Travels with Bob
An exhibition of photographs by Esther Whitby, and books and manuscripts by Robert Harbison. In conjunction with Travels with Bob, an evening celebrating the launch of Robert Harbison’s new book Travels in the history of architecture and his first twenty years as a teacher at London Metropolitan University, on Thursday 19 November 2009, 6.30pm in the Forum. In a short essay for the catalogue of this exhibition of photographs by Esther Whitby, Robert Harbison speaks of art as ‘all human fabrications made in a certain spirit of play and freedom’. …
The ASD Choir is recruiting
The choir at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, LondonMet is recruiting new singers. The ASD Choir was founded in November 2008 and this year embarks on a new ambitious programme of events, performances and exhibitions. The ensemble consists of an eccentric group of amateurs and professionals from different backgrounds – teachers, students, architects, musicians, designers, typographers, artists, researchers – who all share a passion for singing and a curiosity in experiment. We rehears every Tuesday, 6.45pm at Spring House. For more …
On intimacy. A preview of Stephen Taylor’s exhibition at the ASD Gallery
In a seminal work on the physical and imaginary functions of the skin (Le moi-peau, 1985), French psychologist Didier Anzieu suggested that Western thought is deceived by the idea that appearances, the outer limit of things, conceal an essence within. In physics, this is documented by our obsession with ever smaller units of matter. Similarly, in philosophy and psychology the process of peeling away layer after layer of false appearances in order to arrive at a deeper truth is the ultimate metaphor of gaining knowledge. But if we look at the human body …
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