Category: Events

MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “History in the Making” by Amy Kulper | Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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

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

“On January 6, 2021, supporters of then President, Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol Building. In a stunning display of a historiographical phenomenon known as ‘presentism,’ insurrectionists desecrated the seat of American democracy, while simultaneously recording and archiving their illegal conduct. In the aftermath of the insurrection, everyday citizens, museum curators, and criminologists bagged, tagged, and collected memorabilia, artefacts for accession, and legal evidence, attesting to the day’s violent and unprecedented activities. This lecture examines the roles that architecture, and more broadly the politics of space, played in the events that unfolded that day.”

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The Engineering Club Screening: “The Bamboo Dialogues” | Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 18:00 at Price and Myers, 37 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7PD

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

Where: Price and Myers, 37 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7PD

The Bamboo Dialogues is a feature-length documentary exploring the nature of the material and asking why are we not using more of it in contemporary design, engineering, and architecture? The film shows the possibilities and challenges for this miracle plant. Best bamboo practices are mostly found: off the beaten track; away from trendsetting metropolises; in remote, and peripheral locations.

The film’s narrative is told by “bamboo whisperers”: engineers, artisans, architects, designers, historians, biologists span five continents. Shot on location in Sweden, Italy, Indonesia, China, USA, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Costa Rica, Taiwan, The Philippines, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar and the UK. The production of the film took more than three years and contains material that is contributed from a number of different sources.

Producer / Director: Johan Granberg will attend the screening introduce the film and answer questions about the production.      

Free to Engineering Club members.

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Unsettled Subjects: “Cultivating Hope 1: Palestine Regeneration Team x Adam Khan” | Monday, March 25, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Monday, 25th of March 2024 at 6pm

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

Cultivating Hope: Conversations on Palestinian art and architecture is a series of talks, gatherings and discussions — convened by Unsettled Subjects — aimed at developing an understanding of cultural production and reflection from Palestinian practitioners.

The first event in the series features architects and educators Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, founding members of Palestine Regeneration Team and more recently, Architects for Gaza, in conversation with Adam Khan, principal at Adam Khan Architects.

Join a community of artists, architects and thinkers committed to dismantling the systemic and structural legacies of imperialism, colonialism and slavery within and beyond the built environment; together, we cultivate hope.

Feel free to bring dates/ snacks/ water for Iftar which will be at 6.24pm

Book tickets here.

Architecture + Cities Research Seminar: Ilaria Pappalepore “Mega Events and the Development of Emerging Tourist Destinations” on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 1pm (GMT) | Online

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When: Monday, 11th of March 2024 at 13:00 (GMT)

Where: Online

Ilaria Pappalepore will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar on Monday 11 March, 13.00 – 14.00 online. The seminar is titled Mega Events and the Development of Emerging Tourist Destinations.

The link to the seminar is here. 

MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “Vermeer, Canaletto, and Making Pictures with the Camera Obscura” by Philip Steadman | Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 18:00 (GMT) in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Thursday, 7th of March 2024 at 6pm

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

Prof. Philip Steadman’s methodology combines meticulous scholarly research with geometrical analysis, and physical experiments. Bringing together history, theory and empirical evidence he is able to provide new insights into the way artists, such as Johannes Vermeer, employed the camera obscura to produce accurate and seemingly luminous painted images. Steadman’s book, ‘Vermeer’s Camera’ has been featured in numerous television programmes, as well as in the full-length film ‘Tim’s Vermeer’, released in 2013. This lecture will also include his recent research on the painting techniques of the eighteenth-century Venetian artist, Giovanni Antonio Canal (known as Canaletto).

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Architecture + Cities Research Seminar: Julian Williams “The Production of Estate”, Monday, March 4, 2024 at 1pm (GMT) | Online

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When: Monday, 4th of March 2024 at 13:00 (GMT)

Where: Online

Julian Williams will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar, titled The Production of Estate. It will take place at 13.00 on Monday 4 March online.

The link to the seminar is here.

MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “Extractivism as Aesthetics” by Prof Eray Çaylı | Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 18:00 (GMT) in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Thursday, 29th of February 2024 at 6pm

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

“Since colonialism’s outset as a modern political project, images have been central to extractivism, a racial practice that reduces parts of the Earth and its inhabitants to exploitable and marketable resources. How does this centrality operate in a context where visual culture itself has become an extractive industry with images as its raw material, many of them documenting extractivist violence? The question is nowhere more salient today than in Turkey’s Kurdistan where both conventional resource extraction and the extractive industrialization of visual culture have continued apace and loomed large during the rapid shift in 2015-16 from peace talks to all-out war. In this talk (and his forthcoming book of the same title), Eray Çaylı discusses visual culture’s role in waging, making sense of, and contesting environmental violence. Informed by collaboration-driven research, he analyses images produced and circulated across contemporary art, photojournalism, and social media, charting the visual ecologies involved in this production and circulation.”

Prof Dr Eray Çaylı is a Professor of Human Geography with a focus on violence and security in the Anthropocene at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Lecture: “Practice, Research & Teaching in Beijing” by Prof Che Fei | Monday, February 19, 2024 at 4pm in M416

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When: Monday, 19th of February 2024 at 4pm

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

As part of the BA Architecture undergraduate international studio DS3.7, Prof Che Fei will give a lecture on Monday, February 19 in M416.

Prof Fei is a founder of Beijing based architecture practice CU_Office and he teaches architecture as the Dean of the School of Design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT). He will be discussing his practice, research, and teaching in Beijing.

All are welcome.

Architecture + Cities Research Seminar: Luz Navarro “Agonistic Spaces: Investigating Narratives and Practices of Dissensus in El Cabanyal, 2015-2018”, Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 1pm (GMT) | Online

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When: Thursday, 22nd of February 2024 at 13:00 (GMT)

Where: Online

Luz Navarro will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar titled Agonistic Spaces: Investigating Narratives and Practices of Dissensus in El Cabanyal, 2015-2018. It will take place at 13.00 on Thursday 22 February online.

The link to the seminar is here. 

Architecture + Cities Research Seminar: Nasser Golzari, Yara Sharif, and François Girardin “A Foot on the Earth, a Hand in the Sky: Gaza Experimental Lab”, Monday, February 12, 2024 at 1pm (GMT) | Online

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When: Monday, 12th of February 2024 at 13:00 (GMT)

Where: Online

Yara Sharif, Nasser Golzari and François Girardin will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar, titled A Foot on the Earth, a Hand in the Sky: Gaza Experimental Lab. It will take place at 13.00 on Monday 12 February online.

The link to the meeting is here