Sadie Morgan: dRMM “B-movie architecture”
Sadie Morgan of dRMM will talk about Festival House in Blackpool and other recently completed projects by dRMM highlighting why and how they were made by the studio. “Consider Blackpool. It’s a town that is hard to mention without a trace of a snigger, one partly snobbish and partly of the kind generally prompted by outdated engines of fun. It has its place in history as the country’s largest ever centre of massed bacchanalia. It has grandeur and bathos, a huge, beautiful beach, some extraordinary buildings and some tottering shacks that barely …
Lecture: Alan Berman, Stirling – The Red Trilogy
Who was the Stirling prize named after? A large scruffy man renowned for his baggy jumpers and desert boots. Grumpy and often rude Jim Stirling strode the world of architecture like a colossus, picking up prizes and admirers from L.A. to Tokyo. Richard Rogers says he was one of the greatest 20th century architects, Will Alsop says Stirling and Gowan’s building in Leicester made him become an architect. But Stirling was also reviled by the British establishment, labeled a fascist architect, and after his three university buildings – “THE …
Diluting the American Dream
An exhibition of recent work by Studio 6, Bara Safarova and Marta Cavatorta From above the town of Marfa Texas appears as a discrete and well-managed island adrift in a landscape of aridity sitting almost equidistantly between Los Angeles and Chicago. But down below, its sleepy suburban American Dream is abruptly woken by passing freight train whose wake is gently soothed by Donald Judd’s silent framing of the landscape. Studio 6’s project has been to mediate the suburban sleepiness with the intrusion of the tourist, designing a station …
CHORA/Unit 8: Smart Cities Climate Bank
Private View: 2 March 6.30pm Exhibition: 3 - 16 March 2012 Smart Cities are the new answer to the ever-increasing threat of climate change. Or so we are told by a range of multinational companies entering the field of urban planning with solutions ranging from smart grids to smart governance. But what is a Smart City? And how does it connect the dangers and the potential of globalism with technological innovation and cultural imagination? The second skin of the earth is the interface between humanity and nature. Energy, water and food are exchanged …
David Kohn Architects: Fragments. Lecture and exhibition opening
Lecture: 1 March 6.30pm Private View: 1 March 7.30pm Exhibition: 1 – 13 March 2012 Opening times: Monday to Friday, 9am – 8pm Saturday, 9am – 2pm Closed Sunday Photo: Charles …
David Kohn Architects: Fragments
Lecture: 1 March 6.30pm Private View: 1 March 7.30pm Exhibition: 1 - 13 March 2012 The challenge of exhibiting architecture is addressed in this new show of work by David Kohn Architects. The gallery space at London Met is transformed through the presentation of a series of one-to-one fragments of recent projects: the rooftop installation ‘A Room for London: Roi des Belges’, an apartment in Barcelona, an arts centre in Hackney Wick, a desk for the Milan Furniture Fair and an exhibition display system for the Design Museum. In the accompanying …
Prof. Philip Christou: Experiencing architecture as culture
Inaugural lecture by Professor Philip Christou As part of the 1st round of internal academic promotions initiated in November 2011 by the Vice Chancellor of London Metropolitan University, Philip Christou was appointed as Associate Professor of Architectural Design. Philip will speak about some encounters with architecture that have been significant to him during his childhood and education in Canada and the UK, and during the past 27 years teaching and collaborating with Florian Beigel and ARU on design as research projects. Some of the ideas that …
Real Time 2007–2011
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design
London Metropolitan University
