The Other Shore
Arcadia at the End of Time
The Fluctuating Landscapes of Santa Maria do Belem
The new architecture being created at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture is characterized by an extraordinarily high level of invention, experimentation and creativity. As part of University College London (UCL), the Bartlett is directly networked into innumerable territories of art, science, technology and computing, and is augmented by the many visitors who come as critics, discussants and guest lecturers. In the Graduate Diploma the ‘unit’ system – where two tutors lead a focused studio of around 16 students – stresses innovation and scepticism, as well as the value of design propositions, their social impact and professional practice. Design is thus always conducted within a broad and rigorous intellectual and creative framework provided by the tutors, the School and external expectations. Students develop a high level of skill in design, resourceful research, substantiated argument and the thoughtful application of technological and environmental concerns. The MArch Architectural Design directly encourages students to discover their individual expression. The first three months introduce students to the theoretical concepts of Advanced Virtual and Technological Research (AVATAR) through lectures and initial design projects. Students then undertake their final MArch thesis project and report in a wide range of AVATAR-related fields. The MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme allows especially able and reflective designers to undertake research within the School’s speculative and experimental ethos. The programme draws on the strengths of design teaching and doctoral research at the Bartlett, encouraging the development of architectural research through the interaction of both designing (drawings, films, models and other media) and writing.
Lain Borden
Lloyd’s Building atrium, London
![NOVAE Architecture project “0°01’ W Network in [e]motion”, is a proposal for a competition to design an adaptable floating gallery in London, UK.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8yt1zvUPL1qb0s8co1_250.jpg)
![NOVAE Architecture project “0°01’ W Network in [e]motion”, is a proposal for a competition to design an adaptable floating gallery in London, UK.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8yt1zvUPL1qb0s8co1_500.jpg)
NOVAE Architecture project “0°01’ W Network in [e]motion”, is a proposal for a competition to design an adaptable floating gallery in London, UK.
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François Roche
Ecosophical Apparatus and Skizoïd Machines
Date: 29.04.2010
Machines are always pretending to do more than they were programmed to do. It’s their nature. The blur between what they are supposed to do, as perfect alienated and domesticated creatures, and the anthropomorphic psychology we intentionally project on to them, creates a spectrum of potentiality, both interpretative and productive.
Machines are a vector of narration, generators of rumour and directly operational, with an accurate efficiency of production. These multiple disorders could be considered a tool for reopening processes and subjectivities, for re’protocolising’ indeterminacy and uncertainties. In this way, they become agents of blur logic, of reactive and re-programmable logic.
R&Sie(n) was founded in 1989 by François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux. Their architectural work is simultaneously organic, biological and critical. It seeks to articulate the real and/or fictional, geographic situations and narrative structures that can transform them.
Among the recent teaching positions held by R&Sie(n) and François Roche over the last decade are the Angewangde in Vienna in 2008, the USC-LA in 2009 and currently Columbia (research professor), since 2006.Their architectural designs have been shown internationally, and their work has been selected frequently for exhibition at both the French pavilion and the international section at the Venice Architecture Biennales since 1990, most recently in 2008.
Jean Nouvel, diseñará el próximo pabellón temporal que cada año la Serpentine Gallery de Londres construye en los meses de verano. Desde el año 2000 importantes arquitectos y artistas como: Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Toyo Ito, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvaro Siza, Rem Koolhaas, Olafur Eliasson, Frank Gehry y SANAA fueron los encargados de crear estos pabellones…..
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The Stirling Prize-winning, pioneering architect Amanda Levete is a leading light in London’s creative scene. Having recently dabbled in product design for Established & Sons, we took her to task over the hows, wheres and whys of her working life…
What was the first thing you thought about when you woke up this morning?
What to wear.
What do you wear to work?
If I’m just in the office then jeans, white shirt and bare feet. But today I have meetings to go to so I’m wearing a short black dress, thick black tights and high boots.
What do you have for breakfast?
Freshly squeezed juice, strong coffee with lots of hot milk and wholemeal toast with blueberries and lashings of maple syrup.
Do you read a newspaper/watch television/click online?
The Guardian, the Mirror and the Evening Standard but in reverse order.
How do you get to work?
I drive a black Audi A8 extra long wheel base. I’d prefer to walk but I live the other side of London.
What time do you first check your inbox?
When I get into the office at around 8.00am.
Where are your desk and chair from?
My desk is an all white customised version of a now defunct office system and my chair is the Aeron chair from Herman Miller.
If you could save only one item from your office/studio what would it be?
The small plastacine model of the subway station in Naples.
Do you listen to music whilst you work?
No, too distracting.
Where would your ideal lunch be and whom would it be with?
A long lunch at St Alban with my husband without having to go back to work afterwards.
Summarise in three words your work ethos?
Never give up.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Impatience.
What do you think is the most overrated virtue?
Patience.
Is there any single person that particularly inspires you?
My husband, Ben Evans.
Where do you feel most inspired?
When I’m running.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I have not achieved it yet.
How do you switch off?
By switching on by having sex.
What did you want to be when you were a child?
A dancer, then a scientist, then an artist, then I discovered architecture and that was it.
What excites you/terrifies you on a daily basis?
All the projects I’m working on.
Would you like to be your own assistant?
I wouldn’t want to be anyone’s assistant but I can imagine worse jobs than being mine.
Is there anything about retirement you look forward to?
I’ll not retire.
If you could choose to come back as person or thing, who or what would it be?
I’d be quite happy to come back as me, having learned from my mistakes.
14 February 2008 | via wallpaper*
