T[r]eehouse

from Dezeen

A portion of a Bartlett year one portfolio

Events at the RCA next week

the RCA

Piranesi

Please take a look at this site.Here an etching by Piranesi is transformed into a 3 dimensional object.

on maps and the emirates stadium

This may be of interest to not only cartographers,stadium design enthusiasts but also to fellow gooners. It is also free for more details please click here

c.j.lim lecture on SmartCities on Wednesday 23.11.11

Cloud and help

Dear all,
This is a note from a former student of mine.


"I also wanted to ask you if you think that some of your students would be interested in helping out with the installation set up and monitoring. We have realised that it would be good to have some additional help with installation set up.

We need around 6 people to help for 2 days from 7 -11 on the friday and from 11- 9 on the saturday.  It is quite an amazing thing be around so hopefully it will  be quite rewarding + the launch party will be great of course. " from Pernilla Ohrstedt

Pernilla and Asif are setting up this next friday and saturday this cloud installation and it looks quite amazing in the clip they sent me in September.They are forming a new practice and are exceptionally talented designers.Please contact me via email -

S.M.J.ISA@greenwich.ac.uk if you are interested in helping.

If you are unable to help out you should at least try to see their installation.

Drawing workshop requirements - essential

Dear all,
This friday, 18.11.11, could you bring the following items for the workshop which starts at 1000 in the South Studio.

01.your object
02. pens 0.1 to 0.5 thickness
03.clutch pencil
04.clutch pencil sharpener
05.rubber
06.masking tape
07.scale ruler
08.set quare
09.french curves
10.string
11.pins
12.compass
13.scalpal
14.10a blades
15.cartridge paper minimum size A2
16.tracing paper minimum size A2
and any other medium/material you would like to explore.

It is important that you bring everything with you.

A home is not a house

please take a look here  on studio$postindustrial blog for the article by Reyner Banham and Francois Dallegret.

Francois Dallegret has an exhibition on of his work at the Architectural Association right now. Please make the effort to have a look as the work is fantastic.
Whilst there go upstair and have a look at the zine exhibition where our very own Matthew Butcher has his magazine PEAR on display.

Gordon Matta Clark

an article on Gordon Matta Clark and Le Corbusier from the Tate Magazine.
in Wikipedia.
films on vimeo.
and here with Tadao Ando

Spider robot

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, please take a look here on the robot that mimics a spider. It was built using a 3D printer to help with hazardous tasks.

Lecture by C.J.Lim this monday

SHORT STORIES:

London in two-and-a-half-dimensions.

CJ.Lim Studio 8 Architects 

Open Lecture: Monday 7th November at 18:00  in  LT KW315  Greenwich Maritime.

"Combining place and fiction, the book takes well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles from tens sties across the city of London and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories. The medium is an intersection of paper assemblages and text, occupying a liminal territory where familiar characters find themselves in unexpected environments and places transform into active protagonists. The stories have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum but are collected for the first time in a single volume, laid out as one phantasmagoric city vision. Painstakingly constructed, the stories encompass a retelling of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ at Smithfield, a dating agency at Battersea, and a ringed transport system manifesting as a celestial river over the great metropolis. Enthralling and inspirational, this cabinet of curiosity and wonder depicts a vision of the city that is immoral, anarchic, unscientific and at the same time glorious, ravishing and a pleasure to behold." 

Copies of the new book "Short Stories" will be available for sale to students.  Books will be sold at discounted price of £15 (normal retail price is £19.99) - cash only

portfolios @ the AA

if you are interested in seeing some portfolios, the AA are hosting an open jury on friday 04.11.11

Mike Aling has curated a series of films showing at RARA

these films will be screening for free every tuesday @ 1930 @ unit 2, Grosvenor Way, London E5 9ND.

only 40 seats available

Lecture on the 01.11.11 apologies for short notice