All posts by The Polytechnic

Koolhaas interview in Radical Philosophy 154 Out Now

Posted over 3 years ago.

Featuring an excellent interview with Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf by two of the world’s leading architectural theorists (ahem)!!
RADICAL PHILOSOPHY 154, March/April 2009 OUT NOW
Alberto Tosc...

Climate Rush says: GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK!

Posted over 3 years ago.

Forward of this Facebook driven event:

Royal Bank of Scotland: £33 billion in bail outs SO FAR!
Using OUR MONEY!
RBS boss 50-year-old Sir Fred: retires early with a whopping £16 million pension fu...

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Tanis Hinchcliffe - PCL, Building Architectural Education in the 1960s

Posted over 3 years ago.

At last - a history of The Polytechnic!
Thursday 5th March, 6.30 pm
Room M/421, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Tanis Hinchcliffe
PCL: Building Arch...

Kinetica Art Fair

Posted over 3 years ago.

The Kinetica Art Fair is taking place this weekend in the University of Westminster exhibition space – P3.
 
This promises to be a fascinating collection of kinetic, electronic and new media art an...

Climate camp 09 hits the City on April Fools day

Posted over 3 years ago.

This years Climate Camp will be in the City of London! (last years was at Kingsnorth Power Station, and the year before at Heathrow.) It should be fun, and it would be good to see more architecture...

Age of Stupid

Posted over 3 years ago.

I saw the preview of this film at the Climate Camp last summer, and it is well worth seeing now that it is being released. The directors were at the camp and spoke after the screening. They emphasi...

Scarcity and the Built Environment: PhD Architecture and Urbanism Scholarships at University of Westminster

Posted over 3 years ago.

The growing PhD programme at SABE (School of Architecture and Built Environment) at the University of Westminster has announced a new series of PhD research scholarships (£15K pa plus fees for thre...

Pete Silver: Computer Aided Design, The Future…

Posted over 3 years ago.

watch out for Douglas Adam’s electronic monk!
Pete Silver – Computer Aided Design: The Future…
University of Westminster
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
Thursday 19th February 6.30...

Radical Philosophy Conference May 2009: Power to the People

Posted over 3 years ago.

Power to the People?
`Power to the people!’ was once a revolutionary slogan, but reference to government by the people and for the people soon became an empty cliché of the post-revolutionary statu...

A Geometrical Analysis of Multiple View-Point Perspective

Posted over 3 years ago.

Following a series of accolades, including the RIBA President’s medal, Joanna Rapp’s dissertation, “A Geometrical Analysis of Multiple View-Point Perspective in the Work of Giovanni Battista Piran...

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