Tag: Exhibition

OPEN 2025 | Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:00 (BST), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster

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When: Thursday, 19th of June 2025 at 6pm (BST)

Where: Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO OPEN 2025

REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE

Head of School Kate Cheyne cordially invites you to attend the opening of the graduating students’ degree show, OPEN 2025, featuring work from:

·       Architecture BA

·       Architecture and Design Foundation

·       Architecture and Environmental Design BSc

·       Architectural Technology BSc

·       Urban Planning and Design BA

·       Interior Architecture BA

·       MArch

Preview

Thursday 19 June, 6 – 9pm

Book to attend the launch via Eventbrite

Exhibition continues (open access)

Friday 20 June – Sunday 6 July

Marylebone | University of Westminster, London

You can also RSVP to DCDI-Events@westminster.ac.uk

Image credit: Emma Wilkinson, MArch

Exhibition: “Virtual Worlds: Corals at the Grant Museum” by John Zhang [Datascape Realities] | September 3, 2024 – January 25, 2025, 13:00–17:00 in the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL

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When: From Tuesday, 3rd of September 2024 to Saturday, 25th of January 2025 from 1pm to 5pm

Where: Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, 21 University St, London WC1E 6DE

Free, no booking required.

Based on fieldwork by UCL marine biologists Ben Williams and Jason Lynch, and made in collaboration with Datascape Realities, Virtual Worlds: Corals at the Grant Museum reconstructs real-world coral habitats virtually in a location-specific experience. The VR activity is presented alongside the Grant Museum’s own collection of coral specimens, augmented reality digital models and 3D prints, and is supported by a public events programme.

Coral reefs sustain 30% of all ocean species, and their degradation represents a stark reminder of the climate crisis. The study and preservation of coral reef habitats are vitally important to planetary health, and humanity in general. The data gathered from corals today is complex and multi-sensory, but corals are often still presented in conventional ways, including in museum settings. Coral specimens in museums can sometimes reinforce the misconception of corals as static and colonised objects, rather than as animals that form the foundation of marine ecosystems.

Virtual Worlds transforms climate data into a mixed reality experience for everyone, where the vital work of coral restoration is visceral and emotive. Experience it for yourself and join us in re-imagining the museum as a space for climate action.

For more information please visit here.

MORE 2024 | Friday, September 20 at 18:00 (BST), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster

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When: Friday, 20th of September 2024 at 6pm (BST)

Where: Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO MORE 2024

Register for the launch on Eventbrite

Join us on Friday 20 September for the launch of MORE 2024, an exhibition of the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture + Cities Postgraduate student thesis projects, across the following disciplines:

  • MA Architecture
  • MA Event Design & Management | MA Tourism Management
  • MA Interior Architecture
  • MA International Planning and Sustainable Development
  • MA Urban and Regional Planning
  • MA Urban Design
  • MSc Architecture and Environmental Design
  • MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • MSc Transport Planning and Management
  • PhD
  • Research
  • RIBA Part 3

The exhibition will launch in the 4th Floor Architecture Studios at 18:00 on Friday 20 September at the Marylebone Campus

The celebratory event will be followed by contributions from each of the participating courses and the School’s annual student awards.

The physical exhibition will be supported by an online iteration – MORE 2024 – which will also launch on the evening of Friday 20 September at:

www.more2024.net

The show will be open until Friday 27 September.

SA+C Tutors’ and Students’ Work Featured in Dezeen Magazine: “Architects for Gaza creates fragments of demountable clinic for Gaza”

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As a part of the London Festival of Architecture, on June 25, 2024, Architects for Gaza, led by the Senior Tutors Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari (MArch DS22 and MA Architecture), displayed sections of an experimental clinic in Marylebone Campus that it plans to build in Gaza as soon as soon as the conditions allow for access. The prototype was designed and built in collaboration with the Senior Tutors Paolo Cascone (BSc Architecture and Environmental Design) and François Girardin (Fabrication Lab and MArch DS23) and a number of students from the above courses.

The prototype was on display until the end of June and the exhibition was covered by the Dezeen Magazine:

“On show at the University of Westminster School of Architecture and Cities, the full-scale segments were designed to demonstrate how structures could be built to provide primary care in Gaza where 70 per cent of all health infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed since the most recent escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict in October.

Named Experimental Lab/Clinic, the project by Architects for Gaza was designed by curators Yara Sharif, Nasser Golzari, Francois Girardin and Paolo Cascone to be built using the scarce materials available in Gaza. The clinics would also act as a kind of “atlas of possibilities” to demonstrate construction techniques that people can use to rebuild their homes and neighbourhoods.”

Dezeen, 17.07.2024

You can access the full article here.

SA+C at London Festival of Architecture: “Gaza Experimental Lab” | Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 18:00 (BST) in Robin Evans Room, Marylebone Campus

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When: Tuesday, 25th of June 2024, 6pm (BST)

Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

Please join us on Tuesday, 25th of June at 6pm (BST) for the opening of the Gaza Experimental Lab. 

This 1:1 installation is a fragment of an off the grid experimental lab typology for the context of Gaza. It brings to the surface alternative materials and techniques built out of urgency and scarcity, challenging the consumer-driven construction industry, both in UK and the Global south by re-appropriating its discards. The room in its complete form can be used as a healthcare clinic, class room or Home.

The Lab, being ongoing process of testing and making, suggests alternative use of materials including crushed concrete, R-bars, corrugated sheets, sandbags, fired/unfired clay panels and other components. The outcome may suggest a new and unfamiliar aesthetic inspired by the local context and needs.

The exhibition is hosted by University of Westminster, School of Architecture, 25-30 June. Access need assistance available at the reception.

Key partners: University of Westminster (MA Architecture + BSc Architecture and Environmental Design, Fabrication Lab), Architects For Gaza and Mobile International Surgical Team.

This event is part of the London Festival of Architecture 2024 and it was supported by Quentin Hogg Trust (QHT).

CREATECH ’23 | Friday, September 22, 2023 | Conference from 09.30 to 17:00 (BST) + Exhibition Private View / Arch-asino from 17:00 to 22:00 (BST) | Fabrication Lab + Ambika P3

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When: Friday, September 22, 2023 | 9.30am-5pm & 5pm-10pm

Where: Fabrication Lab + Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Please join us this Friday for a one-day international conference on creative technologies for the design, creative + digital industries. Following the conference, we invite you to attend a Private View in Ambika P3 of a new exhibition of work from contributors from the UK, Canada, and North America using creative technologies in a diverse range of built projects, installations, films, posters, and interactive workshops.

The Private View will also feature for one night only a unique Arch-asino designed and created by first-year MArch students from the School of Architecture + Cities. You’ll be able to play architecturally-inspired reinventions of classic Casino games between 18:00 – 20:00 (strictly no money involved!) with awards for the winning games and best players at 20:15. Dress code for the Arch-asino is Black Tie (creative interpretations allowed).

Admission to both the Conference + Exhibition Private View / Arch-asino is free but booking is essential to guarantee your place:

Conference – Friday 22 SEP – 09:30 – 17:00
createch23-conference.eventbrite.co.uk

Exhibition Private View + Arch-Casino – Friday 22 SEP – 17:00 – 22:00
createch23-exhibition.eventbrite.co.uk

Full conference and exhibition details on the CREATECH website: https://createch.london/about

MORE2023 | Exhibition opening on Friday, September 22, 2023 at 18:00 (BST) in Marylebone Studios

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When: Friday, 22nd of September 2023 at 6pm (BST)

Where: 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS

To register please go to Eventbrite.

Join us on Friday 22 September for the launch of MORE 2023, an exhibition of the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture + Cities Master’s students’ thesis project, across the following disciplines:

  • MA Architecture
  • MA Interior Architecture
  • MSc Architecture and Environmental Design
  • MA Urban Design
  • MA International Planning and Sustainable Development
  • MA Event Design & Management | MA Tourism Management
  • MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • MSc Transport Planning and Management
  • MA Urban and Regional Planning
  • RIBA Part 3
  • Research
  • PhD

The celebratory event will be followed by contributions from each of the participating courses and the School’s annual student awards.

The physical exhibition will be supported by an online iteration – MORE 2023 – which will also launch on the evening of Friday 22 September at:

Welcome to MORE 2023

OPEN2023: MArch Exhibition Videos by Kevin Wong from DS10

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Now that OPEN2023 has closed, please enjoy these wonderful videos of the MArch design studios at this year’s graduating students’ exhibition. They were made by our talented 1st year MArch student Kevin Wong from DS10.

Credits (videos + featured image):

Email: wongkevin2020@gmail.com

Instagram: Kevinwth

Web: www.wthproduction.work

OPEN2023 continues until Sunday, July 2 in our Marylebone studios

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When: Friday, June 16 – Sunday, July 2 (Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm; Saturday-Sunday: 10am-4pm)

Where: School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS London

On Thursday, June 16 we launched OPEN2023, our graduating students’ degree show, featuring work from: 

  • Architecture BA
  • Architecture and Environmental Design BSc
  • Architectural Technology BSc
  • Designing Cities BA
  • Interior Architecture BA
  • MArch

The School is committed to its Polytechnic inheritance, and its aim remains to offer ‘a transformative higher education for all’. We view the diversity of our students drawn from across London and the world as key to our success, and we see difference, and a mix of experiences and views, as critical to our exploration of architecture and place. The impact of our student-staff initiatives, such as our Equity Forum and climate action taskforce, ArCCAT, can be seen increasingly in how the School’s projects contribute to meeting our societal and planetary challenges. We embed London practitioners in our core teaching teams to keep us alive to the dynamism of contemporary practice, and continue  to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations, such as with Imperial College Medical School and Westminster Council, and our Live Design Practice – currently on show at Cody Dock. That, in turn, our students are so valued by practices is hugely gratifying.

Harry Charrington, Head of School of Architecture + Cities, OPEN2023

The show was opened by Philomena Wales and it’s a part of the London Festival of Architecture. It continues daily in our Marylebone studios until July 2.

For those unable to visit us in person, the online version of the exhibition can be accessed here.

Photography by Rory Lindsay

OPEN 2023 | Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 18:00 (BST), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster

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When: Thursday, 15th of June 2023 at 6pm (BST)

Where: Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO OPEN 2023

REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE

Head of School Harry Charrington cordially invites you to attend the opening of the graduating students’ degree show, OPEN 2023, featuring work from:

  • – Architecture BA
  • – Architecture and Environmental Design BSc
  • – Architectural Technology BSc
  • – Designing Cities BA
  • – Interior Architecture BA
  • – MArch

Preview

Thursday 15 June, 6 – 9pm

Show opened by Philomine Wales

Exhibition continues

Friday 16 June – Sunday 2 July

You can also RSVP to DCDI-Events@westminster.ac.uk

Featured image: Diana Fox, MArch