![Technical Studies Lecture Series: Giles Smith [Assemble] “Sludge and Rocks” | Thursday, October 31 at 18:00 (GMT), M416 Robin Evans Room + Livestream](http://www.openstudiowestminster.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/05_Assemble-1.jpg)
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 involved in its construction.”
Giles Smith
Assemble is a multi-disciplinary collective working across architecture, design and art. Founded in 2010 to undertake a single self-built project, Assemble has since delivered a diverse and award-winning body of work, while retaining a democratic and co-operative working method that enables built, social and research-based work at a variety of scales: both making things, and making things happen. Assemble won the Turner Prize in 2015.
Giles is a founding member of Assemble, a multi-disciplinary collective working across architecture, design, and art. He studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art and has taught architecture at the University of Westminster and the AA and has lectured widely internationally.
w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk – For details contact Will McLean