Tag: Mike Aling

Paginations: Book Designs as Architectural Projects

3rd April 2017

The book – printed or otherwise – continues to be the architect’s most fertile and celebrated form of media output. This exhibition presents a wide range of rare books from the fields of Architecture, Art, Design and Literature, and explores how book design can be conceived as a type of architectural project – the book as an interplay of formal-material ideas and a manifestation of spatial concepts through graphic means.

Organised around three key themes, this exhibition investigates the book as an immersive space to be entered upon reading, the physical book as an architectural object, and speculates on the future possibilities of the architectural book. These themes are further sub-categorised through a utilisation of theories originating from studies in literature, design, media and comics.

Also exhibited are the book works of Mike Aling, with his ongoing architectural book design research praxis explored in relation to the themes of the show. Mike’s books are known in architectural circles for their challenging design languages, spatial qualities and sumptuous materialities. Mike Aling is the MArch Architecture Design Co-ordinator and Publications lead for the AVATAR research group at the University of Greenwich.

An Exhibition
> Private View: Friday 21 April 2017, 5-8pm

Exhibition Open
Sat 22 April > Thurs 18 May
[Tues > Fri 11 > 5] [Saturdays 11 > 4]

Exhibition Design & Curation: Mike Aling

The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Mike Aling :: Spatial Codices: On Architecture Book Design

10th February 2016
  • Thursday 11th February 2016, 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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Mike will be discussing his architecture book design work developed over the last few years, as well as ongoing research into the histories and theories of the architecture book canon. Through an exploration of artists’ books, topological texts, cybernetic and ergodic literatures, sequential art and graphic novels, visual language and digital post-print medias, the established role of the book in/as a work of architecture is opened up and its futures speculated upon.

Mike Aling is a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich Department of Architecture and Landscape, where he is Design Co-ordinator of the MArch Architecture programme. He co-runs MArch Unit 15 with Nic Clear, a postgraduate design unit specialising in the use of film and animation to propose architectural concepts and interventions. Mike is a member of the AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) group, where he is Co-ordinator of publications. Alongside his work as a founding member of unitfifteen-Research, Mike’s research explores future anatomies of architecture books and digital design media.