2012Architecten >
30 October 2008, 6:30pm
[caption id="attachment_160" align="alignnone" width="380" caption="2012Architecten"][/caption] 2012Architecten is a Rotterdam based architecture office …
Waugh Thistleton Architects >
23 October 2008, 6:30am
The starting point for every project at Waugh Thistleton is always to consider the brief alongside the building's cultural, social and historical context. …
MA&DE Film Night (Cinema) >
20 October 2008, 6:00pm
The way things go (German: Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss. It documents a long casual chain of …
Gianni Botsford Architects: Local Adaptation >
16 October 2008, 6:30pm
Gianni Botsford Architects aims to create an architecture of “local adaptation”, which it considers to be as a direct response to climatic, environmental …
Raphael Pennekamp: seeing and drawing >
16 October 2008, 7:08am
Raphael Pennekamp (1980 – 2008) was one of the most gifted students that we have had the privilege to teach. Sadly, he died in a car accident during a …
Someone needed to do this. Waugh Thistleton Architects in the Forum
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 these concepts as thoughtfully and thoroughly as Waugh Thistleton Architects. In the first part of the talk Anthony Thistleton introduced the underlying philosophy of the practice, the …
Welcome to a new year.
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 to carry out work in Bosnia. The New Year promises much. We have new staff including Diana Cochrane, Jane McAllister, Signy Svalastoga and Peter Carl all whom have been appointed to take areas of the Department forward in new directions. We have also focussed this year …
“When I stand still, I am moving”
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, a lecture by Gianni Botsford has shown how antagonisms are often too static to inform any creative process. Under the title “Local Adaptations”, nine or ten projects were presented: in all of them …
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