When: Thursday, 21st of November 2024 at 6pm (GMT) Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online Amidst a housing crisis and growing sustainability demands, developers have a significant opportunity to embrace new ways of working. Facit offers a viable alternative model to factory-built homes or the traditional construction […]
When: Thursday, 7th of November 2024, 1pm-2pm (GMT) Where: Online The next Architecture and Cities Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 07 November, 13.00 – 14.00, online, when Shahed Saleem will present “Public Engagement as Knowledge Production.” You can access the Teams link here. All are welcome, including students.
When: Monday, 2nd of December 2024 from 6pm to 8.20pm (GMT) Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online Book on Eventbrite for in-person or online attendance In this lecture, Prof Rachel Aldred will reflect on over fifteen years of researching active travel, changes implemented in London and elsewhere, and […]
When: Thursday, 31st of October 2024 at 6pm (GMT) Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online “In our practice we have always seen a care towards the physical construction of a building as a way of caring about the people who use that building, and the people […]
When: Thursday, 17th of October 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online “The main innovation with Sugarcrete™ is to challenge the common understanding of biomaterials having low structural performance and to develop a system that can be self-supporting.“ Armor Gutiérrez Rivas The development […]
When: Monday, 21st of October 2024, 13:00-14:00 Where: Online The next Architecture and Cities Research Seminar will take place on Monday 21 October, 13.00 – 14.00, online, when Prof Lindsay Bremner will present “Urban Aerography.” You can access the Teams link here. All are welcome, including students.
When: Thursday, 10th of October 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS “This looks like the beginning of the future.” The Phoenix is the redevelopment of a 7.9-hectare brownfield site within the South Downs National Park, brought forward by Human Nature a campaigning development […]
When: Monday, 14th of October 2024 at 6.30pm (BST) Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Register on Eventbrite We are pleased to be joined by Mario Carpo for the 2024 Robin Evans lecture, Generative AI and architectural design, problems and perspectives both in-person and as an online […]
When: Tuesday, 5th of November 2024, 17:00-18:30 (GMT) Where: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HW Amid a widespread pressure to decolonise the curriculum in UK Universities we face crucial questions about how our learning and research environments can better reflect and challenge existing racial categorisations. This panel roundtable will delve into how […]
When: Thursday, 10th of October 2024, 13:00-14:00 Where: Online The next Architecture and Cities Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 10 October, 13.00 – 14.00, online, when Gerald Gurtner and Luis Delgado will present “The place and use of AI in a human society, and vice versa.“ The link to the seminar is here. All are […]
When: Monday, 7th of October 2024 at 6pm – 7.30pm (BST) Where: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regents Street, W1B 2HW Join us at the launch of the new open access book We Need to Talk about Climate: How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis, written by Graham Smith, Professor of Politics at the […]
When: Friday, 20th of September 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO MORE 2024 Register for the launch on Eventbrite Join us on Friday 20 September for the launch of MORE 2024, an exhibition of the University […]
As a part of the London Festival of Architecture, on June 25, 2024, Architects for Gaza, led by the Senior Tutors Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari (MArch DS22 and MA Architecture), displayed sections of an experimental clinic in Marylebone Campus that it plans to build in Gaza as soon as soon as the conditions allow […]
When: Tuesday, 25th of June 2024, 6pm (BST) Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Please join us on Tuesday, 25th of June at 6pm (BST) for the opening of the Gaza Experimental Lab. This 1:1 installation is a fragment of an off the grid experimental lab typology for […]
When: Tuesday, 17th of July 2024, 1pm-2pm (BST) Where: AED Studio M612, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS You are invited to the lunchtime talk by Prof Jacopo Gaspari, visiting from the University of Bologna under the Erasmus plus agreement. The lecture will be on one of Jacopo’s research topics, which very much […]
When: Friday, 14th of June 2024 from 4pm to 8pm (BST) Where: Architecture studios, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Book you place here. An invitation from University of Westminster Architecture graduates to an end of year show viewing with events, presentations and drinks, and the opportunity to meet our fresh […]
When: Tuesday, 18th of June 2024, 1pm-2pm (BST) Where: AED Studio M612, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS You are invited to the lunchtime talk by Juan Carlos Ragel Bonilla, Visiting Researcher at ProBE this summer. Juan Carlos is a doctoral student and researcher in the Department of Engineering at the University […]
When: Tuesday, 9th of July 2024 from 10am to 5pm (BST) Where: Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE), Room C1.15-16, University of Westminster, New Cavendish Campus, 115 New Cavendish St, London W1W 6UW To book you place, please visit here. The Centre for the Study of the Production of […]
When: Monday, 3rd of June 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online Eventbrite booking link is here. Jim Coleman’s inaugural lecture will take place on Monday 3 June at 18.00 in M416, with an online option available. Jim Coleman is one of our highly skilled […]
When: Wednesday, 19th of June 2024 Where: LG08, University of Westminster, 12 Little Titchfield St, W1W 7BY London Please register your attendance here. This free event, hosted by the Place and Experience research group at the University of Westminster, will bring together tourism and event professionals and academics to discuss practical solutions for the responsible […]
When: From 21st to 23rd of May 2024 Where: 89 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6PE We’re thrilled to announce that the MA Interior Architecture students will exhibit their work from this year’s Technical Study at Clerkenwell Design Week.
When: Wednesday, 22nd of May 2024 at 4.30pm-8pm (BST) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS Theme: Activating PhD Research- Social Engagement and Impacts We delve into the power of community engagement and the real-world applications of doctoral research projects beyond academia. Guest speaker: Dr. Julie Marsh Artist and researcher at Centre […]
When: Thursday, 13th of June 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES INVITES YOU TO OPEN 2024 Thursday 13 June 6pm REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE. Head of School Harry Charrington cordially invites you to attend the opening of the […]
When: Tuesday, 11th of June 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Book via Eventbrite here. In this public lecture, Daniel Mangabeira argues that architects play a key role as builders of social well-being. His award-winning practice, BLOCO Arquitetos, asserts the social role of the architect […]
When: Monday, 13th of May 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online Eventbrite booking here. In this lecture, Prof Sadie Morgan’s will chronicle major endeavours over her twenty-five year career, including a selection of projects and roles that have provided fertile testing ground for […]
Conference: 25-27 June, 2025 Location: London + Virtual Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 July, 2024 [Early submissions] Call A little over 25 years ago, the site of this conference, Maritime Greenwich, London, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Home to the first Palladian building in England, the Royal Naval College by Sir […]
When: November 14 and 15, 2024, 9am–5pm Where: Furness Building/Fisher Fine Arts Library, top floor (“old Kahn studio”), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA What: A two-day workshop bringing scholars, designers, researchers, and theorists together who wish to foreground the topic of time in architecture—a field where space usually dominates—in order to compare notes, mutually enlighten, and pursue […]
Deadline for submissions: 10th of May 2024 Response: c. 17th of May 2024 Symposium: Weds. 26 and Thurs. 27 June, 2024, in person at Birmingham City University, with an online registration option Contact: symposium2024@sahgb.org.uk Full Post at: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/call-for-papers/2024-sahgb-ecr-symposium There is increasing recognition that in order to foment real social progress, the acknowledgement of social struggles and the […]
When: Friday, 17th of May 2024 at 6pm (BST) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Book tickets via Eventbrite Architectural Humanities is one of five research groups established by the School of Architecture and Cities in 2021. It focuses on the historical and cultural processes and practices of architecture. […]
When: Friday, 26th of April 2024, 10am – 5pm (BST) Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS The Emerging Territories Research Group is hosting a one-day event to celebrate the Max Lock Centre (MLC) and its legacy, and to discuss the future perspectives of current international urban and sustainable development-related research undertaken […]
When: Thursday, 11th of April 2024, 13:00-14:00 Where: M322, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS The final Architecture + Cities Research Seminar for the semester will be presented by a visiting scholar from Copenhagen Business School, Kristian Nielsen. His seminar titled “Behavioral Research on Climate Change Mitigation” will be given in person in […]
When: Thursday, 4th of April 2024, 13:00-14:00 Where: Online Urna Sodnomjamts will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar titled “ger means home” on Thursday 4 April, from 13.00 – 14.00 online. The link to the seminar is here.
When: Tuesday, April 2 to Friday, April 5, 2024 Where: Across University of Westminster’s West End campuses The Sustainability Festival of the University of Westminster has been created in 2021. The aim is to promote the University’s sustainable goals and the 17 sustainable development United Nations goals. The MA Event Design and Management students organise entirely the festival. […]
When: Thursday, 21st of March 2024 at 6pm Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS “For such a long established and deeply entrenched subject, adaptive reuse has a remarkably short history. It is a practice that stretches back to almost the first constructed buildings themselves; for structures have perpetually been altered to […]
When: Thursday, 28th of March 2024, 13:00-14:00 Where: Online Chiara Orefice will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar on Thursday 28 March, 13.00 – 14.00, online. The seminar is titled ‘Events as Prototyping Opportunities for Sustainable Innovation.’ The link to the seminar is here.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Urban Radicals with Millimetre and AKTII who have been selected by LFA and City of London BIDs as winners of the “Navigating Change: Reimagining the Square Mile” competition to design a trail of architectural interventions across the City of London. Urban Radicals is a collaborative studio run by Era Savvides (Level 5 Year […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
“Archisource presents the Drawing of the Year Awards 2024 – the fifth annual, creative imagery Awards – open to all and free to enter! The Awards are the ultimate accolade in visual representations across architecture and design, celebrating the very best imagery created by students and professionals around the world, receiving thousands of entries every […]
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.
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
When: Monday, 29th of January 2024 at 13:00 (GMT) Where: Online The first Architecture + Cities Research Seminar of the new semester will take place on Monday, January 29 from 13:00 to 14:00 (GMT), online. It will be given by Scott Batty on the construction as an essential component of architectural education. The link to the seminar […]
According to Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan: “the report provides a toolkit for organisations to increase and improve the presence of women in construction, so it is set to have a high impact. However, it also highlights significant shortfalls in data on the presence and impact of Women In Construction in Europe and a slow progress compared […]
