Birmingham School of Architecture This gazette represents a snapshot of the School’s activities this year. Look out for the full yearbook published in September
2013 Welcome to the Birmingham School of Architecture end of year celebrations in what is our last time at Gosta Green before we move into our new home in Eastside. It’s been a very exciting year in the School with some fantastic work at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels and a real sense of community and pride within our staff and students. We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Christian Frost to the School in the capacity of Director of Cultural Context. The post was made possible by the incredible generosity of alumnus Dr. Albert Hong who has sponsored the Professorship in the name of former Head of School, Oscar Naddermier. Our Co-Lab projects lead by Alessandro Columbano have gone from strength to strength with students having opportunities to work on projects including re-imagining
the Tectons at Dudley Zoo, refurbishing one of the School’s first ever live projects from the 1960s at the Stonehouse Gang, and working alongside Ash & Lacy building products to develop aluminium façade systems. All of these opportunities, along with a number of paid mentoring schemes supported by BCU’s Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching put the School at the forefront of industry engagement and student employability. We are also delighted to have announced that we have launched a new Masters course, the MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design which will be lead by Professor Lubo Jankovic and we also have plans to relaunch our MA Urban Design course. There are certainly exciting times ahead! I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our supporters. We have incredibly generous support
from a number of people, practices, businesses, and organisations who help make the School what it is. There are too many to name here but our End of Year Review will contain a complete list. Particular thanks must go to Willmott Dixon for their assistance in allowing our students to visit our new building whilst it has been under construction and to Network Rail for allowing our students to visit the redevelopment of New Street Station, both fantastic opportunities. I hope that you enjoy the work on display and take the opportunity to network with staff, students and colleagues from the profession.
Professor Kevin W Singh RIBA FFB SBID FRSA Head of School