Esther Venrooy >
25 March 2009, 6:30pm
Lecture. Part of the Chambers 23-27/03/09 series of sound and architecture events. Listen to audio …
Chambers performance evening >
24 March 2009, 6:30pm
Part of the Chambers 23-27/03/09 series of sound and architecture events. In recent years, the computer as an instrument has challenged the distinct presence …
Marc Behrens >
23 March 2009, 6:30pm
From small-town Hessia to small-town China via a Norwegian glacier, calving Part of the Chambers sound and architecture series of events …
Pierre d’Avoine >
21 March 2009, 1:00pm
Pierre d'Avoine of Pierre d'Avoine Architects presents Suburbia - opportunity or prescription? Part of the New Suburban Civic Series of lunchtime …
Florian Beigel >
19 March 2009, 6:30pm
Public lecture by Florian Beigel followed by exhibition opening of: Architecture Research Unit: Saemangeum Island City. A new city of coexistence, civility …
Deborah Saunt >
17 March 2009, 1:00pm
Deborah Saunt of DSDHA presents Paradise Park Children’s Centre, Islington Part of the New Suburban Civic series of lunchtime talks Won in a …
Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser >
12 March 2009, 6:30pm
The public space is under siege—the compulsion to consume, increased monitoring, and continuously expanding traffic threaten to fundamentally change the …
Architecture Research Unit >
10 March 2009, 2:11pm
Architecture Research Unit: Saemangeum Island City. A new city of coexistence, civility and a sense of time Construction of the Saemangeum sea wall on the …
David Kohn >
10 March 2009, 1:00pm
David Kohn of David Kohn Architects presents Heterotopia: A zero carbon art garden in the Thames Gateway Part of the New Suburban Civic series of …
Other Utopias: David Kohn Architects at the ASD Gallery
A 'space of difference' or, to be more precise, an 'other space' is the idea that literally describes the concept that names David Kohn Architects’ project entry for the Arts Space of the Future competition in 2008 – Heterotopia. Both otherness and difference imply distance; subjectively from the self, collectively from culture, spatially from the mundane places of everyday life. Conceptually, the project emphasize distance by an act of removal - 'Our proposal was conceived as a place in which to question our everyday reality, once removed from …

