Review: Exchange. Patrick Lynch and Camilo Rebelo
A review of Exchange, a talk by Patrick Lynch and Camilo Rebelo in the Forum, 10 March 2010 While London’s Gunners were beating the Portistas to a five-nil defeat up the road at Ashburton Grove, a rather more sedate and thankfully more reciprocal meeting between the two cities was being played out at Spring House. As part of Celebration Week, ASD tutor Patrick Lynch and FAUP tutor Camilo Rebelo took part in an event organized by MA&DE and moderated by MA&DE organiser and ASD Research Student Paulo Moreira. Presenting a selection of their …
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 …
Astronomers on the deck of this lost longship: Charles Barclay’s Kielder Observatory
A review of Charles Barclay's lecture in the Forum, 2 April 2009, 6.30pm [caption id="attachment_416" align="alignnone" width="380" caption="Charles Barclay, Kielder ObservatoryCharles BarclayCharles Barclay"][/caption] Charles Barclay’s presentation of his practice’s competition-winning astronomical observatory, which was completed a year ago high up in the wilds of Northumbria (away from the light pollution which effects much of the night sky of Britain), revealed a practice of serious intent whose unpretentious attitude towards an unusual …
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