Recent:

Architecture & Travel: Perception, Attraction, Mobility
Architecture &: Interdisciplinary Seminars
Friday, 23 October 2009, 10 am – 8 pm
Room G02, The Bartlett School of Architecture
Organisers: Anne Hultzsch, Barbara Penner, Nina Vollenbröker

Evening: from 6.30pm
Booklaunch
Barbara Penner, Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America (University Press of New England)
Jilly Traganou and Miodrag Mitrasinovic, (editors), Travel, Space, Architecture (Ashgate Publishing)
Exhibition Opening
Nina Vollenbröker and James Santer, Borderland: Gas Food Lodging
Robert Harbison’s book Travels in the History of Architecture (2009) will also be on sale.

Food and drink will be provided. All welcome.
More information: poster.




Recent:

Architecture & Complexity: Systems Architecture
Architecture &: Interdisciplinary Seminars
Thursday 12 February 2009, DARWIN DAY, 2 pm – 8 pm
Bartlett School of Architecture
Organised by Dr Rachel Armstrong, AVATAR Research group

The Bartlett School of Architecture’s termly Architecture &: seminars initiated in 2004 by Professor Jane Rendell provide opportunities for researchers to initiate conversations at interdisciplinary crossings. This architectural workshop lead by Dr Rachel Armstrong and Professor Neil Spiller addresses issues for contemporary architecture with the convergence of the new NBIC [nano-bio-info-cogno technologies] and Living Technology, which are materials that exhibit some of the properties of living matter such as, sensitivity or movement. It explores current issues concerning how Systems Architecture – the study of complexity within the discipline of the built environment that extends from the macro scale flow of information to the micro scale organization of building materials – generates new design possibilities in architectural practice. The practice of Systems Architecture is interdisciplinary by nature and takes the form of a ‘Systems’ scientific experiment with architectural design outcomes. It brings architects and scientists working at the intersections of NBIC & Living Technology together to create the work collaboratively.

Contributors:
Dr Rachel Armstrong, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, Dr Seth Bullock, University of Southampton, Nic Clear, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, Bruce Damer, University of East London, Professor Martin Hanczyc, University of Southern Denmark, Christian Kerrigan, The 200 Year Continuum, Dr Sylvia Nagl, Cancer Institute, University College London, Professor Neil Spiller, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, Turlif Vilbrandt, University of East London, Dr Alexandru Vladimirescu, National Institute for Research and Development for Microbiology and Immunology, Romania, Dr Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton.

More information: leaflet with programme/timetable and poster.

Architecture & Documentary Practice: Writing, Imaging and Performance
Architecture &: Interdisciplinary Seminars
Bartlett School of Architecture, Tue 27 November 2007, 10 am–6 pm
Organised by Dr Robin Wilson

This is the third of a series of interdisciplinary, one-day conferences held at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Architecture &, initiated by Prof. Jane Rendell. It will explore current issues concerning the documentation of buildings, urban space and processes of architectural production. It will draw together architects, artists, editors and theorists to address issues of criticality, memory and performance in architectural documentation. One session will focus on existing practices of writing, editing and photography in the architectural profession. One will deal with concerns and techniques of documentation in theatre and performance studies. Further sessions will introduce the concerns of individual art and architecture practitioners, working across different media.

Contributors:
Professor Iain Borden, Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, Dr Robin Wilson, Critic, curator and lecturer on art and architecture, Isabel Allen, Design Director of Habhousing and former editor of The Architects’ Journal, Professor Susan Melrose, Performance Arts, Middlesex University, Dr Juliet Rufford, Writer and lecturer on theatre and performance, Professor Joe Kelleher, Theatre and Performance, Roehampton University, Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley, Artist/architect, Mike Marshall, Artist, AMID [Cero 9], Architects

More information: timetable and poster.