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The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Anya Matthews A Great and Noble Design – Sir James Thornhill’s Painted Hall, Greenwich

25 October 2016
  • Thursday 27th October 2016, 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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At the heart of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, formerly the Royal Hospital for Seamen, stands the Painted Hall. Executed to designs by the artist James Thornhill between 1708 and 1727, this most spectacular of baroque painted interiors is currently undergoing an ambitious programme of conservation. As part of the conservation project, new research is being carried out on the preparatory sketches made by Thornhill for the scheme (now preserved in various art collections). In this lecture, which accompanies the exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, the evolution of the Painted Hall’s design is traced through these extraordinary drawings.

Anya Matthews is an art and architectural historian and works as research curator for the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College, where a major project to clean and conserve the paintings is now underway. She is curator of the current Stephen Lawrence Gallery exhibition ‘A Great and Noble Design’ which explores the preparatory sketches made by the artist Sir James Thornhill for the scheme. She is a contributor to the book British Art and Architecture 1660-1735 (Yale University Press, 2016).

 

The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Richard Martin :: We are the Institution: On Contemporary Museums

17 October 2016

  • Thursday 20th October 2016, 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] 

What do we want from museums today? How might the spaces and programmes of the museum reflect shifting political and social concerns? What role can architecture play in creating and engaging museum visitors? This talk considers the role of museums in the twenty-first century, examining a range of current and emerging practices, including personal curatorial projects. It also assesses the work of leading artists, architects and film-makers, including Andrea Fraser and Hito Steyerl, who have critiqued and re-imagined the space and purpose of museums.

Dr. Richard Martin is a writer, curator and lecturer who works at the intersections of art, architecture and film. He is the author of The Architecture of David Lynch (Bloomsbury, 2014), and writes for a range of magazines and journals. He has taught at Birkbeck and Middlesex University, and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. He is also a Public Programmer at Tate, where he curates projects for the new Tate Exchange platform. More details on his work can be found at: http://richardgmartin.org.

The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Michael Sandle :: RA Works

10 October 2016

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  • Thursday 13th October 2016, 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Michael Sandle studied at Douglas School of Art and Technology, Isle of Man from 1951 to 1954 and the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1956 to 1959. In his early work he emphasised craftsmanship and the search for symbols, rejecting the formalism increasingly common in sculpture of the period. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s he worked on a small range of individual works in which he explored abstract and figurative idioms. Following his appointment as professor of sculpture at Pforzheim, Germany in 1973, and at Karlsruhe, Germany in 1980, Sandle’s work became more monumental, partly in response to a series of significant commemorative commissions. His work voices criticisms of what Sandle describes as “the heroic decadence” of capitalism, in particular its appetite for global conflict. He has also attacked the media for packaging and sanitising the destructiveness of war. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1994. He has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Britain and internationally including the 5th Paris Biennale, 4th and 6th Documenta and Sao Paulo Biennale.

The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Kathryn Gustafson :: The Contemporary Picturesque

27 September 2016

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  • Thursday 6th October 2016, 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

 

Kathryn Gustafson will explore landscape architecture in two parts; composition in landscape architecture, and landscape & urban density. The lecture will focus on how the historical picturesque is combined with urban ecology, issues of design in the creation of landscape, and where public desires are met with the integration of technical innovation and expertise.

Kathryn Gustafson is an internationally acclaimed landscape designer, whose diverse portfolio is recognized for incorporating sculptural and sensual qualities that enhance the human experience of landscape. Kathryn is a partner in two offices; Gustafson Porter in London, and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol in Seattle. Her award-winning projects include the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial, HM Treasury Courtyards and Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. She is the recipient of the Architects’ Journal Jane Drew Prize 1998, the 2001 Chrysler Design Award, the 2008 ASLA Design Medal, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize for Architecture 2012 and the 8th Obayashi Prize, Japan 2015

A University of Greenwich Department of Architecture and Landscape Conference: 400 Years of Radical Architecture and Landscape

19 September 2016

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  • Friday 23rd September 2016. 11am Start.
  • Location: Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]
  • 11 Stockwell Street, Greenwich, London SE10 9BD

Keynote Speaker [Midday Presentation]: Amanda Levete (AL_A)

Mark Morris (Cornell University)

Christine Riding (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

Neil Spiller (University of Greenwich)

Nic Clear (University of Greenwich)

Tim Waterman (University of Greenwich)

 

Department of Architecture & Landscape :: Exhibition 2016

24 May 2016

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University of Greenwich; Department of Architecture & Landscape

Exhibition 2016

Exhibition Opening

  • Wednesday 15th June [6 > 9PM]

Open Day and Show Tours:

  • Saturday 18th June [11 > 4PM]

Open Daily

  • Thursday 16th June – Sunday 3rd July 2016
  • 10am > 8pm [Mon – Fri]
  • 10am > 6PM [Sat – Sun]

Location

  • 1st Floor Studios
  • 10 Stockwell Street
  • Greenwich, London SE10 9BD

 

3D project in the historic Painted Hall

5 May 2016

The Minister for Sport, Tourism & Heritage Minister, David Evennett MP, met with Neil Spiller and Simon Withers to find out about the 3D project in the historic Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College.

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Simon has carried out 3D modelling of the building with a Faro 3D laser scanner.  He told the Minister how he has captured the building’s exact size, shape and features so that it can be viewed digitally on phones, tablets and computers, in order to attract more visitors.

Simon’s work ties in with the Painted Hall Conservation Project, a £7 million scheme which aims not only to restore its famous artworks, but also to bring the history of the place to life in creative ways, and to involve a new generation in the process of conservation.

Stockwell Street Drone Demonstration

28 April 2016

Visiting lecturer / aerial surveyor / landscape architect Peter Wilder demonstrated the Inspire 1 drone in the Stockwell Street crit pit; showing how it is able to provide stable indoor flight using its optical flow sensors.

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https://youtu.be/LuBlvRhpdE0

The flight time of the Inspire 1 is dictated by its battery life of 20 minutes with larger surveys packaged into chunks of that time.  It can stream live video back to the base station at 4K resolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOys9q88-I&feature=youtu.be

Other interesting applications of drone technology include firefighting – with thermal imaging showing the hottest part of the fire so this location can be transmitted to “smart” fire engines, and crop dusting with the drone indicating any gaps in coverage of the insecticide, fungicide etc.

Peter founded Survey Drone in 2014 to provide services for terrain modelling, aerial photography, thermal imaging of buildings, etc.

 

 

 

Exhibition :: LOST AND FOUND :: Curated by Marko Jobst and Nic Clear

14 April 2016

 

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Student Texts:
Bowen Ng, Clare Flawn-Thomas, Daniel Terziev, Egle Packauskaite, Nathalie Harris, Paul Walker, Paul-Andrei Burghelea, with Sian-Emma Gaskin.

Student Photographs:
Ana Catalina, Andreea Luca, Beatrice Cernea, Clare Flawn-Thomas, Dominic Ng, James Millar, Kevin Shivaraj, Nathalie Harris, Philip Gardner, Rihana Alakija, Simona Moneva.

The exhibition presents the work of Year 1 students from the Department of Architecture and Landscape, University of Greenwich. It was conceived in collaboration with the local historian Mary Mills and represents the first step in an ongoing project focused on the little known, and often industrial, heritage of Greenwich. The aim is to bring important spaces, buildings and histories to the attention of the general public, while also enabling the students to forge deeper connections with the area the University is situated in.

This year the students focused on a number of sites on the Greenwich peninsula that are under threat of disappearance, have been neglected and fallen into disrepair, or generally remain overlooked in favour of the more prominent royal histories of Greenwich. These include Enderby House, the site of the first transatlantic telegraph cable; The East Greenwich Library with its important role and uncertain future; the gas holder slated for demolition despite its importance for 19th century industrial and social histories; the infrastructure surrounding the Woolwich Road flyover; and examples of housing from different eras such as Orlop Street and Woodlands Grove.

EXHIBITION 14TH APRIL TO 29TH APRIL

Open Monday to Friday 11.00am to 5.00 pm, Sat 11.00am to 4.00pm

HERITAGE GALLERY: Queen Anne Court, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS
http://http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk