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MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “Vermeer, Canaletto, and Making Pictures with the Camera Obscura” by Philip Steadman | Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 18:00 (GMT) in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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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 the camera obscura to produce accurate and seemingly luminous painted images. Steadman’s book, ‘Vermeer’s Camera’ has been featured in numerous television programmes, as well as in the full-length film ‘Tim’s Vermeer’, released in 2013. This lecture will also include his recent research on the painting techniques of the eighteenth-century Venetian artist, Giovanni Antonio Canal (known as Canaletto).

ALL WELCOME

Lecture: “Practice, Research & Teaching in Beijing” by Prof Che Fei | Monday, February 19, 2024 at 4pm in M416

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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 he teaches architecture as the Dean of the School of Design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT). He will be discussing his practice, research, and teaching in Beijing.

All are welcome.

Technical Studies Lecture Series: architect Hugo Braddick (Haworth Tompkins Architects) + client Amandeep Singh Kalra (Be First) on “Industria” | Thursday, October 12 at 18:00 (BST), M416 + Online

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When: Thursday, 12th of October, 6pm (BST)

Where: M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online (see tumblr page below for link)

Architect Hugo Braddick (Haworth Tompkins Architects) talks with client Amandeep Singh Kalra (Be First) about the incredible new ‘Industria’ building in East London. 

Hugo has 20 years’ experience in delivering large, design-led construction projects for complex client bodies, on challenging urban sites, with a particular emphasis on residential and mixed-use buildings, workspace and masterplanning. Hugo leads the industrial intensification team with Graham Haworth, including the regeneration masterplan for Albert Island, a 100,000sqm brownfield development in London Docklands, in collaboration with the GLA, and Industria, an innovative 12,000sqm ramped, multi-level industrial workspace project for BeFirst, at Creek Road in Barking.Hugo currently sits on the NLA experts for logistics and industry and brings a deep working knowledge of urban industrial design at both macro and micro level, combined with an understanding of the market and development economics in the sector, and familiarity with its complex policy requirements.

Amandeep is an Architect and Urban designer. He is an Associate Director at Be First (LB Barking & Dagenham’s regeneration company), working at the intersection of public and private practice. He leads a team that is responsible for strategic visions, brief writing, research, design, and procurement, while actively engaging with residents, planners, policy makers, developers, and politicians to bring these ideas to the table. Amandeep works across urban design & architecture with over ten years’ experience across both public and private sectors. He has worked across a range of scales including large scale masterplans, regeneration schemes alongside small infill sites. More recently he has led the development of retrofit lead design codes and strategies for intensifying industrial land.

Amandeep is trustee at the charity London Neighborhood Scholarship where he continues to champion equality by providing scholarships for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. He is a Design Council Expert, member of the Bromley, Harrow, Kingston (Vice-Chair) and Hackney (Chair) Design Review Panels and was invited to join the Open City Accelerate advisory board. He has served as a guest critic at Kingston, Westminster, UCL and Sheffield University and mentors with Future of London.

For details contact Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

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Gresham College Lectures: “The Future of Tall Buildings” by Roger Ridsdill Smith, Foster + Partners | Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 18:00 (BST) | Barnard’s Inn Hall or Online

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When: Thursday, 27th of April 2023 at 6pm (BST)

Where: Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, or Online/ Watch Later

Ticketed, free

This lecture will explore the technologies that make tall buildings possible. With the current climate crisis in mind, what is the carbon footprint of a building, and how can it be reduced?

Finally, the lecturer will present some recent projects by Foster + Partners, and set out his vision for the future of tall buildings, the new technologies that are improving them, and the benefits they offer to society.

For more information and to register please go here.

Gresham College Lectures: “Architects and Engineers: Making Infrastructure Beautiful” by Sadie Morgan OBE, dRMM Architects and School of Architecture + Cities | Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 18:00 (BST) | Barnard’s Inn Hall or Online

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When: Tuesday, 25th of April 2023 at 6pm (BST)

Where: Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, or Online/ Watch Later

Ticketed, free

Design excellence should be at the heart of all development. But what makes design good or bad? How can you build in beauty and longevity? Looking at both policy and projects, from the National Infrastructure Strategy policy document for the NIC, to the Birmingham Curzon Street Station for HS2, this lecture will examine the elements behind making good design happen.

For more information and to register please go here.

Technical Studies Lecture Series: Deborah Saunt, DSDHA “Recent Projects” | Thursday, October 6 at 18:00 (BST), M416 + Live Stream

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When: Thursday, 6th of October, 6pm (BST)

Where: M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online

Deborah is one of the founding directors of DSDHA. Her recent and ongoing projects include the refurbishment of London’s iconic Economist Plaza in St James and a new building on Piccadilly for The Crown Estate. Large urban scale work includes the regeneration of a 600-home estate for London Borough of Southwark with a strong focus on engagement, the creation of Cundy Street Quarter, a new 2.4-acre mixed-tenure neighbourhood in Westminster, the redesign of the public realm around the Royal Albert Hall, the public realm framework for the West End including the reimagining of Tottenham Court Road, and a new park for the City of London above Liverpool Street Station. 

Much of her current work is concerned with democratising architecture, having set up the Jane Drew Prize in Architecture, and helping to redefine the role of architecture in the 21st century – addressing people’s emerging needs in the context of rapidly shifting environmental, technological and social conditions. Deborah is a Trustee of the London School of Architecture, of which she was a Founding Director, which focuses on broadening access to the profession and building new collaborative forms of research and practice. She regularly talks and writes on issues of diversity and innovation in the built environment.  

Deborah gained her PhD with the RMIT Practice Research Programme, and has held academic appointments at Yale School of Architecture, Universidad de Navarra, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the University of Cambridge. 

For details contact: Will McLean 

w.f.mclean@wmin.ac.uk 

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Recording of Barnabas Calder’s Lecture from February 8, 2022

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On Tuesday, 8th of February, The School of Architecture + Cities hosted Barnabas Calder, who introduced his important new book Architecture: From prehistory to climate emergency. The book provides the first history of architecture with the climate emergency as the central focus, and was reviewed in The Guardian.

The lecture is now available for viewing:

Barnabas Calder “Architecture: from prehistory to climate emergency” Introduction | Tuesday, February 8 at 18:00 GMT | Online

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When: Tuesday, 8th of February at 6pm GMT

Where: Online

Eventbrite booking here.

Join us online at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster and Barnabas Calder who will introduce his important new book Architecture: From prehistory to climate emergency, which provides the first history of architecture with the climate emergency as the central focus.

The book is reviewed in The Guardian here.

Architecture History + Theory Lecture Series: “Papered Spaces: Writing Cultures, Clerks and Provincial Office Architecture in Colonial India” by Tania Sengupta, Thursday, March 25 at 18:30 GMT

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When: Thursday, 25th of March at 6.30pm GMT

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This talk is about a spatial and experiential world of paper records, files, textual cultures, bureaucracies, officers and clerks. I look at ordinary buildings of British colonial everyday governance in interior areas of India in the nineteenth century. Colonial governance in India was based on global technologies of writing produced by European mercantile capitalism, as well as on the transformation – into paper-forms – of the embodied administrative knowledge held by extant Indian (Mughal) officials. I reflect here on how the material logic of paper and paperwork profoundly shaped and permeated the spaces of the colonial office (cutcherry). I also think about their connection with wider geographies of (colonial) Indian paper and ink economy, as well as how various immaterial processes and information networks in fact subverted colonial paper rule and worked through alternative spatialities.

Dr Tania Sengupta

Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Creating Civilised Cities,” Chris Williamson, Weston Williamson and Partners, Thursday, November 12 at 18:00 [online via BB]

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When: Thursday, 12th of November at 6pm

Event Link (there is no need to register): https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/8cfdaba2b81a485d803c0a3181bc6da7 

Weston Williamson and Partners have gained a reputation for the elegant design and craft of complex design challenges. Their work includes significant infrastructure projects such as the new station at Barking Riverside, the centrepiece of a massive regeneration scheme. Other recent rail projects include two new stations on the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) at Woolwich and Paddington Station. The Paddington project has been described by the client as “…the jewel in the Crossrail crown.” 

When Chris was asked to work with Andrew Weston for group projects at Leicester School of Architecture (for no other reason than they were next to each other alphabetically) he discovered that their skills didn’t overlap but dovetailed perfectly. Their shared ambition made for a perfect business partnership. Forty years later Chris manages and directs the studio and has recently published WW+P’s vision for the next 20 years, which talks about a diverse, collaborative design studio with strong delivery skills. In addition to being a chartered architect, Chris has an MSc in Project Management and believes strongly that the art of architecture requires excellent business skills in order to be realised. Chris has recently been the International Vice President of the RIBA responsible for setting a strategy to grow into a global membership institution and to encourage more UK architects to seek work globally.  

Chris and Weston Williamson also generously provide academic partnership and support to March studio DS22 run by Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif. 

For more details contact Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk 

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