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PG2012 Exhibition: University of Westminster

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 8 months ago.

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THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE INVITES YOU TO PG2012:

An exhibition of thesis projects from the MA Architecture and Digital Media; MA Cultural Identity and Globalisation and MA Interior Design
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PREVIEW

Friday 14 September
6 – 9pm
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS
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EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY

Saturday 15 September
to Saturday 22 September
9am –...

Open 2012: University of Westminster, Department of Architecture End of Year Exhibition

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 11 months ago.

Open 2012: University of Westminster, Department of Architecture End of Year Exhibition 15 - 30 June 2012
PREVIEW: Thursday 14th June, 6pm-9pm
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS
(Entrance via Luxborough Street)

University of Westminster, Architecture Exhibition, 2009 – extended opening

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 3 years ago.

By popular demand, the University of Westminster, Architecture Department’s annual exhibition will now remain open until the 10th July 2009.
Architecture Studios, 35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS
10am to 9pm everyday
http://openstudiowestminster.org/

Will McLean and Pete Silver - Introduction to Architectural Technology

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 4 years ago.

The forthcoming RAE and general publishing phenomenon known as Will McLean and Pete Silver are releasing yet another book, this one is an ‘Introduction to Architectural Technology.’
Check out the fantastic photo of their living model of the Forth Rail Bridge featuring Yonca Ersen.

Marx Grundrisse Reading Group

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted about 1 year ago.

Labour cannot become play, as Fourier would like, although it remains his
great contribution to have expressed the suspension not of distribution, but of
the mode of production itself, in a higher form, as the ultimate object. Free
time—which is both idle time and time for higher activity—has naturally
transformed its possessor into a different subject, [who] then enters into the
direct production process as this different subject. This process is then both
discipline, as regards the human being in the process of becoming; and, at the
same time, ...

SCARCITY EXCHANGES with Lyla Mehta and Iain Boal on Concepts of Scarcity

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted about 1 year ago.

Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 6.30 pm, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, Cayley Lecture Theatre, London
SCARCITY EXCHANGES with Lyla Mehta and Iain Boal on Concepts of Scarcity
Lyla Mehta is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and an Adjunct Professor at Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She is a sociologist and her work focuses on the politics of scarcity, water and sanitation, gender, forced displacement and resistance, rights and access to resources and the politics of environment/ development and susta...

Call for Papers: ARCHITECTURAL ECOLOGIES: A RELATIONAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

65th SAH Annual Meeting in Detroit, April 18-22, 2012
SAH Call for Papers
ARCHITECTURAL ECOLOGIES: A RELATIONAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
The past decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly sophisticated environmental debate in architecture. This discourse has been led by architectural theorists, commentators, practitioners, and representatives of professional bodies, but has developed with little input from architectural historians. This panel proposes that architectural history may both contribute to and gain from this debate.
While there is clearly scope fo...

Job Vacancy: PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
SALARY FROM £55K P.A.
The Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster is one of
Europe’s leading centres for architectural research and teaching. In the past
decade our students have achieved unparalleled success in the RIBA
President’s student awards, and the Department made a very strong entry
at the last Research Assessment Exercise, with 20% of its research being
graded as world leading. As a Department we celebrate our diversity of
approaches,...

SCARCITY EXCHANGES

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

SCARCITY EXCHANGES
A SERIES OF EXCHANGES ON AND AROUND
THE TOPIC OF SCARCITY, BRINGING TOGETHER
SOME OF THE LEADING THINKERS IN THE FIELD
TO EXPOUND ON ONE OF THE MOST PRESSING,
BUT OFTEN AVOIDED, ISSUES OF THE DAY
11 MAY: ECONOMIES OF SCARCITY
DOUGALD HINE AND ANDREW SIMMS
18 MAY: CITIES OF SCARCITY
ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG AND DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
25 MAY: SCARCITY AND CONSUMPTION
ED VAN HINTE AND STEVE BROOME
1 JUNE: CONCEPTS OF SCARCITY
IAIN BOAL AND LYLA MEHTA
13 JUNE: FABRICATING SCARCITIES
SAS...

Special Joe Banks Rorscach Audio Lecture

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

http://instituteformodern.co.uk/2011/special-joe-banks-rorscach-audio-lecture
The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC) invites you to:
Wednesday 9th March 2011, 1.15-2.45pm
Room 106, University of Westminster, 32-38 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW
Joe Banks (AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts)
Rorschach Audio: Art and Illusion for Sound – Lecture & demonstration
Visual and sound and artist Joe Banks, based as an AHRC Research Fellow in the Institute, discusses the Spiritualistic phenomena explored by his “Rorschac...

Jeremy Till: Spatial Agency and The Ethics of Architecture UoW 17.2.11 6.30pm

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

Department of Architecture, University of Westminster
History & Theory open lecture series, 2010-11
6.30pm, Thursdays Room M421
University of Westminster,
35 Marylebone Road,
London NW1 5LS
Thursday 17th February 6.30 pm
Jeremy Till
Spatial Agency and The Ethics of Architecture
The most intemperate part of Jeremy Till’s book Architecture Depends focuses on architecture’s ineffective and sometimes immoral engagement with ethics. In this lecture he explains the cause of his ire, and suggests a view of ethics that goes beyond a consi...

Sustainable Matters: IMCC salon event at Whitechapel Gallery

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

Sustainable Matters
Thursday 10 February 2011, 7pm
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1
Price: £8.00 (includes free glass of wine).
Speakers: Iain Boal, Kate Soper and Allan Stoekl
In collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster is hosting the final discussion in this year’s ‘Matter Matters’ Salon at the gallery. Chaired by David Cunningham.
Iain Boal is a social historian and Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck College, London....

POLYARK SUPER MEGA CRIT in P3, University of Westminster 28-29th Jan 2011

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

This event should be excellent, not least because the first item on the programme is to ‘break for lunch’!
POLYARK SUPER MEGA CRIT
Friday 28th January to Saturday 29th January 2011
At the University of Westminster P3
The overall aim of this event is to:
summarise and showcase the work produced by the students of each school that participated in Polyark II;
celebrate and publicise the schools’ early participation in a highly successful project;
review Cedric Price’s contribution to architects’ thinking over the last 50 years and his enthusiasm fo...

Symposium: Art: What’s the Use?

Post by The Polytechnic originally posted over 2 years ago.

Friday 14 January, 2011. 11am-6pm
Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery (£15/£10 conc.)
How subversive really is the social uselessness of art? Could art play a more directly functional role in culture? Dean Kenning and Gavin Grindon challenge the idea that art should be allowed to take critical positions safe from any real intervention. Participants include Artur Zmijewski, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat), James Marriott &Jane Trowell (PLATFORM), John Roberts, Stephen Wright, Marina Vishmidt, Peter Osborne and Gail Day.
In association with Stanley Picker Gallery Pub...