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 […]
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Architecture Research Forum: “Ecological Standardisation” Roberto Bottazzi & Harry Charrington, Thursday 5th April, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
ROBERTO BOTTAZZI & HARRY CHARRINGTON: Ecological Standardisation In 1966, Aino and Alvar Aalto worked together with Leonardo Mosso on a prototypical project for a series of warehouses for the Ferrero Company. Though the project was shelved shortly before going onsite, their collaboration had produced an […]
Architecture Research Forum: “Subver-City: the Green Urban Lab typology” Yara Sharif & Nasser Golzari, Thursday 15th March, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
YARA SHARIF & NASSER GOLZARI: Subver-City: the Green Urban Lab typology After the devastating war on the Gaza Strip in 2008-09, which left most of it in ruins, we took up the challenge of trying to think how Gazans could manage to reconstruct their city […]
Architecture Research Forum: ” Talking about building/s: oral history and modern architecture” Christine Wall, Thursday 1st February, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
CHRISTINE WALL: Talking about building/s: oral history and modern architecture The place of oral history within the historiography of modern architecture is not yet fully accepted, understood or theorised. Faced with a wealth of tangible evidence found in photographs, plans, documents and models, architectural history […]
Architecture Research Forum: “White Light and Black Shadow – The Poetics of Light in Le Corbusier’s Sacred Architecture” Benson Lau, Thursday 7th December, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
Benson Lau: White Light and Black Shadow – The Poetics of Light in Le Corbusier’s Sacred Architecture This presentation will disseminate the research outcome of a RIBA Research Trust funded project that explored the interplay of space and light in Le Corbusier’s sacred buildings from […]