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Technical Studies Lecture Series: “Recent Projects,” Sophie Hicks, Wednesday, November 4 at 17:00 [online via BB]

Posted on November 2, 2020March 4, 2021 by Mirna Pedalo

When: Wednesday, 4th of November at 5pm

Event Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/f9e3ae5001874d12b6a507f5d1160bd6

Sophie Hicks established Sophie Hicks Architects in 1990 whilst still a student at the Architectural Association and she became a chartered architect in 1994. Prior to her career as an architect she worked in fashion: as a stylist for Vogue Magazine; and for the designer, Azzedine Alaia. She leads a practice with a focus on both fashion retail and private residential design. Her retail projects include Westbourne House with Paul Smith, his “shop in a house”; and the development of a store concept for Chloé, with signature plywood walls, which has been used in over one hundred stores worldwide. Sophie has also worked closely with Yohji Yamamoto to design his flagship store in Paris; and she created a new-build flagship store for Acne Studios in Seoul.

In parallel with her retail designs, Sophie Hicks acquired three sites in London, all in conservation areas, with the intention of building a contemporary house on each. The first, a small house in Regent Square, was completed in 2014. The second, a street-facing house in Earl’s Court Square, was completed in 2018. The third, a larger house in Holland Park, has obtained planning permission. New-build, contemporary houses are relatively rare in central London, because of the strong culture in the UK of preservation of the historic environment. Sophie has designed these new houses to “…respect the past, and respond to it, while at the same time expressing the spirit of our own times.” Sophie Hicks is a member of the Panel for Creative and Design at the Institute for Apprenticeships (IFA). The aim of the IFA is to improve the work opportunities and job satisfaction of young people, avoid student debt, and address the skills shortage in the UK.

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

Technical Studies website – https://technicalstudies.tumblr.com/

Architecture History + Theory Guest Lecture: Prof David Porter “Learning from Neave Brown: The Poetics of Habitation,” Thursday, March 12, 18:30, Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Mirna Pedalo

When: Thursday, 12th of March, 18:30

Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, NW1 5LS

Neave Brown received the RIBA’s Gold Medal in 2018 in recognition of his contribution to the architecture of housing. David Porter worked with him for many years and will use an unpublished Dutch project, the super-dense Projekt Zwollsestraat, to reflect on Brown’s more famous housing projects in Camden: Alexandra Road and Fleet Road. He will explore his approach to the making of architecture and urban space.

Biography

David Porter is an architect, urbanist and educator. He was Professor of Architecture at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing (2012-8); President of the Architectural Association (2015-8); and Head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Glasgow School of Art (2000-11). From 2011-14 he was also Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture & Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Formerly a partner in Neave Brown David Porter Architects working on high-density urban projects in the Netherlands, David was also a founding partner of Clements & Porter Architects, is a Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects of Scotland and of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Trustee of Jacksons Lane, North London’s creative performance space. He now teaches in the BA Architecture course here at the University of Westminster.

Open Lecture Series: “Evolving Event Design” David Ball, Brandfuel, Monday, October 14, M416 Robin Evans Room, Marylebone Campus, 17:00

Posted on October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 by Mirna Pedalo

When: 14th of October 2019, 17:00

Where: M416, Robin Evans Room, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS

To book your free tickets please click here

David Ball is CEO of award winning brand experience agency Brandfuel.

About this Event

Brandfuel the award-winning London based creative agency produces major experiences for Google and other global brands year on year. This includes designing the internationally acclaimed Zeitgeist event in the UK for the last fourteen years. How have they kept it fresh to reinvigorate the attendee’s, when the location, format and often many of the guests are the same each year?

Learning outcomes:

Understand why a client’s expectations change each year for the same event type

Understand how the design process evolves to accommodate new expectations

Understand what design elements can be re-used or re-imagined each year

Guest Lecture: Dr Jingru Cheng, “Home: A Project of Rural China”, Thursday, March 7, 18:00, Robin Evans Room (M416)

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Mirna Pedalo

When: Thursday, 7th of March at 18:00

Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), 35 Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 5LS

China’s 245 million floating population has resulted in a missing middle generation in contemporary rural families. Through fieldwork and case studies of self-built rural family houses, the research identifies a fundamental change in the idea of family and domesticity, and terms this phenomenon the ‘dissolved household’. The elastic relationship in household managements manifests a flexible, spatially stretched form of labour division and collaboration between genders, generations and households. The idea of domestic space is thus an elastic form of association.

Dr Jingru Cheng’s research project, Care and Rebellion: The Dissolved Household in Contemporary Rural China, recently received a commendation in the RIBA President’s Awards for Research.

Her work traces the fundamental changes taking place in the nature of domestic space in China.

Featured image: The Yard in Liu Brothers’ Family House, Shigushan Village, Wuhan, China, 2016 (Photo & Collage by Jingru Cyan Cheng).

DS24 tutor Alessandra Cianchetta at Architecture Foundation’s “Architecture on Stage” – Thursday, March 14, 19:00-21:00

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Mirna Pedalo

When: Thursday, 14th of March 2019, 19:00-21:00

Where: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

Architecture on Stage is a series of talks by the world’s best architects programmed by the Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Barbican Centre.

Alessandra Cianchetta is an architect and founding partner of AWP, an architecture practice based in Paris and London.

Born in Italy, Cianchetta studied architecture at La Sapienza in Rome, ETSA Madrid and ETSA Barcelona, before setting up AWP in 2008.

Her recent projects include Poissy Galore, a museum and observatory (pictured) which is part of a 113 hectare park on the Seine near Paris; the masterplan for Paris-La Défense, a grand-scale public realm project; and an arts district in Liverpool.

Cianchetta has taught architecture and urban design at Cornell University, University of Virginia, Columbia University and The Berlage.

Alessandra Cianchetta currently runs MArch Design Studio 24 alongside Juan Piñol at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster.

To book tickets please go to: https://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/events/architecture-on-stage-alessandra-cianchetta

Architecture Research Forum: “100 Mile City and Other Stories” Peter Barber, Thursday November 1, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Mirna Pedalo

When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 1st of November

Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus

Peter Barber is a founding director of Peter Barber Architects. He is a Reader and MArch Studio tutor at the University of Westminster. In 2017 he won the Royal Academy Grand Prize for Architecture.