Architecture News http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/architecture-news/rss Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. admin 2011-07-14T11:49:35Z Globalisation or Regionalism? http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/globalisation-or-regionalism Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-05-15T10:13:11Z Bartlett Summer Foundation Course 2012 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/summer-foundation-2012 The Bartlett Summer Foundation is a new course created to introduce and prepare students for a future career in architecture and architectural education. Running from 2nd July to 7th September, the ten-week program will provide students with a unique creative platform to improve their design communication skills as well as their individual conceptual and critical thinking.  Students of our inaugural year will explore ideas of architecture as a backdrop and architecture as an event through observation as well as design proposition and construction. These architectural speculations will not only house and frame performance and event, they will also perform and become an event. As a starting point for these speculations students will be asked to investigate London’s transformation as it seeks to host its third Olympic games. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-05-14T12:16:37Z Hayward Gallery transforms into Wide Open School http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/southbank-wide-open-school 11 June - 11 July 2012 Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-05-14T09:04:28Z MArch GAD RC2 exhibits in Graz http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/march-gad-rc2-exhibition-graz MArch GAD research cluster 2 taught by Marjan Colletti exhibits at the Haus der Architektur in Graz, together with the Academy of Arts Vienna and the TU Graz Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-04-30T08:44:51Z Emerging Architect of the Year Award http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/hannah-lawson-named-emerging-architect-of-the-year Congratulations to former Bartlett student Hannah Lawson who has been named 'Emerging Architect of the Year' by The Architect's Journal. Hannah became a director of John McAslan + Partners just four years after graduation. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-04-24T09:15:06Z Smout Allen: Lunar Wood http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/smout-allen-lunar-wood Japanese Style: Sustaining Design Ruthin Craft Centre, Centre for the Applied Arts, Wales 1 April - 24 June 2012 Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-04-24T07:57:37Z Materialise World Conference 2012 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/materialise-world-conference-2012 The Bartlett's Niccolò Casas and Daniel Widrig were invited to take part in the Materialise World Conference in Leuven, in the first fashion show exclusively showing 3d printed designs. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-04-23T09:31:15Z Talk: Critical and Creative Design Practice Research, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/lecture-penelope-haralambidou A Course in Architecture and Design Research Lecture: Dr Penelope Haralambidou Friday 27 April 2012 10.00–12.00 Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-04-16T14:06:48Z 'Fragile' designed and constructed at DMC London, The Bartlett School of Architecture http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/dmc-egg Constructed from less than 1kilogram of plastic, Fragile explores the delicate and the impossible. The project is inspired by the convergence between nature and technology which challenges the aesthetics and constructive methods of human structures and objects. Fragile is the result, a combination of biological minimalism inspired by natures structural efficiency and the fabrication of the impossible through the use of new Additive Layer Manufacturing processes which produce pieces of incredible complexity and detail that would be virtually impossible otherwise.  Constructed at DMC London, The Bartlett School of Architecture. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-03-27T07:28:22Z Bartlett student choreographs Ant Ballet http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/ant_ballet A Bartlett PhD student has demonstrated how pheromone trickery can influence the behaviour of ants in a new installation at ZSL London Zoo . Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Philippa A Cave 2012-03-23T16:43:21Z Bartlett Professor appointed as Council Member of the European Association for Architectural Education http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/murray_fraser_appointed_to_eaae Professor Murray Fraser (Bartlett School of Architecture) has been nominated as Council Member of the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) - the first UCL staff member ever to have received the honour. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Philippa A Cave 2012-03-22T15:57:30Z Dr Katherine E. Bash http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/katherine-e-bash-phd We are delighted to announce that Katherine E. Bash , a candidate in the PhD Architectural Design programme, has passed her PhD examination with examiners Dr Jonathan Hope and Professor Jane Rendell . Her thesis entitled Spatial Poetries: Heuristics for Experimental Poiesis was supervised by Dr Yeoryia Manolopoulou and Professor Jonathan Hill , with external supervisors Dr Beau Lotto and Professor Graham Harman . The thesis explored an experimental aesthetic practice of seeing and naming previously unperceived phenomena and was described by the examiners as 'highly original and fascinating', 'very intelligent and engaging, incredibly creative, and stunningly presented'. It was commended for its combination of techniques and practices where 'design is a key part of the method presented'. The examiners also noted that "the thesis is unusual, in that it enacts and exemplifies the proposed heuristics" and 'takes risks in working allusively and by gesture and example rather than the exhaustive explication and analysis which are more traditional'. Congratulations Dr Bash! For more information on the PhD Architectural Design programme, please see here . Image: Katherine E. Bash, Nuveado: snow, salt, mountain , 2007. © Itinerant Laboratory for Perceptual Inquiry Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-03-19T13:04:42Z Mining The Lower East Side http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bldgblog Unit 11 field trip to New York - Read full story here Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Nadia Shannon 2012-03-14T12:59:54Z Dr Tat Lam http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/phd-tat-lam We are delighted to announce that Tat Lam, a PhD candidate in the PhD Architectural History & Theory programme, passed his PhD examination with examiners Professor Iain Borden and Professor Ray Forrest . Tat Lam's thesis entitled Linked Hybrid in Beijing: Placing an American Building and its Architectural Concept in its Chinese Context was supervised by Dr Jan Birksted and Professor Adrian Forty . The thesis was described by the examiners as 'an extremely innovative thesis which employs a subtle and effective methodology to explore the way in which a particular, and very high profile, building was assimilated into Chinese urban culture… with great imagination and with excellent use of various stories and reminiscences from the ethnographic research'. The thesis was also said to provide both a ‘good sense of the complexity of architectural and urban production, including those surrounding authorship, design and counter-authority views’ and ‘the sense of the candidate’s own presence in his attempts to access and interpret the project’. Congratulations Dr Lam! For more information on the PhD Architectural History & Theory programme, please see here . Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-03-05T13:07:22Z The Metaphysics of Concrete http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/adrian-forty-lunchtime-lecture Professor Adrian Forty (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) began the Lunch Hour Lecture on 21 February by capturing the audience’s attention with the startling statistic that almost three tons of concrete are produced every year per person. It is now second only to water in terms of human consumption. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Nadia Shannon 2012-02-28T11:21:47Z Adrian Forty awarded RIBA Honorary Fellowship http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/adrian-forty-riba-honorary-fellowship The Bartlett's Professor Adrian Forty awarded RIBA Honorary Fellowship Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-02-20T10:34:35Z "Don't Move, Improve" Award 2011-12 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/andrew-porter-suburbanstudio Abigail Ashton and Andrew Porter win Award for 2011-12 Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-02-06T11:53:27Z Studio One Symposium 2012 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/smout-allen-lecture-berkeley-envirogrammic-prototypes The Inaugural Studio One Symposium will be held February 10-11, 2012. Focusing on the studio's themes of architectural agency at an ecological and infrastrucutral scale, the symposium will bring together a global roster of influential designers and thinkers for two days of design, discussion, and debate. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-02-01T11:16:32Z Smout Allen Lecture and Exhibition - Envirographic Architecture http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/smout-allen-envrirographic-architecture JANUARY 23 TO MARCH 2 Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-01-31T12:51:25Z Dr Rosalie Hyun-Kyung Kim http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/rosalie-hyun-kyung-kim-phd We are delighted to announce that Rosalie Hyun-Kyung Kim has passed her PhD examination. Rosalie Hyun-Kyung Kim passed her PhD examination with examiners Professor Mark Dorrian and Dr Penelope Haralambidou . Rosalie's architectural design thesis entitled The Hyphenation of the Void: From Eastern Ecology to Western Architecture was supervised by Professor Jonathan Hill and Dr Yeoryia Manolopolou . The examiners conclude: 'Taking as a starting point the transient oriental notion of the void the thesis embarks on a journey of interpretation and discovery of practices, tropes and techniques from east and west, to define a representational language and design method in architecture. The thesis covers a great breadth of focused analysis in philosophy, history of art, and history of architecture alongside design experimentation. The final part, presenting three projects–the practice-led element of the research–contains compelling visual material.' Congratulations Dr Kim! For more information on the PhD Architectural Design programme, please see here . Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-01-30T09:59:09Z Dr Neil Wenman http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/neil-wenman-phd We are delighted to announce that Neil Wenman has passed his PhD examination Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2012-01-25T10:51:57Z Getty Research Award http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/hultzsch-getty-pevsner2 Dr Anne Hultzsch has been awarded a Library Grant at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, to consult the Nikolaus Pevsner Papers this summer. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Iain M Borden 2012-01-16T11:46:41Z Dr Sophie Handler http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/sophie-handler-phd We are delighted to announce that a doctoral candidate from the Bartlett School of Architecture - Sophie Handler - has passed her PhD examination. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett Iain M Borden 2012-01-04T09:31:32Z Dr Jacob Paskins http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/paskins-phd We are delighted to announce that another doctoral candidate from the Bartlett School of Architecture - Jacob Paskins - has passed his PhD examination. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Iain M Borden 2012-01-04T09:31:32Z New Exhibition System by Mobile Studio http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/mobile-studio-exhib-system2 Mobile Studio - whose directors are Max Dewdney and Chee-Kit Lai, tutors for the Bartlett's BSc Architecture Unit 9 and BSc Architectural Studies Project X - has completed a new reusable modular exhibition display system. Welcome to The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Iain M Borden 2011-12-13T09:30:25Z