of Urban Inclusion, taking place this May to October 2021! Scholarships are offered to individuals working in the fields of migration and/or refugee support in the UK. This course forms part of the Erasmus Plus programme, Desinc Live: Designing and Learning in […]
British School at Rome Architecture Awards: Scholars’ Prize in Architecture The Scholars’ Prize in Architecture is an exciting and valuable opportunity for an early-career architect or post-Part II student of architecture to spend three months in Rome (living at the BSR), and be a member of a vibrant residential community of architects, artists and researchers. […]
The Covid19 pandemic has caused people, worldwide, to be confined to their homes for longer periods of time than previously, causing many changes to take place within them, while many other interiors beyond the home, including hospitals and care homes, have had to respond to the new priorities in a variety of ways. Homes have […]
RAPS Radicality 2021 Conference is pleased to invite extended abstract submissions for 30th April 2021. We invite submissions from architects, academics, artists, environmental scientists, engineers, activists, sociologists and visionaries amongst others to submit 300word abstracts in link below. The Conference will explore radical visions of architecture practice for sustainability through six themes: Architect as Activist; Green Dream; NOT building; Ecological Entanglements; Utopian Realism; Beyond […]
The Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) announces its first annual New Research Symposium: Interiors and their Histories. The symposium will showcase innovative projects, highlighting ground-breaking research and methods in the historical study of the conception, design, representation, experience, preservation, and interpretation of interior spaces across time and geography. We seek work notable […]
When: Friday, 9th of April from 2pm to 4.30pm GMT Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-studio-sessions-tickets-147987575823 Calling all students and educators at the University of Westminster! Join us for an afternoon of discussions with industry professionals to engage in proactive learning, and develop the skills to design within the context of the climate emergency. We are exploring a new […]
When: Tuesday, 6th of April, 2pm-5pm and Thursday, 8th of April, from 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm BB link of the online sessions: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/0c1eb0958d304a78a4b51396245b91fd Tutors: Paolo Cascone and Yota Adilenidou Synthetic Vernacular Architecture / Learning from African Fabbers Premise: We do not lack communication, on the contrary we have too much of it. We lack creation. We […]
The racialisation of space has its roots in colonial practices that sought to wield control over people perceived as ‘Other’. If the future of practice begins with education, how has the practice of ‘othering’ become absorbed into the structure of education? Join us for a half-day symposium in collaboration with the recently established Asian Architects Association (AAA) […]
The Drawing Matter Trust is pleased to announce the return of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize. The competition invites participants to carefully look at drawings and to consider what they reveal about the process of design, and the buildings or objects they represent. We take the word ‘drawing’ to be as much a verb as […]