• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 12th February; 7PM

What happens when architecture and interaction design collide to create everyday performance? Playing to the individual and to crowds, and changing the performative repertoire in real-time can manifest itself through a diverse palette of kinetic, animated, time-based and sometimes smart materials. We can choreograph real and imagined spaces. This choreography is explored through different mechanisms – wireframing, storyboarding and real world prototyping – and plays back through accidental and inferred interaction between humans and machines. To what use can we put architecture that entertains; are there sub narratives or is this about creating purely environmental spectacle?

Jason Bruges trained as an architect at Oxford Brookes University and the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. He worked with Foster + Partners for three years before moving to Imagination to become a Senior Interactive Design Consultant. He set up Jason Bruges Studio in 2002 and now works with a talented team of people to develop and deliver interactive projects worldwide. The studio comprises an experienced team of architects, lighting designers, interaction designers, and visualisers, as well as specialists in electronics, programming and project management. Jason Bruges Studio has become internationally renowned for producing innovative installations, interventions and groundbreaking works.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 29th January; 7PM

Landscape Architecture interacts in a complex continuum between man and nature, town and country, land and architecture. We no longer reconcile the duality of opposite forces but orchestrate and choreograph a multitude of dynamic and hybrid interactions. For us the very act of landscape architecture is not unlike taking off on a reconnaissance flight above unknown territory whilst flying, undetected, below the radar of styles. The world below: a multitude of vividly moving lines and figures. Calligraphy intertwined with cartography.

Eelco Hooftman is a landscape architect, and together with Bridget Baines, a founding partner of GROSS. MAX. Landscape Architects, Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Agriculture Wageningen, The Netherlands. Between 1990-2008 he taught at the School of Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. He has been a regular visiting critic at AA London, Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam and ETH Zurich. Since 2008 he is visiting professor at GSD, Harvard. Current projects include Tempelhof Freiheit, Berlin – a Master Plan for the transformation a of 360 hectare former airport into a new public park, and a linear Park representing an artificial mountain range in the Central Business District of Beijing. GROSS. MAX. has been awarded the European landscape Award 2006 by Topos Magazine.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 22nd January; 7PM

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the largest new urban park built in this country for over a century. As the centrepiece for the London 2012 Olympic Games, it became one of the stars of the event and demonstrated a new approach to urban parks. Following the Games, it is now being transformed into a new public park for London and will become the centrepiece for a large scale and ambitious regeneration of East London. The lecture will describe the design drivers and delivery process, setting out why this is important for Landscape Architecture.

Dr Philip Askew is a Landscape Architect, Urban Designer and Horticulturalist. Since 2008 he has worked on the Olympic Park, originally at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) leading the delivery of the 2012 Olympic Park and now at the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) leading the Transformation of the Olympic Park into the largest new urban park in the UK for over a century.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 22nd January; 6PM

Jonathan Watts of Hopkins Architects will discuss the design and delivery of the 2012 Olympic Velodrome, one of four permanent venues in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Velodrome provided a landmark venue for the indoor track cycling events at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Jonathan studied architecture at the University of Bath and the Technical University of Munich with a particular focus on sustainable building design. He completed his education at the University of Greenwich, London, where he was recipient of the Bennetts Prize for Best Part 3 Student. Since 2008, Jonathan has worked on a number of projects with Hopkins Architects, including the London 2012 Olympic Velodrome and legacy transformation of the VeloPark & North Parklands. This has won numerous awards such as the RIBA Award for Architecture 2011, the AJ 100 ‘Building of the Year’, the BCIA Prime Minister’s Better Public Building & the Stirling Prize ‘People’s Choice’. Jonathan has lectured at numerous UK Schools of Architecture, including Cambridge, Bath and UCL, and abroad for the Foreign Office, as part of ECOWEEK’s seminar series. He is currently fully engaged as the Project Architect for an exciting new Science Centre for Abingdon School in Oxfordshire.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 15th January; 6PM

This lecture will discuss the procurement and construction of the new Stockwell Street building for the University of Greenwich, covering issues such as the University as client, the design process, urban design concepts, design features in detail, and the possibilities opened up by the Stockwell Street terraced roof gardens.

Adele Brooks is a qualified Architect with over 5 years’ post graduate experience and 5 years’ UK experience practicing for Conran and Partners in London. She also has a Masters in Project Management with Distinction from the University of Greenwich. Adele started work with the University in 2009 when she commenced working on the Stockwell Street project, and is currently the Estate Development Manager for the University of Greenwich.

Glenn O’Brien studied Architecture at University College Dublin where he graduated in 2001. Glenn worked at Hofman Dujardin Architects and Architectenbureau Art Zaaijer in Amsterdam before returning to Dublin and joining heneghan.peng.architects in 2006. Since 2009 he has been project leader for heneghan.peng on the new Stockwell Street building for the University of Greenwich.

Benz Kotzen is Course Co-ordinator of postgraduate Landscape programmes at the University of Greenwich Department of Architecture and Landscape. Benz leads the Sustainable Landscape Research group, and is a Consultant Landscape Architect with a particular interests in green roofs, living walls, urban agriculture, aquaponics and noise/sound in the landscape.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 11th December; 6PM

Fred Pilbrow set up Pilbrow & Partners earlier this year after working as a Partner at PLP Architecture and KPF. His past projects include the Heron Tower, the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College’s new campus at Imperial West.

Fred will be showing some of the current work undertaken by the practice and some of the lessons learnt from the process of establishing a new studio.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 4th December; 6PM

How to make a hothouse cool: a brief run through the architectural techniques and environmental technologies that were used in the design of the Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

Matthew Potter is Associate Director at Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 27th November; 6PM

Tim Waterman, beginning with gastronomy and landscape, and through analysis of taste and media apparatuses of tastemaking, examines our urban future imaginaries to discuss how new beliefs can be nurtured that bring us back to the quest for eutopia. Imagination in design process has agency in the larger construction of public imaginaries as forces for change in politics, culture, and society, and Waterman will propose ways for designers to wield this power.

Tim Waterman is a landscape architect, urbanist, and critic whose philosophy is informed by an eclectic past that includes community and political activism, owning a restaurant, and singing for a band that twice shared a stage with Nirvana. He believes that a sustainable future can’t just be earnest and worthy, it has to be a little bit delicious and a little bit rock and roll, too. He teaches at the Writtle School of Design in Essex and serves as a studio tutor at the Bartlett. He is honorary editor of Landscape: The Journal of the Landscape Institute and author of Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture and, with Ed Wall, Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design.

• Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
• Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
• Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
• Wednesday 27th November; 6PM

In the last decade, the proliferation of digital media has been a game changer shifting the way that we think about communication and the dissemination of ideas and images. The words that we commonly use to describe social media, such as ‘viral’ and ‘meme’, tend to suggest contamination or a loss of control. Is communication really this perplexing or arbitrary? Helen Castle scratches this surface and goes back to the basics of communication in architecture. How can we develop a purposeful, playful and knowing approach to the way that we communicate our thoughts across media whether visually, verbally or in writing?

Helen Castle is Editor of Architectural Design (AD) and Executive Commissioning Editor for Architecture at Wiley in London. She has worked in architectural publishing for over 20 years and has an MSc in the History and Theory of Modern Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL).