The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series :: Smout Allen Augmented Landscapes and Delicate Machinery

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

Smout Allen – Augmented Landscapes and Delicate Machinery

  • Thursday 29th January 2015 > 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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Smout Allen (Mark Smout and Laura Allen) are architectural designers, researchers and Senior Lecturers based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Their work looks at architecture’s interaction with the landscapes around us – natural and artificial, urban and geologic, aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric – which are interpreted, filtered, or otherwise augmented by instruments, devices, and machines. Their teaching and architecture studio promotes design as an architectural laboratory that merges imaginative speculation and making with design and research practice. Smout Allen have exhibited at the AA, the RIBA, the Royal Academy, the Venice Biennale and have lectured internationally.

In the lecture they will discuss their recent work where architectural representation and the iterative process of design: investigation, proposition, drawing, making, modeling, etc, are particularly significant and lead to highly visual and engaging pieces which establish an important relationship between the user, the viewer and the artist/architect.


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