Thursday
Mar292012

29 March - AIA UK Building Tour


AIA UK Building Tour

Chelsea Academy

By Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 6.30pm

Lots Road

London SW10 0AB

Please meet at main entrance of school.

The design provides identity, flexibility and an inspirational educational environment. The building design responds to the constrained nature of this urban site and the requirement for highly adaptable spaces to provide for future flexibility. It incorporates a range of sustainable principles including optimising natural light and thermal mass. A series of diverse spaces supports a range of teaching and research methods with lightwells providing a feeling of openness. . ‘

Free Admission 

1.5 CES credits

Please RSVP to Wade Scaramucci: wscaramucci@ahmm.co.uk

Thursday
Mar152012

15 March - AIA UK Lecture

The AIA UK proudly present a lecture by

Andrés Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk

Introduction by Hank Dittmar, 

CEO of the Prince's Foundation for Building Community


Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 6.30pm

Herman Miller Showroom

61 Aldwych 

London WC2B 4AE

 

“Heterodoxia Architectonica”
Will this generation bore deeper into refinement and elitism, or will it endeavor to spread classical architecture outwards to abroad, democratic, indeed populist, future? Will they continue reprinting ever more esoteric treatises, or will they write new ones conceived to serve, not the 16th or even the 20th century, but the future which is upon us?

 

Free Admission 

1.5 CES credits

Please RSVP to chapterexecutive@aiauk.org

Tuesday
Feb282012

28 February - AIA UK Film Night

AIA UK Film Night

Koyaanisqatsi

Tuesday, 28th February, 2012 at 7.00pm

BFI Screening Room

21 Stephen Street

London W1T 1LN

Please join us for a screening of the acclaimed film Koyaanisqatsi. This film will be accompanied by a Sustainability discussion. The film was originally released in 1982 and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It is often remembered for its time-lapse photography and powerful, haunting score by Philip Glass, KOYAANISQATSI is a symphony of colour and light. It is a ballet of nature and technology. It is sophisticated flood of word-less imagery that tries to show us what was, what is and what should be.... Reggio furns the familiar ino the strange and the ordinary into things of beauty. He places the world on a microscope, distorting its perspective but creating images that are unique and breathtaking. - Duane Dudek, Milwuakee Sentinel. We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because 
there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the “original” is the proliferation of the standardized. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive. - Godfrey Reggio

1.5 CES Credits (Sustainability)

Seating is limited. RSVP required

Please RSVP to: chapterexecutive@aiauk.org 

Thursday
Feb232012

23 February - AIA UK Building Tour 

  

AIA UK Building Tour

UAL Campus for Central Saint Martin's at King's Cross

By Stanton Williams

Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 6.30pm

Granary Buiding

1 Granary Square

London N1C 4AA

‘The design is informed by the robust approach of the original in its scale, character and textures. Restored elements are strong reminders of the site’s history, enhancing and preserving its integrity. Contemporary additions recall past functions: the movement of glass lifts, for example, echoes the hoisting of grain that gave the complex its first purpose. In this way, past and present are interwoven, not only physically but also in spirit, creating an inspiring setting in which the artists of tomorrow can develop ‘

Free Admission 

1.5 CES credits

Please RSVP to Wade Scaramucci: wscaramucci@ahmm.co.uk