ASD Real Time

A review of the Waugh Thistleton Architects lecture in the Forum, 23 October 2008
This Thursday’s talk was about ideas. Not glamorous Big Ideas, but the ones that should be at the heart of any architectural practice concerned with its responsibility towards society and the environment. Unfortunately there are few practices that approach the implementation of [...]

First thank you to all of you who made last years summer show a success. The show was very well reviewed and seemed to capture the spirit of the Department. Also congratulations to Anna Page who was one of the BD class of 2008 and Stef Rhodes who won the RIBA Boyd Auger research award [...]

A critical debate has been out there for a while, usually posed under the sign of opposition: should architecture respond to contextualized differences or should design practice address and communicate the values of universal rationality? To put it differently: how design can fill the gap in-between the local and the global?
Last week at Spring House, [...]

And out there, there are two worlds; one in need of a social architecture which is sensitive and contextual, and another world edging on the virtualisation of culture, to which architecture must reach in order to reinstate a new material and sensual space. Roughly speaking, the national pavilions on the 11th International Architecture Exhibition state [...]

I have a problem with the end-of-year shows. By temperament I want to see everything, and divine some kind of order in the detail before I can be confident that I understand it. The shows don’t – can’t – allow this. Despite all efforts made to structure an exhibition, to edit and elucidate, the quantity [...]

Like London, London Met’s school of architecture has shown over the years a remarkable capacity to assimilate students from almost every conceivable background. It comes as no surprise that it was and remains the main home for what may one day be called the “London school” of architecture. (more…)