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MORE 2024 | Friday, September 20 at 18:00 (BST), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster

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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 of Westminster’s School of Architecture + Cities Postgraduate student thesis projects, across the following disciplines:

  • MA Architecture
  • MA Event Design & Management | MA Tourism Management
  • MA Interior Architecture
  • MA International Planning and Sustainable Development
  • MA Urban and Regional Planning
  • MA Urban Design
  • MSc Architecture and Environmental Design
  • MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • MSc Transport Planning and Management
  • PhD
  • Research
  • RIBA Part 3

The exhibition will launch in the 4th Floor Architecture Studios at 18:00 on Friday 20 September at the Marylebone Campus

The celebratory event will be followed by contributions from each of the participating courses and the School’s annual student awards.

The physical exhibition will be supported by an online iteration – MORE 2024 – which will also launch on the evening of Friday 20 September at:

www.more2024.net

The show will be open until Friday 27 September.

SA+C Tutors’ and Students’ Work Featured in Dezeen Magazine: “Architects for Gaza creates fragments of demountable clinic for Gaza”

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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 for access. The prototype was designed and built in collaboration with the Senior Tutors Paolo Cascone (BSc Architecture and Environmental Design) and François Girardin (Fabrication Lab and MArch DS23) and a number of students from the above courses.

The prototype was on display until the end of June and the exhibition was covered by the Dezeen Magazine:

“On show at the University of Westminster School of Architecture and Cities, the full-scale segments were designed to demonstrate how structures could be built to provide primary care in Gaza where 70 per cent of all health infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed since the most recent escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict in October.

Named Experimental Lab/Clinic, the project by Architects for Gaza was designed by curators Yara Sharif, Nasser Golzari, Francois Girardin and Paolo Cascone to be built using the scarce materials available in Gaza. The clinics would also act as a kind of “atlas of possibilities” to demonstrate construction techniques that people can use to rebuild their homes and neighbourhoods.”

Dezeen, 17.07.2024

You can access the full article here.

SA+C at London Festival of Architecture: “Gaza Experimental Lab” | Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 18:00 (BST) in Robin Evans Room, Marylebone Campus

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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 the context of Gaza. It brings to the surface alternative materials and techniques built out of urgency and scarcity, challenging the consumer-driven construction industry, both in UK and the Global south by re-appropriating its discards. The room in its complete form can be used as a healthcare clinic, class room or Home.

The Lab, being ongoing process of testing and making, suggests alternative use of materials including crushed concrete, R-bars, corrugated sheets, sandbags, fired/unfired clay panels and other components. The outcome may suggest a new and unfamiliar aesthetic inspired by the local context and needs.

The exhibition is hosted by University of Westminster, School of Architecture, 25-30 June. Access need assistance available at the reception.

Key partners: University of Westminster (MA Architecture + BSc Architecture and Environmental Design, Fabrication Lab), Architects For Gaza and Mobile International Surgical Team.

This event is part of the London Festival of Architecture 2024 and it was supported by Quentin Hogg Trust (QHT).

MORE2023 | Exhibition opening on Friday, September 22, 2023 at 18:00 (BST) in Marylebone Studios

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When: Friday, 22nd of September 2023 at 6pm (BST)

Where: 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS

To register please go to Eventbrite.

Join us on Friday 22 September for the launch of MORE 2023, an exhibition of the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture + Cities Master’s students’ thesis project, across the following disciplines:

  • MA Architecture
  • MA Interior Architecture
  • MSc Architecture and Environmental Design
  • MA Urban Design
  • MA International Planning and Sustainable Development
  • MA Event Design & Management | MA Tourism Management
  • MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • MSc Transport Planning and Management
  • MA Urban and Regional Planning
  • RIBA Part 3
  • Research
  • PhD

The celebratory event will be followed by contributions from each of the participating courses and the School’s annual student awards.

The physical exhibition will be supported by an online iteration – MORE 2023 – which will also launch on the evening of Friday 22 September at:

Welcome to MORE 2023

Opening of MORE 2021 exhibition | Friday, February 4 from 18:30 GMT

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When: Friday, 14th of February at 6.30pm (GMT)

Where: The School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

Please join us from 6.30pm on Friday 4 February for the launch of MORE 2021, an exhibition of the School’s Postgraduate Students’ thesis projects from the following courses:

  • MA Architecture
  • MA Interior Architecture
  • MSc Architecture & Environmental Design
  • MA International Planning & Sustainability Development
  • MSc Transport Planning & Management
  • MA Urban Design

The celebratory event will be followed by contributions from each of the participating courses, the School’s annual student awards, and will close with a musical performance.

It would be great to have as many of you – whether you teach on these courses or not – in the room to celebrate on the night, but for those who cannot come it is a hybrid event and you can attend online (via Zoom).

Register for the launch on Eventbrite

In addition to the physical exhibition, there will be a digital exhibition and catalogue with representation from all our postgraduate courses and PhD students, as well as our ongoing research activities and projects.

The exhibition will continue until 11 February at http://more2021.net/

MORE 2020 Online Exhibition Launch and Webinar | Friday, January 22 at 17:00 GMT

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When: Friday 22 January 17:00 GMT

Where: More2020.net

The School of Architecture and Cities cordially invites you to attend the opening of our graduating students’ online degree show, MORE 2020, an online exhibition of the University of Westminster’s Master’s students thesis projects featuring work from Architecture MA, Interior Architecture MA, Architecture and Environmental Design MSc, Urban Design MA, International Planning and Sustainable Development MA and RIBA Part III.

The exhibition will launch with a webinar at 17:00 on Friday 22nd January with contributions from participating courses staff and students, presentation of awards for work in the show and a live performance.  A link to the webinar will be available on the MORE2020.net website from 17:00 on the day, and can also be accessed directly here

The degree show is part of the School of Architecture and Cities and the first online edition of its annual Exhibition of work, following on from the hugely successful OPEN 2020.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED INVITATION FOR DETAILS AND TO REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE.

You can also RSVP to DCDI-Events@westminster.ac.uk

London Festival of Architecture Webinar: “Challenging Deep Pockets” with MAARC’s Iman Keaik, June 25, 2020, 7pm-8pm

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The University of Westminster represented by MA Architecture student Iman Keaik, is excited to host an online webinar about the four conflicting powers in London.

Who owns London? Are people becoming intangible and invisible in the city of conflicting power? How can we imagine a city of consumption ripped from its money power and transformed into a city of production?

This project ‘Challenging Deep Pockets’ explores London as a conflicted city of powers, where people’s right to the city is a forgotten phenomenon, and the citizens step through controlled life marks as a part of the capital’s powers.

The project disrupts the system. It aims to highlight the much-needed new way of thinking, bringing back people’s right to the city by fighting this powerful explosion that has almost irreversibly affected the city. The new London becomes the land of production, rethinks the power of trade and becomes a place where people PRODUCE, TRADE AND BENEFIT.

This new approach to transform the city into a cashless city revolving around its production is also analysed after the unprecedented circumstances of COVID-19. This pandemic helped us read the High street of Oxford Street as containing non-essential shops where most of them where closed in an emergency state. The imagined scenario is that the pandemic lasts few years while the state of the city deteriorates and the bird’s nests take over the streets. These empty unused shops will, therefore, accommodate new functions that serve the in-house production of London.

The session will include the following:

  • A short story ‘A tale of Four Powers’ about London
  • A short film about the consumption of Oxford Street
  • Presentation of the Re-imagined London

Join us for an open conversation that will lead to sharing of fresh ideas and views about conflicting powers in London.

The webinar will be held via Zoom, after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Event Details

Challenging Deep Pockets

Tickets/Booking

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lfa-digital-challenging-deep-pockets-tickets-106958973168

MA Architecture Website: www.instagram.com/maarcwest/?hl=en

MA Architecture Instagram: @maarcwest

MORE2019 – Preview: Friday 13th of September, 18:00 – 21:00, Marylebone Studios, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

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Where: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

When: Friday 13th of September, 18:00-21:00

THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + CITIES INVITES YOU TO MORE 2019

An exhibition of thesis projects from Masters courses across the School of Architecture + Cities, including: MA Architecture, MSc Architecture & Environmental Design, MA Interior Design, MA International Planning & Sustainable Development, MA Tourism & Events, MA Urban Design.

Evening to be opened by Professor Harry Charrington, Head of School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster

Exhibition continues until SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER