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OPEN 2014 Introduction

OPEN2014 is the annual celebration of student work and of their teachers who make it all possible. The exhibition is of studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work from Department of Architecture, and the catalogue provides a guide and a record of achievements of 2013/14. During the year Rosa Schiano-Phan has joined us to set up a new MSc in Architecture and Environmental Design, and Harry Charrington joined us as Course Leader for the MArch. September 2014, he takes the role of Head of Department. I shall continue as Director of Ambika P3, and working with the Dean to deliver the Strategic Plan, and developing the ADAPT-r research project jointly with our European partners and RMIT. The year has seen the consolidation of the BA Interior Architecture into an established and popular part of our Department, and its graduates achieving well. All of courses have recruited well and once again there us a vibrant mix of Design Studios, with some new Studio tutors bringing fresh ideas to the well tested formula. Students are keen to study architecture and the exhibition reveals the expanding range of work of our Undergraduate programme and the celebrated MArch. Each year there have been extraordinary achievements by many students and congratulations to them. Many of our staff have also achieved public acknowledgment both in a range of research areas, and also in practice. Professor Sean Griffiths working with

FAT in the their last project before disbanding, have curated the British Pavilion at the Venice Bienale. Will McLean was commissioned to make an installation on the work of Dante Bini and the so called Binishells, in the Bienale. Awards from the RIBA were made to Allan Sylvester, and to Stuart Piercy for built work in practice. Anthony Boulanger, as AY Architects won the Stephen Lawrence Prize for the Montpelier Nursery School. Kester Rattenbury launched the on-line Supercrits. The Part 3 course does not feature in the exhibition, but links us to over two hundred practices in central London. Our thanks to all those listed at the end of the catalogue, and many more we have missed inadvertently who provide part-time tutors, lectures and examiners, work experience opportunities in third year undergraduate, and mentoring with employment for year-out students. And thank you to those sponsors who have given generously to support the show and the catalogue, and to those people who have contributed in so many ways.

Professor Katharine Heron Director of Ambika P3 Head of Department of Architecture

Welcome to OPEN2014

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Introduction

Interior Architecture is a distinct a context-based practice concerned with rereading, reusing and altering an architectural shell. Whether at the scale of the city, a building, or a room, the ‘interiorist’ always starts with something and within something. By altering host structures Interior Architecture allows a building to have many different lives. Interior Architecture BA Honours at Westminster is a small course. Students are taught in year groups but cross-fertilization is encouraged. In January we ran a cross year exercise based on Marco Frascari’s essay ‘The Tell-the-Tale Detail’. In the piece Frascari describes that while a plan drawing could be said to show the ‘plot’ of a building, the design of the details crystallize the ‘tale’ and articulate the story. Certain important details are impregnated with significance and these ‘tell-the-tale’ details can give us an understanding of the whole. Taking this text as a tool to focus the site exploration, all three years were sent out across the metropolis armed with cameras, sketchbooks and tape measures to record the stories found in Croydon, Holborn and East London. The resulting 42cm2 1-1 drawings were presented in a cross year workshop in the studio where the audience tried to guess the story each piece told.

Extra curricular activities are encouraged. This year saw the founding of the Interior Architecture Society a new student led initiative. We continue to be involved in creating a series of exhibitions as a form of ‘live project’ and will be exhibiting graduating students work at the Free Range Art and Design Show in the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane this summer as part of IE group. We were also delighted this year when three of our third year students won first place in the Collective Design Award. The course has been set up to have strong links to practice, a weekly series of guest speakers has included: Sherry Bates; Bates Zambelli, Jonathan Clarke; Woods Bagot, Willem De Bruijn; Atelier Domino, Charlie Fish; Choifish Design, Catherine Harrington; Architype, Edward Jarvis; Camden Council Planning Department, Dr. Matina Kousidi; architecouture.com, Debbie Kuypers; RFK Architects, Harpreet Lota; R H Partnership, Tim Ronalds; Tim Ronalds Architects

Ro Spankie Course Leader

BA (Hons) INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture First Year

Alessandro Zambelli, Allan Sylvester, Yota Adilenidou Students: Bayan Alnasser, Kalyar Aung, Sophia Arzu Aytekin, Sajida Begum, Hannah Brennan, Ula Celli, Huewinn Chan, Leti Corsoni, Sara Daaboul, Loni Demetriou, Liza Drobot, Chad England, Steph Georgiou, Radima Gudieva, Kitty Heston, Fran Hoffmann, Monika Hudiova, Billy Johnson, Salwah Joonus, Gareth Maatouk, Rosie Martin, Marilyn Masen, Laura Metcalfe, Weaw Pattanawanitkitkul, Nicoletta Petrou, Andy Ribikauskas, Drew Sofuyi, Amin Tashayoienejad, Linda Tentori, Nyalie Waterhouse-Shah.

Characterised in the first semester as an Inside Out process, First year BA Interior Architecture students worked, in general, from detail to assembly to interior. In the second semester, equipped with new skills and burgeoning design sensibilities they were able to focus on a process we characterised as Outside In. Beginning with city but proceeding through controlled stages to a specifically interiorised architecture. Students began the first semester developing skills through a series of projects of increasing complexity, working with and understanding light, volume and scale. Armed with these tools students investigated the transformative power of spatial manipulation through models and drawings, in two and three dimensions, by hand and by computer. Emerging from these introductory projects students set about re-designing a compact north London studio space for themselves, for their friends, for an acrobat in one case, for an astronomer in another.

Critics: George Bradley, Mehdi Jelokhani, Raksha Patel, Alice Simmons, James Stroud, Eleanor Suess. 8

Building upon the techniques, practices and design skills developed in the first semester, the second semester began by stepping outside conventional architectural concerns. The Imaginary Spaces project began in the fictionalised interior worlds of film and painting, moving from outside via the Threshold Spaces project and arriving, finally, at the labyrinthine interior world of a south London warehouse complex. Students developed briefs including, variously; bars, baths, restricted membership clubs, detective agencies, cinemas and seed banks, music schools and antiques markets.

Andrius Ribikauskas: Restricted Membership Swimming Club, Letizia Corsoni: Performance Space.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture First Year

Laura Metcalfe: Music School.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Second Year

Alessandro Ayuso and Mike Guy. Students: Ziad Abuzeid, Tobi Agunbiade, Bane Alsabawi, Esma Al-Sibai, Qays Anis, Bhavini Asawla, Iliana Capsali, Alessandra Catello, Basak Ejder, Chloe Farrell, Noor Habbab, Jack Haggerty, Elaine Hardy, Gurtej Kaur, Jerry Kisekka, Alice Ly, Daniel Manoharadas, Lara Matar, Katherine Mathew, Thalia Moros, Sara Narramore, Nikolas Nikolaou, Wulan Purnamasari, Zain Said, Mariela Saltapida, Sara Samra, Maryam Sheikh, Dajana Skoric, Jessica Taliadoros

3rd SPACE

Soho School

Students began the first term by investigating materials through the making of a series of ‘action verb maquettes’. The studio then turned its attention to the Castle Climbing Centre in Stoke Newington, surveying the building’s climbing facilities and community gardens, and researching aspects of its social, urban, and historical context. Based on their maquettes and research, the students put forth proposals for installations that would ‘open up’ the fortress-like building to its context. The installation ideas, which in many cases offered new programmes or intensified existing programmes already in the building, gave way to proposals for extraordinary youth centres with particular specialties.

Details were a constant thread through the second term, which started with research on “Fertile Details” in notable precedent projects. The site itself (a collection of existing buildings to the west and north of the House of St Barnabas Chapel in Soho) was researched not only through drawings and models, but through the location and full-scale drawings of “tell-the-tale-details” in the Soho area that “told significant tales” about changes over time in the neighbourhood. Students then were asked to envision the programme of a “Soho School”— a small interdisciplinary post-graduate course where two disciplines— Interior Architecture and another of each student’s choice, would share and learn from one another. The design of two “Phenomenal” doors for the School contained the ‘DNA’ for the rest of the design, which was pursued through design charettes and model-making.

Critics: Abdi Ali, Willem de Bruijn, Catja De Haas, Stavros Dendrinos, David Dernie, Charles Fish, Colin Herperger, Harpreet Lota, Brynn Macek, Dragan Pavlovic, Franco Pisani, Quynh Vantu, Paolo Zaide, Fiona Zisch 12

Dajana Skoric.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Second Year

Bhavini Asawla and Sara Samra.

Katherine Mathew.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Third Year

Ro Spankie, Steve Jensen, Alessandro Ayuso. Students: Azza Ahmed, Mafara Ahmed Tanniem, Ziena Al-Idelbi, Adive Asllani, Flor Barsallo, Mongono Battsogt, Blerina Berisha,Tanya Boncoeur, Derya Cagiran, Sonia Chahal, Georgia Charizani, Thelma Constantinou, Emily Coyle, Roshna Dabasia, Cerise Day, Christina Diamandi, Naomi French, Matthew Grand, Lucy Guthrie, Phillip Herring, Mehdi Jelokhani, Daniel Li, Maria Pilla, Khalida Rahim, Kemi Rahman, Raz Rashid, Marta Santos, Alice Simmons, Clay Thompson.

The final Major Project in BA Interior Architecture is self-derived with students selecting their site and setting their own program. To prepare for this, the year began with a short competition followed by a series of experimental exercises. In response to the ‘Hidden House’ brief, students speculated on the practice of reuse and alteration through the transformation of found objects, through scale and detail. These inventions catalyzed initial ideas for a short design project called ‘Prosthetics for the over 30’s’ which asked for insertions into the derelict final section of the Chisenhale Building, a 1930s veneer factory on the Hertford Union Canal in Tower Hamlets.

The only restriction for the Major Project was that the site had to be adjacent to the canal and that the program and themes had to pick up on issues researched earlier. The resulting 29 projects appropriated nine different buildings and offered a variety of proposals. Some were inspired by the old east end; a fortune tellers hidden above the bar of the Palm Tree Public House, a Bath House and Swimming Club and a Fish Smokery, while others speculated on the new: such as a London head quarters for Timorous Beasties, an ‘Institute of Sound’, and a Gym and Micro Brewery to name but a few.

The predicament and opportunities of the Chisenhale Building set the agenda for the year. Situated near the Olympic Park, with three different existing user groups: (Chisenhale Gallery, Chisenhale Dance Space and Chisenhale Arts Place Trust), and a large derelict space, it reflected the wider changes to the area following the Olympic development; from the pressure on space to the varying (and sometimes conflicting) needs of the existing communities and the incoming groups.

With thanks to: Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan University of Westminster, Jan Vejsholt Republic of Fritz Hansen, Andreas Lang Public Works, Kevin Harrison Chisenhale Studios, Erica Davies Ragged School Museum.

Critics: Abi Abdolwahabi, Suzie Attiwill, Harry Charrington, Flora Cselovszki, Willem De Bruijn, Julia Dwyer, Mike Guy, Matina Kousidi, Diony Kypraiou, Charlotte Mew, Andrea Placidi, Allan Sylvester, Alex Zambelli 16

Cerise Day.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Third Year

Naomi French.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Third Year

Emily Coyle.

Mehdi Jelokhani.

BA (Hons) Architecture

This year the degree programme grew yet again: in both size and stature. In first year we welcomed two additional teaching groups. Students’ endeavours were recognised through the RIBAJ Eyeline competition, gaining the only two shortlisted undergraduate entries. What we see across the studios: a diversity of thinking, of defining architecture, of making, and of locating the role of architectural thinking. Three of the degree’s nine studios spent the year peering into the London’s hinter-spaces. For studio one these were the infrastructures that once served the city, spaces abandoned, left to find new uses or simply forgotten: spaces of epic quality. With studio six, students also foraged with watery edges, this time to the west of the city to imagine new places of escape. The work of studio two reminded us that the city’s infrastructures are no benign servants: magnified they revealed society’s boundaries, differences and in-difference.

spaces between man and animal: entreating architecture for the challenge of captivity: a mirror onto us, a window onto ‘them’. Life’s events, and the events that mark lives also became the subjects of architecture: for studio five, these were the ‘births, deaths and marriages’ of the Register, whilst for studio nine they were those paradoxically ‘deep’ memories promised by the tourism industry. What we learned from students: that things don’t always come together in the blink of an eye that is the three year degree: it is more than doing things, doing ‘work’, doing projects. Education is a time for self-reflection, discovery and transformation, and a space to think aloud, to make sense of the world. It is not a prep course for day one of the rest of your life.

Allegorical rubrics shaped the work of studio three this year, re-crafting Camden Town histories as places of learning and enlightenment.

What students learn from architecture: to be excited by the world and their capacity to change it. To be able to dream so powerfully and describe so fully those dreams, that we are convinced they not only could exist, but that they should exist. C.R.Reilly said that ‘Mondays were for Architecture in the clouds’… at Westminster, clouds fly low.

The towers of studio four reminded me of Sullivan’s call for architecture ‘to be every inch a proud and soaring thing rising in sheer exultation.. ‘

Thank you to all Cultural Context, Technical Studies and Design Studio tutors, Workshop Technicians and Students involved in the degree. A special thank you to Kate Heron.

For studio seven’s students, the dreams fell not from heaven but emerged from everyday stories of Rita and her neighbours. Bland planners ‘arrows’ were cast aside for the radical-real of a neighbourhood New Deal for the Cally. Students were also advocates in studio nine, scrutinising quite literally the

Thoughts to the family and friends of Khayla Khan (1991-2014)

Julian Williams Course Leader

BA (Hons) ARCHITECTURE

BA (Hons) Architecture First Year Natalie Newey (coordinator), Stefania Boccaletti, Roberto Bottazzi, Emma Cheatle, Virginia Rammou, Sue Phillips, David Scott, Mike Tuck, Richard Watson, Julian Williams, John Zhang. Group A: Emma Cheatle, Roberto Bottazzi

Group C: John Zhang, Natalie Newey

Students: Mariam Abdallah, Junggun Ahn, Laura Antoni, Juan Bedoya, Giacomo Brusa, Flavia Cerasi, Mahmoud Chehab, Carole Desfrancois, Dagmara Dyner, Safia Gay, Esra Gonen, Anne Sofie Hald, Oliver James, Clovis Keuni, Patryk Kubica, Jemma Mapp, Tahmid Miah, Christian Muller, Ianson Rizos, Nicolas Salas Leon, Savin Florea, Chiara Spandafora, Maciej Tomaszewski, Han Yang.

Students: Rahideh Afsar, Abdullah Al Mannai, Vanessa Assaf, Lorenzo Bellacci, Vienca Chan, Rebecca Cooper, Ioana Gherghel, Yasemin Kose, Joanna Leung, Garda Massey, Marta Micheletti, Lara Oduguwa, Eline Putne, Camille Rousseau, Ian Swift, Rishi Shah, Philip Springall, Joe Stannard, Saori Uno, Marcin Wozniak, Gavin Yau, Jason Zhai.

The main project this year is a small art museum, located on the corner of Crinian Street and Wharfdale Road. In part 1: Object collections, students were asked to select a group of 5 objects from Tate Modern’s permanent exhibitions. Combining architectural drawing and narrative text students analysed the objects’ scale, materiality, construction and potential spatial relationships, and developed a coherent thematic approach. First designs for an interior engaged the visitor in the objects and their new ‘spatial story’. In part 2: Constructing the site, taking their theme to the site on the edge of the Kings Cross development area, students were asked to understand it as a place with a story, and reflect this in drawn and modelled representations. In part 3: Story Museum, the site story and the spatial story were then brought together to inform the design, narrative and construction of a new museum.

Group B: Stefania Boccaletti & Virginia Rammou

We examined and explored the forgotten and gap spaces the city has left us. Semester 1 comprises first a technical study of 6 Japanese Pet Architecture houses, onto which students were asked to add a parasitic room tailored to their needs. This was followed by a project challenging the typology of the conventional beach hut both in form and programme located by the Royal Docks and the Thames Barrier Park in London. In Semester 2, the students were asked to develop the designs for a small building that will accommodate the activities of 2 different clients in an innovative and complementary way. Concepts were to informed by personal mapping of the site context, and the clients were to be real people that the students must identify, interview and visually document. Typological and formal conventions were reimagined, mixing butchers with ceramicist, shoe repairman with golf instructor, culminating in a small yet provocative ‘gap’ building.

Group D: David Scott, Sue Phillips

Students: Gadir Dalia Abdel, Mustafa Akkaya, Andros Antoniades, Daniel Buja, Nabella Chaerunnisa, Davis Alexander Coburn, Danyal Goudarzirad, Gemma Hale, Jamie Hedgecock, Sara Kosanovic, Sofia Leijonberg, Sarah MasihLal, Santhusha Neligama, Isaac Nouri, Magnus Pahlberg, Lillian Rogers, Georgia Semple, Gabriella Spiridon, Yanjie Sun, Felix Thiodet, King Wu, Anastasia Zabarsky.

Students: Karen Agyekum-Hene, Daniel Atton, Rebecca Billi, Andrea Cappiello, Giulia, Da San Martino, Amrit Flora, Florin Ghimici, Atanas Ilinov, Zornitsa Kovacheva, Hoilaam Leung, Liam Mcgrane, Sahar Mohamedali, Eira Mooney, Matas Olendra, Alex Pearson, Joe Pirawatt Changlek, Matthew Quinlan, James Richardson, William Rowe, Ali Rukmul-Ali, Izabella Stamatiou, Kubra Taskiran, Pedro Vieira, Krista Zvirgzda.

To counteract the poor publicity of the NHS and therefore its decree in the popularity, students were asked to design a small intervention that would work as an advertisement for this institution. The site for this pavilion sat on a pedestrianized road in the St. Mary’s Hospital’s complex. The NHS Hub was conceived to create an interface by providing information about the NHS and public health in general – its history, performance, services, etc. The Hub is formed of an Exhibition Space opened to the general public and a private space – small walkins centre, design centre; or consultation room, etc. Special thanks to Michele Manzella and Tom Glover, Aaron Ho Henry Sykes and for the workshop on the Helix Competition.

Students began by exploring the social, cultural and physical construction of one of three popular drinks. They visited a distillery, brewery or roastery to learn about the processes and spaces involved and to draw inspiration for a new proposition sited in one of three canal-side locations in Little Venice. Their task was to design a proposal that would highlight and engage people in the material transformations involved in making the drinks, as well as providing an extraordinary and memorable place for them to enjoy drinking them. Special thanks to Gerard Evans from Sipsmith, Henrik from Climpson & Sons, and Doreen Joy Barber from Five Points Brewing Co for generously sharing their enthusiasm for their craft.

Group E: Richard Watson, Stefania Boccaletti

Group F: Mike Tuck, Julian Williams

Students: Sarah Ahmad , Bilarab Al-Said, Milan Babic, Carrick Blore, Denise Carcangiu, Nic Chapman, Javier GarciaNavarro, Felix Giorgetti, Denise Groza, Ateeq Hayat, Carla Hora, Andrea Istratescu, Nachida Kara, Adam Kramer, Nuriyah Malik, Charles McLaughlin, Mohammad Ali, Yevgeny Oleynick, Sahar Pathan, Akaterini Petsali, Sadik Quyyum, Elliot Roworth, Abdul Siddique, Emmanuel Tetterfino, Aneta Walerzak.

Students: Ahmed Aftab, Daniel Amartey, Dhara Bawuah, Aylem Boyrraz, Vicky Carrillo Mullo, Alexander Farmer, Maria Garey, Miles Giraldez, Danyal Hayat, Martynas Kasiulevicius, Ugne Krymcevaite, Omar Meer, Giorgio Miccoli, Oleander Omega, Esi Plaku, Maria Ribalaygua, Robert Rusu, Laylac Shahed, Magdalena Welcz, Conor Wilson, Iga Wisneiwska, Maria Yu-Sippola.

This year’s design projects were centred on two parks: Thames Barrier Park and Haggerston Park. The first project was for a reading hut and the second for a dairy.

The Maker-in-Residence project asked students to design a hybrid space combining a partly private studio for a ceramicist with a public gallery. The client was Cockpit Arts, an organisation that supports artists and makers in London, and who are based in the mews next to the vacant plot in Bloomsbury. The proposal needed to include making spaces for a potter/ ceramicist that could become display space on ‘open days’, and areas for quiet contemplation and reflection for the artist. Bloomsbury provided a relevant but challenging site for students to propose an architecture that would inform and delight visitors, while facilitating the complexities involved in the making and display of ceramics. Special thanks to James Rigler, James Pockson, Ed Atkins and Will Anderson.

The big moves see in the parks were a trench and a high wall, both visually dominant but also practical, their purpose being to allow a wider range of plants to grown than would normally be possible and it was with this balance between the practical and the aesthetic that we addressed the year. Thank you to: Chris Pounds of Hackney City Farm; Siobhan Battye; Tristan Hartley; Shaun Huddleston and Dan Ruddick for being so generous with their time and ideas.

Garda Massey.

BA (Hons) Architecture First Year Group A

Carole Desfrancois, ‘A Reminiscing Tate’, long section & Giacomo Brusa ‘Deconstruction Reconstruction Museum’ axonometric.

Dagmara Dyner, ‘Industrial Revolution Tate’, plan.

BA (Hons) Architecture First Year Group B

Dalia Abdel Gadir, Magnus Pahlberg.

Magnus Pahlberg.

BA (Hons) Architecture First Year Group C

Iaona Gherghe, Saori Unol.

Gavin Yau.

BA (Hons) Architecture First Year Group D

Pedro Vieira; Rebecca Billi.

Matas Olendra: Alex Pearson.

BA (Hons) Architecture First Year Group E

Denisa Groza.

Millan Babic.

BA (Hons) Architecture First Year Group F

Miles Giraldez and Aylem Boyraz.

Maria Ribalaygua.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio One Mike Guy & John O’Shea.

Yr2: Nora Behova, Isaac Cherrie, Panagiota Kaloutsikou, Nouha Hansen, Farah Mohd-Azhari, Kawther Mohsen, Ridwan Ruslan, Luc Sanciaume, Hari Tank, Zakaria Tehami, Vasiliki Theocharous, Marcus Thompsen-Smith, Zehra Yumsak. Yr3: Poppy Andronicos, Astrid Houssin, Farrah Hussain, Asif Khan, Merilin Kook, Puisan Lee, Kate Lewis, Gabriel Meier, Anthony Miller, Katarzyna Nowak, Sadman Shakir, Maria Stancikova, Natalia Tsalli.

Semester One: RiverTalk In the belief that innovative thinking is infectious, students were asked to study and make lateral connections (mental, social and physical) to revitalise Myddleton’s ingenious, but lazy of late, New River. Following London’s 100 foot valley contour, students followed and tested the water along its 27 mile traverse from the river’s green belt source to The Angel; its original vantage point destination, over Theatreland. A riverine dialect of materials and assembly informed architectural proposals to counter the loneliness of the long distance walk, reconnect existing communities and support the new exercising commuter. Semester Two: Scena Aquatica Setting: Islington’s Claremont Square subterranean reservoir. Storyline: Students were asked to challenge listed status and heritage concerns and remodelled this, now dormant, former New River destination for contemporary theatrical possibilities - with a constructional twist.

Thanks to Studio friends and former students: Constance Lau, Natalie Newey, Camilla Wilkinson, Allesandro Ayuso, Ruth Taylor, Nicola Lumsden, Callum Perry and Richard Northcroft. 38

With the same enterprise that once had drinking water diverted to Sadler’s Wells for ‘Aquatic Theatre’, they have developed alternative community and educational programmes to balance a local performing arts bias. Designs for a multi-functional venue with a residential ‘foyer’ apprenticeship school for the theatre crafts and trades have turned an unusual private square into an intriguing public place. Subtext: The demystification and celebration of construction and assembly, for would-be scene builders and architects alike. The Players: see above.

Farrah Hussain.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio One

Katarzyna Nowak, Marcus Thompson-Smith.

Kate Lewis.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio One

Mubarak(Asif)Khan.

Marcus Thompson-Smith, Poppy Andronicos.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Two Natalie Newey and Richard Watson.

Yr2: Gina Andreou, Zeid Bushnaq, Stefano Casati , William Dias Fernandes, Sepideh Heydarzadeh, Mohsin Khan, Daniel Phillips, Karolina Pupelyte, Geovanny Sanchez Rodriguez, Matteo Rossetti, Amel Said, Katy Scotter, Huzaifah Wazifdar. Yr3: Catherine De Rivaz, Theodora Malekou, Romyane Romagnoli, Alicia Yau.

Ordinary places and sensible everyday opportunism1 building 10 programs Blurring Boundaries explored the notion of borders and boundaries in and around Victoria Coach Station. The bustling but unexceptional coach station has in effect become a new border for thousands of immigrants to the UK. It is both a place in transition and a transitional space. Transforming this transport hub and reshaping itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character and the travellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience of it was the focus of the first term. 0 building 1 programs 1 airport runway Airport Tales explored the border between London City Airport & Silvertown. Two worlds that rub up against each other in an uncomfortable adjacency. When the airport shuts down every night, a vast empty landscape becomes an opportunity for the locals. This brief proposal is the Architectural equivalent of Guerrilla gardening, transforming the empty spaces of the airport runway into an extraordinary world in the still hours of the night.

Critics: Piotr Garstecki , Vicky Patsalis, William Mclean, Ralph Parker, Lydia Johnson, Mina Shafik, Flora Cselovszki, Merilin Todorinova, Ozan Blauel, Philip Hurrell, Camilla Wilkinson, Mike Rose. 44

Catherine De Rivaz,

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Two

Daniel Phillips.

Gine Andreou.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Two

Katy Scotter, Stefano Casati.

Karolina Pupelyte, Stefano Casati.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Three

Constance Lau & Claire Harper. Yr2: Darren Buttar, Scott Dhar, Jordan Gibbs, Abiel Hagos, Yagmur Karaca, Mingyang Li, Karina Pitis, Sasha Setoudeh, Viktorija Skromovaite, Simon Spafford, Marzena Szwed, Fiona Thompson. Yr3:Bailey Bernheine, Nuozi Chen, Aidan Hermans, Alex Hester, Piera Mascoli, Svetlana Murasova, Sear Nee Ng, Andreea-Laura Nica, Ioana Stoica, Ioana Vierita

Unto This Last : The Camden Workshop and School of Design This year’s theme focuses on the British Arts and Crafts Movement which is credited to John Ruskin and William Morris. The design narrative and notion of multiple interpretations is based on explorations concerning the arguments, concepts and thought processes surrounding this Movement. Of special interest is Ruskin’s 1860 essay Unto This Last which serves to advocate a return to the principles of ‘hand craftsmanship’ and the notion of the local craftsman. The project site of Camden Town dates back to the 1790s, and the markets were historically known for its culture of ‘making’. Hence the individual design narratives are developed as ongoing dialogues between readings concerning the Movement and ideas of site.

The design proposal and construction of The Camden School of Design seeks to address and redefine key concepts of the Movement. More importantly, this body of work serves to demonstrate the relevance of the local craftsman and notions of ‘making’ in this present industrial and technological era of mass production. Key to the design proposal is also the interpretations of the terms School as well as Design. Hence the narrative and manner of reading, understanding and presenting the physical context simultaneously with the context of the argument will serve to reveal multiple architectural definitions concerning the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Semester one’s A History of Camden in 10 Objects references the British Museum’s manner of narrating the history of the world through 100 objects, and looks to telling the story of Camden Town with 10. The Arts and Crafts Workshop in which these objects will be housed and studied continues into semester two’s design proposal concerning Arts and Crafts Architecture. This is where the notion of ‘hand craftsmanship’ and ‘making’ further extends to ideas of building. Critics:Special thanks to Sotiris Varsamis, Chee Kit Lai, Will Mclean, Pete Silver, François Girardin, Michael Guy, Natalie Newey, Julian Williams, Christian Newton and of course, Jed Dutton. 50

Ioana Vierita: The School of Elemental Drawing.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Three

Sear Nee Ng: The Arts and Craft School of Cabinet Construction.

Sear Nee Ng: The Tower of Construction.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Three

Andreea-Laura Nica: The School of Recycling and Experimental Building.

Andreea-Laura Nica: The Breaking Chamber in Camden Stable Market.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Four

François Girardin & Filip Visnjic. Yr2: Yasmin Bakali, Amir El Harbe, Kyriakos Eleftheriadis, Benjamin Evans, Tahin Khan, Katarzyna Lengiewicz, Anna Lewandowska, Yasmin Lokat, Maksimilijan Luzaic, Iga Martynow, Peter Oboko, Anastasis Troullides, Fadime Yasar. Yr3: Janis Atelbauers, Adrian Bolog, Laura Dansone, Louise King, Aleksandra Kravchenko, Cindy Mehdi, Kishan San Bhopal, Dean Slidel, Ming Zhong Song, Michael Wells, Hui Wen.

Some sort of sectionning DS04 continue it’s foray into architectural education throughout the process of abstraction and spatial discipline. Throughout a series of exercise that introduce spatial concepts such as Surface, Frame, Thickness, Tension, Enclosure and Porosity; the studio try to qualify and quantify the notion of place. Very often confused with the concept of site, the notion of place has been long discussed but somehow this discourse seem to escape the teaching of the discipline.

Taking it’s clue from the program, the circulations or those volumetry, the process allow the student to design the groundscape and surrounding of the project leading to a proposal for a relevant landscape/site. The result is a gathering of high-rise structures, all with a different responsiveness to the program and the place in which they nest.

Building on those tentatives, the second term focus more on the notion of project and program; hybridizing and crossprogramming of functions that include the private, minimal, residential high-density and more public and communal activities and lifestyles. The given footprint being very small, the projects have to develop vertically, introducing a kind of vertical planning: some sort of sectionning. The notion of place is then reintroduce to describe the inside of the vertical structure taking advantage of long and short view. Importantly the porosity of the edifices allows a strong technical input, but also an opportunity for a wide range of spatial volumetry.

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Ming Zhong Song

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Four

Laura Dansone, Benjamin Evans.

Kishan San Bhopa

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Four

Janis Atelbauers

Aleksandra Kravchenko

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Michael Rose & Alison Mclellan. Yr2: Alex Beloousov; Hanna Furey; Olympia Grassi; Fatemah Mohammadi Araghi; Eduardo Pascale; Negar Shahbodaghloo; Anastasia Zamaraeva; Jakub Zgoda; Shakira McMillan Yr3: Xanthi Bartsota; Joseph Cook; Elena Dimitrova; Alix Gunn; Rajwant Kaur Singh; Adnan Khan; Natasa Kitiri; Stephanos Neofytou; Triin Liis Palm; Georgios Papadopoulos; Maria Pavlou; Ammar Riaz; Mirabelle Schmidt; Agni Stasinopoulou; Costas Xenophontos

Synopsis: Our projects this year were located in the Exmouth Market area of Islington, and were concerned with the urban qualities of multicultural and diverse social groupings, and with the potential of integration between the urban space and the historical Spa Gardens.

The second semester project took another edge of the site, adjacent to the Finsbury Health Centre, as the location for the design of a ‘Registry of Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Partnerships’, with associated celebratory and memorial community spaces.

In the first semester, we began with an introductory exercise to ‘unify’ the whole site by means of a simple element/ installation. We then asked students to propose a creative / ceremonial activity, and locate it on the site, in relation to their research into social needs of the area.

This involved challenging pragmatic and poetic aspects in a dynamic location, involving cultural and emotive issues, complexity of circulation, and great potential for creative landscape connection.

A slot of two nondescript terraces was opened as a location for the main project, which was for a community ‘house’, related to their previous exercises, where the main theme of a therapeutic activity for the community would be chosen by each student. This stage began with the design of a pop-up introductory event on the site. A list of ‘artists’ was given as a possible source of patronage and content for the ‘house’ Whatever the theme, students were expected to design a range of contrasting and evocative spaces, and make a strong connection to the street and the gardens. This was developed by physical models, and a full range of architectural drawings, including interior views.

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We emphasised physical model making as a critical design tool, as well as the development of a full range of drawing techniques.

Mirabell Schmidt, Joseph Cook.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Five

RajwantKaurSingh, Natasa Kitiri.

Elena Dimitrova.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Five

Mirabell Schmidt, Joseph Cook.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Six Clare Carter & Gill Lambert.

Yr2: Marco Catena, Ricky Chandi, Kea Chin, Nicole Cork, Ekaterina Dziadkovskaia, Robert Heathcote, Khayla Khan, Sana Mir, Jaimina Shah, Laura Vickers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ruiz, Panagiotis Zervos. Yr3: Simon Banfield, Stacey Barry, Shanae Boisson, Raluca Ciorbaru, Monica Cristu, Iliya Koprinkov, KB Lee, William Marshall, Fiona Ng, Fong Ting Ng, Michael Theodoulou, Elenda Timaj, Pawel Uczciwek, KeeShin Wong

Tomorrow, Today Tomorrow, Today A conversation between city and edgelands, between Euston and Staines, making connections and creating a narrative across time and place. Concerned with responses to the environment; identifying problems and attempting to resolve them; the designs proposed a course of action and communicated this to a wider public in a provocative and speculative manner. We dealt with local conversations and global debate, science and politics, the past and the future. show room Investigating the unique qualities of Staines and the string of reservoirs, we communicated our environmental concerns and brought them to the wider public in London, creating an experiential moment and an immersive condition on the Euston Road, in the form of a shop window or show room for Staines. country club Our site is bounded by Heathrow to the north, the M25 to the west and the M3 to the south. Within these boundaries lies an edgeland landscape. This is the edge of London; between city and country. The string of huge reservoirs which were constructed to provide

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water for London, have invaded the natural landscape. The gravel extraction created vast pits which have filled with water now the pits are no longer worked. Staines is 20% under water, according to local residents. We worked within this very unique, constructed, post-industrial landscape. Returning to Staines and locating on the perimeter of the Queen Mary reservoir, we reinvented the idea of country club. The client group is a local club - a social, civic or scientific organization. Re-enchanting the constructed landscape for the British Landscape Club by devising a festival trail is the result of one investigation while another designs a Deep Sea Storm Centre where extreme conditions at sea can be simulated and tested.

William Marshall: Deep Sea Storm Centre.

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William Marshall: Deep Sea Storm Centre.

Stacey Barry: The Re-enchantment Festival.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Six

Pawel Uczciwekâ&#x20AC;&#x2039;: International Moth Factory and Testing Facility.

Elenda Timaj: Folded Landscape, Flood Research and Country Park.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Seven Jane Tankard & Julian Williams.

Yr2: Faddah Alaskar, Michail Alexopoulos, Ben Brakspear, Dolly Cheung, Zuhra Daud, Buyi Femi-Balogun, Sahani Fernando, Idriss Idriss, Patti Kurasinska, Shanice Tang-Wah, Richard Taylor, Robert Wong. Yr3: Ilia Andreopoulou, Darius Borusevicius, Alexandra Bradley, Krys Buda, Georgiana Chioviu, Christos Kakouros, Andrej Kostrzewa, Kris Limpert, Katerina Tampa, Emiliano Zavala.

The Cally: an urban experiment for the 21st century Sandwiched between the ‘brave new world’ of the Kings Cross Development and the professional middle classes of Barnsbury, the area of the Cally in Islington is an established but deprived London neighbourhood. Addressing the issues of gentrification and identity in the context of contemporary economic and social contexts, DS07 spent semester 1 developing a series of strategic interventions for the area. These propositions were generated through an in-depth analysis of Islington Council’s ‘Cally Plan’ Consultation Document, negotiation with the local community and the smallest, most insignificant observations – from Rita’s pot plant to interviews with gangs of local youth. Interventions were to be ‘launched’ by a number of architectural fragments: events intended to challenge the forces of global commercialization and privatization, whilst celebrating the ethnic diversity and rich cultural lives of the Cally’s inhabitants. One of the masterplans, a radical and innovative proposition developed by two third year students, was adopted by the studio for semester 2. The potential for sustainability and self sufficiency became central to the masterplan and growing, recycling, commune living, education and self-governance were

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some of the issues examined, deconstructed and redefined with the notion that the Cally could become self-sustainable by 2030 (ish) as the central ambition and focus. The students worked together to ensure that the strategy remained the overarching organizer around which individual projects developed and evolved in detail. Students worked in constant negotiation with their neighbours, adopting and addressing decisions and strategies identified and evolved by each member of the team. Field Trip: New York

Studio Masterplan.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Seven

Ben Brakspear, Alexandra Bradley.

Christos Kakouros.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Seven

Christos Kakouros, Ilia Andreopoulos.

Emiliano Zavala.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Eight

Ben Stringer & Pete Barber. Yr2: Sarah Abuzeid, Calleja Maialen, Anil Can Colak, Dinemis Balkaroglu, Dominika Fiodorow, Jiho Kim, Callum Mason, Thu Nguyen, Angela Procopiou, Kamala Pun, Thomas Roots, Harriet Taylor.. Yr3: Olusola Adebakin, Tala Bakhsh, Abigail Butler, Luke Clayden, Jazmin Cole, Konstantina-Ioli David, Seetul Ghattaora, Petros Giannopoulos, Elliot Hill, Ryan Huxford, Lorna Lisk, Charlyn Pagewski, Theoni-Antrea Stylianou, Patricia Trivino Herrero.

Project 1: Thames Island Villages: We began the first semester by looking at all the islands on the Thames between Eel Pie Island in the West and Canvey Island in the East, all of which have distinct social and ecological characteristics. Doing this gave us ideas about the social and natural geography of the city. The studio then designed twenty five new Thames island villages, each at a different point along the river and each occupied by a glimpse or fragment of an ideal urbanity. Project 2: A Museum of Tourism: Our second project was to design a place where people could go to see exhibits about how we perceive cities and landscapes when we are tourists. It would do this through the display of souvenirs, maps and other objects related to tourism. We offered two sites to choose from, one below ground level in the central reservation of Park Lane and the other a long thin site behind the British Museum. Field Trip: Copenhagen, Malmo and Stockholm In November, in these great Scandinavian cities we saw fantastic baroque palaces, anarchist and eco neighbourhoods, poetic cemeteries and stayed in a sailing ship hotel. We saw works by Asplund, Lewerentz, Jacobsen, BIG, MVRDV and many others.

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Theoni Styllianou.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Eight

Jazmin Cole, Seetul Ghattaora.

Luke Clayden, Jazmin Cole.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Eight

Konstantina Ioli David, Dominika Fiodorow.

Luke CLayden.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Nine Camilla Wilkinson & Eric Guibert.

Yr2: Daniel Baldeo, Coyan Cardenas, Mega Edoja, Heaven Emmanuel, Ivan Giffi, Michael Guldbog, Ryan Hahn, Hussein Houta, Claudia Ip, Rim Kalsoum, Nick Leung, Johnathan Ngai, Violeta Petrova, Ali Rashid, Mazamir Seyedeh Booshehri, Muhammad Shakeel, Alex Shaw, Michaela Vasileva. Yr3: Chanel Currow, Claudia Larsen, William Purves, Ralitsa Serkedzhieva, Roberto Lozano Bernabeu.

Animal Empathy: Ecosystem Enclosure - London Zoo This year we have diverted from the challenges of expanding urban communities in order to reflect on our relationship with the diminishing ‘kingdom’ of wild animals. Our neighbours in Regents Park are lions, vultures, flamingos and the black widow spider. What are they doing there? What activity is ‘going to the Zoo’? With higher attendance to Zoos than football matches, worldwide, the best Zoo’s have the capacity to influence our understanding and experience of the ‘natural’ world. They have a remit to provide formative experiences and would like to be perceived primarily as conservators and researchers. We have set a brief to design enclosures that attempt to replicate an ecosystem within a specific biome; to communicate through architecture the interdependence of living creatures within a global ecology. In the widest sense, sustainability is the theme. With London Zoo as client, we asked students to study its complex and often contradictory interests in terms of commercial, conservation and research remits. Creating architectural proposals for animal enclosures has given us an opportunity to dispense with assumptions (about activity, architectural typology) and try to evaluate and provide the spatial and environmental needs of Critics: Lindsay Bremner, Rupalim Choudray, Dave Daversa, Keb Garavito-Bruhn, Lucian Grant, Mike Guy, Gaby Higgs, Natalie Newey, Sarah Nuttall, Milica Plinston, Ben Stringer, Sanaz Shobieri, Julian Williams. DS15 Critics & portfolio presentations: Ruby Ray Penny, Michael Perkins, Emily Posey, Joshua MacManus, Marie Price 86

fellow creatures – as well as how we wish to view them. Through drawing and model making, observation, research and experimentation, our students have been developing architectural strategy and programme with the aim of conveying the value and wonder (or horror) of biodiversity to visitors. We would like to thank the following Zoos and independent researchers for their generous input, teaching us about animal husbandry, enclosure design and entering into philosophical debate Zoological Society London, Robin Fitzgerald, Sarah Thomas and Keepers Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Michelle Youd, Lisa Stroud, Mike Bungard, Adi Board and Keepers Dartmoor Zoological Park, Coral Higham, Colin Northcott, Mike Dowman and the team Rupalim Choudray - MSc AA thesis presentation ‘Enclosure Design for animals in captivity- emphasis on the Greater One horned Indian Rhinoceros’ Sanaz Shobeiri Phd UoW thesis presentation ‘Large-Scale Strategies Regarding the River-valleys of Tehran’ Dave Daversa Phd Cam. thesis ‘Dynamics of the waterborne parasite, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, in semi-terrestrial hosts’ Buro Happold, Christine Cambrook, Senior Sustainability Engineer, Presentation King Abdullah International Gardens Proctor and Mathews, Chester Zoo ‘Out of Africa’ Design and Access Report

Alex Shaw.

BA (Hons) Architecture Studio Nine

Coyan Cardenas.

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Coyan Cardenas.

Technical Studies Undergraduate Pete Silver, Will McLean, Scott Batty, Andrew Whiting, Lamis Bayar and Gabrielle Omar and Chris Leung.

The Technical Studies teaching at the University of Westminsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Architecture is coordinated by Pete Silver and Will McLean and has been designed as a linear progression from first year Undergraduate through to final year Diploma. FIRST YEAR Introduction to Technical Studies is a lecturebased course that introduces students to basic structural and environmental principles and aims to establish building technology as a key component of architectural design thinking. Drafting and Fabrication is a workshop and studio based course that introduces students to construction principles and fabrication processes as well as exploring ways to describe constructed objects - how to draw and model a design so that it can be fabricated. Students are set a structural or environmental problem-solving exercise and learn that the process of making, forms a necessary part of design thinking. SECOND YEAR Making Architecture is a lecture and workshop based course that introduces students to the relationship between building technology, the construction process and the practice of architecture. Through the study of current practice - as illustrated by visiting practitioners (architects, engineers and fabricators) - students are introduces to how architectural projects are conceived, illustrated and realized. Students conduct a workshop study related to a specific problem-solving exercise.

The Site Diary introduces students to the construction site and the site team. Students select a building site to visit on a regular basis (consulting directly with the job architect) and maintain a site diary, which provides both an overview of the construction project (from the point of view of professional practice) and an annotated photo-journal documenting the progress of the works. THIRD YEAR Applied Technology introduces students to more specialized engineering techniques, fabrication processes and materials, and are exposed to analytical software for environmental modelling. Visiting structural and environmental engineers alongside other specialist consultants deliver regular lectures, and students conduct site analyses that can be applied directly to their final design programme. Technical Integration: For their final Degree design project, students consult directly with the technical studies tutors on a regular basis for structural and environmental input, and produce a report to be read in conjunction with their design work.

Drafting and Fabrication: The Hat Stand.

Technical Studies Lectures

Throughout the first semester, weekly Thursday evening lectures feature leading architects, engineers and thinkers who discuss architecture through a predominantly socio technical perspective. The talks encompass innovative design methods, new materials

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and fabrication techniques and the sanctity of changing environmental imperative. These talks aim to inspire and stimulate students with a host of differing approaches to the technology of architecture.

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Kevin Gray

Prof Nick Dunn

British Museum

Digital Fabrication

Aluminium

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14th Oct 2.30pm Room M421

28th Oct 2.30pm Room M421

25th Nov 2.30pm Room M421

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David Kendall

Composites Optima Projects

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Rogers Stirk Harbour

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Lancaster University

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Cath Hassell John Farrell Geoff Morrow ech2o

Low Carbon Design

Structuremode

xco2 energy

The Comfort Envelope

Structural Design

Dr David Harris

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Scott Batty + Andy Whiting

Two Houses

4th Oct 2.30pm Room M421

18th Oct 2.30pm Room M421

7th Oct 2.30pm Room M421

30th Sept 2.30pm Room M421

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Prof Mike Wilson

Daylighting

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Mark Taylor Andrew Watts Chris Leung Allies and Morrison

Facade Design

Building Envelopes

Newtecnic

Climate Filters

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1st Nov 2.30pm Room M421

11th Oct 2.30pm Room M421

25th Oct 2.30pm Room M421

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Phil Waind + John Ashton Waind Gohil Architects

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technical studies

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Ptacek Neil Thomas Allan Haines Dan Kinnickinnic

EDICCT

The Design Process

Designing with Concrete

The Adjacent Possible

Aran Chadwick

21st Oct 2.30pm Room M421

11th Nov 2.30pm Room M421

31st Oct 6.30pm Room M421

17th Oct 6.30pm Room M421

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Stelarc

Nick Crosbie

Graham Stevens

The Extended Body

Air Structures

Lightweight Wonders

Atelier One

Inflate

Aran Chadwick

3rd Oct 6.30pm Room M421

14th Nov 6.30pm Room M421

10th Oct 6.30pm Room M421

28th Nov 6.30pm Room M421

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Timothy Lucas Paul Bavister Paulo Pimentel

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Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt

Sound, Acoustics, Music

and Architecture

Experiences

Environmental Experimentation

24th Oct 6.30pm Room M421

21st Nov 6.30pm Room M421

12th Dec 6.30pm Room M421

7th Nov 6.30pm Room M421

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Price and Myers

The Kew House Project

University of Kent

Cultural Context Undergraduate

Extended Essay tutors: John Bold, Emma Cheatle, Alain Chiaradia, Willem de Bruijn, Jon Goodbun, Sarah Milne, Ben Stringer, John Walter.

After history in the first year and theory in the second, the Extended Essay offers the opportunity to third year undergraduates to research and write on a subject of their choice, guided by tutors through a programme of tutorials throughout the autumn term. Here are some of the best this year: In ‘Architecture and Apocalypse’, Catherine de Rivaz investigates our times of extreme scarcity and extreme plenty to question the role of the architect in the context of climate change, turning from designer of the known to the unknown, prompting the author in this well written study to call for a recalibration of the architectural imagination. (a) The well-known photograph of the naked Le Corbusier painting a mural on the wall of Eileen Gray’s Villa E.1027 introduces an investigation of gender and space in which Matthew Grand reconsiders the views of Colomina and Samuel. There are no grand conclusions but the arguments are very well presented, with evident attention to detail, and well selected images. (b) In his excellent, well written and sophisticated essay, ‘Learning from Marrakech’, William Marshall offers a sustained critique of a seminal piece of architectural theory. While the authors of Learning from Las Vegas concentrated on the commercial strip, this essay focuses on the medina as the paradigmatic space for an alternative, a cultural epicentre for commerce, entertainment and tourism. (c)

In a case study of Cedric Price’s Fun Palace and the BMW Guggenheim Lab by Atelier Bow Wow, Sear Nee Ng investigates the changing discourse, challenge and expression of adaptability in architecture. This clear and soundly constructed essay shows a deep understanding of the issues surrounding adaptability as a design consideration across architectural practice in anticipation of changes of use and users. Radical differences in attitudes to public housing are examined by Triin Liis Palm in an excellent comparative study of two major estates, the Heygate (London) and the Herrgarden (Malmo), the former now under demolition and the latter regenerated. Local politics, spatial dynamics and media representations are all explored together with issues of funding, ownership and consultation. There is no perfect model but clearly some are better than others and there is a role for architects as creative translators between communities and councils. (d) Lastly, Ioana Vierita has considered Mies van der Rohe, montage, and the mirror as a Dadaist tool. This is an ambitious essay, very well structured, with complex ideas, sound analysis and argument. Built to be modern rather than comfortable, it is argued that Mies’ designs are dependent upon his means of representation and that his radical buildings cannot be appreciated and understood independently of that representation. (e)

MArch course

The Westminster MArch aims to educate thinking architects, in what at times seems to be a high-wire act balancing diversity with excellence. The MArch fosters an academic environment that encourages students to study the discipline of architecture as both fragment and frame of our broadest social and physical ecologies, and legitimizes them inventing their own architectural thesis in relation to them. Building on the experience of their year out in practice and their undergraduate (Part I) degree, the course offers students the opportunity to develop their design skills within a context of continually expanding theoretical and critical knowledge. Students undertake specific and investigative design projects, a written dissertation, and technical, environmental, cultural, representational and professional studies, the synthesis of which forms their academic portfolio. This year, as always, saw some change. I took over as Course Leader of the MArch in January. Among the Design Studios DS12 took a sabbatical (so, no, we didn’t forget to check our numbering), while two new Design Studios were created, DS17 and DS18. Otherwise the MArch continues to retain and evolve its best practice. The MArch Design Studios are run as vertical studios combining students from both years of the MArch. Each Design Studio has its own character and its own way of doing things, and prioritises particular issues and themes to research through design. The diversity of the Design Studios is astonishing, as the next pages testify, but they are unified by a number of shared values: the nurturing of a supportive peer groups within which each individual student can develop her or his personal design

thesis; common and rigorous standards of assessment; and a common belief that an informed architectural imagination can act as a key process in developing the nature of a project itself – a way of working and a body of knowledge. Specialised Strategic and Technical Studies allow students to develop the possibilities of their design projects beyond the scope of the Design Studio. Discrete pieces of work in their own right, they enable students to research, substantiate and refine elements of their projects to a degree that is unusual in an architecture school. In turn, the studies inform and invigorate the Design Studio. The personal scholarship of the Dissertation completes the MArch’s academic portfolio. Students choose their own topic to investigate, and undertake their own programme of research, usually over the summer between the first and second years, before writing and illustrating their thesis. The following pages document the extraordinary achievements of our students, and the staff who support them. Perhaps it is not so surprising that, despite torrid economic circumstances, practices continue to value our graduates; in particular, that students studying on the MArch can do things that are important to practice – but which practices can rarely afford to do. Harry Charrington MArch Course Leader

MArch COURSE RIBA Part II

MArch Studio Ten Toby Burgess & Arthur Mamou-Mani.

Yr1: Lorna Jackson, John Konings, Garis Iu, Stanley Tan, Naomi Danos, Charlotte Yates, Paul Thorpe, Henry Turner, Eva Ciocyte, Joe Leach, Sarah Stellios Yr2: Georgia Collard-Watson, Josh Haywood, Jessica Beagelman, Andrei Jipa, Rebecca Nichols, George Guest, Sarah Shuttleworth, Mark Simpson, Dhiren Patel, William Garforth Bless, Natasha Coutts.

WeWantToLearn.net - The Architecture of Joy DS10 is obsessed with analogue experiments combined with digital tools, while daring to be naĂŻve, curious and optimistic. The studio is passionate about natural structural systems and believe that sustainable design is a given, not an option. They believe architects should be entrepreneurs, and value combinations of architectural quality with social responsibility. Through the use of digital tools, for analysis, formal generation and fabrication, we seek an architecture of beauty which responds intelligently to its environment, and sits within a wider cultural context, and we believe that architecture should be fun! BRIEF01: SYSTEM: Students began the year with the analysis and comparison of three related systems: structural, natural and mathematical; through cross experimentation in both the digital and physical realm, seeking out and defining the simple rules which generate complex geometry using parametric modelling and physical modelling and accompanied by parametric software training sessions.

students developed proposals of joy and festivity, based closely on the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ten guiding principles, creating heightened moments of experience, and submitted them for funding for the 2014 festival. BRIEF2B: REALIZE: Expanding on Brief2A, students developed their designs by adding program and increasing scale and complexity as well as understanding in detail the buildability of their proposals. Projects were designed for a specific cultural event which brings people together into a single space to share a common experience of joy and celebration, creating architectural proposals which reflect upon and provide a commentary on the well researched specificicity of the chosen event. Website: New students will join the WeWantToLearn.net community and become authors of our lively blog, posting progress, resources, links and pictures. Trip: Seville, Cordoba, Granada

BRIEF2A: FESTIVAL: After securing funding for and successfully delivering two student designed projects at Burning Man 2013, Guest Critics/Special Thanks: BettieJune Scarborough (Burning Man), Daewha Kang (Zaha Hadid Architects), Lawrence Friesen (GenGeo), Stephen Melville (Ramboll RCD), James Solly (Buro Happold), Michael Clarke, Harri Lewis (Foster+Partners), Marie-Isabel de Monseignat (Chelsea College of Art) 100

Georgia Collard-Watson & Thanasis Korras: Shipwreck and Fractal Cultbuilt at the Burning Man festival 2013 Josh Haywood: Hayam, winner of the grant for Burning Man 2014

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Josh Haywood :Hayam: winner of the grant for Burning Man 2014

Josh Haywood: Hayam Temple to Sunlight.

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Sarah Shuttleworth:Promenade Concert in Hyde Park. Joe Leach: Temple for the Burning Man Festival.

William Garforth-Bless: Bamboo Tower for the Damyang Festival,

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Andrei Jipa :Solanopolis, a 3D Printed Fractal City.

MArch Studio Eleven

Andrew Peckham, Dusan Decermic and Ana Serrano. Yr1: Charlotte Blythe, Vainius Buragas, Cheryl Choo, Leftos Dousis, Kathryn Edwards, Joanna Jones, George Kneale, Pavla Krejcova, Zi Kang Lim, Edward Wu, Jolene Liam. Yr2: Louise Billingham, Siobhan Battye, David Cloux, Amy Conneely, Hannah Gaze, Nicola Lumsden, Fraser McQuade, Adrian Manea, Elena Neophytou, Tommy Pniewski, Matthew Stewart, Willemijn van de Klundert, James Williamson.

Triestinità: city as medium Trieste paradoxically embodies a multi-ethnic cosmopolitan culture yet also a deeply conservative ‘heritage’ (historic port to AustroHungary), mediating between the limestone landscape of the Karst plateau and the Adriatic, the stasis of ‘investment’ and the flux of economic change and migration. Our focus concerned this relationship between stability and instability. The city has a fluid historical identity yet a material reality epitomized by the stolid construction of the Theresian quarter’s severe grid. Beneath the surface there’s the realm of the urban interior, and the fissures and voids of the Karst’s underworld - complemented by the undersea environment captured in the aquarium. To visit Trieste is not to view iconic buildings but to experience the medium of the city: a built archive of aesthetic material, a complex of social, psychological or psychic agencies, mediated by contemporary mores and marked by contrasting environmental conditions. Trieste’s past as an imperial port, underpins its banking and insurance institutions, and heritage tourism, but also now largely empty dockyards. A certain vacancy prevails in the central districts, while the periphery evidences scattered institutions of the 60’s and 70’s, schools and social housing. Bracketed between escarpment and sea, environmental extremes impact on the city as a maritime threshold.

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Our framework for the year sought to address these aspects of the city in preliminary studies (‘customs house’, ‘demolition or la nuova dimensione’, ‘transnational ecologies’) and later a city survey. First Year went on to design a Marine Institute and Aquarium, whereas Second Year presented a Catalogue Raisonné in formulating their final thesis programme. As detailed design-work developed, technical ‘agencies’ were introduced to prompt engagement with the imperatives of ‘detail and materiality’ and ‘environmental conditioning’. The ‘thesis’ projects ranged widely: Maritime Courthouse; Market and Food Hall; Museo Tristinità; Communal Library; Science Centre; Romanova; Fabricating a Neo-vernacular; Performative Multiplex; Hotel Trieste; AustroBabylon; Castello Naturale; Aquatic Research Institute, and an Infrastructural Overlay and Freeport Apartments at Porto Vecchio. Thanks in Trieste to: Elena Carlini, Luciano Lazzari, Giorgio Poretti, Sara Biolchi, Luka Zani and Oscar Bullo.

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David Cloux and Edward Wu.

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MArch Studio Thirteen

Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau. Yr1: James Abbott, Glauco Borel, Flora Cselovszki, Martino Gasparrini, Stuart Huggan, Ryan Kingsnorth, Jamie Kirkham, Alexander MacIver, Alexia Michael, Francesco Montaguti, Emily Pela, Bryan Ratzlaff, Jason Sam, Laura Steventon, Emma Swarbrick, Jack Thompson, Sai Wentum. Yr2: Rishi Davda, Abderahim Elmenani, Petya Ivanova, Mohammed Rahmany, Ross Powell, Alexander Sun.

Effects and Affects of Attention The core of each creative discipline is the production of a body of effects that shapes the way we relate to the world and to each other. At DS13 we are interested in disciplinary specificity, in the effects specific to architecture. We believe that architecture’s relevance, its engagement with the world and its sense of agency emerges through a process that starts with the generation of effects and, through these effects, shapes human experience to produce affect. This year DS 13 focused on architecture’s effects of attention as we continue our research into the complex ecology of the attention economy. As our world becomes filled with ever larger quantities of content the demand on our attention (a finite commodity) is not only increasing, it is becoming increasingly sophisticated. From new forms of leisure to various types of social media, from global brands to corporate environments a multiplicity of factors and agents vie to capture, hold or perhaps deliberately avoid our attention. What factors are at work within this ecology of attention? How does it construct new structures of experience? What kinds of value does it produce? More importantly how does it deliberately shape novel architectural typologies? As always DS13 has operated foremost as an applied think tank. We have studied various design and making techniques along with Critics: Steve Hardy, Clive Fenwick, Yashin Kemal, Andrew Watts, Natalie Shalam, Alasdair Mealey, Mark Watson, Nick Strachan, Austin Carroll, Roger Cooper, Alejandro Vicente and all the contributions from Dr. Harry Charrington and all Design Studios. 116

specific strategies for seeing and thinking. From a perspective of choreographed attention we have looked at how techniques define architectural effects, how these effects create specific affect, mood and atmosphere, and how affect can be deployed and co-opted to produce change, experiential, cultural or political. The site of our study this year has been Shenzhen. A contemporary urban experiment of astonishing ambition, Shenzhen’s image is synonymous with the rise of “Made in China”. Equally planned and improvised, the city grew as necessity – as China’s first Free Economic Zone it quickly became its first manufacturing powerhouse. Then, as factories moved out, Shenzhen refashioned itself from a producer of goods to a purveyor of content, becoming a global creative hub. Now the city is undergoing its third and perhaps most profound transformation. In what is a fundamentally the frontline of a new type of urbanism, the city’s engine of growth is no longer the making of things or the assembly of content, but rather the production of experience, where an entire choreography of urban attention is leveraged to produce affect. The city as a stage set, its denizens simultaneously inhabitants and protagonists in a curated environment.

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Ryan Kingsnorth: QianHai Bay Justice Centre, Rishi Davda: Innovation Network.

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Sai Wentum XXI Century (P)lay-er Cake School, Laura Stevenson: Water City.

Emma Swarbrick: Health Oasis.

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Gordon Shrigley, Christian Ducker and Thomas Reinke. Yr1: Rebecca Abell, Rupert Calvert, Patrick Carter, Robert Cullen, Sophie Fuller, Frederick Jackson, Amy Knight–Archer, Dewald Koch, James Mackenzie, Barnabas O’Dowd, leo Palmer, James Rogers, Alasdair Struthers, Alexander Weedon Yr2:Selay Aktolga, Young Woo Lee, Miloš Murin, Farrah Ashiela Samsuri, Oscar Sedkowski, Matthew Witts.

Wandering, Collecting, Archiving & Drawing Studio 14 considers the language of drawing to be the primary site of architecture. Throughout the year the studio has developed an open and reflexive attitude to drawing in its widest sense and has encouraged research that employs drawing not as a mere tool, but as a way of opening up buildable possibilities, hitherto unknown. Site one: Victoria Tower Gardens. How can an archival approach to everyday urbanism point towards the development of a unique architectural language? To answer this question we looked at the simple visual rhythms and quotidian motifs within the landscape on and adjacent to the park and at the work of the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sol LeWit, Douglas Huebler, Gerhard Richter and Karl Blossfeldt. Site two: Thesis Project. Design an archive building to house, exhibit and celebrate the Acts of Parliament that are currently housed in Victoria Tower, Houses of Parliament, Millbank, London. Studio Trip: The Maltese Houses of Parliament and Archive, Architect Renzo Piano, Valletta, Malta.

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MArch Studio Fifteen

Sean Griffiths and Kester Rattenbury. Yr1: Liam Atkins, Caroline Capaccia, Simona Cojocaru, Amy Gaspar-Slayford, Miranda Hammond, Khairul Hiffni, Anna Kiho, Joshua MacManus, Marie Price, Simon Shillito, Edward Ward. Yr2: Ricardas Blazukas, Robert Brown, Elizabeth Burnett, Jane Chew, Mathew Crawford, Piotr Garstecki, Darren Grist, Ruby Penny, Michael Perkins, Pip Phillips, Emily Posey, Dan Ruddick, Kuljeet Sibia, Shuahra Rahman, Tim Waines.

Here Comes Everybody This year, Design Studio 15 has come up with a series of architectural projects in Marrakech - almost entirely by chance. Literally. Using the 5,000 year old Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching, and stealing and adapting some of the techniques used by the Minimalist composer John Cage who used it to develop some of his most seminal works, the studios threw coins, many thousands of times, to get directions on how to invent, develop and draw this year’s building. Get up at three in the morning and do a painting using only your left hand? Make a model, or do a technical drawing while riding a bicycle? Design a building made entirely of doors? Invent a programme, choose a set of materials, select a site or do a setting out drawing based on the toss of three coins? A vast body of bizarre, Arte Povera, drawings, soundscapes, new kinds of alphabets, ‘programmatic moments’, models, installations and one-to-one components began to emerge -- for which we then found hundreds of counterparts in the vernacular buildings, mud walls, ruined palaces, improvised markets and workshops, event spaces and living patterns of derbs and riadhs when we all went to Marrakech in search of a real architecture of

chance. But how might the students translate this conceptual-art meets vernacular improvisation into a proposal for a building (which might stand up) without losing the spirit of their work? How do you keep the sense of chance, improvisation in an industry designed to remove risk and ignore the richness it can bring? As the students brilliantly tackled this huge problem, the whole year’s project became a sort of x-ray of the strange techniques design tutors use to develop and combine intuitive, practical and speculative work - as well as a critique of what a ‘finished’ project is in a school of architecture.

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MArch Studio Sixteen Anthony Boulanger, Gual Lee, Stuart Piercy

Yr1: Camilla Bartz-Johannessen, Joseph Brownhill, Michelle Evans, Daniel Gullan, Tristan Hartley, Charlotte Hill, Shaun Huddleston, Amy Martin, Matthew Mitchell, Zipporah Ong, Jade Pollard, Liam Spencer, Christine Varvouni-Giatrakou. Yr2: Oliver Andrew, Matthew Barnacle, Daniel Brookfield, Ioannis Halkiopoulos, Lydia Johnson, Callum Perry, Dominik Sedzicki, Mina Shafik, Anthony Whitaker.

Collections + Constructions Collections attribute to and demonstrate the evolution of culture, identity and invention. They are important for the understanding of history, of people and places, and take on a multiplicity of representations. On a social, historical level we asked students to form an interest in the polemics of collections as a result of imperialism, colonialism and trade. On another level we invited them to develop investigations that scrutinized the value of collected artefacts in terms of their craft; their material characteristics and the teqniques involved in their creation. The task was to form critical and experimental responses to a history of collecting artifacts and to create design propositions that were informed by their (re)interpretations. This was initialised with an intense 4 week project, where small groups of students discovered and interrogated artefacts at the Pitt Rivers or Ashmolean Museums in Oxford. They were asked to reinterpret an aspect of the artifact to create a site specific intervention at Grymsdyke Farm. Inherent in this was a

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material and technical investigation, whereby the process of testing was valued as much as the final piece. The seven projects utilized the workshop facilities of the farm for their design and fabrication. For the main project of the year students invented their own personal take on the theme. The site in most cases was New York City, where individuals researched a specific aspect of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diverse range of collections. The objective was to derive an informed response to the state of their spatial and material constructs that questioned the relationship of a place, whether local, historical or imaginative, with an explicit programmatic purpose. For this students developed their own project breifs and found their own sites. In some cases a continuation of the material and technical study strongly influenced the design process and is intergral to the final building proposal.

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Michelle Evans, Oliver Andrew.

MArch Studio Seventeen

Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu Yr1: Ieva Bartkeviciute, Anna Beer, Matthew Burnett, Niall Green, Joanna Harding , Matthew Hedges, Natasha Khambhaita , Matthew Loosley, Matthew Lloyd, Daniele Natale, Anna-Maria Papasotiriou , Oliver Sadler, Lorenzo Setti. Yr2: Tim Clare, Chris Evans, Justin Gordon, Chyna Izundu, Kah Shuen Lee, Jun Hao Ong, Mital Patel, Edwin Tizard, Emma Whitehead, Alex Woolgar.

A Natural History, the evolution of shell lace structure to the Civic Realm SHELL LACE STRUCTURE: 31 grams of Gold, hammered into a thin sheet, can cover an area as large as 16 square meters. What if we, as architects, design with every material as if it were extremely scarce? Nature always does. Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ingenious and sustainable approach has created lightweight structures of astonishing diversity and beauty, such as seashells. Shell Lace Structure is a singlesurface structure invented in 2009 by Tonkin Liu, in collaboration with engineers form Arup. The technique generates ultra-light, thin, strong structures, minimising usage of materials. Structural principles learned from seashells: curvature, corrugation, and distortion - all lock in strength and stiffness. The final perforation step further optimizes lightness, keeping material only where strength is needed. SHELLS: We investigated structural principles of a chosen shell form and another biological structure. Overall form and localised details and folds were observed, as contributing to the strength of the sea shell structures, enabling them to be incredibly thin. SHELL LACE STRUCTURE: We began with a workshop on tailoring, using plasticine, paper, and scissors. We learned through hands-on cutting of adjoining flat pieces, and saw how Guest Critics: Sue Barr, Eliodoro Bigi, Valentin Bontjes van Beek, Julia Cano, Scott Cahill, Neil Charlton, Ed Clark, Chris Hill, Nate Kolbe, Ellinor Michel, Michael Pawlyn, Alex Reddihough, Annie Shellard. Special thanks to all of the staff at the Natural History Museum for their inspirational talks, and a huge thanks to Ellinor Michel. 148

changes in their geometry and seams would contribute to the overall strength and geometry of the assembled three-dimensional whole. From this we created digital models using the software Rhino and Grasshopper. ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES: We began with a photography workshop at the All Saints Church in London, finding ways to look at and document the structural and spatial qualities of spaces. Our visit to the Diamond Vaults in the Czech Republic enabled us to see the typology of different spaces created by this 13th century structural technique. CONTEXTUAL STUDIES: Through the process Asking Looking Playing Making, we took apart the programmatic and physical entity of a Natural History Museum, and put them back together in our own terms. We chose the site of the Design Museum or Potters Field, conducting typological studies to find suitable forms and programme to test on these sites. THE NATURAL FUTURE MUSEUM: The diverse range of personal proposals explored relationships between display and archive, communication and protection, public and private. forming alternative propositions for a civic institution to engage with individual parts of its vast remit, and to engage with different parts of the city.

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Mital Patel: Shell studies, Chyna Izundu: Shell Lace Structure paper models.

Oliver Sadler: The Museum of the Invisible.

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Edwin Tizard: The Museum of Vertebrates.

Anna Beer: The Museum of River Thames Ecology.

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Jun Ong: The Golden Spider Silk Institute.

Alex Woolgar: The Museum of Four Seasons.

MArch Studio Eighteen

Lindsay Bremner, Roberto Bottazzi. Yr1: Andrew Baker-Falkner, Jared Baron, Sam Cady, John Cook, Jimi Deji-Tijani, Dylan Main, Shiue Nee, Michael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hanlon. Yr2: Rashad Al-Karooni, Hoki Au, Agustina Briano, Lawrence Carlos, Claire Holton, Philip Hurrell, Alex Jaggs, William Liu, Nzinga B. Mboup, Aishah Suhaimi, Alexander Watt, Imogen Webb.

Architecture, Energy, Matter 1: Fracked Urbanism This studio was framed by three big, interrelated ideas: 1 The anthropocene, the idea that since human life began on earth, our species has interfered with it to such an extent that new geological conditions have emerged. This means that it is no longer possible to distinguish between what used to be called nature and what used to be called culture. Instead we now live in a complex technically mediated system of material, energies and information flows, evolving according to its own history in ways we do not necessarily control and barely understand. 2 Thinking about architecture and urbanism as matter, energy and data i.e. as density, flow and information. Buildings, cities and infrastructures are intensities within the anthropocene, mobilising it in ever evolving ways. These systems were analysed and visualised in space and time using computational tools and intervened in through design. 3 Architecture, infrastructure and urbanism are deeply entangled with geology. They are geological agents, mobilising geological Critics: Nabil Ahmed, Laura Allen, Nick Axel, David Dernie, Tom Fox, Jon Goodbun, Kate Heron, Janike Kampevold Larsen, Adrian Lahoud, Constance Lau, Lilit Mnatsakanyan, Douglas Murphy, John Palmesino, Rosa Schiano Phan, Francecso Sebregondi, Ann-Sofi-Ronnskog, Ronald Wall, Liam Young Thanks: Alan Holiday, Chairman Dorset Geologists Association for the geological tour of the Isle of Purbeck Christos Antonopoulos and Jeg Dudley for assistance in digital workshops 156

matter and speeding up geological time. Buildings in fact, are geology. How can this intimacy be exploited through design? How can design intervene strategically and instrumentally to reshape or redirect flows of geological matter, energy and data? During the first semester of the year, we investigated these ideas via the shale gas fracturing (fracking) industries in the USA and the UK. We identified risks associated with fracking, such as geological instability, water pollution, health-related disease, biodiversity loss etc. and developed spatial and architectural strategies to address them. These were spatialised as masterplans and prototypes. During the second semester of the year, we developed architectural propositions in response to pervasive global conditions of anthropocenic climate change, ambient intelligence, information technology and the privatization of the public sphere on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. We developed hybrid architectural programmes (MicroPublicPlaces) that combined new institutional architectures, buildings, urbanism and computation. Their objective was to re-animate public life and engage the public imaginary in issues related to resource extraction, the anthropocene and global warming. Study trip to Berlin and field trip to the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.

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MArch Technical Studies Pete Silver, Will McLean, Scott Batty, Andrew Whiting, Chris Leung, Lamis Bayar and Gabrielle Omar.

Throughout the first semester, weekly Thursday evening lectures feature leading architects, engineers and thinkers who discuss architecture through a predominantly socio - technical perspective. The talks encompass innovative design methods, new materials and fabrication techniques and the changing environmental imperative. These talks aim to inspire and stimulate students with a host of differing approaches to the technology of architecture. Applied Technical Studies is a report that final year Graduate Diploma students produce alongside their Major Design Project. The reports look at project specific technologies, some of which may be highly speculative. Diploma students are supported by a comprehensive team of architects, structural and environmental engineers and interaction designers who attend weekly consultancy sessions.

Guest Lecturers and visiting consultants John Ashton, Paul Bavister, Aran Chadwick, Nick Crosbie, Prof Nick Dunn, Peter Evans, John Farrell, Ron Fitch, Kevin Gray, Alan Haines, Samantha Hardingham, Dr David Harris, Cath Hassell, Lee Higson, Oliver Houchell, Matt Jones, David Kendall, Chris Leung, Timothy Lucas, Geoff Morrow, Paulo Pimentel, James Potter, Dan Ptacek, Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt, Dave Rayment, Jasia Reichardt, Rosa Schiano-Phan, Stelarc, Graham Stevens, Mark Taylor, Phil Waind, Andrew Watts, Michael Wilson.

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John Bold (module leader), Lindsay Bremner, Davide Deriu, Richard Difford, Andrew Peckham, Victoria Watson, Julian Williams

Research, critical analysis and presentation are crucial to success in contemporary architectural practice. At Westminster we lay great emphasis on fostering these skills through helping students to fulfil their potential through the Dissertation. Grounded in a History and Theory course, students choose their own subject to explore, guided by tutors with a range of specialisms and methods. We encourage a wide range of topics and a catholicity of approach with the intention that the work produced will be distinguished by its high quality rather than by a rigid methodology or identifiable School style. This has proved very successful in gaining Westminster a high reputation for the excellence of the results, fully justified once again this year. In a critical discussion of urbanisation in China, Hoki Au questions in particular the urban-rural dialectic underlying the rapid transformation of the Pearl River Delta. Based on a solid historical and theoretical framework, the study explores the changing sense of place and questions the collectivist model of urban growth from a humanist perspective. First-hand observations of specific cases aptly illustrate the social and spatial effects of the ‘rural urbanization movement’. (a) Reconstruction after war is contentious and complex, often as ideologically driven as the original destruction. In an exceptionally fine analytical study, Hannah Gaze has investigated the case of Dubrovnik, a World Heritage Site twice reconstructed after an earthquake in 1979 and the ‘Homeland War’ in 1991-95. This very well researched and beautifully illustrated consideration of history, 166

heritage and identity (with before and after photographs and detailed maps) is rooted in close reading of the buildings and archives in Dubrovnik. (b) Philip Hurrell has examined the interrelations between the Crossrail project and Wallasea Island, part of the Essex coast which is being deliberately surrendered to the sea and wildlife habitats with the excavated London clay from the railway tunnelling being deposited there to increase the island’s resilience. The dissertation is framed by the idea of resilience and Actor Network Theory is used to analyse the relationships between the various entities involved. (c)

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Undertaken in the first semester of the first year on the MArch, the Digital Representation module provides the opportunity to learn some key computer skills and to reflect critically on the use of digital media in architecture. Acknowledging the broad range of computer skills that each individual brings to the course, this module offers a choice of four different groups each with a different focus and set of interests. Each group combines technical instruction with related theory and precedents. In this way everyone gets a chance to learn something new and to build on their existing knowledge and experience. The four groups this year were as follows:

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Masters Programmes Introduction

Studying for an MA is a valuable opportunity. For some students, part way through their architectural education, it is a chance to specialise and develop their own design identity; for others, it is the first step towards a PhD and an academic career. But for all those engaged in masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s level study in the department of Architecture, an MA provides the context in which to reflect on their work as architects or designers and to enhance their design skills. The following pages feature a small sample of work from four masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programmes: MA Architecture, MA Architecture and Digital Media, MA Cultural Identity and Globalisation, and MA Interior Design. Each course has its own individual character and subject-specific content but importantly all the courses are designed to support a variety of approaches to the thesis project. An exciting mix of people from different design and technical disciplines, and from many different cultural backgrounds, come together to study on our courses and each individual brings with them their own particular mix of interests and experience. The thesis allows each student to direct their research towards areas of study that will build on their previous education and can shape their future career. Richard Difford Department of Architecture: Coordinator of Postgraduate Study

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MA in Interior Design Dusan Decermic, Ian Chalk, Debby Kypers, Richard Difford, Mike Guy, Joe King. Students: Camelia Ali Zaki Ewiss, Kerry Brewer, Heidi Brun, Eleni Chaniotaki, Susanna Citrano, Fahimi Hanzaei Parinaz, Jenny Graatrud, Jannicke Holmen, Hans Jenssen, Claire Jones, Simeon Manoharan, Pooja Mehta, Lama Momtaz, Maria-Andrianna Ntalipi, Stavri Papadopoulou, Noa Silbereberg Arbel, Sonarita Srey, Natalia Stavrakaki, Anna-Kaisa Takkinen, Stefan Trajkovski, Arantxa Villar.

Embracing the material and intellectual complexities and contradictions magnified by the psychological agency inherent in the subject of interiority, our students, like wayfarers, are encouraged to trace their own paths through this ever changing palimpsest like topography, unearthing traces of history over and through which they weave in active, contemporary practices. Site visits to abandoned buildings and places, devoid of any tangible use or potential future are seen with fresh eyes and for us become environments full of new promise. Interiors are elusive by nature, conspiratorial and inviting, dark, brooding, but also strangely alluring. This new territory, for too long ignored by more established disciplines is rightfully taking it’s place of engagement with serious academic study and investigation. Academically young at heart but seasoned in practice, Interior Design is poised to deliver new and exciting avenues of creative engagement. As a reflective example bearing these complexities, Retail and Making Interior Space modules are set up in this context and seen as both antagonists and attractors, offering professional vocational action and active intellectual reaction.

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Our thesis projects are exemplars of these manifold concerns, embracing ambitious conceptual strategies but also striving for delicate, intricate material renderings. As the static, indulgent “expert” gaze is being augmented and supplanted by the contemporary democratic idiom of the omnipresent cinematic “measuring” of time and space, the course is immersed in these new responses through film and animation components of the Case Study and Introduction to Design Computing modules.

Heidi Brun: Maid Pop Up.

MA Architecture, Cultural Identity & Globalisation Samir Pandya (Course Leader), Nasser Golzari, Shahed Saleem, Dr Clare Melhuish Students: Noha Baruti, Guillaume Delfesc, Linda Dias, Arun Manohar, Adriana Useche Munoz, Bertug Ozarisoy, Zahra Sinaei, Pornpatchara Srikijkarn.

The overarching objective of the course is to produce graduates who are culturally sensitive designers. It does this by promoting design as the primary method for investigations into the dynamic relationship between architecture, cultural identity, and globalisation. Design and text-based projects sited in London this year explored themes such as social integration and exclusion, luxury, cultural transgression, and nationhood. International sites were explored through a field trip to Berlin, where a range of projects were analysed to explore the notion of collective memory and coexistence. Students’ exploration of these cities also involved socio-spatial mapping exercises, as well as engagement with local architects. Other projects this year have included ethnographic studies of London-based diasporic communities, involving participant observation, interviews, and creative methods of engagement. This was done in order to firstly understand how communities construct and maintain their collective identity through trans-cultural and local networks, and secondly, to use this deep understanding to inform site-specific design proposals.

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This year’s thesis design projects include sites in the UK, Thailand, Cyprus, Montserrat, Venezuela, and Iran. The projects differ in nature but are all linked by a critical enquiry into the ways in which architecture and cities reflect, activate, and circulate cultural meaning at various scales.

Adriana Useche.

MA in Architecture and Digital Media

Richard Difford (course leader), Ran Ankory, Franรงois Girardin, Jon Goodbun, Dirk Lellau, Filip Visnjic. Students: Laura Kasta, Kenneth Murphy, Bianca Razzetti, Elinor Taylor, Daniela Valera Alegrett

Utilising new media technologies, physical computing and computational design, the MA Architecture and Digital Media offers the opportunity to form a critical understanding of the role played by these technologies in architecture. Students are encouraged to explore and incorporate emerging technologies and to demonstrate an imaginative use of digital media. By focussing on the potential both in the design process and in the fabric of architecture itself, the MA Architecture and Digital Media provides a context in which to learn programming and interactive design techniques; and to engage in exciting new research and innovative approaches to architectural design. As a consequence, the thesis project brings together theory, design and technical skills as an integrated conceptual project. This year the staff and students of the MA Architecture and Digital Media also visited the hugely successful Resonate digital arts festival in Belgrade. The festival, organised by MA ADM tutor Filip Visnjic, hosted a number of talks by well known digital media artists and included workshops run by leading exponents of digital media in the art and design.

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Kenneth Murphy.

MA in Architecture.

Davide Deriu (Course Leader), John Bold, Eric Guibert, Krystallia Kamvasinou. Students: Pete Ajarawong, Carolina Alvarez Valle, Felipe Ballaben, Oliver Beasley, Jacquelien Cannoo, Ismini Chrysagi, Madeleine Daniels, Tayyab M. Faheem, Alexandros Karkoulias, Alexander Luzgin, Alessandra Marchetti, Aakarsh Saxena Tyagi, Tomohiro Sugeta.

The Architecture MA course offers a flexible, and responsive programme through which, students can pursue advanced postgraduate, studies. The course combines high-level, investigations into historical/theoretical ideas, with innovative design approaches, all set, within a challenging intellectual environment., Staff who teach on the course are deeply, immersed in the very latest developments, in architectural history, theory and design, research. The student body is extremely diverse, in terms of backgrounds and nationalities,, which makes the Architecture MA a truly, international course based in the world-leading, architectural milieu of London. The course is open to a whole spectrum, of graduates in architecture and cognate, design fields. It enables students to determine, appropriate methodologies for research in, architecture and design, and to use these, techniques to formulate intellectual and creative, work which investigates specific aspects or, issues within the broad field of architecture., The range of optional and specialist modules, offered allows students to develop their, individual learning trajectories through the in-, depth study of specific subject areas, involving, theoretical components as well as practical, applications.

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A series of theory-rich modules aims to, stimulate students to analyse current trends in, architecture, design theory and practice on the, basis of their research and critical judgement,, and use these insights to produce high quality, written work in a scholarly manner. In parallel,, a set of design-oriented activities encourages, students to develop their artistic, aesthetic, and intellectual vision through the use of, different media, in order to produce individual, proposals with a high level of spatial, material, and formal resolution. The course is taught, within a dynamic learning environment that, comprises seminar-based sessions along with, studio-based activities. These are integrated by, a wide range of lectures, tutorials, site visits,, research training sessions, and independent, study periods. The course is part of the suite of MA courses, in the Department of Architecture, which is, consciously international in its educational, thinking and academic links. The flexibility, offered within the course is intended to provide, students with further employability skills related, to architectural practice and theory, and may, also form a platform for continuing study with a, career in academia or research.

Alessandra Marchetti.

Research Introduction

The Department of Architecture in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment supports a lively, diverse research culture and critical debate and is internationally recognised for the quality of its research. At the end of 2013, 18 architecture staff members were returned to the Research Excellency Framework (REF) out of 34 returned in the School as a whole. Outputs included books, book chapters, journal articles, web sites, exhibitions and design portfolios. Our researchers are organised in four research groups: Architectural History and Cultural Studies; Computational, Environmental and Technical Studies; Experimental Practice (EXP), and Expanded Territories. These research groups function as loose alignments of staff and research students and organise activities such as seminars and conferences from time to time. In 2014, a new Architecture Research Forum was inaugurated for staff to present work-in-progress to one another for critical discussion. At the first Research Forum, Mike Tonkin of Tonkin Liu presented material from their 2013 RIBA Trust Award, Shell Lace Structure. In 2013 EXP launched an innovative web site for Supercrits, a series of discussions between some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest architects and their most vocal critics hosted in the Department between 2003 and 2011 (http://www. supercrits.com/). Expanded Territories hosts the

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school-wide Global Itineraries Seminar Series and, in 2015 will host Reimagining Rurality, the second Rurality Network Conference in partnership with the Architecture Research Network (ARENA). In addition to these research activities, the department also participates in the Schoolwide London Research Cluster and the Centre for the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE), a research initiative of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Westminster Business School. The current Head of Department, Kate Heron is a partner in the innovative Architecture Design and Art Practice Training-research (ADAPT-r) Network, funded through the European Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seventh Framework Programme (www.adapt-r.eu). During 2014, David Dernie, Dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment launched Latitudes, the first global educational network that puts design and innovation at the heart of tackling global climate change. Further information about research in the department is detailed on our website: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/centre-for-architecture

RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE

Research Group Architectural History and Cultural Studies

The Architectural History and Cultural Studies research group includes scholars engaged in a wide range of research into architectural history, theory, representation and culture. These explore the ‘what, why, how, and for whom?’ of architectural representation and building practice, and the various changing meanings and interpretations placed upon them in the past and in contemporary culture. Members of the group have conducted ground breaking research in a number of key areas, hosted symposia and conferences, edited journals, curated exhibitions and published books, book chapters and journal articles. In the spring semester each year, the group hosts the Architectural History and Theory Open Lecture Series. The group is co-ordinated by John Bold and includes Davide Deriu, David Dernie, Richard Difford, Jon Goodbun, Nasser Golzari, Josie Kane, Andrew Peckham, Julian Williams, Christine Wall, Victoria Watson and others. Doctoral researchers in Architectural History and Cultural Studies include Noha Al-Ahmadi, Malen Hult, Samra Kahn, Sarah Milne and Emilia Siandou. Select recent publications include: Bold, John. ‘Sustaining Heritage in SouthEast Europe: Working with the Council of Europe, 2003-10.’ The Historic Environment, 4 (1) 2013: 75-86. DOI: 10.1179/1756750513Z.00000000026 Bold, John. ‘Walter Sickert and the image of Camden Town.’ The British Art Journal, 13 (3) 2012/2013: 95-100.

Deriu, Davide. ‘Picturing Modern Ankara: New Turkey in Western Imagination.’ The Journal of Architecture, 18 (4), 2013. Dernie, David. ‘Elevating Mallarmé’s Shipwreck.’ Buildings 3 (2) 2013: 324-340. DOI: 10.3390/buildings3020324 Dernie, David. ‘The Symbolist Interior and Crystal Imagination.’ Architecture Research Quarterly 17 (1/2), 2013. Golzari, N. ‘Abadan and Khormashahr.’ In Fraser, M. and Golzari, N. (Eds.). Human Habitation: Architecture, Settlement and Cultural Identity in the Persian Gulf Region. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Kane, Josie. British Amusement Parks. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Kane, Josie. ‘Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn?’ In J. Conlin (Ed.) The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island, 217-245. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Peckham, Andrew and Schmiedeknecht, Torsten (Eds.) The Rationalist Reader. London: Routledge, 2013. Peckham, Andrew. ‘Cataloguing Architecture: the Library of the Architect in Literatures.’ In S. Mays (Ed.) Libraries and Archives. London, Routledge, 2013. Wall, Christine. An Architecture of Parts: Architects, Building Workers and Industrialisation in Britain 1940-1970. London: Routledge, 2013.

Deriu, Davide, Kamvasinou, Krystallia. and Shinkle, Eugenie. (eds.). (2014). Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.

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Computational, Environmental and Technical Studies During 2013/2014, Rosa Schiano-Phan and David Scott joined the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster, increasing our capacity for computational and environmental research. Rosa SchianoPhan will be starting a new MSC Architecture and Environmental Design in September 2014. This means that the former Technical Studies Research group has been expanded to incorporate scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, engineering, computational design, digital fabrication and environmental research and design. Specific areas of identified interest include the architecture and engineering of downdraught cooling, digital fabrication, a-typical construction technologies, the innovative and efficient use of materials, human comfort and the environmental envelope, systems building design, computational tools in architecture, interaction design in the built environment, day-lighting and acoustics. Research outputs include authored and edited books, regular journal and magazine articles and on-going practice driven research into the history and on-going technological development of architecture. Each year, the open Technical Studies Lecture Series invites and documents talks from leading thinkers and practitioners in architecture, engineering and related disciplines. The group is co-ordinated by Will McLean and includes Peter Barber, Scott Batty, Richard Difford, John-Paul Frazer, Andrew Whiting, Franรงois Girardin, Rosa Schiano-Phan, David Scott, Peter Silver, Michael Wilson and others. Izis Salvador Pinto is currently a doctoral researcher in the Computational, Environmental and Technical Studies Group.

Select recent publications include: Bibliotheque Mclean and Dante Bini. Building with Air. London: Bibliotheque McLean, 2014. Bibliotheque Mclean and Robert Mark. Experiments in Gothic Structure. Bibliotheque McLean, 2014. Mclean, Will. Silver, Pete and Evans, Peter. Structural Engineering for Architecture: A Handbook. London: Laurence King, London, 2014. Mclean, Will and Silver, Pete. Introduction to Architectural Technology (2nd Edition). London: Laurence King. 2013.

For further information go to: www.westminster.ac.uk/technical-studies or contact Will McLean at: W.F.Mclean@westminster.ac.uk

Research Group Expanded Territories

Expanded Territories is a loose alignment of researchers, scholars and designers working on architecture in an expanded field. This refers not only to questions of scale (larger than architecture / smaller than architecture), but also to questions of site, methodology and disciplinary boundaries. Expanded Territories probes areas normally considered beyond the realm of architecture – the underwater, the underground, the ocean, the air, the informal, the interior etc. as fertile grounds for architectural research and speculation. Expanded Territories is engaged in research led practice and produces hybrid work, between architecture and landscape architecture, interior architecture, visual studies, critical studies, urban studies, philosophy, politics, cultural studies, science studies and geography. During 2013/1014, Expanded Territories organised two seminars, “Measurement as Argument: Planetary Constructions, Post Natural Histories and the Will to Knowledge,” a seminar by Seth Denizen, Anna-Sophie Springer, and Etienne Turpin, and ‘Foodscapes Food Security, City Networks and Urban Development,’ a seminar by Ronald Wall. It also partnered with Media Art and Design’s research group CREAM to organise Reading Nature, Exhibiting Nature, a conference that co-incided with Out of Ice, an exhibition by Scottish artist Elizabeth Ogilvie in Ambika P3. In 2015, it will host Reimagining Rurality, the second Rurality Network Conference in partnership with the Architecture Research Network (ARENA).

Select recent publications include: Bremner, Lindsay. ‘Folded Ocean: The Spatial Transformation of the Indian Ocean World,’ Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 2013. DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2012.847555 Bremner, Lindsay. ‘The Politics of Rising Acid Mine Water,’ Urban Forum, 18(4) 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s12132-013-9198-9 Bremner, Lindsay. ‘Dissident Water,’ In I. Weizman (ed.) Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, 180-193. London: Routledge, 2013. Bremner, Lindsay. ‘Towards a Minor Global Architecture in Lamu, Kenya,’ Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies, 14(3) 2013. DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2013.842340 Bremner, Lindsay. ‘Featured Graphic: Taxi hand signals in Johannesburg.’ Environment and Planning A 45, 2013: 1260-1361. DOI: 10.1068/a45679. Goodbun, Jon. ‘Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment.’ In Berman, I. and Mitchell E. (eds.), New Constellations New Ecologies, 92-98. New York: ACSA Press 2013. Goodbun, Jon. ‘Ecological Subjects.’ In Berman, I. and Mitchell E. (eds.), New Constellations New Ecologies,319-325. New York: ACSA Press 2013. Spankie, Ro. ‘The Art of Borrowing. In Brooker, G. and Weinthal, L. (Eds) Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design, 428-440. Oxford: Berg, 2013.

Expanded Territories is co-ordinated by Lindsay Bremner and includes Roberto Bottazi, Davide Deriu, Jon Goodbun, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Samir Pandya, Ro Spankie, Ben Stringer and others. Doctoral researchers in Expanded Territories are May Al-Jamea and Lilit Mnatsakanyan.

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Experimental Practice (EXP)

Experimental Practice (EXP) was set up in 2003 to support, document and generate major experimental design projects which have acted or act as laboratories for the architectural profession, including built and un-built design projects, books, exhibitions and other forms of practice. Its first projects were the Archigram Archival Project and the Supercrit Series. The former made the works of the hugely influential architectural group Archigram available online for academic and public study for the first time. The project was funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and was led by Dr Kester Rattenbury and carried out with collaborative support from the surviving members of Archigram or their heirs. See: www.archigram.westminster.ac.uk The Supercrit Series brought some of the world’s most influential architects back to the school to debate their most famous projects with a panel of international critics, students and the public. Supercrits have featured Cedric Price (The Potteries Thinkbelt), Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (Learning From Las Vegas), Richard Rogers (The Pompidou Centre), Bernard Tschumi (Parc de la Villette), Rem Koolhaas (Delirious New York), and Leon Krier (Poundbury). Supercrits #1- #4 are published as books by Routledge and #5- #7 were published on a new web site designed for Supercrits by … and launched in 2013. The new website allows full view of annotated and illustrated video footage of the Supercrits given by Rem Koolhaas on his seminal book Delirious New York; Leon Krier on his controversial Poundbury project and Michael Wilford on James Stirling Michael Wilford’s overlooked masterpiece, the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. It also gives links to the beautiful Routledge book versions of Supercrits #1-#4. The new website is a light-touch version of the books, but aimed at a far wider audience, forming an essential new resource for students, architects and an interested public. See: www.supercrits.com

EXP Researchers include Alessandro Ayuso, Peter Barber, Anthony Boulanger, Toby Burgess, Eric Guibert, Nasser Golzari, Sean Griffiths, Gillian Lambert, Constance Lau, Anna Liu, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Andrei Martin, Will McLean, Stuart Piercy, Kester Rattenbury, Gordon Shrigley, Allan Sylvester, Mike Tonkin, Victoria Watson, Filip Visnic, Andrew Yau, and others. EXP research students include Clare Carter, Nasser Golzari, John Walter and Annarita Pappeschi. EXP members have produced a number of experimental design projects and won a number of design nominations and awards over the course of the year: In 2013 Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharifs’ work for Palestinian NGO Riwaq, Revitalisation of Birzeit Historical Centre won a prestigious Aga Khan Award. Peter Barber and Anthony Boulanger of AY Architects both won RIBA London National Awards, the former for Beveridge Mews, the latter for Camden Community Nursery, which also received the 2013 Stephen Lawrence Award. Stuart Piercy won a RIBA Regional Award for the Wakefield St Townhouses and Allan Sylvester for Living Workshop. Anna Liu and Mike Tonkin won a RIBA Research Trust Award for Shell Lace Structure. Toby Burgess and Arthur Mamou-Mani and their students from DS10 were selected to participate in the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, where they built two structures, Fractal Cult Pods and Shipwreck. Yara Sharif was awarded a commendation by the RIBA for her PhD by Design, Searching for Spaces of Possibilities and Spaces of Imagination within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict. In 2014, EXP member, Sean Griffiths, formerly of FAT Architecture was awarded a Professorship by the University. FAT Architecture and Crimson Architectural Historians were appointed to curate the British Pavilion for the 2014 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Doctoral research student John Walter was awarded a 2013 AHRC Research Studentship for his PHD proposal Alien Sex Club. For further information go to: www.westminster.ac.uk/exp or contact Dr Kester Rattenbury at: k.rattenbury@westminster.ac.uk

Research Lectures Series Awards

In 2013/14, the department hosted a number of lecture series, seminars, symposia and book launches. A new initiative, the Architecture Research Forum was inaugurated for staff to present work-in-progress to one another for critical discussion. This was initiated by presentation by Mike Tonkin of material from the 2013 RIBA Research Trust Award, Shell Lace Structure. The department is involved in The Line Studies Forum, an on-going collaboration with the Royal College of Art, Kings College London, and C4RD, through Gordon Shrigley. Regular annual lecture series included the unique Technical Studies Lecture Series organised by Will McLean and Pete Silver. In 2014 technical studies lectures were given by Graham Stevens, Stuart Piercy, Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt, Nick Crosbie, Paul Bavister, Aran Chadwick, Jaisha Reichardt and Paolo Pimental. The 2014 Architectural History and Theory Open Lecture Series, organised by John Bold, featured lectures by Kathryn Ferry, Peter Larkham, Tanis Hinchcliffe and Ken Worpole. Expanded Territories Group organised two seminars, “Measurement as Argument: Planetary Constructions, Post Natural Histories and the Will to Knowledge,” a seminar by Seth Denizen, Anna-Sophie Springer, and Etienne Turpin, and ‘Foodscapes Food Security, City Networks and Urban Development,’ a seminar by Ronald Wall. It also partnered with Media Art and Design’s research group CREAM to organise Reading Nature, Exhibiting Nature, a conference that coincided with Out of Ice, an exhibition by Scottish artist Elizabeth Ogilvie in Ambika P3. EXP also partnered with CREAM to organise Potential Architecture, a symposium featuring Alexander Brodsky, Sean Griffiths, Joar Nango and Apolija Sustersic, prefiguring an exhibition of the participants work to be shown in P3 in 2015. During 2014, The Architecture Research Group hosted book launches for The Rationalist Reader ed. Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham; Structural Engineering for Architects by Pete Silver, Will McLean and Peter Evans; Emerging Landscapes ed. Davide Deriu, Krystallia Kamvasinou and Eugenie Shinkle and the AD, Architecture of Transgression.

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In 2013 Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharifs’ work for Palestinian NGO Riwaq, Revitalisation of Birzeit Historical Centre won a prestigious Aga Khan Award. Peter Barber and Anthony Boulanger of AY Architects both won RIBA London National Awards, the former for Beveridge Mews, the latter for Camden Community Nursery, which also received the 2013 Stephen Lawrence Award. Stuart Piercy won a RIBA Regional Award for the Wakefield St Townhouses and Allan Sylvester for Living Workshop. Anna Liu and Mike Tonkin won a RIBA Research Trust Award for Shell Lace Structure. Toby Burgess and Arthur Mamou-Mani and their students from DS10 were selected to participate in the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, where they built two structures, Fractal Cult Pods and Shipwreck. Yara Sharif was awarded a commendation by the RIBA for her PhD by Design, Searching for Spaces of Possibilities and Spaces of Imagination within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict. In 2014, Sean Griffiths was awarded a Professorship by the University and John Walter was awarded a 2013 AHRC Research Studentship for his PHD proposal Alien Sex Club. The department will be represented in two installations at the 2014 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Sean Griffiths, as part of former FAT Architecture and Crimson Architectural Historians will curate the British Pavilion and Will McLean was selected by Rem Koolhaas to install an exhibition in honour of Dante Bini’s Villa for Michaelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti, built in the 1960’s in Sardinia, Italy.

MEASUREMENT AS ARGUMENT PLANETARY CONSTRUCTIONS, POST NATURAL HISTORIES, AND THE WILL TO KNOWLEDGE

EXPANDED TERRITORIES RESEARCH GROUP SEMINAR Organized by Lindsay Bremner

SETH DENIZEN, ANNA-SOPHIE SPRINGER AND ETIENNE TURPIN In this Expanded Territories Seminar, we will consider the relationship among the construction of systems of thought, our knowledge of the Earth System, and what Michel Foucault, following Nietzsche, describes as the will to knowledge. By examining several key episodes in the mid– to late–nineteenth century—including Antonio Stoppani’s argument for an “Anthropozoic” era, Vasily Dokuchaev’s proposal for a soil science distinct from geology, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s early cartography of Java, and Alfred Russel Wallace’s theory of biogeographical distribution— we can observe how measurement as argument has advanced our understanding of the Earth system in its manifold complexity. Because these systems of thought are not given, but produced, they suggest, according to Foucault, “what real struggles and relations of domination are involved in the will to knowledge.” As the Anthropocene as an object of knowledge is being constructed by stratigraphers and geologists, we can discern a series of affinities connecting measurement, aesthetic practices, and the production of evidence. How measurement as argument will challenge our inherited views of the architectural object in the Anthropocene remains to be seen; what is evident already is that this will to knowledge frames both our perception of the world and our capacity to change it.

PARTICIPANTS:

Thursday 5 December 2013, 12.30pm Room M324 University of Westminster Marylebone Campus 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS

Seth Denizen is a designer and researcher whose work has focused on the aesthetics of scientific representation, madness and public parks, the political ecology of desertification, and most recently the design of taxonomies for the mapping and historical analysis of urban soil. He currently lives in Hong Kong, where he teaches in the Division of Landscape Architecture at Hong Kong University. Anna-Sophie Springer is a writer, curator, and editor and co-director of the independent press K. Verlag in Berlin, Germany. Etienne Turpin is the founder and director of anexact office in Jakarta, Indonesia. His book, Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy will be launched at Goldsmiths College in December 2013.

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BOOK LAUNCH

THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE INVITES YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FOR ARCHITECTS: A HANDBOOK

THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE INVITES YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF THE RATIONALIST READER ARCHITECTURE AND RATIONALISM IN WESTERN EUROPE 1920 - 1940 / 1960 - 1990

AUTHORS: PETE SILVER, WILL MCLEAN AND PETER EVANS PUBLISHED BY: LAURENCE KING, LONDON ISBN: 9781780670553

EDITED BY TORSTEN SCHMIEDEKNECHT AND ANDREW PECKHAM LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-415-60436-9

Tuesday 11 February 2014 6pm - 8pm Room MG06 University of Westminster Marylebone Campus 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 6PM – 8PM Room MG06 University of Westminster Marylebone Campus 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS

This new handbook on structures is a collaboration between architectural tutors Pete Silver and Will McLean (University of Westminster) and structural engineer Peter Evans (MLM Consulting engineers). The book aims to give students of architecture an understanding of the fundamental theories and practice behind the creation of architectural structures, helping them to develop an intuitive understanding of structural engineering. As well as providing a valuable reference and sourcebook, it will enable students to conduct productive dialogues with structural engineers. The book is divided into four sections: ‘Structures in nature’ looks at structural principles found in natural objects, ‘Theory’ covers general structural theory as well as explaining the main forces encountered in engineering. ‘Structural prototypes’

includes examples of modelmaking and load testing that can be carried out by students. The fourth section, ‘Case studies’, presents a diverse range of examples from around the world actual buildings that apply the theories and testing described in the previous sections. The straightforward, informative text is illustrated throughout with specially drawn diagrams, historical examples, models, construction details and photographs of completed buildings. Picture caption: An ‘amiable vicious circle’ from Patrick Hughes and George Brecht’s Vicious Circles and Infinity; An Anthology of Paradoxes, Penguin, 1978. The closing of the circle, creates a reciprocating structure where everyone is supported in a sitting position with no furniture required. Photograph by John Timbers / Arenapal.

The Rationalist Reader incorporates the first documentary collection of writing on rationalism in twentieth century architecture, providing an accessible introduction to the subject, direct insight into the thinking of individual architects and their critics, and a current re-evaluation of the context from which they emerged. While our immediate ‘historical’ experience is often confined to ‘masters’ and ‘iconic buildings’ located within the general flux of modernity, here the trajectory of rationalism in twentieth century architecture is seen to veer between a scientific methodology identified with generic models, and a formal paradigm of typological consistency. With its immediate philosophical origins in Enlightenment culture, the development of rationalism in nineteenth century architecture prefaced the volatility of later interpretations of rationalist architecture outlined and documented in this book. Key texts, including new translations, are placed within a wider historical and philosophical context by Alan Colquhoun, and considered with particular reference to nineteenth century architectural theory by Charles Rattray. Two separate documentary sections address the thinking behind rationalist architecture within the Modern Movement, and ‘Rational Architecture’ as its counterpart within Neo-rationalism. German architectural historian Thilo Hilpert and Dutch architect and critic Henk Engel, provide introductions to the two periods, while Cambridge historian Nicholas Bullock contributes a linking piece focused on French experience post-war. A postscript samples retrospective views.

Introductory Round-table Discussion 6PM - 6.30PM with editors, contributors and invited critics.

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Elizabeth Ogilvie in association with British Antarctic Survey OUT OF ICE by Scottish artist Elizabeth Ogilvie is a dramatic new exhibition comprising environments created with ice and ice melt, constructions, films and projections of ice systems. It is an exploration of the poetics of ice with much of it created through collaborations with Inuit in Northern Greenland, reflecting on their deep and sustaining relationship with ice. It also presents film from the scientific expedition from Antarctica, the Lake Ellsworth Consortium led by Martin Siegert and supported by the British Antarctic Survey. The use and knowledge of the ice-covered sea remains the pillar of the Inuitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity and resilience and their most prized intellectual treasure. Immersive and contemplative, the exhibition seeks to portray the psychological, physical and poetic dimensions of ice and water whilst drawing attention to ice processes. It suggests that absence of ice poses a real danger to our planet. Describing the presence of ice in the world from a human perspective, it reveals the observational traditions of fieldwork, combined with visual splendour. Described as one of the most significant artists of her generation in Scotland, Elizabeth Ogilvie has a strong track record in realising large scale projects which challenge conventions. Her work is a fusion of art, architecture and science, with water and ice as the main focus for her practice.

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Elizabeth Ogilvie was in born Aberdeen and lives and works in Fife, Scotland. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally: recent major solo shows include Dundee Contemporary Arts and Contemporary Art Space Osaka [CASO] and over the last couple of decades the artist has had solo shows in the Arnolfini, Fruitmarket, Mead, Talbot Rice Gallery, CCA, Stephen Lacey Gallery, Odapark Netherlands, Daegu C.A.C., South Korea and earlier in the Serpentine. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh where she was a lecturer. Funders and supporters for Out of Ice include: Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, The Russell Trust.

http://www.elizabethogilvie.com http://outofice.org.uk/talks-events/readingice-conference/ http://www.p3exhibitions.com

Elizabeth Ogilvie: Out-of-Ice

photo: Michael Maziere.

Staff

WILFRED ACHILLE YOTA ADILENIDOU RAN ANKORY ALESSANDRO AYUSO PETER BARBER SCOTT BATTY LAMIS BAYAR. STEFANIA BOCCALETTI JOHN BOLD ROBERTO BOTTAZZI ANTHONY BOULANGER LINDSAY BREMNER STEPHEN BROOKHOUSE TOBY BURGESS CLARE CARTER EMMA CHEATLE IAN CHALK HARRY CHARRINGTON ALAIN CHIARADIA DAVID CRUSE MIRIAM DALL’IGNA DUSAN DECERMIC DAVIDE DERIU RICHARD DIFFORD STEVE DOUGLAS CHRISTIAN DUCKER 194

JED DUTTON JULIA DWYER STEFANIE FISHER FRANÇOIS GIRARDIN NASSER GOLZARI JON GOODBUN SEAN GRIFFITHS ERIC GUIBERT MICHAEL GUY CLAIRE HARPER KATHARINE HERON ADAM HOLLOWAY STEVE JENSEN KRYSTALLIA KAMVASINOU JOSEPHINE KANE JOE KING DEBBIE KUYPERS JOHN LACEY GILLIAN LAMBERT CONSTANCE LAU ALISON LOW GUAN LEE DIRK LELLAU CHRIS LEUNG ARTHUR MAMOU-MANI ANDREI MARTIN

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PETE SILVER STACEY SINCLAIR RO SPANKIE JOANNE STEVENS BERNARD STILWELL GARETH STOKES BEN STRINGER ALLAN SYLVESTER JANE TANKARD GEORGE THOMPSON MIKE TUCK MARIA VELTCHEVA FILIP VISNJIC RICHARD WATSON VICTORIA WATSON ANDREW WHITING CAMILLA WILKINSON JULIAN WILLIAMS MIKE WILSON JONATHAN WONG ANDREW YAU ALESSANDRO ZAMBELLI JOHN ZHANG

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