Architecture News http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/architecture-news/rss The Bartlett School of Architecture is one of the world's most exciting architecture schools, in one of its most inspiring cities. Our name stands for provocative ideas, boundary-pushing research and high-achieving lecturers and students. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. admin 2011-07-14T11:49:35Z KREIDER + O'LEARY at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/kreider-oleary-lisbon-triennale-2013 Kreider + O'Leary have been selected to present as part of the associated projects for this year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Under the theme of 'Edge City' Kreider + O'Leary propose to explore Lisbon as a richly adorned vessel of trade, literally marked and ennobled by its own history. From its geological birth on the banks of the Rio Tejo, to locus of global shipping and trade, it continues to undergo further phases of transformation and expansion. They will conduct a documented guided tour of the maritime edges of the city, starting at Cais do Sodré and finishing at Cais Da Rocha. Working ‘en-promenade’ they will explore specific details of the city fabric, focussing on the maritime history of the city. With archaeological levels of detail, they will use performance, props, images, texts and architectural elements to explore the site as the fulcrum for a number of inter-related systems, whether spatial, historical, social or political. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2013-06-04T07:26:25Z The Bartlett and UCL Engineering to lead RAEng centre of excellence in sustainable building design http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/centres-of-excellence The Bartlett and UCL Engineering and have won one of four Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Centres of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design. The UCL centre will be a joint centre between the two faculties with Dr Liora Malki-Epshtein and Professor Chris Wise representing Engineering, and Dr Ben Croxford (BSGS), Oliver Wilton (BSA) and Professor Paul Ruyssevelt (UCL-Energy) representing The Bartlett, along with CIBSEand RAEng Visiting Professor Jake Hacker from Arup. Over the next few months, events will be held across the Bartlett to help refine plans for the Centre. Initial plans include the delivery of Bartlett Built Environment knowledge to undergraduate engineers, and to exploration of how sustainable building design knowledge can be delivered to students from both faculties at both undergraduate and post-graduate level as well as, as CPD to industry. Chris Wise RDI FREng (whose company Expedition Engineering, designed the Olympic Velodrome) is a Professor of Design in the Engineering faculty at UCL. He explains: “Our vision is for UCL’s Engineering and Built Environment (The Bartlett) faculties to work together to grow the world’s best technological thinkers and practitioners in sustainable building design. To achieve this ambitious goal from our Centre of Excellence, we must educate a new generation of technologically literate students who are up to the challenge. They need to be contextually aware of the world around them and the buildings they live and work within, observing, responding, and interacting with their environment and understanding how to improve it." The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-06-03T13:35:55Z Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/fulong-wu-esrc-award Fulong Wu , Professor of Planning at The Bartlett, was awarded first prize in the Outstanding International Impact category by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on 14 May. He received a trophy along with £10,000 to promote the economic and social impact of research. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-05-17T15:31:08Z Bartlett Professor part of team on shortlisted project for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett-professor-shortlisted-project-aga-khan-award Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at The Bartlett School of Planning, and Vice-Dean of Research for the Bartlett Faculty, worked with the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART) on the Birzeit regeneration project which has just been shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Their key contribution was to devise a new urban strategy which has revived the previously derelict historic quarter of Birzeit, a university town close to Ramallah. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2013-05-13T11:01:24Z Bartlett Summer Show 2013 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett-summer-show-2013 We are pleased to announce that this year's Summer Show will be opened by the renowned French architect, Claude Parent , on Friday 21 June 2013.  Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins Jean Garrett 2013-05-02T10:27:15Z INNOVATION - The Bartlett Summer Foundation Course http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett-summer-foundation-2013 The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Summer Foundation course, starting on 29th July 2013, is now open for applications. The programme, which can be studied over a 5-week or an 8-week period, is designed to prepare students for a future career in architecture and architectural education. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2013-04-30T12:16:11Z SmoutAllen featured in The Architectural Review http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/SmoutAllen-featured-in-The-Architectural-Review Bartlett School of Architecture Senior Lecturers Mark Smout and Laura Allen ( SmoutAllen ) along with Sir Peter Cook are featured in a special May edition of The Architectural Review (AR) titled, Architecture & Representation. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-04-24T11:14:04Z Urban Laboratory to launch Urban Pamphleteer http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/urbanlab-to-launch-urban-pamphleteer The UCL Urban Laboratory will next week launch Urban Pamphleteer, a new series of publications that confront key contemporary urban questions from diverse perspectives. Written in a direct and accessible tone, these pamphlets draw on the history of radical pamphleteering to instigate change. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-04-19T16:36:06Z AY Architects' Camden nursery in AJ http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/ay-architects-camden-nursery-in-aj Montpelier Nursery designed by The Bartlett's Yeoryia Manolopoulou and AY Architects' has been reviewed by Sarah Wigglesworth in AJ. Wigglesworth describes the Camden-based nursery as "...an enchanting and imaginative building that perfectly captures the needs of childhood." Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-04-16T10:00:47Z Communications Internship at The Bartlett http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/comms-internship Are you interested in a career in communications? Have you got excellent written and verbal communication skills, an eye for a newsworthy story, and an interest in digital communications channels?

 The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-04-10T15:00:36Z The Bartlett academics to play role in new UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/bartlett-nature-engineering The announcement of a new Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering at UCL, will bring leading engineers and scientists together to address some of the major engineering challenges facing the world. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-03-26T10:47:37Z Forthcoming Bartlett Lectures in Asia and launch of UCL Built Environment Clubs http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/lectures-in-asia Bob Sheil , Professor of Architecture and Design through Production at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL will be visiting Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore between 18 and 29 March. The trip is aimed at strengthening and forging existing and new links respectively for the Bartlett and UCL Built Environment generally, meeting local networks in academia, government, practice, and UCL alumni, and giving a series of talks on research and teaching activities of the Architecture School. Bob is keen to meet any former Bartlett students living or working in the region, or anyone who would like to know more about the School. All are welcome to attend any of his public lectures on 'Prototyping the Near Future: Design Research for the Built Environment of Tomorrow'. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-03-15T13:19:42Z Members of The Bartlett guest edit RIBA Journal http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/members-of-the-bartlett-guest-edit-RIBA-journal Bartlett senior Teaching Fellow Matthew Butcher of architectural practice Post Works ,  alongside Bartlett graduates, Pernilla Ohrstedt and Rashid Ali have guest edited and contributed to the latest issue of the RIBA Journal.  The issue called ‘Other Architectures’ has been handed over to a what Hugh Pearman describes as "some of the most interesting emerging talent in and around architecture today".  Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-03-07T13:04:02Z Bartlett student wins Cornish pavillion competition http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett_student_wins_pavillion_competition Unit 21's 5th year student, Alex Gazetas, has won the Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Pavilion Competition. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2013-03-05T12:52:38Z The Bartlett announces £110k worth of masters scholarships http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/masters-scholarships The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment is offering MSc, MA or MArch students 20 scholarships, each worth £5,000, to be used as partial fee remittance for study in 2013/14. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-03-04T14:40:10Z The Bartlett amongst leading academics, businesses and entrepreneurs on Mayor’s “Smart London’ board http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/smart-london The Mayor’s Office today announced the board, which is made up of ‘a top line-up of experts’ and includes Prof. Alan Penn , Dean of The Bartlett and Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing and Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith , Director and Deputy Chair of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-03-04T14:12:38Z British Exploratory Land Archive (BELA) http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/smout_allen_venice_riba Bartlett Lecturers Mark Smout and Laura Allen in collaboration with Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG have launched a new project – the ‘British Exploratory Land Archive (BELA)’ – which is now on exhibition at the RIBA having returned from the Venice Architecture Biennale The trio are one of ten architectural teams picked for the ‘ Venice Takeaway ’ programme which exhibited at the British Pavilion throughout the Biennale. The exhibition presents the work of ten “explorers” that have travelled the world to seek imaginative responses to universal issues in architecture. BELA is directly inspired by the Los Angeles-based Centre for Land Use Interpretation ( CLUI ). "The British Exploratory Land Archive: Proposal and Prototype, is the first outing of a project intended to catalogue and interrogate the British Landscape," says Laura Allen of Smout Allen . It aims to unite the efforts of existing bodies from large scale institutions to local trusts and hobby groups, in a project of national landscape taxonomy. It will combine catalogues created by these distinct organisations into one omnivorous, searchable archive of human-altered landscapes in Britain. The project will also contribute to the archive with the design and fabrication of prototypical survey instruments and experimental site-identification beacons used for marking, measuring, describing and emphasising landscape sites. These tools are both semi-scientific and speculative, portable and permanently anchored. See a video of BELA by Smout Allen See a video of the British Pavilion, Venice Takeaway by Crane TV Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2013-02-28T06:49:06Z Ant ballet and PhD theme tunes: The Bartlett Showoff Round Two http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/bartlett-showoff-2 Back by popular demand, The Bartlett Showoff once again took to the stage last Tuesday to showcase some of faculty’s most exciting and extrovert students, staff and research through a range of talks, songs and performances. With compere Ella Murray, a paleoanthropology PhD student from UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, CASA’s Hannah Fry (winner of the Provost’s Public Engager of the Year award), launched straight into the weird and wonderful, talking about her research on ‘Optimal Immunisation Strategies and the Mathematical Classification of Sexual Contact Networks’. The evening continued with performances from Josep Grau-Bove of the Centre for Sustainable Heritage, Prof. Michael Hebbert of BSP with songs about urban climatology and design, along with insights into the research of BSA’s Ollie Palmer and his fascinating ‘Ant Ballet’. Closing the proceedings, UCL-Energy PhD student Mike Fell helped to answer the immortal question, what is the perfect PhD theme tune? Look out for our next event in the new academic year, with our new look! The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Tatevik Sargsyan 2013-02-27T13:07:36Z EIB and The Bartlett to cooperate on new infrastructure finance course http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/EIB-and-the-bartlett The European Investment Bank and The Bartlett have agreed to work together to support a new post-graduate course in Infrastructure Investment and Finance. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-02-26T15:06:01Z The Bartlett's Wates House to undergo a £12m refurbishment http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/wates-house-refurb Wates House, the current home of The Bartlett School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Planning is set to undergo a £12m refurbishment, starting in July 2013. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-02-21T12:04:59Z Bartlett Staff at Prototyping Architecture Conference http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett-staff-at-prototyping-architecture-conference Bartlett staff Professor Bob Sheil, James O'Leary, Ruairi Glynn, and Dirk Krolikowski, and students Karagkiozi Zoi, and Themistocleous Theodoros are each presenting papers on new work at the Prototyping Architecture Conference at The Building Centre on 21 - 23 February. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-02-15T12:20:05Z PhD Research Projects 2013 | Conference and Exhibition http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/phd-research-projects-2013-conference-exhibition Conference: Tuesday 5 March, 9.30 – 18:30 (Exhibition and bar from 19:00) Exhibition continues until Friday 22 March Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-02-14T16:37:00Z Celebrating Chinese New Year: A Q&A session for prospective students http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/chinese-new-year To start off the year of the snake, here at The Bartlett we are offering prospective Chinese students the opportunity to pose questions about studying and living in London to two of our current students through an online question and answer session. The Q&A will be led by students Yang Huang from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit , and Shaohua Chai from the UCL Energy Institute . Whether you have general questions about life in London or specific questions related to a particular course, this is a great opportunity to find out directly from current students who have already experienced the application process and life at The Bartlett. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-02-13T12:13:37Z International interdisciplinary ‘Sexuality at Home’ event held at The Bartlett http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/sexuality-at-home-at-the-bartlett Recognising that gender has long been a framework of research in architectural history, Brent Pilkey, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, lead the facilitation of ‘Sexuality at Home’, a two-day event which focused on sexuality and all things domestic. The film event and conference – held 10 and 11 December 2012 – looked at the spatiality of the themes across varied disciplines from anthropology to visual culture. The conference, the first of its kind, reached maximum capacity six weeks in advance and drew attention from scholars both locally and internationally. With three short films, a full length feature film, eight paper presentations, two keynote lectures (architect and critic Aaron Betsky offering one) and a queer domestic performance the second evening, the events showcased creative and on-going humanities and social-science based research that investigates the ways in which sexual subjectivity relates to and plays out in the everyday space of home. The events were supported by the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL’s Graduate School and the UCL Urban Laboratory. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-02-12T17:10:02Z Professor Frédéric Migayrou to judge 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/frederic-migayrou-mies-van-der-rohe-award The Bartlett’s Professor of Architecture and Director of Architecture & Design at the Centre Pompidou, Frédéric Migayrou , will judge this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award as part of an expert jury consisting of eight individuals chaired by Wiel Arets. The prize is granted every two years to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe. In total, 335 works in the 37 European countries which participate in the EU Culture programme were nominated for the award, and the five finalists have just been announced. The five finalists are: Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins 2013-02-06T10:14:05Z