Architexture 14
Welcome to issue 14 of Architexture, the monthly newsletter from the Architecture Centre Network (ACN) - the independent body representing architecture and built environment centres in the UK.
ACN News
Architecture Week 2006
Next month is the tenth anniversary of Architecture Week and this year the fifth anniversary of the Architecture Centre Network. Architecture and built environment centres play a vital role in the UK-wide delivery of Architecture Week, which is an Arts Council England and Royal Institute of British Architects initiative in association with the Architecture Centre Network.
This year, 7 of the 12 regional programmes are co-ordinated by members of the Architecture Centre Network. As well as co-ordinating regional programmes of stimulating public facing events, many centres are also drawing on their expertise and contacts to create their own events.
Architecture Week highlights from across the Network include artists dangling from the side of Birmingham’s landmark Fort Dunlop building as Architecture Week West Midlands kicks off with an Urban Splash and MADE event, the official launch of the new building for arc, and the only UK showing of a major retrospective on the work of Marcel Breuer at The Lighthouse.
In addition, the ACN has organised a series of events across the UK examining various processes of participatory school design. Delivered by nine member architecture centres, the series is funded by Partnership for Schools and Arts Council England and supported by CABE and School Works. For details, contact ACN Education Officer Catherine Wiliamson [email].
Member News
Architecture Foundation
Renegade City is a new season of exhibitions and events at The Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery this Summer exploring alternative urban experiences. Starting June 1st, architecture practice Pankof Bank in collaboration with artist Sara Muzio will take over the Yard for ten days, in a unique piece of performance art [more].
Also opening on the 9th June is a major new exhibition for Architecture Foundation - curated by Newbetter with digital images by Cityscape - Airspace will reveal the future shape of London and debate the impact tall buildings are set to play [more].
Open House
Open House Contemporary, the year-long programme from Open House exploring the process behind great placemaking, architecture and urban design, continues in Bristol on the 7th June with a presentation by 2x RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre [more].
Architecture Centre, Bristol
Opening at the Architecture Centre's gallery on the 16th June, Outlook is a site-specific installation from artist Gillian Brent, which by ‘interfering’ with the space and its function, focuses on how people navigate a room in order to look outside [more].
Urban Vision North Staffordshire
On the 27th June, Anna Rose of Space Syntax, a leading consultancy on evidence-based approaches to the analysis and strategic design of the built environment, will give a lecture to the UVNS Arts and Architecture Club [more].
Cube
Cube in Manchester is looking to appoint a Development Officer, responsible for the growth of the Cube gallery and for further development of the programme; closing date for applications is 6th June [more].
New London Architecture
NLA has announced a call for entries for the London Architecture Biennale’s Biennale Awards 2006; architects and the public can nominate projects for the Best New Building and London Hero Award online by 10th June 2006 [more].
Shape East
Following a commission from Inspire East, The East of England Development Agency’s Regional Centre of Excellence, Shape East has published a Good Practice Toolkit 'Consulting Your Community' for preparing and delivering community consultation workshops about the built environment [more]. Essential reading for any organisation dealing with PPG3 issues.
The Lighthouse
 The Lighthouse has announced the departure of Stuart MacDonald, Director of The Lighthouse, Scotland’s National Architecture and Design Centre, following his appointment as Head of Gray’s School of Art. His successor is expected to be announced in July [more].
'Put simply, Stuart consolidated Scotland's position as a key international player in architecture and design, and a source of creative people and businesses'
Janice Kirkpatrick, Chair of The Lighthouse Trust
Other News
Barbican Art Gallery
Opening on the 15th June 06, Future City: Experiment & Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 is a major exhibition which traces fifty years of radical ideas in architecture. Featuring over 300 original models and drawings, films, animations and photographs - it has been billed as the largest UK survey of experimental architecture - and also features an exhibition design commissioned from Foreign Office Architects [more].
Design Commission for Wales
DCFW champions high standards of design and architecture
and acts as a non-statutory consultee within the planning process
in Wales. In a similar manner to Design Review panels in England (a number of which are managed by ACN members) the DCFW design review panel offers advice and support prior to the formal submission of a planning application. Design Review reports for schemes in Wales from April 2003 are available to download from the DCFW website [link] eg: the recent proposal for Glamorgan County Cricket Club's new ground in Cardiff .
Public Art Conference
Following the success of The Great Artistic Metropolis National Public Art Conference in Nov 2005, The Urban Picture conference in London on July 6th 2006 is to be the first in a series of public-art-led conferences and events organised by Art & Architecture Journal / Landor Conferences.
The Urban Picture will focus on the development of digital art, external screens, video projections, media and light festivals in urban settings [more].
DLCG
The UK Government has announced the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) as the successor department to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). It is an expanded department with a new remit to promote community cohesion and equality, as well as responsibility for housing, urban regeneration, planning and local government
www.communities.gov.uk
Sultan's Elephant
This month the streets of London witnessed an extraordinary piece of urban theatre with a four-day showing of the Sultan's Elephant [link], funded by Arts Council England in partnership with the London Development Agency and The Mayor of London.
Housing Design
Three new housing developments (in Cambridge, Plymouth and Deptford, UK) have been awarded the Building for life standard. Backed by CABE, the government and the housing industry, the award is the national standard for design quality in new housing [link].
Urban Cycling
As part of the London Architecture Biennale, Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, Bike Off and Blueprint are working with Ansel & Associate, Southwark Cyclists and Sogol Architects to raise the profile of urban cyclists and the issues which confront them, including an exhibition, seminar and open design competition [more].
Architecture Centres International
CIVA
Centre International pour la Ville, l'Architecture et le Paysage, Brussels is currently showing an exhibition featuring work in progress of Miralles Tagliabue EMBT Arquitectes, architects of the new Scottish parliament building, as part of CIVA's year-long season exploring Spanish architecture [link].
Berlage Institute
The postgraduate laboratory for architectural research and education continues its Spring term theme of Talking Cities with a series of lectures which are also broadcast live on the Internet each Tuesday evening at 19:00 GMT [link].
Mu
Underdogs & überprodukte is a fascinating fusion of theatre and design by Maarten Baas and Joris van Midde at the architecture centre for Eindhoven which over the past 30 days until June 5th has promised to 'bring to life' a whole series of furniture through performance, film and exhibition [link].
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