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Critical Subjects Spring Architecture School | Competition submissions by Thursday, November 16, 2023

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To attend, please send your competition submission by 16 November 2023

CRITICAL SUBJECTS: ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN SCHOOL

This event takes place on 8-9th February 2024 in London. 

Cost: £20 (students). Includes hostel accommodation for the duration, breakfasts, materials, certificates, networks, tote bag, (potential) prizes, etc.

This short course is for architecture & design students, as well as graduate architects & designers.

See below (and attached poster).

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COMPETITION

APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR STUDENTS, YOUNG ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS.
“Critical Subjects: Spring Architecture & Design School” in central London
Entry submissions are due by 16 November 2023 

Details on How to Enter, here. 

APPLICATIONS FOR ENTRY:

To win a place you need to submit a 2-minute (max) video of architectural critique – to arrive by 16 November – that addresses ONE of the following provocations:

• Should we build on the Greenbelt?

or

• Whatever happened to the Space Age?

or

• We need fewer architects, more builders.

Videos must present a cogent, critical, persuasive argument on one of those topics; whatever side you take. Submissions will be judged by a respected, international jury of architects, academics and designers.*

Send ENTRIES to: futurecitiesproject@gmail.com

Details: http://futurecities.org.uk/2023/08/17/how-to-submit-your-entry/

Costs for the 2-day school: £27 total (£20 student concessionary rate) that includes the 2-day school, hostel accommodation and breakfast, materials, certificates and (potential) prizes.

Day 1 (8th February 2024): A day of debates at AHMM offices

Evening debate: “Global Futures” at BDP offices

Day 2 (9th February 2024): A day of making at Heatherwick Studio

Full details here:  http://futurecities.org.uk/critical-subjects/

Please forward to your students and network. It would be appreciated!

*Judges include:

Will Hunter, senior researcher, MIT & founder, London School of Architecture

Glenn Howells, partner, Howells

Andrew Nahum, principal curator of Technology and Engineering, The Science Museum

Alex Lifschutz, director, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

Alan Dunlop, director, Alan Dunlop Architect

Simon Allford, PRIBA & founder AHMM

Kim Quazi, director, Arup

Stefanie Schneider, UN Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme

Benjamin Spaeth, professor of Digital Design, Technische Hochschule Lübeck

Zhanet Mishineva, project architect, Clive Chapman Architects

Robert Adam, architect/writer

Azhar Azhar, founder, Azhar Architecture

Darryl Chen, Urban Design lead, Hawkins Brown

Patrik Schumacher, principal, Zaha Hadid Architects

Simhika Rao, associate director, HebHomes, Glasgow

Xing Ruan, dean, School of Design, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

… additional names on the website

ArchiIMPACT Symposium: ONEPROJECT | Monday, December 2, 10:00-16:00, M416, Marylebone Campus

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Architects, Students and Academics were invited to each present a single project from their practice, University design project or academic research that can be discussed in regard to (all/some of) the following principles of low energy architecture. 

This is deliberately a mixture of architectural practitioners at all stages of their careers  showing built and un-built projects, the successful and the unsuccessful (?!), side-by-side in an effort to collectively learn from one another, presenting a single project each with regard to the same set of criteria across all projects.

Each presentation will last around 30 minutes in sets of 3 presentations, with a conversation afterwards.

The chosen projects address the following issues:

  • Site Specific: Does the building employ existing features of the site as part of its environmental strategy? Utilising orientation, topography, existing structures, water and trees?
  • Climate Responsive: Does the project respond to local (micro) climatic conditions and environmental factors such as heat, light, sound, wind and air quality?
  • Efficient in Use: Is the building suited to its purpose, appropriate in its size and optimised in its use?
  • Climatic Envelope: Does the building have a highly energy-efficient building envelope suited to its location and use?
  • Energy Use: Has the design minimised operational energy, is the building a low carbon (CO2) emitter and a net producer of energy?
  • Material Construction: Has the use of (local) resources been optimised and embodied energy (CO2) reduced through appropriate material choices?
  • Waste and Water: Has the material waste, pollution and water use been minimised? Could the project collect and treat water?
  • Time Dependent: How does the building operate diurnally, annually and throughout its life? Is the building flexible, adaptable, easy to maintain and does it allow for reuse of all or some of its parts at the end of its life?