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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

Lecture: “Challenges of gentrification – how can urban regeneration be equitable” by Prof Jim Coleman | Monday, March 24, 2025 at 16:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Monday, 24th of March 2025 at 4pm

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

Prof Jim Coleman is head of Economic Advisory at WSP and also a professor of professional practice in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster. For many years Jim has advised both public and private sector organisations – in the UK and internationally – on the economics of large-scale spatial planning and real estate projects. This includes developing strategies to maximise both economic and social impacts of development and to adjust development programmes and phasing to better reflect a balance of commercial, financial and wider social interests. Jim will draw upon his professional experience to provide insights into how spatial and real estate plans can be shaped to address multiple priorities, as well as reflecting on emerging approaches to creating and measuring social value through development.

ALL ARE WELCOME

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.

OPEN 2024 | Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 18:00 (BST), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster

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When: Thursday, 13th of June 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 OPEN 2024

Thursday 13 June 6pm

REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE.

Head of School Harry Charrington cordially invites you to attend the opening of the graduating students’ degree show, OPEN 2024, featuring work from

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

Preview

Thursday 13 June, 6  – 9pm

Opened by George Clarke

Exhibition continues

Friday 14 June – Sunday 30 Jun

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

Image credit: Declan Slonim, Architecture BA

MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “The Future of the Already Built” by Sally Stone | Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Thursday, 21st of March 2024 at 6pm

Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

“For such a long established and deeply entrenched subject, adaptive reuse has a remarkably short history. It is a practice that stretches back to almost the first constructed buildings themselves; for structures have perpetually been altered to accommodate the needs of their different occupants, and yet until recently has lacked the professional, theoretical, and historical recognition of new-build architecture. However, 21st century issues of culture, heritage, and sustainability have pushed adaptive reuse from the periphery into the forefront of architectural debate. Adaptive reuse is a young subject, and as such, is not burdened with the weight of history that architecture carries. It has the freedom to collect influences from a wide range of sources that allows for a transgressive, pluralistic approach. This discussion will examine the evolution of adaptive reuse into the subversive force that it assumes today.”

ALL WELCOME

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

ArCCAT + LFA: “The Common Stream” experimental walk

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On Friday, June 23 an ‘experimental walk’ organised by ArCCAT (Corinna Dean and Diana Periton), as a part of London Festival of Architecture 2023, took place along the River Lea.

The walk started at Bromley-by-Bow and ended at Cody Dock, where the group gathered in the newly built ‘Growing Space’, a project designed and realised this year by MArch DS20 students led by Maria Kramer and Corinna Dean. 

The walk was jointly led by Corinna Dean, Lindsay Bremner, and Diana Periton, all from the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture and Cities. The group was joined by a Pakistani performance artist, Abuzar Madhu, whose performance practice embodies a profound communication with nature, becoming an act of resistance against prevailing power structures. 

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

Fire Experience Day – Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh

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On May 22, 2023 a group of staff and students from four courses within the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster attended a Fire Experience Training Day hosted by the Fire Service Training College. The day was sponsored by Axa Insurance, Fire Protection Association (FPA) and School of Architecture + Cities, UoW. The experience and information gathered was particularly useful with regard to the new Building Safety Bill and the developing RIBA/ARB criteria on Design for Fire and Life Safety.

Staff attending:

  • Scott Batty
  • Paolo Zaide
  • Wilfred Achille
  • Adam Thwaites
  • Stefania Boccaletti

Students from, BA Architecture: Umi Sakai-Stoute, Rowan Isles, Oscar Chainey, Eric Turner

Students from, MA Architecture: Galina Dimova, Ramzi Ramzi, Simon McLanaghan

Students from BSc Architecture + Environmental Design: Anastasia Suzdaltseva Kazakova, Elspeth Prowse, Michelle Lai, Sara Stabiglieri

Students from Architectural Technology: Pascal Golda, Amjad Butt, Velina Drakalieva, T’Sean Blake

Congratulations to Rūta Perminaitė from MArch DS22 on being selected as one of 12 finalists for the EU Mies Van der Rohe Young Architecture Talent Award 2023

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The School of Architecture + Cities is dighted to announce that the shortlisted project of Rūta Perminaitė, MArch student from last year’s DS22 cohort, has gone to the next stage and has been selected as one of the 12 finalist projects for the prestigious EU Mies Van der Rohe Young Architecture Talent Award, an EU prize for Contemporary Architecture. 

You can view Rūta’s project here.

The announcement has taken place in Venice and the project is currently being exhibited as part of the Laboratory of Education in Venice Biennial.

The finalists will go to the third stage where 4 finalists and a winner are to be announced. 

The Awards Ceremony will take place on 29th of June in Venice, in Palazzo Michiel. 

About the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) 

The Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) aims to support the talent of recently graduated Architects, Urban Planners and Landscape Architects who will be responsible for transforming our environment in the future. YTAA has emerged from curiosity about and interest in the initial stages in these students’ development and a desire to support their talent as they enter into the professional world.

The winning projects will be distinguished for their excellence, authenticity and innovative nature, as well as their sustainable approach.

The winners will receive a financial reward and will become part of the network of awarded architects of the Prize. Moreover, they will have the opportunity to travel, visit and experience the best examples of architecture.

Featured image: “Paradise on the Edge” by Ruta Perminaite