MUSARC / ASD Choir Christmas concert >
11 December 2009, 7:00pm
MUSARC, the Choir at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, and friends invite you to an evening of singing, …
Piers Taylor: people, places, process >
3 December 2009, 6:30pm
Piers Taylor is an architect and founding partner of Mitchell Taylor Workshop, a Unit Master at the University of Cambridge and the organiser of the annual …
Re-establishing poetics in modern architecture. Anders Munck in the Forum
A review of Anders Munck's lecture in the Forum, Tuesday 24 November 2009 I have never been to Sigurd Lewerentz’s Saint Peter’s Church in Klippan, but from the images I have seen and the reports of those who have, it is placed very high up on my architectural wish list. Anders Munck’s talk about the church, last Tuesday evening at Spring House, only increased my enthusiasm for planning a journey to Sweden, as soon as possible. Anders Munck is an architect teaching at the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in …
Patamatic cinema. Thomas Wiesner in the Forum
A review of Thomas Wiesner's lecture in the Forum, Tuesday 24 November 2009. The human eye features two types of photoreceptors: at the centre of the retina approximately 4.5 million ‘cone’ cells are concentrated, good at distinguishing detail and colour, while distributed away from the centre there are roughly 90 million ‘rod’ cells, which aren’t. The rod cells are great for distinguishing movement in low light and are used in peripheral vision, helping us to avoid sabre-toothed tigers in the night. Peripheral vision gives rise to an …
Every building has a story to tell.
Studio 3 in Frankfurt
Studio 3 has just come back from a very engaged studio trip to Kronberg, Frankfurt. This year Undergraduate Studio 3 with tutors Sandra Denicke-Polcher and Torange Khonsari have been commissioned to design and build the Event Spaces for the Cultural Summer Festival 2010 in Kronberg, Frankfurt. The trip has been joined by Stef Rhodes from ASD Projects to support the live work. This project has a real client, budget and construction deadline and students learn what it takes to bring an architectural idea on site. In Kronberg, all 18 students lived with …
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