AHRA 2020 Housing and the City conference online only. Information on fees and registration will be communicated at the end of the month. 17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association Hosted by the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics Research Group, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Given the changes to […]
London’s newest FREE independent design residency SOS_20 is now open for applications!!! SOS_20 runs 27th July – 21st August SOS is a growing network of students, graduates, practitioners and academics that are committed to the pursuit of critical thinking in art, design and architecture. Established in 2018, SOS is a not-for-profit organisation set up to […]
The Ancient Monuments Society (AMS) is pleased to announce that submissions are now invited for the 2020 Stephen Croad Essay Prize. The Prize was established last year in honour of Stephen Croad, former Head of the National Buildings Record and a great supporter of the AMS. It is intended to encourage and reward factually verifiable, […]
The RIBA Student Support Fund is now open for applications for Spring/Summer 2020. The Fund welcomes applications from students of architecture enrolled in RIBA Part 1 and 2 courses in the UK who are experiencing financial hardship, and would benefit from financial support. Students can apply for a maximum of £3,000. The full details and […]
Charlotte was mentored by Dr Kate Jordan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture + Cities. Dr Kate Jordan, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Westminster, said: ‘Charlotte mined a variety of sources to produce a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary conservation practice and theory. Her work makes a valuable contribution […]
Hacking the home to make play part of everyday Play is an essential part of all our lives, whether child or adult. Be it playing sports, a board game or simply sharing jokes with friends, play is just as important to adults as building a den or playing dress-up is to a child. The Coronavirus outbreak has left many […]
In spite of the difficulties the pandemic presents, the Society is pleased to launch its annual Awards programme; our prizes and awards rank among the most prestigious in architectural history internationally. We now have a programme of four awards, each targeted at different sections of the discipline. You do not need to be a member […]
Background The James Phillips Foundation is a charity established in 2015 in memory of James Phillips who died, aged 27, on Sunday 27 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 […]
This episode of Dragon’s Den can be viewed on the BBC iPlayer, and will be available for the next 28 days. TOAD.ai is a “data-driven outdoor advertising agency powered by technology.” It was founded by George Hintzen in 2017, and their focus is on consolidating all of the UK’s outdoor advertising locations and layering it […]
The aim of the RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 Bursaries is to provide long-term financial support to architecture students who demonstrate talent and commitment to their studies who might struggle to cover the costs of living and course-related expenditure. The schemes have been made possible by generous donations to the RIBA from the Walter […]
Two cash prizes of £1000 and up to ten awards of £300 for runners-up. Deadline for entries: 17.00 (GMT) 19 June 2020. The Drawing Matter Trust is delighted to announce the Drawing Matter Writing Prize. The competition invites a coming generation of writers to consider what drawings reveal about the process of design, and the […]
KEY DATES Deadline: Monday 8 June 2020, 23:59. Judging: end June. Winners and commendations announced: August issue of RIBAJ and online. Exhibition opens: August/September. Correspondence: eyeline.ribaj@riba.org It’s back! The 2020 edition of Eye Line, our international free-to-enter competition for drawing and rendering skills, is now open for entries. As ever we ask for images in […]
The first lecture in the Architecture History + Theory Guest Lecture series, delivered by Kate Mackintosh on the subject of social housing on February 13, 2020 in the School of Architecture + Cities, is now available for viewing online: Of the three requirements for realising a civilised life, namely a home, education and health-care, the […]
ADAM Architecture is inviting students to apply for the annual Travel Scholarship to support overseas research in architecture, architectural technology and urban design. The closing date is 30th April 2020. The award of £2,000 supports overseas research in architecture, architectural technology and urban design. Judges will be looking for a significant piece of original research […]
Each year, the final year MArch and Year 3 BA students are invited to attend the Friday Technical Surgeries, to help them develop the technical side of their design projects. The tutorials are organised by Dr Will McLean, and the University of Westminster (UoW) Technical staff is joined by the visiting structural engineers, environmental consultants […]
When: Thursday, 12th of March, 18:30 Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, NW1 5LS Neave Brown received the RIBA’s Gold Medal in 2018 in recognition of his contribution to the architecture of housing. David Porter worked with him for many years and will use an unpublished Dutch project, the super-dense Projekt Zwollsestraat, to […]
When: Thursday, 5th of March, 18:30 Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, NW1 5LS In this talk I explore what “thinking through sounding” and “sonic space” might reveal about the kind space and place we inhabit in our ordinary lives. Sonic space is where sound defines space, rather than the way space is […]
When: Tuesday, 3rd of March, 18:30-20:00 Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, NW1 5LS Derivas recovers the importance of walking as a research and learning tool. However, it is in the exploration of different methodologies and ways of walking where another possibility underlies, that of reconquering the world by moving our […]
When: Thursday, 27th of February, 18:30 Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus The Thursday evening guest lecture series continues this week with a lecture by Bartlett professor of Architecture and Urbanism, CJ Lim. The lecture will outline his new book, Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes and Eco-warriors. The book represents a crucial voice in the discourse of […]
When: Thursday, February 20, 18:30 Where: Robin Evans Room, M146 , Marylebone Campus Founded by artist Kasimir Malevich in Vitebsk, ‘Champions of the New Art’ (UNOVIS) was an influential group of pioneering artists and architects central to the early twentieth century Russian avant-garde. Brief presentations by four different speakers, each with a different take on […]
MArch DS22 tutors, Dr Yara Sharif and Dr Nasser Golzari, have been invited to show their recent work Secrets of a Digital Garden at this year’s Berlinale Forum Expanded. The work consists of a film and an interactive installation, previously exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019. Secrets of a Digital Garden follows on the […]
When: Tuesday, 11th of February, 18:00 Where: M330, Marylebone Campus, NW1 5LS The Expanded Territories Reading Group in the School of Architecture + Cities invites all college staff and students who might be interested, to join us in reading “Unthought: The Power of Cognitive Nonconscious” by N. Katherine Hayles.
Both MArch students and the SA+C staff excelled in RIBA President’s Medal Awards 2019 / RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2019 earlier this week. Ruth Pearn won a Dissertation Medal for her MArch dissertation ‘Age Through the Terrace: The Evolving Impact of Age on Social and Spatial Relations in the Home’ (Tutored by Prof. Harry […]
When: Monday, 9th of December 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Adam Parry is the co-founder of Event Tech Live. About this Event Co-founder of Event Tech Live and the editor of Event Industry News will explore the event technologies that will […]
When: Monday, 2nd of December 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Tracy Halliwell MBE, London and Partners, and Professor Graham Brown, University of South Australia. About this Event Designing Destination Attractors with Tracy Halliwell MBE. London is one of the worlds most […]
When: Thursday, 5th of December, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Eladio Dieste (1917-2000) was a Uruguyan engineer who studied in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Montevideo. In his book on the work of Dieste, The Engineer’s Contribution to Contemporary Architecture: Eladio Dieste, Remo Pedreschi explains that Dieste’s university […]
The work of Thomas McLucas, Architecture BA Honours student, was selected from entries drawn across the UK for the exhibition ‘INDUSTRIALISED’ at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). University of Westminster | News The RIBA exhibition titled ‘INDUSTRIALISED’ shows drawings by over 40 students from 20 schools of architecture across the UK. It parallels […]
When: Thursday, 28th of November, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Prof Jeremy Black MBE is a British historian and a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He is […]
When: Monday, 25th of November 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Marcin Ziemins and Gundega Skudrina creative directors at award winning Untamed Dinner (formerly Skudras Metropole). About this Event One the most innovative and imaginative off-the-wall caterers in Europe. This small but […]
Architects, Students and Academics were invited to each present a single project from their practice, University design project or academic research that can be discussed in regard to (all/some of) the following principles of low energy architecture. This is deliberately a mixture of architectural practitioners at all stages of their careers showing built and un-built […]
When: Thursday, 21st of November, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS In our culture, daylight and sunlight are intrinsically linked to our happiness and comfort. Gianni Botsford Gianni will present projects that explore daylight and sunlight as a starting point of a project not only for the form, but also in […]
When: Monday, 18th of November 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Mungo Denison CEO of award winning Opening Ceremony and Show Design studio NEWSUBSTANCE. About this Event NEWSUBSTANCE is one of the most imaginative show design studios in the world, specialising in opening ceremonies, […]
When: Thursday, 14th of November, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Ripin Kalra has been working in Disaster Risk Reduction, Low Carbon Development and Climate Resilience since 1992. He has first-hand experience in over 30 countries across Caribbean and Latin America, South and South-East Asia, Middle-East and North Africa and […]
When: Monday, 11th of November 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Sarah Haywood award winning Wedding Planner About this Event Sarah Haywood was voted top of US Vogues list of Wedding Planners in 2018. Her wedding clients are international billionaires […]
Congratulations to Prof Kester Rattenbury (DS15 tutor) and Tumpa Fellows (PhD researcher within the Experimental Practices research team and BSc Architectural Technology tutor) who have been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA President’s Award for Research, in History and Theory, and Annual Theme: Building in Quality categories, respectively. The President’s Awards for Research celebrate the best […]
When: Thursday, 7th of November, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS James Macrae graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge in 1976 with a degree in Engineering, and joined Taylor Woodrow International as a Graduate Civil Engineer. He became a Chartered Engineer (MICE) in 1980, and worked in West Africa, […]
When: 25 October 2019 to 24 November 2019 Where: Ambika P3, University of Westminster, Marylebone, London, NW1 5LS Opening Hours: Wed-Sun 11am-7pm Admission: FREE The largest-ever exhibition devoted to menswear Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive is now open to the public and features a collection of previously unseen examples of Alexander McQueen’s early menswear. […]
An opportunity for 4-6 suitable graduate students (and strong undergraduate candidates) from the fields of Architecture, Urban Planning, Urban Design etc. for a Summer School on the topic of the ‘BORDERLINE City‘ that will take place in Berlin from 8-15 May 2020. Participation is free, and accommodation as well as a stipend to cover travel expenses will be provided. The summer […]
When: Thursday, October 31, 5pm to 9pm Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Join us for an evening of Halloween fun! Free Witches Brew. Halloween face painting. Fun activities. Spooky photo booth. Prizes for best costumes. Arrive at 5pm for the make up counter. Doors open at 5.30pm. […]
Out NOW on A Small Voice podcast: David Moore on representation, the guilt-inducing, transgressive nature of documentary photography, his influential degree project “Pictures from the Real World” and why 30 years after it, he wrote a piece of verbatim theatre to help him deal with his discomfort over all those things. http://bit.ly/2Bg5VKr Go listen! Learnings to […]
LFA and Network Rail (NR) have announced ‘Sitting Pretty’ – an open call for new ideas for seating for the capital’s mainline train stations, to be installed next spring ahead of the London Festival of Architecture 2020. As the Festival strives to promote positive change in our everyday open spaces, this design competition seeks an […]
When: Monday, 4th of November 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Carina Bauer CEO of IMEX Exhibitions About this Event IMEX is arguably the premier exhibition for event professionals around the world, that takes place in both Frankfurt and Las Vegas each […]
When: Thursday 24th of October, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Materials influence the design and outward appearance of our built architecture. Therefore it is important to perceive of material as a whole, as a unity of form and construction, and to make it understandable as a driving force, as […]
When: Thursday, 17th of October, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS We design and build attractive spaces for people. As socially committed architects, our mission is to improve the build environment and thus the quality of life. In all our projects we focus on the users and facilitate interaction between people, thereby […]
When: 21st of October 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Chris Ford is Chief Operating Officer of OBO London. About this Event OBO the international creative and production group is known for creating exceptional brand experiences and catwalk shows globally. The session […]
When: Thursday, 10th of October, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS Denizen Works is an award-winning architecture practice based in East London, and led by directors Murray Kerr and Andrew Ingham. The practice won the Stephen Lawrence Prize for House No.7 and was included in the Architecture Foundation’s book, ‘New Architect’s […]
When: Saturday, 19th of October, 9:00-18:00 Where: Roca London Gallery, Station Court, Townmead Rd, Fulham, London SW6 2PY A JURIED ONE-DAY DESIGN COMPETITION £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 practising architect. The charrette […]
When: 14th of October 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here David Ball is CEO of award winning brand experience agency Brandfuel. About this Event Brandfuel the award-winning London based creative agency produces major experiences for Google and other global brands year on […]
When: Thursday, 3rd of October, 18:30 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS Cristiano Ceccato is an Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects in London. Since joining the firm in 2008, his work has entailed a wide range of management, design and technology leadership responsibilities, leading large-scale public and private projects. […]
When: 7th of October 2019, 17:00 Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS To book your free tickets please click here. Colja Dams is CEO of global live marketing agency VOK DAMS. The VOK DAMS approach to event design is explored in this session. Event designs that takes account of changing […]