Come along and make your own architectural hat. Card is provided.
Take part in the catwalk at the end of the day and the most popular hats win prizes!
More details to follow.
Organised by Westminster Architecture Society.
Category: Workshop
PLAYweek Workshop Proposal: Film Workshop
Organised by Westminster Architecture Society.
PLAYweek Workshop Proposal: Recycled Material Planters
Organised by Westminster Architecture Society.
PLAYweek Workshop Proposal: AIR GRID – PLAYDAYsew
AIR GRID – PLAYDAYsew
An intensive one day workshop run by Doctor Watson & Samir Pandya for the Department’s PLAYWeek.
AIR GRID is a kinaesthetic structure responsive to light and vision.
We will be working with line colour and thread in an experimental workshop designed to test the possibilities of team-work in air grid production and documentation. The aim is to colour-mix and sew a complex air grid in a single day!
When: Friday 16th February, 11am – Party,
Team Size: 5-11 persons
PLAYweek, Thursday 15 – Friday 16 February: Call for Workshops & Events
CALL for WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about: their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. ( Montaigne 1580 )
Introduction
PLAYweek is organised by the Department of Architecture and the Westminster Architecture Society, WAS.
It is a creative and disruptive 2-day event that cuts across the ‘dip-drip’ of the Department’s week-by-week teaching to suggest new and playful ways of working.
This year, things are a little different:
- Thursday 15 February, there will be an all school crit, with mixed student, staff and guest panels looking at work drawn from across the school.
- Friday 16 February, we will run one-day intensive workshops – which students and staff are free to propose, run, and take part in.
Aims
- To hold an all school event
- To enable students and staff to see a cross-section of the ongoing work of the Department
- To test out innovative ideas through short, intensive workshops
- To give students and staff the opportunity to explore an area of interest which they would normally not have the time, or freedom, to investigate
Friday workshop proposals
All students and staff can make a proposal for a workshop or event – and teams may include people drawn from outside the Department
Workshops can include traditional workshop activities, as well as performances and lectures, walks, seminars and film-showings – or any other form of activity. They can take place on or off-campus, and include people from outside the Department.
For more details on how to submit a proposal please go here.
Featured image from last year’s Tensegrity workshop, lead by Geoff Morrow, Gavin Weber, Will McLean, Pete Silver and Scott Batty.
Chris Peach at the BAIA’s “Light Narratives” Workshop
Chris Peach, principal director of fdcreative, recently gave an introduction to lighting design for interiors called “Ruled of Thumb” to second and third year BA Interior Architecture students, as a part of the “Light Narratives” three week workshop.
The lecture covered issues of design, design with light, practical planning, colour and perception.
KSDIY17: Kurt Schwitters ‘DIY’ Summer School, 14th-22nd July in Cumbria
Kurt Schwitters ‘DIY’ Summer School for architects, craft/design artists and art students will take place between 14th and 22nd July 2017 at the Merz Barn site, Elterwater, Cumbria – the site of Kurt Schwitters’ last Merzbau experiment.
“Schwitters’ Merzbau experiments were an important influence on the development of early modern architecture..” (Rem Koolhaas, OMA)
The Summer School will offer creative workshop opportunities*, architectural experiments and construction skills projects located in the dramatic landscapes of the Lake District National Park:
- Merzbau Art Museum: design and construction of large scale architectural models as the basis for a future Kurt Schwitters Merzbau art museum; the narratives of Kurt Schwitters’ four Merzbauten projects (1923-48)
- New Rural Design and Architecture workshop skills: learn traditional rural craft construction skills – dry stone walling, coppice/benders, and sleeping pods in the orchard;
- Traditional scything, hay rope making and hay meadow management: an introduction to the use of the Austrian (light) and English (heavy) scythes; basic scything skills, grass architecture and hay rope making, and basic introduction to hay meadow ecology and management;
- Self-directed projects: e.g. in painting, drawing, photography, video, audio arts, and printmaking, etc., are also encouraged.
There is a small gallery and tools store on site, but students are responsible for their own materials, food and cooking arrangements.
*NB the workshops are informal and programmed according to demand. They can also be offered as one or two half day intensives by arrangement so that people can mix.
Highlight of each KSDIY Summer School – music, food and BBQs!!
Fees: £195 including fully equipped bunk barn accommodation (9 nights) and workshops tuition £100 non-bunk barn, free use of camping facilities, showers, etc. on site at the Merz Barn
For further information and bookings please contact: The Merz Barn project (Ian or Celia) More details are available upon request.
email: littoral@btopenworld.com
tel: 015394 37309
mobile: 07796 617167
web-site: https://merzbarnlangdale.wordpress.com/
Summer Skills Academy 2017
Skills Academy 2017 is a series of 40 seminars and workshops arranged by the Career Development Centre, aimed at helping the students find work opportunities and establish a career path.
The sessions are delivered by industry professionals and employers. They will share their knowledge and provide the students with practical advice, to help them prepare for entering competitive jobs market.
This year’s featured employers include Goldman Sachs, CIMA, IBM, Teach First, Brightsparks, The Civil Service, Greggs Plc, The Thinking Revolution, Production Base, Hey Tempo, Shaylor Group, Evolve Integral Ltd, Careercake, The Stephen Lawrence Trust and Aptitude Digital Solutions plus more.
The sessions have started on Monday 22nd May and will run until Monday 5th June across Marylebone, Regents and Cavendish campuses.
Open to all students at all levels and faculties across the University and also graduates and alumni of the past three years.
For more info: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/study/current-students/news/2017/22-may-5-june-skills-academy-2017
Full list of speakers: http://blog.westminster.ac.uk/careers/2017/05/08/skills-academy-2017/
Digital 3D Additive and Subtractive Skills: World Tile Workshop
Each year, at the beginning of their first term, a full second year cohort of architecture students is given a workshop in the use of digital routing and 3D printing – so called additive and subtractive digital fabrication, as well as in more traditional casting techniques.
The students are given an introductory lecture on the 3D software Rhino, with a focus on extrusion and Boolean operations, and are subsequently asked to choose a “tile” – fractions of cities drawn in figure / ground at a scale of 1:1250.
In order to produce a 3D plan, students are then asked to scan their plan, convert it into vector lines and to each extrude a specific block, based on their own research and interests. Each group is then invited to first digitally test their file on RhinoCam.
After they produce a tile on a 300gsm foam, students are asked to pick an interesting building featured in their tile and use a 3D printer to produce a more precise model of it.
The workshop is run by Francois Girardin and it takes place in the Fabrication Lab.
