COOP COAST is a design & research unit within the graduate diploma school of CSA*. Over the course of the academic year 2010/11 the studio is investigating the political, socioeconomic and spatial realities of coastal towns, both in Kent and across the English Channel. Oscillating between macro and micro scales, between urban and rural, temporal and typological conditions, the studio embraces strategic and activist design practices alike; and will explore the potential for cooperative action within the realms of regional design, programmatic urbanism and performative architecture.

Studio: Pauline Harris, Alasdair McNab, Joao Neves, Sarjay Patel, Benjamin Reay, Sara Resende, Migle Saltynite, Richard Saunders, Rhea Shepherd, Lawrence Sherwood, Hannah Wyatt & Gabor Stark

* Canterbury School of Architecture | University for the Creative Arts. www.cantarch.com

Saturday, 28 May 2011

CITY TO SEA SYMPOSIUM - AND WORKSHOPS IN COASTAL TOWNS

City to Sea Symposium

10th June 2011
Screening Room
New Academic Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
United Kingdom

City to Sea brings together artists, photographers and social scientists to present
visual projects and sociological research exploring how regeneration and planning processes, tourism, migration, collective memory, visual archives and arts interventions can transform social perceptions and geographical links between cities, coastal towns and surrounding regions worldwide.

Keynote:
Peter Marlow, Magnum Photos

Speakers include:
Sylvia Endacott, Anna Fox, Caroline Knowles, Paul Halliday, Rebecca Locke,
David Kendall, Lanis Levy, Ingrid Pollard and Isidro Ramirez.

Attendance at the symposium is free but spaces are limited and booking
is essential. To book your place, please email: cucr@gold.ac.uk

In addition, a series of photographic walks/workshops will take place in coastal
towns in South East England including Bognor Regis, 11.06.2011, Hastings,
23.07.2011, Margate, 06.08.2011 and Southend, 17.09.2011. There will be
a fee to attend workshops, please visit: http://www.citytosea.org/Workshops
for reservations.

City to Sea is hosted by the Centre for Urban and Community Research,
Goldsmiths, University of London: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr

Curated by Rebecca Locke and David Kendall, and supported
by Urban Encounters: http:// http://www.urbanencounters.org

http://www.citytosea.org

Friday, 18 March 2011

Detroi(s) in UK, where else?

DOVER, LOVE IT HATE IT?

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Thursday, 24 February 2011

Covering the Lecture W.Alsop

Here is a quick "report" of the lecture this thursday 24th Feb, 6pm with Will Alsop

Enjoy


Friday, 18 February 2011

OMA – CRONOCAOS @ ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

Preservation / Destruction: OMA – CRONOCAOS

In their 2010 Venice Biennale installation, Rem Koolhaas’ OMA addressed the growing concern for preservation and its consequences for how and what we remember. “Through our respect for the past, heritage is becoming more and more the dominant metaphor for our lives today – a situation we call cronocaos. We are trying to find what the future of our memory will look like”. Ippolito Pestellini and Kayoko Otaof OMA discuss the provocations and implications of preservation, exploring how “our obsession with heritage is creating an artificial re-engineered version of our memory…”

Respondents include Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage, and the artists,Jane and Louise Wilson.

6.30–8pm; followed by a drink

Ticket Information

£10 / £5 reductions (students, jobseekers and people with disabilities) BUY IT HERE


Thursday, 17 February 2011

WILL ALSOP @ CSA 24FEB



WORKING IN THE DARK
A multistory lecture by Prof Will Alsop OBE RA

6pm Thursday 24 February

Cragg Lecture Theatre. UCA Canterbury

Will Alsop is one of the UK’s most prominent architects and a recipient of the Stirling Prize who has applied his bold and colourful approach to award-winning projects internationally across all sectors.

Widely regarded as one of the leading lights in the profession, Will joined RMJM in 2009 as International Principal Europe and is Design Principal at RMJM’s flagship European office in London.


He has won many awards internationally, including the coveted Stirling Prize in 2000 for the Peckham Library in London and the Royal Fine Art Commission Building of the Year Special Award for Fawood Children’s Centre in London, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2005.


Will is guided by the principle that architecture is both a vehicle and symbol of social change and renewal. This philosophy extends from the design of individual buildings to embracing broader principles of urbanism and city development. He has expertise across every sector, including transportation, health, education, retail, residential, office, public, hospitality, leisure and interiors.


Will has worked extensively across the UK and internationally, with major projects in cities such as Toronto, Marseilles, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore and New York. Recent projects in the UK include the Chips apartments in Manchester, The Public, an exhibition space in West Bromwich, and the Puddle Dock luxury hotel development on the north bank of the River Thames.


In addition to his design work, Will follows a parallel path as an artist. His stance is that art and architecture are inseparable disciplines and he actively promotes artistic contribution to the built environment. His paintings and sketches have been exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Milton Keynes Gallery, Cube Gallery, Manchester and the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale.


Will has held many academic posts around the world. He is currently a professor at the Technical University of Vienna. For several years he was a tutor of sculpture at Central St Martins College of Art & Design in London and was visiting professor at institutions including the University of Hanover, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and San Francisco Institute of Art.


Will is a Royal Academician and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada.


Wednesday, 9 February 2011

IS PRESERVATION, INERTIA?

Call to Account! A case for active preservation

An op-ed from Barcelona by Mario Ballesteros @ DOMUS magazine


Is preservation really inertia as Koolhaas maintains? Perhaps it's time that architects take on the task of giving life to innovative prospects for the reinterpretation of the past

READ ME!

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Thursday, 3 February 2011

KEEP IT OR KNOCK IT DOWN?


Hi guys,

If you fancy to leave a comment about the most famous tower in Dover, please click here !

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Food industries, fish

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/spaces-of-food-5-madeira-odorless-fish.html

Gabor an alterative Tempelhof airport...
Migle you may be interested there are more links for other articles at the botom of the page...

Friday, 14 January 2011