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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
Exhibition: Cartographies of the Monsoon | Gallery Café, 309 Regent St | Monday, October 18 at 18.30 (BST)
Where: Gallery Café, 309 Regent St, 18 October – 15 November When: 18 October, 18.30-19.30 Speakers: Lindsay Bremner, PI of Monsoon Assemblages in conversation with Tom Corby, Associate Dean of Research, Central St Martins. This exhibition shows a selection of maps drawn by John […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recording of the “How will we live together? Westminster at the Venice Biennale” event is now available online
Recording of the online event that celebrates University of Westminster‘s work exhibited at the prestigious 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale (22nd May-21st Nov), which took place on the 9th of June 2021, is now available for viewing here. Academics based within the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries have […]
SA+C & LFA: Thinking, Practising, Listening; Exploring Inclusion in Architecture | Monday, June 21, 2021 from 9:30 to 13:00 (BST)
This online symposium will focus on the importance to architectural practice and research of listening. To listen effectively is not just to hear: it means actively seeking perspectives from those people in society whose voices are often the least audible. In exploring a wide range […]
London Festival of Architecture | Hackney Wick: Free Spaces in Desirable Places | Tuesday, June 15, 19:00-20:30 (BST)
Hackney Wick is changing fast. Is it ‘the new Shoreditch’? What does that mean and why should we care? Who controls the story as the post-Olympic new-builds radically change the face of what was once the biggest artist colony in Europe? Where does its industrial […]
Practices of Care: Collaboration between University of Westminster and Imperial College | Friday, June 11, 2021 at 17:00 (BST)
Please join us on 11 JUNE 21 @ 5 pm (UK time) for an online panel discussion on Practices of Care, reflecting on a Co-Production Workshop held between the University of Westminster and Imperial College London. How does one educate a professional – an architect, a doctor? Competencies are one […]