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 […]
The Robin Evans Lecture in which Beatriz Colomina, acclaimed author and curator, will draw on references ranging from John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Bed for Peace to the all-in-one home called Suitaloon, her own interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist and co-curatorships in Venice Biennale and Istanbul. The book by Colomina Sexuality and Space is […]
When: Friday, 20th of September 2019, 18:00 Where: Banqueting Hall, Fabrication Lab, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS
When: Tuesday, 3rd of December 2019, 18:30-21:00 Where: SA+C, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Please join us for a book launch at the University of Westminster! Speakers: Susannah Hagan (University of Westminster), Bob Allies (Allies and Morrison) Chair: Lindsay Bremner (University of Westminster)
Dr. Yara Sharif and Dr. Nasser Golzari from the School of Architecture + Cities will be taking part in the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial. In a collaborative project with Riwaq: centre for architectural conservation, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari will be curating the exhibition entitled Secrets of a Digital Garden: 50 flowers, 50 villages. Secrets […]
Celebrating the talent of today and tomorrow. Millennials are taking over the world! This event is all about moving beyond the stereotypes, and celebrating the young leaders and influencers of today and tomorrow. The theme of MILLENNIFEST 2019 is Talent: our programme of inspirational talks, skills masterclasses and policy workshops will explore what the future […]
Where: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS When: Friday 13th of September, 18:00-21:00 THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + CITIES INVITES YOU TO MORE 2019 An exhibition of thesis projects from Masters courses across the School of Architecture + Cities, including: MA Architecture, MSc Architecture & Environmental Design, MA Interior Design, MA International […]
Voting in the 2019 Council elections is closing on Tuesday 23 July at 5pm, and RIBA is keen to encourage as many members as possible, particularly students, to make use of their votes. Candidates statements and more information can be found on www.architecture.com/elections or through the direct voting link www.ersvotes.com/riba2019. Voting emails containing nominal links […]
Where: 25 Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6AE When: 9 – 11 July 2019 Blueprint for the Future is a free, three-day showcase of the work of the brightest, most interesting and challenging architecture students graduating Part II across London and the UK, as selected by Blueprint Magazine. Blueprint Magazine has paired 13 leading architecture schools […]
Led by doctoral researcher in architecture at the School of Architecture + Cities, Mehrdad Borna, this walk will focus on air quality in our cities. If you care about creating a better future for our cities, then this tour is for you! Join us for a hands-on experience and an insightful walking tour of Canary […]
We are delighted to announce a new collaboration between Grimshaw Architects and the Fabrication Lab. The project is launching in the next few weeks and will have a vacancy for a Part 1 or Part 2 Architectural Research Assistant. We will be looking for a creative, pro-active graduate, interested in working on a cutting-edge, practice-led […]
When: Friday, 14th of June, 13:00 – 19:30 Where: The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly This year’s LFA symposium organised in collaboration with the Royal Academy offers a rich exploration of the role and application of boundaries in architecture and placemaking. This day long symposium brings together a rich […]
When: From Thursday 20th of June, 9:00 to Friday, 21st of June, 19:00 Where: School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS The University of Westminster in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects is hosting a groundbreaking two-day conference to explore the boundaries between the sacred, spiritual and secular […]
The RIBA Research Fund awards annual grants to individuals conducting independent architectural research at any stage of their careers in practice or academia. The aim is to support critical investigation into a wide range of subject matters relevant to the advancement of architecture, and connected arts and sciences, in the United Kingdom. Payments of grants […]
In 2007, Mrs Margot Auger donated a sum of money to the RIBA in memory of her late husband, the architect and civil engineer Boyd Auger, to create a funding scheme that would support and reward architecture students and graduates. This became the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship; a £5,000 scholarship which aims to assist with […]
To be eligible to apply for the RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships, applicants must: have graduated from a RIBA Part 1 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education institution in the UK, and at the time of application, be enrolled in a RIBA Part 2 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education […]
When: Thursday 27th of June, 5pm-8pm Where: HOK, 90 Whitfield Street, London W1T 4EZ Archiboo and HOK’s London Studio are looking for seven architects to pitch problem-solving and entrepreneurial ideas to a panel comprising Usman Haque, David Weatherhead, Savannah de Savray, Nick Searl and Safia Qureshi. The winner will receive a significant marketing and […]
THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO OPEN 2019 An exhibition of the work of Architecture BA, Interior Architecture BA, Architecture and Environmental Design BSc, Architectural Technology BSc, Designing Cities BA and MArch PREVIEW THURSDAY 13 JUNE, 6 – 9pm To be opened by Angela Brady OBE PRIBA Click here to register STUDENTS AWARDS EVENING […]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is now calling for applications for the 2019 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships and the RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship. To be eligible to apply for the RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships, applicants must: have graduated from a RIBA Part 1 professional qualification course in Architecture in a […]
In the run-in to portfolio submission and OPEN2019, the School of Architecture + Cities has agreed with Security extra cover to enable 24h opening of the Marylebone studios for the nights of: Wednesday 8 May Monday 13 May Tuesday 14 May Wednesday 15 May Monday 20 May Tuesday 21 May Wednesday 22 May Wednesday 12 […]
It’s Eye Line time! RIBAJ’s free-entry annual award for celebrating excellence in architectural drawing. This international award is a proven opportunity for exposure and career advancement – for both practitioners and students. Winners and commendations will be exhibited at the RIBA for a month and will be published in The RIBA Journal and online at […]
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 2nd of May Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Sean Griffiths is Professor of Architecture at Westminster and currently practices as Modern Architect. He is a former director of FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste). The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present […]
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 some of the foundational texts of new materialism and post humanism over the coming months. We meet once a month in M330 on the Marylebone Campus. The next […]
On Monday 8th of April, second year BA students from the School of Architecture + Cities had the opportunity to meet and have tutorials with a number of professionals from the industry. The tutorials ran throughout the day, providing the students with invaluable insight and help with their final projects. The students were asked to […]
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. – Jane Jacobs OPEN TO ALL ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES The University of Westminster and Westminster Architecture Society, in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation, invites all architecture students and recent graduates to the second edition […]
When: 6th to 8th of June 2019 Where: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, 27 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7JL Building-Object/Design-Architecture Jointly supported by the Design History Society, the European Architectural History Network, and the Architecture Space and Society Centre (Birkbeck). I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: […]
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 4th of April Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Eric Guibert is a practising gardener architect who teaches design studio at SA+C. He did a PhD through Reflective Practice as an ADAPT-r Research Fellow at KU Leuven.
The fifth international peer reviewed conference of the UK association of architectural educators, aae2019 Learning through Practice, will be hosted by the University of Westminster. The conference aims to invite contributions from educators, researchers and architectural practitioners on the theme of contexts for learning architectural practice, and how the nature of these contexts shape the […]
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) is pleased to announce details of this year’s Philip Webb Award architectural competition, which is open to current Part II students at UK Schools of Architecture and recent graduates who completed their studies in 2017 or 2018. The entry period will open on 19 July and […]
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 28th of March Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Scott Batty is a practising architect mainly designing one-off homes. He studied and previously taught at the Bartlett, and is now a part-time Senior Lecturer at SA+C.
The present programme builds on the LIVING WITH EARTHQUAKES conference held in Cambridge in October 2017, which discussed earthquakes that affected the Apennine regions, causing widespread destruction and damage to cultural heritage. This summer school is therefore part of a wider research initiative, involving a dialogue between the SCIENCES (Seismic Engineering, Geotechnics, Construction) and the […]
Monsoon [+ other] Grounds is the third in a series of symposia convened by the Monsoon Assemblages project. It will comprise a key-note address, inter-disciplinary panels, and an exhibition. The event will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to engage in conversations about geologies, soils, histories, spatialities, and modifications of monsoon […]
The next lecture in the Interiors Lecture Series will take place on Thursday 21st March at 1pm in MG14, at which Tomasz Fiszer, Associate at MJP Architects, will give a talk titled: Reusing Buildings, Reimagining Interiors. Tomasz will present three case studies and discuss how the past and present of the buildings can inform the […]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is now open for applications for the 2019 RIBA Part 1 Bursary and RIBA Part 2 Bursary. Full details of the eligibility criteria and application process can be found here. RIBA Part 1 Bursary To be eligible to apply for a RIBA Part 1 Bursary, students must be […]
The COINS Grand Challenge is a global competition to uncover students, innovators and leaders with ideas that have the power to positively impact the built environment, and our society. We are searching for viable ideas that use a new or emerging technology to radically reduce costs, to increase efficiency or to improve sustainability, quality or […]
Context A quick search of the word “design” reveals hundreds of different definitions. Likewise, there are many different designers – different disciplines, different attitudes, different goals, different agendas, different ways of working, different ways of doing research, different outputs, and different values. Perhaps, however, the connection between all of these diverse activities is the iterative […]
When: Thursday, 7th of March at 18:00 Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), 35 Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 5LS China’s 245 million floating population has resulted in a missing middle generation in contemporary rural families. Through fieldwork and case studies of self-built rural family houses, the research identifies a fundamental change in the idea of […]
ADAM Architecture is inviting students to apply for its annual Travel Scholarship. The award, increased this year to £2,000, supports overseas research in architecture, architectural technology and urban design. The closing date is 30th April 2019. Judges will be looking for a significant piece of original research work, and an outstanding contribution to architectural knowledge. […]
How can communities outside the Middle East, including diaspora, engage in influencing the decolonization of public space and architecture? Alongside the exhibition, a panel discussion on the Arab cities of Mosul, Baghdad, Riyadh, Ramallah, Beirut, Damascus and Gaza will take place to unpack their vanishing landscape and the way it is being ‘Dressed and Undressed’. […]
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 7th of March Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus Shahed Saleem is a practising architect and teaches both Design Studio and History & Theory at SA+C. He is also a Senior Research Fellow on the Survey of London.
When: Friday, 1st of March 2019, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT Where: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Dressing/Undressing the Landscape explores means to rethink the current cultural landscape of the Middle East. In a dialogue between architecture, art and spatial design, female architects and artists from the Arab world and beyond, […]
When: Thursday, 21st of March 2019, 16:00 – Friday, 22nd of March 2019, 18:00 Where: Room M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Monsoon [+ other] Grounds is the third in a series of symposia convened by the Monsoon Assemblages project. It will comprise a key-note address, inter-disciplinary panels, and an exhibition. […]
When: Thursday, 28th of February 2019, 17:00-19:00 Where: LG02, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, London SE14 6NW This presentation will be about sediment and humanitarian violence. It will examine the response of the Bangladesh government to the influx of 600,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in 2017. Mobilising suspension as analytical method, it will argue that Bangladesh’s […]
When: Wednesday 13th of March 2019, 6pm – 9pm (Talk Starts at 6.30pm) Where: University of Westminster, School of Architecture & Cities, Room 416, 4th Floor, Marylebone Campus, London NW1 5LS (near Baker Street Station) Monsoon Assemblages has teamed up with the Friends of Sri Lanka to celebrate the work of Geoffrey Bawa. Bawa […]
The Expanded Territories Reading Group will be held on Tuesday 9th of April at 18.00 in M330, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster NW1 5LS. Professor Lindsay Bremner will introduce AbdouMaliq Simone’s Improvised Lives (2018). The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. […]