The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series 

Double Lecture and Exhibition Private View

Thursday 13th November 2014 > 18.30 – 20.30

Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Exhibition > The Gallery > 14 Nov – 20 Dec 2014

Grimm City – a miniature universe – is a spatial extrapolation of the Fairytales by the Brothers Grimm. Designed and built during a 5-week summer workshop to celebrate the 200^th anniversary of the tales, it foretells a future state run by creatures with Grimm-esque attributes of gluttony and greed taken perversely out of context. Whilst being lampoonist and satirical this architectural fairytale draws uncanny parallels with what many believe is the way cities are run today. Corrupt politicians, fraudulent banks, gluttonous churches and a great GDP are common in both the Grimm City and our own cities.

FleaFollyArchitects are spatial-storytellers who use narrative to explore and invent speculative architectural propositions encompassing all scales. Operating across, and blurring the boundaries between the fields of architecture, design, art and installation, they use craft as a key component of their work in trying to bring speculative worlds to the wider audience. FleaFollyArchitects were founded in 2012 by Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier who met at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Their work has been published extensively in journals such as Mark Magazine, Blueprint, Icon, Domus and the Architectural Review. They currently teach at University of Greenwich, the Bartlett, and London Metropolitan University.

Dan Walwin

op

Dan Walwin studied BA Fine Art in Goldsmiths College, London, and graduated in 2007. From 2012 to 2013 he was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Dan Walwin has participated in many group and solo exhibitions and in the past few years he has been the recipient of several grants and awards.

op (2013) is an HD video of 6’47” length, shown as a loop and rear projected onto an installed screen.

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

A University of Greenwich Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities ‘Grand Challenge Cities’ Event > The East of Eden Project

Thursday 6th November 2014 > 6.30pm

Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Speakers:

Nic Clear

– Head of Department Architecture and Landscape, University of Greenwich

Ian Worley

– Enderby Group

Richard Baglin

– Greenwich Society

Neil Smith

– Head of Planning Knight Dragon Developments

Matthew Nimmo

– Peabody Urban Regeneration

+ Panel Discussion

In September 2014 the Department of Architecture and Landscape moved into it’s new building in Stockwell Street located within the Greenwich World Heritage site. As part of that move I felt it important to consider not only what our new location gives us, but what we might give in return to our new neighbourhood. So to coincide with our relocation, the Department are embarking on a cross-disciplinary project that seeks to reimagine specific areas of South East London in the 21^st century.

The Department has been invited by three separate organisations to investigate the possibility of siting projects in three areas of the corridor extending to the east of the Maritime Campus. This part of South East London, so often neglected, is undergoing a major transformation with improved transport links and a greater focus on the river for both business and leisure activities. Each of these sites offer different opportunities in relation to the problems posed by the changing form of the city.

It is proposed that a detailed series of analysis and interventions, that reflect the interests and ambitions of our staff and students are proposed for these sites as part of an integrated Departmental project involving everyone from Year One to Masters, and across the whole of Architecture and Landscape. The Department will also be inviting our partners in practice to participate, and encouraging independent research from all our academics to contribute to the breadth and depth of this important venture. By doing so, we will showcase the incredible diversity and talent that exists within the Department of Architecture and Landscape.

Nic Clear – Head of Department Architecture and Landscape

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

Beatriz Colomina > The Architecture of Seduction: Playboy 1953-1979

• Thursday 2nd November 2014 > 6.30pm
• Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Sex, architecture and design were inextricably intertwined in the pages of Playboy magazine from the very beginning. Architecture was not simply featured in the magazine but was its very mechanism. The sexual fantasies and the architectural fantasies were inseparable. Architecture turned out to be more seductive than the playmates. It became the ultimate playmate.

With its massive global circulation and sexualization of architecture, Playboy arguably had more influence on the dissemination of modern design than professional magazines, interiors magazines, and even institutions like the Museum of Modern Art.

Playboy architecture is all about the interior. The Playboy is an indoors man. The magazine was relentlessly obsessed with the interior and this interior turns out to be infinite. From the furniture to the clothes, the lighting, the music, the food, the drinks, the conversation, the jokes, the ideas, the art, the architecture, the smells, and even the way to move, to act… everything is provided. The magazine created a total work of art. When you open the pages of the magazine you are invited to dive in into this world without gaps, without cracks, without decay… an infinite perfected interior, a total work of art.

 

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Beatriz Colomina is an architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture and media and whose work has been published in over 25 languages. She is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Her books include Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies (2014), Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X (2010), Domesticity at War (2007), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994) and Sexuality and Space (1992). She is curator of the exhibitions Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X (which opened at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2006 and has travelled to 11 venues worldwide, including Documenta 12, The Architectural Association in London and the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal), Playboy Architecture, 1953-79 (which opened at NAi Maastricht, 2012 and was at the Deutsche Architektur Museum in Frankfurt in 2014), and Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education in a Time of Disciplinary Instability (Lisbon Triennale, 2013 and Venice Biennale 2014.

 

The Geoffrey Jellicoe Annual Event >

Landscape Institute Film Screening > Water Blues Green Solutions

• Thursday 16th October 2014 > 6.30pm
• Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

The Landscape Institute and the Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich present the UK premier of a new film, Water Blues Green Solutions, recently released in the US.

This collaboration brings together the LI’s annual Jellicoe Lecture with the Hawksmoor International Lectures at the University of Greenwich where Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe once taught.

Water Blues Green Solutions is a 60-minute documentary telling stories about real people solving their water blues with green solutions in four cities across America. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer/director Frank Christopher, producer Cheraine Stanford and Landscape Institute Immediate Past President Sue Illman.

All are welcome at this annual event celebrating landscape architecture.

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series 

CJ Lim > Food City > Lecture + ‘Food City’ Book Launch

• Thursday 2nd October 2014 > 6.30pm
• Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Food City, the follow up to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, explores the issue of urban and architectural transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been, and can again become, a construct for the practice of everyday life. Global in scope, the book addresses the frameworks of over 25 cities through the medium of food and how the city is governed. Voices of urban residents and stakeholders of varying levels in the city’s gastro-economy permeate through the essays. Food City investigates the reinstatement of food at the core of national and local governance through an ambitious piece of polemic titled the Food Parliament  – how architecture can be a driver to restructure employment, education, transport, health, culture, communities, and the justice system, re-evaluating how the city functions as a spatial and political entity. The book raises serious questions about the priorities of our governing bodies, using urban relationships to reframe the spaces of food consumption and production, analyzed through historical precedent, function and form.

CJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bartlett, UCL and the founder of Studio 8 Architects. His research engages in multi-disciplinary design and innovative interpretations of environmental sustainability programmes in urban planning, architecture and landscape. His authored books include Smartcities + Eco-warriors (Routledge, 2010), and Short Stories: London in two-and-a-half dimensions (Routledge, 2011).

Food City books will be on sale at a discounted price of £25 (normal retail price £32).

The University of Greenwich Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities presents

THE HAWKSMOOR INTERNATIONAL OPEN LECTURE SERIES > 2014 – 2015 > TERM 01

• ALL FREE ENTRY > THURSDAYS FROM 6.30pm
• TESSA BLACKSTONE LECTURE THEATRE [11_0003]

Thursday 25 September > Neil Spiller

> The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series Inaugural Lecture

Thursday 02 October > CJ Lim

> Lecture and ‘Food City’ Book Launch
> Studio 8 Architects

Thursday 09 October > Roisin Henghan

> Recent Works Lecture
> Heneghan Peng Architects

Thursday 16 October > The Geoffrey Jellicoe Lecture

> Lecture and Film Screening
> Landscape Institute Annual

Thursday 23 October > Educating Architects Exhibition

> Private View and ‘Educating Architects’ Book Launch
> Edited by Neil Spiller and Nic Clear, University of Greenwich

Fri / Sat 24 + 25 October > Educating Architects Conference

> Conference to coincide with the release of the book ‘Educating Architects’

Thursday 30 October > Beatriz Colomina

> International Lecture
> Princeton University School of Architecture

Thursday 06 November > The East of Eden Project

> Lecture
> Nic Clear presents the University of Greenwich Department of Architecture and Landscape ‘East of Eden’ Project

Thursday 13 November > FleaFollyArchitects + Dan Walwin

> Lectures and Private View
> FleaFollyArchitects ‘Grimm City’ + Dan Walwin ‘Dystopias’

Thursday 20 November > Nick Ervinck

> Lecture and ‘GNI_R1_2014’ Book Launch

Thursday 27 November > Andy Bow

> Lecture > Senior Partner at Fosters and Partners

Thursday 04 December > Will Palin

> Greenwich Old Royal Naval College Lecture

Thursday 11 December > Ben Johnson

> Lecture > UK Artist
> Cityscapes and recent Painted Works

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series  

Neil Spiller > Blistering Romance > The Hawksmoor Inaugural Lecture

• Thursday 25^th September 2014 > 6.30pm
• Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Neil Spiller is Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory, Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Greenwich, London.

Neil’s work seeks to explore and illustrate the far-reaching effects on architecture of biotechnology, virtuality and nanotechnology, and particularly the old dichotomy between architecture and landscape. Technology is allowing architects to mix and augment real objects with virtual ones, to question the inertness of materials and, vicariously, architecture, to link and network electronically all manner of spaces and scales of phenomena together.