Tag: Architecture

Ute Schneider “Designing Flexibility” – Wednesday 14th February, 18:00, Robin Evans Room (M416)

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Lecture organised by Alessandra Cianchetta and Juan Pinyol, MArch DS24 studio leaders and tutors

When: Wednesday, 14th February, 18:00

Where: Robin Evans Room, M416, Marylebone Campus

Ute Schneider studied architecture and urban planning at the technical universities of Constance, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Delft. During her studies she worked in various German and Dutch internationally operating architectural offices, among others with Neutelings Riedijk Architekten in Rotterdam where she continued her professional career after graduation. In 1998 she founded the multidisciplinary office zipherspaceworks in Stuttgart working within the disciplines architecture urbanism & design.

In 2003, Ute Schneider began working with KCAP. Since 2006 she established KCAP’s Swiss office in Zurich and got appointed director in 2009. Since 2016 she became partner of KCAP. In this position she is responsible for the management of the office and in charge of the coordination of KCAP Zurich’s projects spanning from architecture and urban planning to the design and development of masterplans and transformation strategies in various scales and context’s. She has a focus on transport oriented developments like the masterplans for Europaallee, the Airport Region Zürich, the Airport City of Dublin, Gare TGV Montpellier, divers station precincts in Switzerland, MUC Airsites, CAG and Jurong Lake District Singapore.

In addition to her work as an architect and urban planner, she was involved in various exhibitions and publications about KCAP. She is regularly invited for lectures, as guest critic and teacher at various international universities and regularly participates in juries. Since 2012, she is responsible for the integration of urban design at the University of Liechtenstein.

KCAP Architects&Planners is a Dutch office for architecture, urban design and urban planning, founded by Kees Christiaanse in 1989. During the last 25 years KCAP has established itself as one of the leading international practices in the fields of architecture and urbanism. With a multi-disciplinary approach to complex design issues, KCAP has gained extensive experience in large-scale urban design and master planning, waterfront redevelopments, campus design and public transportation hubs. Architectural designs range from housing, education and care to public and utility buildings and mixed-use programs. KCAP develops concepts and visions that address sustainability, urbanization and infrastructure. KCAP is connected to various urban research programs. KCAP is based in Rotterdam and has two branch offices in Zurich (CH) and Shanghai (CN). KCAP Zurich was established in 2006 a er winning two international design competitions in Zurich. KCAP Shanghai, established in early 2011, and supports KCAP’s growing portfolio in China.

Call for Papers: CHORD workshop – ‘Retailing, Architecture and Material Culture: Historical Perspectives’, Deadline for Abstracts 2nd March

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Call for Papers

CHORD workshop: ‘Retailing, Architecture and Material Culture: Historical Perspectives’

Tuesday 22 May 2018

University of Wolverhampton, UK

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invites submissions for a workshop that explores the architecture, material environmement, objetcs and material culture of retailing and distribution.

Papers focusing on any historical period or geographical area are welcome, as are reflections on methodology and / or theory. We invite both experienced and new speakers, including speakers without an institutional affiliation. Potential speakers are welcome to discuss their ideas with the organiser before submission (please see details below). Some of the themes that might be considered include (but are not limited to):

  • The architecture of shops, markets and retail premises
  • Retailing and distribution ephemera
  • Retail exteriors, displays and interiors
  • The material culture of distribution
  • Fixtures, fittings and packaging
  • The restoration and recreation of historical shops
  • Retailing and town planning
  • Retail premises in the wider environment

Individual papers are usually 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We also welcome shorter, 10 minute ‘work in progress’ presentations, also followed by 10 minutes for discussion.

To submit a proposal, please send title and abstract of c.300 to 400 words, specifying whether you are proposing a 10 or a 20 minute presentation to Prof Laura Ugolini, at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk by 2 March 2018.

If you are unsure whether to submit a proposal or would like to discuss your ideas before submission, please e-mail Prof Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk.

The workshop will be held in the Mary Seacole (‘MH’) Building, Wolverhampton University City Campus Molineux, a short walk from Wolverhampton’s bus and train stations. Maps and directions are available here.

The call for papers is available here.

Find out more about this and other CHORD events at https://retailhistory.wordpress.com

For further information, please e-mail Prof Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

Featured image: Marks and Spencers Edgware Road, London store in 1912 © Marks and Spencers Company Archive

Call for papers: CA²RE Conference, Aarhus School of Architecture, 13-16 April 2018 – Deadline 15th December 2017

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The CA²RE community and Aarhus School of Architecture proudly announces the third CA²RE conference 13-16 April 2018 in association with ARENA, EAAE and ELIA

The Architectural Research European Network Association (ARENA), the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) are seeking to offer a joint platform for research in all fields of architecture, design and arts. This includes subjects such as environmental design, sustainable development, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design/urbanism, music, performing arts, visual arts, product design, social design, interaction design, etc.

One of the objectives is to support early-career researchers, PhD students and Postdocs in the fields of architecture and the arts, and to improve the quality of their research. Another objective is to show that senior researchers CARE about the work that is being done by more junior researchers.

CA²RE, the Conference for Artistic and Architectural (Doctoral) Research will be hosted in April 13-16, 2018 at the Aarhus School of Architecture, in association with ARENA, EAAE and ELIA. CA2RE is intended to bring together senior staff and early-career researchers to improve research quality through an intensive peer review at key intermediate stages. It wishes to contribute to the open and diverse fields that exist in architectural and artistic research, not giving priority to any single approach.

Deadlines

15 Dec 2017 Abstract submission deadline, registration opens

15 Jan 2018 Notification of acceptance

28 Feb 2018 Full text submission deadline

1 April 2018 Registration deadline

13-16 Apr 2018 Conference dates

For further information, please visit the conference website.

Featured image taken from: http://aarch.dk/info/research/ca2re/about-the-ca2re-conference/

Series of Lectures organised by Sir John Soane’s Museum and James Taylor-Foster: Architecture on Display

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Sir John Sloane’s Museum in Holborn is hosting a series of lectures in collaboration with James Taylor-Foster.

The series is called ‘Architecture on Display’ and aims to tackle head-on the ideas, ideologies and assumptions that underlie how we present and display architecture, whether through exhibitions, installations, pavilions, biennales, triennials, debates, lectures or other projects.

In essence, the speakers are asked to address the following: what does it mean to curate architecture and what is its purpose?

The museum is delighted to be welcoming Marina Otero Verzier, Head of Research & Development at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, on 6 December, 7–8pm.

The format is salon-style: 30 mins presentation, followed by 30 mins of discussion.

Tickets are £5 for students.

More information about the event and series (which continues in the New Year) can be found here: https://www.soane.org/whats-on/talks/architecture-display-marina-otero-verzier

Technical Studies Lecture Series: Pete Silver “The Electronic Architect”, Thursday 30th November, 18:00, M416

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Pete Silver – The Electronic Architect

When: Thursday 30th November, 18:00

Where: Room M416, Marylebone Campus

Pete Silver is an architect with experience of the construction industry, public sector housing, teaching, research and private practice. During the 1970s, he worked for five years as development manager for Solon Housing Association where he was responsible both for the rehabilitation of pre-war housing stock and the development of new-build projects in the outer-London boroughs, working with architects such as Patrick Keiller, Edward Cullinan and Walter Segal.

During the 1980s, Pete Silver trained at the Architectural Association under Professor John Frazer and cybernetician Gordon Pask, and subsequently completed four years as a Research Associate in the Land Use Research Unit at King’s College London under Professor Alice Coleman. Pete Silver has worked as a studio design tutor at the Architectural Association teaching with John and Julia Frazer, Greenwich University and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he jointly established Diploma Unit 14 to investigate expert and real-time environmentally-responsive systems. Pete will be discussing the history of computing in architecture, machine logic and interactive design.

Pete is currently joint co-ordinator of Technical Studies at the University of Westminster, and is a director of the Chartered Practice Architects Ltd. Silver has co-authored four books with colleague Will McLean, which include Fabrication: The Designers Guide (2008), An Introduction to Architectural Technology (2013) and Air Structures (2014).

For details email Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk
www.technicalstudies.tumblr.com

Call for Papers: AHRA Annual Research Student Symposium, Aalto University, Helsinki, June 2018 – Deadline: 26th January 2018

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A R C H I T E C T U R A L H U M A N I T I E S
R E S E A R C H A S S O C I A T I O N
a r c h i t e c t u r e :- h i s t o r y – t h e o r y – c u l t u r e – d e s i g n – u r b a n i sm

Call for papers for the AHRA annual research student symposium, which will be held at Aalto University, Helsinki. 11 – 12 June 2018

Using History

Recent decades have seen several critical accounts of history, reviewing its methods and premises, questioning its narrative techniques and revealing its uses and abuses for political ends. Against becoming a refuge from the present, or a consolation, this kind of history sees its task as reminding societies and collectives of things that have been forgotten or covered up.

Additionally, architectural research has been in dialogue with different specialised fields of history: cultural and political history, but also economic history, history of media and technology, history of everyday life. Studies in conservation history have relied on technical history and history of science.

To study this multi-faceted relationship, our conference calls PhD candidates to reflect on the various uses of history and historical knowledge in architectural research and practice in the most broad sense. Speakers are also welcome to reflect on the role of history in their own research. Proposals will be welcomed from PhD candidates in the areas of theory and history of architecture and landscape, conservation and heritage, urban design and history, as well as relevant adjacent fields and interdisciplinary research.

Keynote lecture Prof. Juhani Pallasmaa, “STRATIFICATIONS – memory, experience and imagination”

Logistics:

To apply to present a paper at the symposium, please send an abstract of your proposed presentation to Professor Aino Niskanen, aino.niskanen@aalto.fi and Dr. Andres Kurg, andres.kurg@artun.ee to arrive by January 26th 2018.

The abstract should be no more than 300 words in length and address the theme of the conference ‘Using History’ as outlined above.

There is no fee for attendance at the AHRA Student Symposium. Participants may wish to attend a part of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) conference which is taking place in Tallinn, Estonia, 13-16 June 2018. http://eahn2018conference.ee/.

Travel between Helsinki and Tallinn is easily taken with a ferry, they take around 2 hours.

Key Dates:

  • Deadline for submission of abstracts: 26 January 2018
  • Successful applicants informed: 26 February 2018
  • Submission of extended abstracts (1200 words): 1 June 2018
  • AHRA Symposium: 11–12 June 2018
  • Tour on Finnish modernism and the architecture of Alvar Aalto (optional): 12 June 2018

Key Contacts:

Human Comfort – One-Day Symposium, Today 27th November 10:00-17:00, M416

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Human Comfort: A one-day symposium on environmental design and architecture

When: Monday 27th November 2017, 10:00-17:00

Where: Marylebone Campus, M416

AIAUK Student Charrette, 21st October 09:00-18:00, Roca London Gallery _ REGISTRATION CLOSES TODAY 6pm!

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A JURIED ONE-DAY DESIGN COMPETITION

From 09:00 – 18:00

Entry Fee: £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 practicing architect.

The charrette is a CAD-free event. Drawn, modelled and collaged proposals only. Bring your favourite medium and tools with you. Rolls of tracing paper and drawing paper will be provided.

Entry fee includes lunch, refreshments and reprographic services throughout the day.

One team per university per course. Second and third year architecture and interior design students only.

Limited to 80 students.

Where: Roca London Gallery, Station Court, Townmead Road, Fulham, SW6 2PY London

REGISTRATION CLOSES 6PM, 13 OCT 2017

AIA CES 6 CREDITS FOR MENTORS AND JURY

 

BAIA & BSc AED “Light Narratives: Sun Rose” Workshop with Benson Lau

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Last week, on Thursday 5th October, BA Interior Architecture second and third year students joined the BSc Architecture and Environmental Design students for a one-day workshop lead by the BSc AED’s course leader Benson Lau.

The aim of the workshop was to introduce the unmeasurable and measurable aspects of light and teach the students how to construct a solar design tool initially developed by Le Corbusier to accurately appreciate and visualise the interplay between space and light in an interior based on the latitude coordinates.

 

 

The workshop started with a lecture by Benson Lau, on the theme of “Poetics of Light in Architecture” with a focus on how to qualitatively and quantitatively visualise and selectively quantify the light dramas in architecture.

The students worked in groups of 5 to construct the Sun Roses based on the latitudes they’ve been given, as well as based on their understanding of the Solar Azimuth Angle and Solar Altitude of a particular latitude.The idea behind the workshop was to equip the participants with the skills that will enable them to read the sun path diagram and define the solar azimuth and solar altitude of a particular latitude on Summer Solstice (21st June), Equinox (Spring or Autumn Equinox 21st March or September) and Winter Solstice (21st December).

In addition to that, the students gained knowledge on how to conduct accurate light and shadow testing and analysis, and are now able to present the light testing results in a well-composed matrix showing the light and shadow in a selected interior on Summer Solstice, Equinox and Winter Solstice at 9:00am, 12:00pm, 15:00pm and 18:00pm.

Premier: “A Story of Dreams” film about Jaime Lerner – RIBA, 17th October, 19:00-21:00

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On Tuesday 17th October, RIBA will host a European premiere of “A Story of Dreams”, film on Jaime Lerner’s groundbreaking work as a mayor of Brazilian city of Curitiba.

Jaime Lerner is a community architect and transformational city leader who believes ordinary people, with their positive energy can upgrade their environment. As Parana State Governor, Curitiba Mayor, and practicing architect within the America’s and Africa, he believes sustainability succeeds by releasing ordinary people’s latent energy to survive and prosper.

To find out more and book tickets: https://www.architecture.com/whats-on/premier-a-story-of-dreams-a-film-about-jaime-lerner#