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 […]
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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: “Accounting for Alognon Pragma: Recent work in the Studio and On-site” Alessandro Ayuso, Thursday 1st March, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
ALESSANDRO AYUSO: Accounting for Alognon Pragma: Recent work in the Studio and On-site My work explores the intersection of human bodies and architecture by envisioning non-ideal, deviant, playful, and personal images of embodied conditions. It is de ned by artefacts generated in the pursuit of […]
Architecture Research Forum: “On the Estate” Julian Williams, Thursday 15th February, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
JULIAN WILLIAMS: On the Estate What makes an estate, and what does it mean to be part of one? What do estates embody and how do they act as vehicles for change, or resistance to change? These questions form the research context for an emerging […]
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 […]
Architecture Research Forum: “In What Style Should We Build” Shahed Saleem, 23rd November, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00 – 14:00
Shahed Saleem: In What Style Should We Build? In what style should we build? This question, which has resonated throughout European architectural history for some 150 years, is revisited and reapplied in my talk to the predicament of mosque design in Britain today. Style became […]
Architecture Research Forum: “Still Dreaming? Space After Spectacle and the Indifference of Architecture” Douglas Spencer – 2nd November, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
Douglas Spencer: Still Dreaming? Space After Spectacle and the Indifference of Architecture Susan Buck-Morss, in her Dreamworld and Catastrophe, observed that the end of the Cold War was marked by the passing of the dream-forms of modernity — capitalist, socialist and fascist — as sustained […]
Architecture Research Forum: MONASS “Reporting from the Field” with Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen and Christina Geros_19th October, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13:00-14:00
MONASS: Reporting from the Field With: Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen and Christina Geros Monsoon Assemblages is a five-year-long European Research Council funded research project investigating relations between rapid urbanisation and changing monsoon climates in South Asian cities. The MONASS team spent six weeks in Chennai […]