MoMA | Century of the Child

MoMA | Century of the Child
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Sonic Rings

Sonic Rings

Read some more and see video of the Weymouth installation now running (until August 12th Olympic closing).

Sonic Ring, Weymouth 2012

Sonic Ring by Christopher Janney, with AUCB BA(Hons) Architecture students, up and running at Bayfestival, Weymouth.

Graduate Show Review: Architects Journal 25th July 2012

Warren Lever sees the value of being within the creative hub of an arts campus

The first thing that strikes you when viewing this year’s show is the value of being within the creative hub of an arts campus. The course leader, Simon Beeson, talks about fostering a culture of informed design in students and this is exhibited in the wide variety of projects.

The programme of workshop time, model building and arts influence within the course communicates the identity of the school and sets this show apart.

Standout unit

A key theme of this show was to look at real local examples, this year tackling one of the UK’s ugliest buildings, the IMAX, Bournemouth.

Students reimagined not just the building but the surrounding townscape. Projects ranged from reuse of materials to reuse of the building itself and designs evolved from many influences - green infrastructure, movement, and connections with the sea. The outcome is an intriguing hybrid where form, structure and landscape explore ideas such as salt crystallisation and self-assembly towers. The students talk of the opportunity to work alongside other disciplines like model- making, interior design, graphics, textiles and photography.

Standout student

Sam Tuck, Mark Allner, Christina Varvouni- Giatrakou and Amy Nash

In a word

Passionate

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/student-shows-2012-the-arts-university-college-bournemouth/8633606.article?blocktitle=South-West-&-Wales&contentID=5367

Contest launched for ‘unbuilt’ projects | News | Architects Journal

Contest launched for ‘unbuilt’ projects | News | Architects Journal

Sonic Ring, Weymouth 2012

Day 1 of Install at Bayside Festival Christopher Janney with crew
Mark Allner
Toni Morgan
Eleana Orr
Arun Parmar
Nathan Smyth

Join us 27th July-12th August 2012

BUREAU SPECTACULAR / Jimenez Lai VIDEOs

BUREAU SPECTACULAR / Jimenez Lai

The Indicator: 101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School | ArchDaily

The Indicator: 101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School | ArchDaily

BOURNEMOUTH BY NIGHT

BOURNEMOUTH BY NIGHT - w w w . f e r i a - u r b a n i s m . e u

Download and read the report!

Featuring Masters and Level 6 students......

The Art of Building | Competition Timeline

The Art of Building | Competition Timeline

The Art of Building | Digital Photography Competition from The Chartered Institute of Building

The Art of Building | Digital Photography Competition from The Chartered Institute of Building

New York FOLLY

FOLLY

Curtain, a project conceived by architects Jerome Haferd and K Brandt Knapp at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Louisiana Gallery, Denmark this summer

Guidelines for applicants｜Shelter International Architectural Design Competition for students 2012

Guidelines for applicants｜Shelter International Architectural Design Competition for students 2012

Day 3: Testbed1/Doodle Bar OPEN!!!

TONIGHT!!!

Day 3: Testbed1/Doodle Bar

our last Steet Kitchen Lunch. Fantastic.

Day 2: Testbed1/Doodle Bar

Day 2: start on student exhibit with new modules


First corner complete! Diana and Vilte (and the Dear Leader)

Looks ok from this angle!

Looks like a stage...any one want to make music tomorrow evening at the opening?


More to do tomorrow...any help?

Day 1 at Testbed1:

the happy crew reconfigure a hut!


relaxing before Prof.Sir.Peter.Cook's talk at Doodle Bar....


Fish Tie and Hat! (surely a Frank Zappa title if ever there was one).

and more....

AUCB Architecture at Testbed1: day 1 (Hour 1!)
Have you signed up yet?
http://www.lfa2012.org/events/view/aucb-at-testbed1-357

The sandpit awaits you!

Architecture lecturers defend design-led courses

3 July 2012 | By Mark Wilding

RIBA Appointments survey shows graduates lack practical skills
Leading lecturers have stressed the importance of design vision in architecture education after a new survey revealed that four in five employers believe graduates lack practical skills.
The survey, conducted by RIBA Appointments and Newcastle University, also found that 79% of employers and 82% of students felt that more time should be spent learning in practice.
Robert Mull, head of the London Met’s architecture department, said: “Education has a duty to supply students with the practical skills to be successful but also the requirement to teach bravery and insight about the future. It’s always a complex balance. We think it’s our obligation to do both equally.”
Mull added that employers have their own role to play in equipping graduates with the right skills. “We can always do better but equally there’s an obligation on everyone involved in practice to ensure practitioners and students are involved in lifelong learning,” he said. “Education doesn’t end the moment you graduate.”
Neil Spiller, head of the architecture school at Greenwich University, said it was a “danger” for schools to preference practical skills over design vision, but agreed that the practical aspects of many courses could be improved.
The survey also found discrepancies between employers and students in the skills they identified as key development needs.
Less than a third of employers believed bim was a key development need compared to 59% of students. Many employers felt students’ knowledge in this area was satisfactory whereas students believed they had only a basic knowledge of the subject.
Vinesh Pomal, a representative from the Architecture Students Network, said schools should place more emphasis on bim but be wary of overselling the technology.
“Schools should embrace the teaching of bim with a clear explanation of its merits and pitfalls at an earlier stage in their students’ education,” he said. “They should also ensure that the students are not letting bim determine their architecture and instead should be using it as a tool for demonstrating integrated design.
“With varying practice sizes, not all practices will be using bim so students need to demonstrate the other skills they posses.”
Spiller added: “We are teaching bim, it’s important and it’s crucial to a sustainable future for architecture. It will undoubtedly be replaced by something that’s more highfalutin but it’s important students learn how to use it.”