Tag: Architecture

Performance Architecture Online Summer School 2020, from 20/06 to 11/07

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3-hour classes every Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00 (BST)

4 weeks in total

Independent pop-in participations are also welcomed.

Run by StudioSyn, VIPA and RIPS

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FREE WEBINAR with Q&A

Sat 23/05 at 10:00am – 10:45am (BST)

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Discover the interconnections of architecture

Performance Architecture Online Summer School is an exciting learning journey designed to inspire, broaden and challenge the possibilities of spatial representation and design. Architecture is combined with other disciplines including art, cinematography and performance. 

Architecture is a dynamic discipline

The course is applying the toolbox of performance in architectural thinking, towards the production of spatial actions and bodily geometries in space. It is taught by a team of London-based interdisciplinary and international architects and artists including Ursula Dimitriou (StudioSyn), Aliki Kylika (VIPA) and Eliza Soroga (RIPS).

Play with the city; be curious, be caring, be resourceful

This is an incredible opportunity for students / professionals who want to learn new skills, extend their thinking, emerge to an urban cultural landscape, be part of an interdisciplinary and international team, and diversify their project portfolios.

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ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship 2020_Deadline: April 30, 2020

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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 work, and an outstanding contribution to architectural knowledge. The award is not focused on traditional architecture and the judges are stylistically neutral in their evaluation of the proposals.

The travel scholarship is open to students enrolled at a UK or International University or School of Architecture, studying RIBA Part I; applicants who are 3 years post their Part II qualification; to students studying a CIAT accredited degree, post-graduate course, or equivalent qualification.

First launched in 2005, the scholarship is now in its 15th year and has a proven track record of supporting students to travel overseas to further develop their current research interest or to kick-start something new, often outside of their studies.  A brief summary of the previous winners is on ADAM Architecture website.  Many past recipients have been invited to present their research at a public event hosted by ADAM Architecture.

Talking about his experience, previous Travel Scholarship winner, Sam Little who studied at the Architectural Association, said: 

The Scholarship was fantastic in giving me the impetus to fulfil a project which otherwise would have been left in the locker. It gave me the will and economic means to pursue a trip to Iran to look at 11th century Seljuq buildings. It was a trip which simply would not have been possible without the agency which the scholarship gave me. The whole process was thoroughly enriching and being encouraged to work with freedom helped to place an emphasis on the experience of the trip, rather than any rigid preconceived understanding of the subject.  I would encourage anyone thinking about applying to do so.

Full details and how to apply are available at: www.adamarchitecture.com/academic/travel-scholarship

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “The Cosmic Economy of Eladio Dieste” Prof Remo Pedreschi, University of Edinburgh Thursday, December 5, M416, Marylebone Campus, 18:30

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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 education was formative and crucially provided him with the fundamentals of maths and physics, which was so instrumental in his conception of structures. Some of the earliest work that Dieste undertook as an engineer was on concrete shell structures and on first glance whilst studying projects such as his free-standing vaults for ANCAP in Montevideo (1955) you could easily be forgiven for thinking that they were fabricated out of reinforced concrete. In fact, these shells were made from a unique system devised by Dieste of clay bricks reinforced with steel cables and cement. As with other great structural ‘artists’ of that period such as Felix Candela and Pier Luigi Nervi, Dieste was engineer, builder (and latterly architect) of his projects. He established the firm Dieste y Montañez in 1955 and as Remo Pedreschi explains “…the firm was in effect, a major design and build contractor that had developed its own innovative construction techniques.”

Remo Pedreschi is a chartered engineer and Professor of Architectural Technology at the University of Edinburgh. He joined that university after holding senior positions in the construction industry and continues to work with industry. He has undertaken research in a range of materials including concrete, steel, timber, and stone and currently is Director of the Master’s programme in Material Practice. He obtained his PhD for research in post-tensioned brickwork and has published a number of scientific papers in his area. This research led to his interest in the work of Eladio Dieste. He developed and co-edited a series of books exploring the relationship between engineering and architecture, The Engineer’s Contribution to Architecture, for which he wrote the monograph on Eladio Dieste. Remo was also the co-author of the seminal Fabric Formwork book.

For lecture details contact Will McLean

w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

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Call for entries: Eye Line 2019_Deadline: Monday, 10th of June

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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 RIBAJ.com. Our colleagues at the RIBA’s world famous Drawings and Archives Collections (DAC), based in the V&A Museum, will study the winners for potential inclusion in the collections. ​You will also be invited to the winners’ event at the RIBA attended by leading architects.

Judges are Patty Hopkins, founding partner of Hopkins Architects; Wen Quek, partner, Cullinan Studio; Anne Desmet RA, artist; Tszwai So of Spheron Architects, last year’s winner; Neil Spiller, architect, academic and editor of AD magazine; and Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal.

There is no distinction between ‘hand drawing’ and computer rendering skills but you can find out all the entry details in the RIBA Journal article.

Key dates

Deadline: Monday 10 June, 23:59

Judging: end June.

Winners and commendations announced: August issue of RIBAJ and online.

Exhibition opening: August.

Correspondence: eyeline.ribaj@riba.org

 

Featured image: last year’s winner Tszwai So (Spheron Architects, SA+C DS2.6 tutor)

Architecture Research Forum: “On the Estrangement of the Real from its Representations” Sean Griffiths, Thursday, May 2, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor

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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 work-in-progress for discussion.

Conference: Building-Object/Design-Architecture_From 6th to 8th of June 2019, Birkbeck, London

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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: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. (Roland Barthes, 1957)

This two-day conference will explore old, new and future interconnections between Design History and Architectural History. It will address the disciplines’ shared historiography, theory, forms of analysis and objects of critical enquiry, and draw attention to how recent developments in the one can have significant implications for the other. It will attend to areas of difference, in order, ultimately to identify new areas for discussion and set future agendas for research between the disciplines.

Book Fair, Walking Tours and Keynote Speakers including: Ben Highmore (Sussex), Adrian Forty (Bartlett) and Doris Behrens-Abouseif (SOAS)

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ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship_ Deadline: April 30, 2019

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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. The award is not focused on traditional architecture and the judges are stylistically neutral in their evaluation of the proposals.

The scholarship is open to students enrolled at a UK or International University or School of Architecture, studying RIBA Part I and up to 3 years after Part II qualification, studying a CIAT accredited degree or post-graduate course, or equivalent qualification.

For further details and how to apply go to: https://www.adamarchitecture.com/travel-scholarship.htm

Panel Discussion: “Dressing / Undressing the Landscape” with DS22 tutors Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, Rich Mix, Saturday, March 9, 14:00-16:00

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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’. Notions such as Home, re-production, re-construction and re-imagination of space will be interrogated by different researchers through film, drawings and mapping.

This event is FREE and open to all but registration is essential to attend.

To book please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressingundressing-the-landscape-panel-discussion-tickets-57315042836

The event will be organised by PART and the panel discussion will be led by PhD students and researchers from the University of Westminster and University College London.

Curator Yara Sharif invites guests to explore the concept behind the exhibition, and its importance as an alternative lens into a world of responsive architectural design.

The discussion will address the social and environmental issues of colonisation, where foreign architecture and spatial design can demolish not only functional space, but with it, layers of history, culture, memory and identity.

Chair : Dr Nasser Golzari

Panelists: Dr Murray Fraser & Yara Sharif

Exhibitors:

  • Palestine Regeneration Team (PART)
  • Yara Sharif
  • Hemali Rathod
  • Julia Topley
  • Sakiya: Art, Science, Agriculture
  • Sahar Qawasmi
  • Rim Kalsoum
  • Hiba Al-Safi
  • Nuha Hansen
  • Angeliko Sakellariou
  • Dana Nasser
  • May Sayrafi
  • Samar Maqusi

AWAN, which is about to enter its 5th edition, showcases the work of contemporary Arab women artists in the UK, Europe and beyond, providing opportunities for artists and audiences to celebrate, be informed and network whilst exposing new audiences to the work of emerging and established artists.

AWAN is produced by Arts Canteen and supported by Rich Mix London

Exhibition Opening: “Dressing / Undressing the Landscape” curated by DS22 tutor Yara Sharif, Friday, March 1, 18:00-20:00, Rich Mix

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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, bring forward new insights to the cities of Gaza, Mosul, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Ramallah and the rural villages of Palestine.

The works provoke the current geography of the Middle East and the way it is being represented, exploited and imagined — especially with the on-going colonial project that continues to dress it with alien layers and new sceneries.

The contributors question through design, what might a landscape crafted by women be like? They offer alternatives that resist the legislated power of men, the power of war and the power of image, which have been constantly reinvented.

In the cities of Mosul, Damascus and Baghdad Dressing/Undressing the Landscape goes beyond the surface to cultivate hope; contributors share the beauties of everyday life and the hidden agencies that shape their cities.

In Palestine, Undressing the Landscape is a way to expose the hidden potentials of the ‘edges’ and what has become a leftover landscape. In Beirut however, the work reveals the naked reality of what appears to be a ‘magical’ setting; it narrates the underground life of Syrian Refugees.

Exhibitors:

  • Palestine Regeneration Team (PART) — Yara Sharif, Hemali Rathod, Julia Topley
  • Sakiya: Art, Science, Agriculture — Sahar Qawasmi
  • Rim Kalsoum
  • Hiba Al-Safi
  • Nuha Hansen
  • Angeliko Sakellariou
  • Dana Nasser
  • May Sayrafi
  • Samar Maqusi

This exhibition is curated by Yara Sharif from Palestine Regeneration Team (PART).

It will be accompanied by a panel discussion on Arab cities and the making, redefining and reclaiming of public space, on 9 March 2019 as part of Arab Women Artists Now Festival @ Rich Mix main space from 14.00 – 16.00pm.

AWAN, which is about to enter its 5th edition, showcases the work of contemporary Arab women artists in the UK, Europe and beyond, providing opportunities for artists and audiences to celebrate, be informed and network whilst exposing new audiences to the work of emerging and established artists. www.awan.org.uk

AWAN is produced by Arts Canteen and supported by Rich Mix London

This private view of the “Dressing/Undressing the Landscape” exhibition event is free and open to all but registration is essential to attend.

To book please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressingundressing-the-landscape-tickets-56815700289?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

 

Technical Studies Lecture Series: Jason Bruges, “Interactive Environments”, Thursday, December 6, 18:00, Room M416

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Who: Jason Bruges, Jason Bruges Studio

When: Thursday, 6th of December, 18:00

Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Jason Bruges Studio has become internationally renowned for producing innovative installations, interventions and ground breaking works. This practice involves creating interactive spaces and surfaces that sit between the world of architecture, site specific installation art and interaction design. Considered a pioneer of this hybrid in-between space, Jason has subsequently paved the way for a new genre of design studios, artists and designer-makers.

In 2002 Jason set up his own practice and now works with a talented team of people to develop and deliver interactive projects worldwide. The studio comprises of an experienced team of architects, engineers, industrial designers and computational designers as well as specialists in electronics, programming and project management.

Jason Bruges is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in London. Jason’s work blends architecture with interaction design and uses a high-tech, mixed media palette to explore spectacle, time-based interventions and dynamic spatial experiences. He is passionate about creating site-specific pieces that engage people with their environments.

Recently completed projects include a robotic light work for Hull – City of Culture 2017, a series of interactive resources for Tate Modern, a distraction piece for Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for children en-route to surgery, and Digital Ornithology an immersive installation of 562 LCD screens celebrating the annual bird migration at the Wadden Sea Visitor Centre in Denmark.