When: Monday, 29th of November at 6pm (GMT) Where: In-person in M416 (Robin Evans Room), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS + Online Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite. The launch of the School of Architecture + Cities Equity Forum will introduce its […]
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Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Dynamic Building Skins” by Doris Sung from DOSU Studio / University of Southern California | Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 18:00 (GMT), Room M416, Marylebone Campus + Online
When: Thursday, 2nd of December at 6pm (GMT) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS Link to join livestream ‘… if we are to develop truly sustainable architecture, we don’t necessarily need more materials. We need smarter […]
ArCCAT Climate Action Week + Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Environmental Design Sourcebook” Book Launch + Panel Discussion with Pete Silver and Will McLean | Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 18:30, Room M416, Marylebone Campus + Online
When: Thursday 28th October 6.30pm, M416 Where: M416, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS + Online: A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that looks at lifecycle, […]
ArCCAT Climate Action Week: Practicing Sustainability – from Portfolio to Practitioner | Tuesday, October 26 at 18:00 (BST), Robin Evans Room (M416) + online
When: Tuesday, 26th of October 6pm – 8pm Where: Robin Evans Room (M416) and online | to book tickets please go to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practicing-sustainability-from-portfolio-to-practitioner-tickets-191649176847 Organiser and Moderator: Harry Charrington Speakers: Chris Morgan, John Gilbert Architects, Glasgow. Gordon O’Connor-Read, Rural Urban Synthesis Society and Laing O’Rourke. […]
Falling Away: A one-day symposium held together with the exhibition of Catherine Yass’ film works in Ambika P3
The symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss the agency of falling in contemporary culture. Metaphors of falling are often evoked to describe the current period of insecurity and instability. At the same time, the built environment […]
ArCCAT Climate Action Week – Monday 25th to Friday 29th of October
The Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce (ArCCAT) has developed an exciting, slightly-longer-than-a-week programme of events between October 18th and October 28th to support the University’s Sustainability Month, a lead-in to COP 26 in Glasgow at the beginning of November. Go here for further details of the University’s programme: […]
ArCCAT LOGO design challenge – Deadline extended till Monday, October 11 at 12pm (BST)
The School of Architecture + Cities launched ArCCAT on 20th May 2021. It is made up of staff and students from across the school committed to bringing about the cultural shift in education to meet climate biodiversity and planetary system challenges. Current students of the School of […]
SA+C student Jan MacBean awarded a runner up prize in WW+P’s Future of Transport Student Prize competition
Congratulations to Jan MacBean who was presented with the runner up prize for his proposal: A Paddington Pollution Solution and the Westway Garden Path. Jan’s proposal compromises two phases. Phase one looks to manage the dangerously high level of air pollution around the Paddington Basin […]
Join the Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce (ArCCAT)
The Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce (ArCCAT) was formed in May 2021. It comprises staff and students from the School of Architecture + Cities, the Westminster Business School and members of the University Estates team committed to meeting climate, biodiversity and planetarysystem challenges. Over […]
OPEN 2021 – School of Architecture + Cities and Hamza Shaikh : ” Does university prepare you for practice?” | Online event | Friday, July 2, 2021 from 17:00 to 19:00 (BST)
Please join us on Friday, 2nd of July from 5pm to 7pm (BST), for the last in the series of events around our graduating students’ virtual degree show OPEN2021. We will host our last year’s graduate, Hamza Shaikh, the founder and the host of the Two Worlds Design […]