Stephen Bates of Sergison Bates Architects >
27 October 2009, 1:00pm
Stephen Bates of Sergison Bates architects presents: The London Sustainable Industries Park, Dagenham The concept for a Sustainable Industries Park centers …
Lunch Club: Maurice Mitchell >
26 October 2009, 1:00pm
Lunch Club at the Forum. Maurice Mitchell of diploma unit 6 will talk about developing architectural sensibility & design skills within a context of rapid …
Sean Griffiths of FAT >
20 October 2009, 1:00pm
Sean Griffiths of Fat presents: Lingfield Point, Darlington, County Durham FAT’s urban design projects reflect the complexities and contradiction of …
Peter Lang of Stalker/ON, >
13 October 2009, 1:00pm
Peter Lang of Stalker/ON, Nomad Observatory presents: Campus Rom: Casalino 900, Rome Stalker, founded in 1995, (the name is from the 1979 film Stalker by …
Unit 5 speed dating
There is a kind of play common to nearly every child: it is to get under a piece of furniture or some extemporized shelter of his own and to explain that he is in a ‘house’… It is a symbolism – of a fundamental kind, expressed in terms of play. This kind of play has much to do with the aesthetics of architecture. Heavenly Mansions – An Interpretation of Gothic by John Summerson, 1963 Unit 5 are exploring spaces for music and performance in secondary schools and over the coming year will be collaborating with five schools in Croydon, working …
Other landscapes
A report on Unit 7’s visit to the Suffolk coast. Orford Ness is a National nature reserve formed on a shingle spit on the Suffolk coastline. The barren windswept terrain, which holds a delicate and protected vegetated shingle habitat, was once home to the UK’s Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Remnants of this era remain sparsely scattered around the island. Buildings deserted and gradually decaying make for a desolate world so consuming that it is possible to forget one’s proximity to the nearby Orford, connected by a short boat ride over …
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