Category: Events and Exhibitions

East of Eden Book Launch

22 June 2015
  • Saturday 27th June 2015
  • 2.00 – 6.00
  • Stockwell Street Building 11
  • Floor Design Studios

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East of Eden is a design research project that seeks to re-imagine three areas within the Royal Borough of Greenwich (East Greenwich, Greenwich Peninsula and Thamesmead) as case studies for the development of London in the 21st century.  The project has involved the entire Department from year one to Masters and across all Architecture and Landscape programmes, the book contains contributions from students, staff and a range of external guests.

Note this will be the LAST CHANCE to see the Architecture and Landscape End of Year Exhibition 2015

 

 

A Department of Architecture and Landscape Exhibition EAST OF EDEN: WORKS IN PROGRESS

7 April 2015

A Department of Architecture and Landscape Exhibition

EAST OF EDEN: WORKS IN PROGRESS

  • Thursday 16th April 2015 > 6 – 9 pm
  • Project Space + The Gallery @ Stockwell Street

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An Exhibition showcasing ongoing student projects from the Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich. East of Eden is a department-wide cross-disciplinary project that seeks to reimagine specific areas of South East London in the 21st century.

An AVATAR Conference FUTURE CITIES 4: RECONCILING OPPOSITES

30 March 2015

An AVATAR Conference

FUTURE CITIES 4: RECONCILING OPPOSITES

  • Friday 17th April – 10am > 5pm + Drinks reception from 5pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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Keynote Speaker – MICHAEL SORKIN

City College of New York / Michael Sorkin Studio

 

JUSTIN McGUIRK

Strelka Press / Writer, Critic, Curator

 

IAN WORLEY

Enderby Group, Greenwich

 

NIC CLEAR

University of Greenwich

 

NEIL SPILLER

University of Greenwich

 

MARK MORRIS

Cornell University

 

SIMON WITHERS

University of Greenwich

 

ED WALL

University of Greenwich

 

SIMON HERRON

University of Greenwich

 

Department of Architecture and Landscape
University of Greenwich
Academic Building 11
Stockwell Street
Greenwich
London SE10 8EY

http://architecture.gre.ac.uk

 

 

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series: Coren Sharples Construction is Communication – How SHoP Builds

23 March 2015

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

AD Architectural Design Annual Lecture
Coren Sharples
Construction is Communication: How SHoP Builds

  • Thursday 26th March 2015 > 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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What opportunities does technology bring to design and construction today? And what pitfalls? In this talk, SHoP’s Coren Sharples will explore the space where technology, design intention, and built fact collide. Using the work of the firm, she will illustrate how craft, and even creativity, can be supported and enhanced by the intelligent deployment of contemporary tools. A founding partner, Coren has been at the center of this deeply collaborative practice for nearly twenty years. Focusing on an inventive, responsive tactility — and the new possibilities for its deployment in the context of technological advance — she has played a crucial role in the development of SHoP’s approach to the design of smart, effective, human-centered spaces.

Coren Sharples is a Founding Principal of SHoP. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the College of Business and Social Science, University of Maryland, and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, where she graduated with Honors for excellence in design and was a recipient of the William Kinne Fellowship for post-graduate travel and research. She has taught at the Parsons School of Design, volunteers in New York City public schools, and sits on the local Borough of Manhattan Community Board. She writes and lectures frequently about SHoP’s work and issues facing the profession.

 

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series: Pieter van der Merwe Maritime Greenwich: Making More of History

17 March 2015

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

Pieter van der Merwe
Maritime Greenwich: Making More of History

  • Thursday 19th March 2015 > 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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Pieter van der Merwe read Drama at the Universities of Manchester (1967–71) and Bristol (PhD 1979). Nautical interests led to him joining the staff of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, in 1974 and, as its General Editor since the early 1990s, he has been editor and author / joint author of many NMM publications – including an illustrated history of the Queen’s House, Greenwich, in 2012. In addition, as its Greenwich Curator, he was involved in both the early development of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site (inscribed by UNESCO in 1997) and remains so in aspects of its on-going management. His other published journal and exhibition contributions have included maritime art and archaeology, and theatre (primarily scene-painting and related public exhibitions). He was appointed MBE in the New Year Honours 2012 for services to heritage and the local community in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London in October 2012 and has been Representative DL for Greenwich since January 2013.

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series – Christoph a. Kumpusch The Theory of Everything – The Practice of One Thing

9 March 2015

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

Christoph a. Kumpusch
The Theory of Everything – The Practice of One Thing

  • Thursday 12th March 2015 > 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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Christoph a. Kumpusch is a New York-based architect and the principal of C.a.K LAB and Productions. He is the director of Forward Slash (/), a multidisciplinary and experimental group, Co-Founder of Mutating-Cities.global and the CEO of a-IM / Architecture in Motion.

Within these domains, the office investigates technology and material effects on form and tectonics. It grounds such work in a concentrated research program focused on architectural details and the spawning of new building from the smallest parts outward. A theoretical project runs parallel to this work, identifying historical and cultural contexts triggered by detail innovation. The office is both a design and publishing outfit, producing a number of essays, books, exhibitions, podcasts, and films.

Kumpusch holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and Technology from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He is a Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in New York. The recently completed Light Pavilion at the Sliced Porosity Block by Steven Holl Architects in Chengdu, China, is one of several projects in over a decade of collaboration between Kumpusch and Lebbeus Woods.

 

Open Exhibition :: Unit20 – Infinite States

6 March 2015

Open Exhibition :: U20 – Infinite States :: An Exhibition Curated by James A.Craig and Max Dewdney

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  • Private View + Talks
    Wednesday 11th March 6 – 9PM
  • Exhibition Open:
    Wed 11th – Sat 14th March 2015
    [10.00 AM – 6.00PM]
  • Venue:
    Heritage Gallery (ORNC) QA077
    Queen Anne Court
    University of Greenwich
    Old Royal Naval College
    Park Row
    London SE10 9LS

Unit 20 [MA Arch] presents Infinite States Work in Progress; a temporary exhibition consisting of a series of architectural models and drawings.  The exhibition explores new modes of spatial representation which determines relationships between the Greenwich Maritime Museum collection, and the wider context of East Greenwich.  The objective of this project is to reveal how objects of the collection are imbued with complex relationships to the landscape of East Greenwich, and how the ‘unpacking’ of those objects can be used as a design mechanism for a new architectural vision.

 

 

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series – David Ryan; Drawing Towards Sound: Visualising the Sonic

2 March 2015

 The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

David Ryan
Drawing Towards Sound: Visualising the Sonic

  • Thursday 5th March 2015 > 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] 

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David Ryan is a visual artist and musician. He is particularly interested in experimental music and has worked in various groups and ensembles as well as exhibiting visual work that includes film and painting. Collaborations include working with composers and musicians such as Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost, Rhodri Davies, Ian Mitchell, John Edwards and many others. He has also been featured in numerous festivals including Huddersfield Festival, UK, 2001/2002/2008, Nuova Consanova, Rome, Italy 2009, and Namusica, Naples, Italy 2013, as well as being broadcast on Danish Radio, BBC Radio 3 and a forthcoming broadcast for Sky Italia Classica TV.

This talk will focus on the exhibition ‘Drawing Towards Sound: Visualising the Sonic’. It will position ‘classic’ experimental and avant-garde notations – such as Cage and Cardew – with the output of contemporary composers, visual artists and filmmakers. As well David Ryan’s own practice, this talk will look at general issues around the processes of notation, their histories and potential relevance today.

 

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series :: Jane Hutton Reciprocal Landscapes – Sites of Material Exchange

23 February 2015

The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series

Jane Hutton
Reciprocal Landscapes: Sites of Material Exchange

  • Thursday 26th February 2015 > 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Designers participate in this massive reorganization of materials around the earth, the majority of which is bound for varying periods of time as urban parks, farms, buildings, and highways. In landscape architecture, these materials range from abiotic to biotic composition, from simple to complex manufacturing processes, and from local to distance sources. While materials are selected for ecological, structural, and aesthetic performance characteristics desired for a particular designed site, their production is linked to a network of distant forests, quarries, and factories. Through specification, designers inadvertently transform remote landscapes, concealed and abstracted through the commodification of natural resources. Reciprocal Landscapes examines a set of paradigmatic construction materials installed in seminal, designed landscapes in New York City over the past century and a half. Each case explores the ecological, social, and political relationships between two sites tethered by the displacement of a material between them.

Jane Hutton is a landscape architect and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she is Co-Director of the Energy, Environments, and Design research lab. Hutton is a founding editor of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy.