Bae Sang Soo, 1970–2012
Bae’s drawing of the wind, done after a student trip to the Northern coast of the Island of Tenerife in the late autumn of 1998 to visit a design project site is a wonderful example of his ability to draw the beauty of a place – including the wind. He was awarded the prize for the best Diploma portfolio when he graduated at the University of North London in June 2000. Another drawing of Bae’s that comes to mind is about the initial concept for the Youl Hwa Dang Publishing House at Paju Book City in Korea when he began working with us at the …
Once upon a time there was a STALL
Aldgate and “the super-local” The Aldgate Project was established to run in the academic year 2011-2012, to act as platform for multidiscipline projects for students of the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design and the Sir John Cass Art, Media and Design. As part of the conjoining of the two Faculties the project encourages students across different disciplines to work together and collaborate on projects that are based in and are in response to the area of Aldgate in East London. For two days in December Studio 3 ran the first live, …
Architecture of multiple authorship in Liverpool: Can you play with local resources?
Don’t make too much architecture. Just look out and take what’s already there – And call it architecture…(to be continued…) Studio 3 has just come back from a very engaged studio trip to Liverpool. This year, Undergraduate Studio 3 with tutors Torange Khonsari and Sandra Denicke-Polcher have returned to Liverpool to construct the first element of the ‘Mobile Pub’, a Live Project which was started by student Lauren Campany last academic year and is now seeking funding for construction. This project has a real client, the West …
Review: Prof. CJ Lim in the Forum
A review of Prof. CJ Lim's lecture in the Forum, 14 November 2011 After waiting for the last few latecomers, Professor CJ Lim introduced himself in a series of slides accompanied by music and no commentary. Here pictures of his work fall in and out recognition, in what had more in common with an art installation than the usual architecture presentation. The bulk of the lecture was dedicated to two design ideas which are also the basis of his two books. Smart Cities: Eco-warriors and Short Stories: London in Two and Half Dimensions. The first …
Review: Seung H-Sang’s, Landscript
A review of Seung H-Sang's lecture in the Forum, Thursday 28 October 2011. After a capturing introduction from Florian Beigel of ARU describing the essential principals on which Mr. Seung’s work is based, I anticipated to be guided into that sensuous world. Maybe that’s why the first part of the lecture didn’t quite settle in my mind and the fast flickering through the concepts of the Gwangju Design Biennale, co-directed with artist and architect Ai Weiwei, and the following images of spaces and projects from the site felt misplaced. The only …
Review: Peter Märkli in the Forum
Notes on Peter Märkli’s lecture at London Metropolitan University ASD, 7 October 2011, ‘Beauty is the most radical thing I know’ Firstly, we must thank Philip Christou for his quick thinking when he sacrificed his first-row audience seat in a packed Forum to become Mr. Märkli’s personal slide-show assistant. Märkli seemed confused when nothing changed on the screen upon requesting ‘next slide’ - so thank you Phil for filling in there! Discussing a handful of current and recently completed works, Märkli delivered a refreshingly …
An event space for Kronberg
Undergraduate Studio 3 (Sandra Denicke-Polcher and Torange Khonsari) have completed their 2009/10 studio project, which was done in collaboration with student Craig Harrison-Smith and the Projects Office (Stef Rhodes): a Mobile Outdoor Event Space for Kronberg, Frankfurt. The stage has been opened with a programme of different performances by local groups on 7 and 8 May 2011. This live project, initiated by the Studio for a set of informal cultural organisations in Kronberg started in June 2009. The first local engagement on the site at Victoriapark …
ASD makes clean sweep at arts awards
London Met architecture students wowed the panel at the Royal Society of Arts ‘Resourceful Architecture’ competition this month, making a clean sweep of the prizes. In February the RSA and The Architecture Foundation put the call out for ideas about the future uses of architecture. On 18 May the shortlisted ideas were presented for scrutiny in front of an expert panel and a public audience. Sam Potts, a founding member of the Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA), claimed the first prize of £2000 with RARA, while Vernes …
Event horizon
Notes on ‘Architecture and the Horizon’, inaugural Lecture by Professor Peter Carl, 6th April 2011 Professor Carl’s lecture was a truly amazing piece of work. Though, as my title implies, it went well beyond the point at which my knowledge ends, I’m afraid. My grasp of philosophy and its terminologies is somewhat shaky at best, and the wealth of wonderfully expressed and fascinating ideas and connections – from prehistory to Zaha – were difficult for me to keep up with. I just couldn’t write fast enough! This being the case, I think the …
In a different light – Yamamoto at the V&A
One enters into a large single room, aggressively lit from above, and is left without clues on what do next. The Yohji Yamamoto exhibition at the V&A replicates the setting of a Tokyo boutique, which in terms seems to replicate the backstage area of a fashion event. This is a party for the connoisseur, it will leave gatecrashers exposed, so fake it! One is compelled to mingle and admire, look at ease while constantly on display - a strange world at best. About half the bodies in the room are wonderfully gracious mannequins, mounted on a single pole …
Real Time 2007–2011
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design
London Metropolitan University
