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Heavy snow collapsed the Metrodome early on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. (MPR Photo/Tim Nelson)

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AUCB GALLERY: Episode One - Peter Cook

CRAB exhibit...installation by students of architecture and modelmaking

CRAB BY THE SEA: A SIDEWAYS LOOK AT ARCHITECTURE

DATES OF EXHIBITION: 12^th November 2010 – 7^th January 2011

2010 is the bicentenary of Bournemouth and as part of the celebrations

we are holding an exhibition by CRAB ( the office of Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham).

Sir Peter Cook RA studied at the architecture department of the Bournemouth College of art from 1953 to 1958 under Ronald Sims (architect of the Punshon Memorial Methodist Church) and his first architectural work was at the office of Jackson and Greenen (in Hinton Road). He moved to the Architectural Association in London and graduated in 1960. From 1961 to 1974 he was a member of the ‘Archigram Group’, producing the world-famous series of magazines and experimental projects. He is the author of several books, the latest of which is ‘Drawing: the motive force of architecture’ (Wiley). He was elected a Royal academician in 2003 and Knighted for his services to architecture and teaching in 2007. In 2008, the recently formed office of CRAB won the competition for the Law Faculty and for the Administration building of the Vienna Economics University, which is now on site. Also well under construction is their housing block in Madrid. The exhibition celebrates the joint inspirations of experimental architecture and of the seaside and includes the Bournemouth Projects by Archigram.

Coming soon:

COAST

To coincide with the exhibition CRAB BY THE SEA (Sir Peter Cook and CRAB studio), the Arts University College at Bournemouth will host the first Saturday Symposium, COAST (architecture by/on/in the sea). The event is intended to stimulate a discussion about architecture, urban design and the South Coast, during the Bournemouth Bicentenary Year. We welcome professionals and students interested in the shaping of our coastal built environment to attend.

Saturday 4^th December 2010, 10am-3pm: FREE for student who book.

Sir Peter Cook RA

With guest speakers:

Carme Pinos (Barcelona): Architect/Urban Designer

Yael Reisner (London): architect/writer

Prof. Richard Horden (Poole/London/Munich/Copenhagen).

Roger Zogolovitch (Poole/London)

Marcos Cruz, Barlett School of Architecture

VENICE BIENNALE + STUDENTS

With level five and six AUCB Architecture students we experienced all forms of architectural life from the avant-garde to modernist to vernacular to rustic to classical. Events included the structural testing of the bridge at the Stampalia Foundation (a superb interior-exterior intervention by Carlo Scarpa). Venice is beautiful, atmospheric and intricate - large expanses of water and multitudes of bridges are contrasted with narrow, labyrinthine routes - it is an interior city continuously constructed from the graffiti of materials over many layers and centuries.

Stampalia Foundation

RE: Students from the Model Making and Architecture courses work together.

This week we finished our joint project with the students from the BA Model Making course. Our 3rd year Architectural students designed a series of towers for a central London site. Their task was to prepare conceptual sketches and ideas that would challenge the 2nd year Model Making students. (Make it hard but not impossible!) On Thursday both cohorts of students met to discuss the completed models and to find out if they related to the orginal architectural concept. Importantly for the architectural students it was a chance to see how a model maker would approach a difficult brief and inform the design process.

PORTLAND STONE TRIP

Level 4 Architecture and Interior Architecture & Design students attended a study trip to visit Learning Stone in Portland. On a very cold day they learned with firsthand experience some of the processes involved in the extraction of Portland Stone - from large scale quarry sites and heavy machines, to sculpture and hand finishing with traditional tools, as used by the past-masters involved in realising such projects as St Paul's Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren.

learning stone

BUNKER

strange wonderful thing!
(Thanks to David Hugo)
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11873/rietveld-landscape-atelier-de-lyon-bunker-599.html