2009

Table of Head of School’s introduction 2 BA Hons introduction 4 Research 66 Contents ­Year 1 6 MA +Urbanism 68 Year 2 10 MPhil/PhD 72 Year 3 14 MARC Architectural Research Centre 74 BArch introduction 18 Bioclimatics 20 Continuity 1 24 Continuity 2 28 The School in the City / msa² 77 displace/non-place 32 MSA Awards 78 [Re_Map] 36 MADF Manchester Architectural Materiality 42 Design Festival 82 msa–p 46 Event Month 84 Future perfect… 50 mssa Manchester Student Here is the news 54 Society of Architecture 86 Part-time Flexible Delivery 58 EASA European Architectural Student Association 88 msa Architectural Technologies 62 msa Architectural Humanities 64

1 Introduction www.msa.ac.uk/

The school continues to be one msa students’ participation in Welcome to the annual of the most popular and highly rated international workshops and conferences destinations for the study of architecture includes – Matt Ault presenting a review of the msa – the in a city with a rich tradition and vibrant parametric modelling workshop at contemporary architectural scene. Bentley Systems Global Forum in San catalogue follows its The quality of teaching, research, and the Francisco, Andrew Kitching and Emily value of our graduates to the profession Lang presented papers at the international customary approach in all feature significantly in evaluations ‘Making Cities Liveable’ conference in of the school in the UK context of Portland, Oregon. Doctoral student James summarising activities architecture education. Robertson held a Rome Scholarship in within the school by The current economic situation has Architecture at the British School at Rome failed to diminish the vitality of student in spring 2009. describing and illustrating projects and programmes within the Success in competitions has been school continue to produce a wide mirrored by the student society, the breadth of our variety of approaches to the challenge of the Manchester Student Society of designing in the twenty first century. Architecture (mssa) with a commendably considerable endeavour. msa students have been recognised extensive array of visiting lectures, social in a variety of international competitions events and competitions. This year for the first time we aim many of which focussed on the theme The strength of msa research activity to enhance the printed catalogue by of sustainability – the school provided within the context of both our parent providing more extensive material in two (Andrew Cook and Stefan Shaw) of institutions was recognised in the the web based version to reflect the the four prize-winning entries for Corus outcome of the assessment exercise increasing significance of remote access 08: Waste World; a shortlisted entry completed in December 2008, and the to contemporary information about the (Edible Terrace: James West and Anthony current review of the school is set to school. The catalogue, no more than a Campbell) for SASBE 09 ecohouse consolidate the forward agenda for snapshot, celebrates the rich and diverse competition, to follow their success research and research-led teaching culture embedded in a school engaged in the 08 Concrete Centre Eco House alongside further development and with its place in the ‘original modern’ city competition, a prize winning entry in the diversification of post graduate and its role in an international community RNSI / Architects for Humanity ‘Discarded study opportunities. of research and pedagogy in architecture. Dreams’ (Romulus Sim); a shortlisted entry in Evolo Skyscraper 09 (John Dent / Stefan Shaw). National success was achieved in the Cisco systems 2020 urban vision (four of six shortlisted finalists including winners Peter Sproule / James Hotson) and a prize in the SPAB Philip Webb Award 08 (Grant Prescott).

2 Introduction

The school is preparing for wholesale The successful bid led within the msa The school remains alive to the issues change in the regulatory framework that by student Chris Maloney for the easa and challenges of the contemporary triangulates the ARB, RIBA and the QAA (European Association for Students of world, with significant development ‘benchmark’ statement for architecture, Architecture) conference, that will as a in areas like climate change and and will build on its reputation of result take place in Manchester ‘mapping architectural controversy’ as a providing diversity and contemporary in July – August 2010, is eagerly background to design studios that offer relevance within our academic anticipated as an opportunity to a diversity of challenge to the creative programmes and highly capable graduates showcase the city and consolidate imagination of our students to envision recognised by the profession. relationships within the international field the future. The present may be a time msa will forefront the further of architecture education. of economic uncertainty and change development of collaborations with msa is optimistic about the influencing the practice of education European partners and the profession opportunities afforded by the recently as well as the practice of architecture in the city and region to enrich the initiated estates development that will – it will hopefully be a fertile interlude architectural discourse embedded in our enhance the studio environment and resetting an architectural agenda offer to students. upgrade associated workshop provision. embedded in the contemporary life of msa enthusiastically embraced the Increasing emphasis will be placed on the school. inaugural Manchester Architecture ‘time based media’ that will inform the We hope you will find the following and Design Festival (MADF) this year, future development of student portfolios, pages reflect the desire and enthusiasm incorporating the now customary complementing established methods of amongst students and staff to be relevant dynamic of ‘events month’ into the representing architectural ideas. and inventive. festival calendar. We aim to further develop such fertile opportunities to Colin Pugh engage our larger communities of interest Head of School (Acting) and celebrate our collaborations.

3 BA(Hons) Introduction www.msa.ac.uk/09/bahons/

The Bachelors’ programme at the msa Design in all years is taught within Students are introduced to a wide continues to be one of the most popular a framework of lectures and tutorials range of processes and media to develop in the , with a rich mix of with supporting workshops that absorb the representation of their experience, students from more than ten EU countries cultural and technological issues and understanding, ideas and projects. The and in excess of a further twenty- complemented by a range of study visits school is well supported by workshops five worldwide. The popularity of the and trips at least one of which has an that support manual and digital model programme and diversity of the student international destination. Students are making, film making and visualisation as population reflects universal recognition encouraged to become independent well as more specialised processes. It is of the value of gaining an undergraduate learners within a pedagogic culture that important to acknowledge the invaluable award at the msa. provides diverse rather than singular contribution made by a diverse body of points of reference and support. workshop and other support staff to the Design teaching is complemented success of the programme. by programmes in the humanities and Students benefit from exposure to technologies relevant to architectural a wide range of ‘in house’ lecturers, study developed across the three year associate lecturers, teaching assistants programme. and importantly guest speakers and Design is the core activity throughout visiting critics from architecture and its the programme and the city context related professions whose contribution forms a recurring context for projects this year is warmly appreciated and that encompass intimacy and publicity. acknowledged here. Students are supported in developing their personal capability to explore and interpret a design agenda that is both relevant and vital to the circumstances of our contemporary ecology.

4 Jack O’Reilly Urban [email protected] / 3rd Year BA(Hons)

5 BA(Hons) Year One www.msa.ac.uk/09/bahons/1/

Year Leader Year 1 at the Manchester School of supported the projects but introduced Helen Aston with Dominic Sagar Architecture asks the students to step new languages of architecture beyond just outside of their comfort zones and aims image and form. Teaching Staff to challenge the preconceived notions of For the last five weeks of semester Fergus Alexander, Helen Aston, Siobhan the environment around them. one, the production of a workplace within Barry, Gemma Barton, Bernadette Bone, Term 1 began with an Architectural the Manchester School of Architecture Una Daly, Sarah Gilby, Dan Hambleton, Treasure Hunt, finding space, during was developed and designed. Again, in Ian Hicklin, Vicky Jolley, Grahame freshers’ fortnight. By immersing response to the human body and inspired MacDougall, Geoff McKennan, Richard themselves into some of the good, bad by the clothing and container projects, Morton, Dominic Sagar, Laura Sanderson and ugly treasures of Manchester through the workplaces emerged in all sorts of and Stefan White sketching, diagramming, photography, sites on the roof of Chatham, inside staff film making and research, the students offices, in studios and hanging out of Student Teaching Assistants became Mancunian flaneurs. windows. Thomas Bennell, Laura Coucill, Anna Once grounded in Manchester, the Growing in scale towards the city, Deacon, Matthew Duggens, Dan Farshi, body space project was launched, which the practice space dwelling project ran Simon Hall, Michael Holt, Andrew aimed to develop an understanding and throughout semester two. Sited on the Kitching, Emily Lang, Richard Morton attitude to the body in architectural Manchester Ship Canal in Quays, (Semester 1 only), Dean Payton, Mike space. The architectural clothing ranged a house for 2030 was proposed which Potts and Rebecca Stephens from the haptic experience to the role of had to include a connectable floating the urban intervention to the beautifully architectural practice element able to crafted edifice. Culminating in a fashion cruise to Stanley Dock, Liverpool. With show, the students modelled their own increased issues such as city densities, garment at to some great changes to water levels and communal Manchester music. urban design problems to consider, the Towards the end of October 170 of students were encouraged to explore us arrived in Madrid, alongside around some subtle and some more explicit 25 000 Liverpool fans. Developing the aspects of sustainable design whilst still city space project (which runs in parallel relating the design of the dwelling to the to studio throughout the year) sketching, human body. diagramming and film making was practiced alongside visits, observations and examinations of old and new public spaces and parks, galleries, and quirky shops and containers. After returning from Madrid, the students swapped their architectural clothing with a partner and designed a furniture scale container. To help support all of these new challenges, the Student Teaching Assistants delivered a series of skills workshops, ranging from the understanding of scale to axonometric drawing to the architectural presentation. In parallel, the Studio Lecture series

6 body space Victoria Baths fashion show

7 Dean Lewis

8 Tess Moroney

9 BA(Hons) Year Two www.msa.ac.uk/09/bahons/2/

Staff This year, in BA2, the two semesters’ At the start of the second semester Siobhan Barry, Gemma Barton, programmes were underpinned by we travelled to Stuttgart in Germany Everard Bektashi-Brown different themes. The first semester was for several days of building visits and Bernadette Bone, Richard Brook, concerned with the themes passive- city readings. The students were lucky Ming Chung, George Epolito, rural-local-craft-ecology and the second enough to see the new Porsche Museum Griff Evans, Richard Frankland, semester with active-urban-global- (Delugan Meissl, 2009) which had been Siobhain Graham, Amy Hanley, machine-environment. open for three days when we arrived! Geoff McKennan, Grahame MacDougall, From late September to Christmas Amongst the other buildings we visited Chris Maloney, Dominic Sagar we focussed on observation within the were the Mercedes-Benz Museum (UN landscape, the projects escalated quickly Studio 2006), the Neue Staatsgalerie Teaching Assistants in scale and complexity from a box for a (Stirling + Wilford, 1977–83) and the Dan Farshi, Peter Millar, bird (Boxing Clever), to a box for a man Weissenhofseidlung, experimental Matt Pilling, Richard Morton, to watch a bird (Run + Hide), to a tower modernist housing complex. The students Simon Hill, James West, and a classroom for people to watch and made films in groups about sequential Michael Holt, Stephen Connah, learn about birds; amongst other activities urban space and these were presented in Matt Duggan, Anil Pallan (Wait and Watch). The first project was Studio Lectures. judged in the courtyard of Chatham in The main project up to Easter was Guest Critics a mass birdbox exhibition which caused a resource centre for the homeless Michael Cunniff, Rhiannon Hodgeon, a stir of fascination across the faculty, (Urban_Inclusion?), based in Simon Plowman, Carrie Balmer, following this the students went straight Urban Village, part of the New East Chris Blake, Liam Curtin, down to examine their new habitat (site) Manchester regeneration area. Students Mark Bonshek, Daniel Kelly, at Water Park, proposed location volunteered with various charities as a Stefan White, Helen Aston, for the bird hide. way to understand the issues involved Vickey Jolley, Karen MacDougall, The entire year spent a day in with being without a permanent place of Dan Gibson, Len Grant, Grizedale Forest in Cumbria with the residence. The project covered social and Richard Hayley Forest Rangers and education team. We societal needs as well as ideas of inclusion travelled in four coaches and students and integration. Many schemes examined were allocated one of four sites for a the physical presence of a new building learning space and observation tower and its impact on the immediate context to be used as a remote facility by the and the viewer. The idea of weathering rangers. Students participated in materials and wear being embraced in material workshops, working with wood and specifications was also prominent. stone, made a critical examination of The contrasting themes and focus of the arts programme in the forest and the year has brought to the fore issues visited and recorded their sites using surrounding sustainability and their sketches, photography, casting and embedded presence within the studio methods of measuring. culture and within an architectural context. The notion of a holistic approach to sustainability, including communities, education and amenity has been as important as ecological concerns. The students are well positioned to succeed in their forthcoming third and final year.

10 Luke Tyson Project 3

Jack Stewart Project 3

Laura Minca Project 3 Site Analysis 11 Sophie Mitchell Project 3.3 Wait and Watch

Natasha Tariq Project 3.3 Wait and Watch

Arash Fakouri Project 3.3 Sequential View

12 Jack Stewart Project 4.0 Urban_Inclusion?

Natasha Tariq Project 4.0 Urban_Inclusion?

Emily Lau Project 4.0 Urban_Inclusion? 13 BA(Hons) Year Three www.msa.ac.uk/09/bahons/3/

Year Leader Year 3 enables students to establish and As a multi-cultural city the diversity Dr. Nick Dunn develop an informed theoretical position of sustainable design opportunities through a variety of projects of increasing within Manchester was explored as Teaching staff programmatic complexity and constraints students identified an appropriate Matt Ault, Ming Chung, Ronan Connelly, via selection of an appropriately hybrid programme for their projects Nick Dunn, Siobhian Graham, Amy themed studio unit. Each studio unit is that considered the interdependency Hanley, Harriet Harriss, Harry Hoodless, characterised by their urban vision that of economy, community, cultural and Ashley Hunt, Dan Kelly, Stephen outlines an attitude to contemporary social agendas. The social and ecological McCusker, Eileen McGonigal, Craig Martin, urban conditions and their approach to sustainability of future architecture Dragana Opacic, Luke Petty, Colin Pugh, the integration of architecture within the was emphasised through frequently Danny Richards, Nick Tyson superorganism of the city. The projects innovative design solutions in terms of began with analysis and critical evaluation building performance, user behaviour Guest critics of various zones and networks across the and environmental considerations. The Felicity Atekepe, Neil Allen, Mark Alston, city of Manchester, enabling students to projects therefore considered how they Anthony Armitage, Andy Bamford, Tom experiment and speculate on what future connect back into the superorganism of Bates, Steven Bently, Harbinder Birdi, urbanism may be. the city and provide a generator for new Mark Bonshek, Gary Colleran, Sean A spectrum of methodologies cultural conditions. Welcome to the city Crummey, Eamon Doyle, Griff Evans, Nick and media were used to record both of the twenty-first century. Flemming, Jim Gosling, Colin Gray, Greg experiences and data to inform an Keeffe, Jon Nicholls, Barry , Glenn understanding and as a catalyst for Ombler, Edward Rutherford, Tim Whitley personal interpretations of each urban vision. This understanding of context was then further developed through the design of an intervention that acted as an instrument for students to test the city against the proposed vision i.e. the world as it is versus the world as it might be. The studio programme was further enhanced by study visits to various cities including: Berlin, , Madrid, New York, Porto, Venice and Vienna.

14 Daniil Rudalevicius

Alessandra Oram

Roxanne Kanda Emily Hale

15 Luke Butcher

Carolyn Butler biotech

Mark Ferguson

Peter Shannon nomadiCITY Nguyen Le Minh Heliotower

16 Carrie Bayley explorative models

Luke Butcher Ravensbury Square Housing

Jack O’Reilly Urban [email protected]

17 BArch Introduction www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/

The Bachelor of Architecture course is a The history and theory course is We have had a number of competition two year full-time or four year part-time conducted through lectures and seminars. successes, including Michael Pitman, who degree for students who have completed All the students wrote an 8 – 12,000 word won Line OF Site brief 2, John Dent and the BA (Hons) Architecture course and dissertation. This was completed during Stefan Shaw, winners, ‘Evolo’ Skyscraper, the subsequent year in practice. The the first year of the course. Romulus Sim, winner RNSI/Architects for course comprises design studio, history The technology component was Humanity ‘Discarded Dreams’, Matt Ault, and theory, technology, and professional taught through lectures, seminars and winner, Bentley Systems ‘Global Forum’ studies. discussion with consultants. All students and Grant Prescott, who was awarded a The studio course is taught in small were required to make a number of Philip Webb Award by SPAB. research groups called units. Each of these different submissions, including a written Study tours take place each year approaches architecture from a different report, a power point presentation, plus related to the studio; this year students specialised position, these include: a detailed examination of a building visited the Veneto, Prague, Bratislava, architectural philosophy, urbanism, the proposal. The technology component Berlin, Budapest and Genoa. We have historical city, and sustainability. The was completed over the two years of the an exchange system under the Erasmus units’ agendas and programmes are course and this exploration reinforced the (Europe) and the American/Australian driven by staff research and responses to student’s studio proposition. exchange programme. We also welcomed contemporary events and issues. This year Professional Practice was supported a number of international exchange the BArch has offered a vastly expanded by two lecture series. All students made students who joined us for the year, from studio course of 9 different units. a written submission at the end of each such places as Mexico, Austria, France, series. Spain and Australia.

18 Materiality Studio site visit to Longcliffe Quarry

19 BArch Bioclimatic www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/bioclimatic/ Architecture Labs

This year we have mainly looked at Rossi got it wrong: Architecture is Unit z(n+1)= z(n) + c Cows; Landscapers; Dogs; Drinking; dead, after all. There is only the city at Multi-vits; Machines; Books; Upcycling; various scales. As the world urbanises or ‘That was then Heritage; Policy; Maglev transport; Food; into oblivion, there is no time for craft or Electro Magnets; Delft; Water; HDPE; mysticism, only technologies. and this is now’ ; Diffusion lines; Deoxyribonucleic Bi-productive space, where nature is a acid; Terraced houses; Eco-Towns; technology and information is a nutrient, Greg Keeffe and Craig Martin, Salford; Paper; Kearsley; Suburbia; Car is our only option now. History becomes with Dan Kelly manufacture; Brewing; Acorn Profiles; heritage – a technology to generate Irony; And golf. wealth. The park becomes a market garden – an agribusiness to nourish and power the city. Carbon-neutral buildings, full of carnivores or pet-owners, make no sense, rather like history without poverty or slavery, they are a dangerous fabrication. So if you want to know where your food comes from, look in your own toilet of course, but don’t expect everything to be a dumb monument - the biocyclic city is a living machine that upcycles everything to make the past be your future. The irony of all this is that we’ve finally got something to do, and won’t you be glad we did it.

‘One day everyone will design bioclimatic buildings’.

20 Anil Pallan Cottonopolis

21 Catrin Wassell Cranberryscape

22 Simon Swietochowski vertical eco town

Mike Potts magnetic regeneration

Andrew Kitching Pecuniary Justin Metcalfe SymbioBrewery

23 BArch Continuity 1 www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/continuity1/

The main source of our architecture is The City, the Building, the place itself. We reflect upon the persistence, usefulness and emotional the Room resonance of particular places and structures. Historical solutions to Eamonn Canniffe architectural problems – cases that Dominic Roberts have emerged in real situations – offer Sally Stone a rich context for teaching, learning and John Lee research. Existing cases of city pattern, Ambrose Gillick use of materials and architectural form provide a starting point for our studies. In the 500th anniversary of his birth, proposals have been created to complement Andrea Palladio’s Basilica (1546) in the Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza. Students provided a critical response to adjoin this urban masterpiece in the form of a new building, in the context of a clearly defined major civic space. This work was produced following a study trip to Vicenza and the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale.

24 Matthew Duggan

Denis Buckley

25 Patrick Davey Matthew Duggan

Alex Pritchett

Gregory Trenam

26 Paul Bermingham

Sophie Corkhill

27 BArch Continuity 2 www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/continuity2/

Contributors This year, Continuity in Architecture has The town was once a thriving seaside Sally Stone, Academic and Author, been working in collaboration with the destination, however, uncertain weather, Rereadings, Interiors: Form and Structure, MA Design Lab on three different projects. uncomplicated international travel and an Context and Environment. appalling local transport network have all www.msa.mmu.ac.uk/continuity/ Ways of Worldly Wisdom contributed towards the collapse of this Eamonn Canniffe, Academic and Manchester Metropolitan University is once lively resort. The ‘Illuminations’ used Author. The Politics of the Piazza. Urban pursuing an option to develop a new to be a highlight in this seaside town’s Ethic. www.guttae.blogspot.com campus in . It is intended to calendar but they no longer exist. The John Lee, Director Arca, architects of accommodate the Faculty of Health, students first developed a proposal for the West End refurbishment programme Psychology and Social Care currently public lighting. This was the basis for a in Morecambe. www.arca.co.uk located at the Elizabeth Gaskell Campus proposition to develop a specific area of Dominic Roberts, Director Francis on Hathersage Road and the Institute of the promenade. Roberts Architects. Education, currently based in . www.francisroberts.com The proposed site centres upon Unlocking Platt Helen Felcey, Academic and Artist. brownfield land in the heart of Hulme, Platt Hall is an elegant, early brick Course Leader MA Design. once home to The Crescents, an infamous Georgian house, constructed just a couple www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/designlab 1960s social housing estate. of miles south of Manchester Claire Norcross, Head of Lighting REMEMBER: The students mapped in the then fashionable ‘Palladian’ manner. for Habitat UK. www.habitat.co.uk/fcp/ the various dimensions of the When it was built, it was situated in a content/WhatsNew-Vodcasts/content community – historical, geographical, large estate, surrounded by gardens and Ken Moth, Director BDP Architects, topological, physical, social, cultural, farmland, which included the whole of Trustee Victorian Society. educational, economic… REVEAL: The the adjoining present-day Platt Fields Park. www.victoriansociety.org.uk/ students identified how these connect Platt Hall now contains the Gallery of Bernadette Bone, Architect BDP. to the various dimensions of the English Costume, which holds one of the www.bdp.com/ university. CONSTRUCT: The students finest collections of costume, fashion and proposed opportunities for a range of accessories in the country. The collection social, educational and economically covers the whole period c1600 – 1990. The beneficial exchanges between the local majority of the extensive collection is not community in Hulme and the Manchester on display, due to lack of exhibition space. Metropolitan University. The gallery suffers from a lack of visibility. It is not very well known, it is not well Off the Beaten Track publicised and it does not have a presence ‘Action is required to transform in the city centre. Morecambe from a declining seaside The students were asked to react resort to a modern seaside town, which to the building and its collection; to meets the requirements of today and celebrate the beauty and intricacy of the future visitors offering year round quality costumes, the drama of the exhibitions, to accommodation and attractions’ tackle the problem of the lack of visibility, Morecambe Resort Action Plan, as well as to develop a proposition that October 2002 alleviates the lack of space within the existing building.

28 Helen Smith

Platt Hall Thomas Keeler

29 Richard Gill

Ed Devey Clare Murphy

30 Jonathan Pinfield

Francis Koh

John Edmonson

31 BArch Displace/ www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/displace/ non-place

This year we investigated the body and Running parallel to the investigations resi(s)ting bodies its relationship to architecture within into the meaning of public space in Italy the specific cultural contexts of non- was research on the human body both as Staff places located on the Italian Riviera. a natural, biological organism and as a George Epolito & Students were constantly placed into product of a cultural context. Research Grahame MacDougall frustratingly unfamiliar situations through then segued into topics of Fascism a series of seemingly disparate exercises. and the resistance movement. The site ‘It can happen on the freeway, in a What actually appeared to be pointless for the second semester, La Colonia city that we do not know, or even on the explorations were actually orchestrated Fara, a former summer camp for the way home. It is a frustrating, embarrassing to force the students to confront their indoctrination of young boys into Fascism, and at times ridiculous experience. We own value systems which had been was then analyzed. Also introduced was are put in a position of being displaced, informing their preconceived ways of a recently published anthology, Resisting misplaced.’ designing. Culture, climate, use of space, Bodies, the story of women partisans. – Franco LaCecla and materiality were all set in opposition Eventually, program was introduced in to the students’ points of reference, their the second term. Students were asked to ‘The sole judge of the last term comfort zones. Displacement became design a place to remember the women of the trilogy, “appropriate spatial the means of setting up this oppositional partisans from the book Resisting Bodies accommodation” is, of course, the body, framework. on the current non-place site that once your body, my body – the starting point Throughout the duration of the first housed young fascist males. Students had and the point of arrival of architecture. term, students explored the meaning of to define how they wanted to physically The Cartesian body-as-object has been public spaces in Italy through a series of manifest this story whilst also framing opposed to the phenomenological body- analytical problems and unconventional it within a continuous narrative of as-subject, and the materiality and logic design interventions. They were then Italian women in contemporary society. of the body has been opposed to the asked to investigate the meaning of place In essence, students were asked to materiality and logic of spaces. From the versus its opposite, non-place, as their synthesize all the disparate conceptual space of the body to the body-in-space – bodies were displaced into the cultural parts of previous investigations that had the passage is intricate…’ context of Genoa and its neighboring been explored in the first term into a final – Bernard Tschumi villages, and Turin, Italy. design. Additionally, the students were ‘The body has a curiously dual status, exposed to the artistic cultural heritage as at once universal and individual. of these regions with emphases on the Indeed the word ‘body’ itself can denote Fascist period and present day. Highlights either the singular or the collective… it of the trip included the Fondazione is the symbol of our solidarity… human Renzo Piano (Genoa), the Wolsoniana bodies need to construct those forms and its collection of early 20th century of solidarity we call culture, which propaganda art (Genoa), the MunLab are considerably more elaborate than Ecomuseo & Carena Brick Factory (Turin), anything that the body can do directly…’ studio ElasticoSpa and their awarding – Terry Eagleton winning Atelier Flueriste published in The Skira Yearbook of World Architecture 2007–2008 Y08 (Turin), the Mole Antonelliana, National Museum of Cinema Trip to Fondazione Renzo Piano (Turin), and the abandoned, waterfront tower La Colonia Fara (Chiavari).

32 Simon Hill resi(s)ting bodies Sun Shading Device (above) Study Model (bottom right) Into Partisan Restaurant (below) Partisan Pod (top right)

33 Dan Farsi resi(s)ting bodies, Composite TV Monitor

Michael Holt resi(s)ting bodies, Site Overview Resistance

34 Rebecca Stephens resi(s)ting bodies, Location Map Memorial Cut Outs Sun Shading Device

Harriet Helps resi(s)ting bodies, Composite

35 BArch [Re_Map] www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/re_map/

We are principally concerned with This year we conducted field 590 the ownership of space, its perception, operations principally within the context demarcation and [mis]use in the of Barrow-in-Furness, where we analysed College Leaders contemporary city. In this sense we view various measures of control in relation Dr. Nick Dunn and the city as a political and cultural hybrid to public space and developed strategic Richard Brook in flux, rather than as a place. In a post- trajectories for individual inquiry. We digital age, how we design has become as also directed overseas operations in [Re_Map] is a new unit at the MSA, significant as what we design. Within this Gdansk and Warsaw, Poland to study it is concerned with Mapping and context we aim to embrace new mapping the interrelationships of policy, power, Representation. The A590 goes to and representational methodologies infrastructure, heritage and capitalism, Barrow-in-Furness. to make the complex accessible and which informed our theoretical positions. the latent visible. Participants examine With a prescribed physical location devices of appropriation, enclosure, and a critical framework we developed a severance, fragmentation, and cultural series of ideological positions concerning identification of space, simultaneously, as near-futures. This was underpinned by forces and reactions in physical space and an understanding of global economics within the datascape. and the reality of a limitless information space and datascape. We subsequently synthesised legible solutions as a response to the systems and processes we engaged with and explored and defined new methods of architectural visualisation. We re_made and re_modelled the contemporary urban landscape.

Year 6 students Tom Bennell The Unremarkable Building Alex Melhuish Barrow: A Peripheral Vision Will Riley Corporate Socialism Laura Coucill BNR Emma Newton Alex Smith The Lakes-in-Furness Grant Erskine There’s nothing to see here Andrew Wadeson PPS_[590] Future Towns: Car-Free Utopia Ben Paterson Ocean House Joanne Winterbottom CTRL [SPACE] David Hartley The Pelagic City Matthew Pilling Barrow Royale Emily Lang Daniel Richards Oh Time Thy Pyramids Paternalistic Capitalist BAE-in-Furness [Mental Health] 472 Hex

36 Ben Paterson Joanne Winterbottom

37 Laura Coucill

David Hartley

Emily Lang

38 Andrew Wadeson

39 Alex Smith

Tom Bennel Grant Erskine

40 Matthew Pilling

Danny Richards

41 BArch Materiality Studio www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/materiality/

Tutors to a parade of signature buildings. The Topographies – Places have Rick Dargavel & Nick Tyson aim is to recognise the culturally diverse their histories, spirit and uncertain situations and programmes that add futures. We are as interested in the Themes richness to urban experience and to manifestation of time over a site as a Matter – We examine the work explore emerging or hybrid architectural basis for topographic representation and of sculptors to explore how their typologies where there is conflict, a architectural intervention as with the work, thoughts concerning materials mediatory position between the historical linear development of a site over time. and processes of production might city and that characterized increasingly We understand that no topographic inform representations of landscapes, by corporate control and the consumptive representation is ever neutral and architectural form and spatial experience spaces of mass society. We develop we continue to develop a range of as well as the expression of built documentary processes to observe and investigative and analytical techniques to fragments and details. The experiences of record how the city is animated using describe a range of conditions that include casting, forming and fabricating alongside interdisciplinary references that enrich the geological, archaeological, climatic, architectural reflection and speculation cultural understanding and inform human and economic. are seen as equally important as the architectural thinking from the outside Time – Time architecture is evolving objects made. alongside experiential studies that as a theme or agent that impinges on Culture – Our interest in the city reveal sophisticated and often intimate material, cultural and topographic follows a humanist tradition and is observations. A developing architectural circumstances – minutes, days, seasons concerned with how the city is animated theme is the ‘common ground’, ‘common and years that affect human experiences, by cultural programmes and everyday room’ or ‘material room’ as architectural the transformation of materials and rituals. We are interested in the ‘ordinary’, proposition – shared spaces of the recycling or natural evolution of the way things are, as opposed to adding engagement and transaction in the city. landscapes.

Material Room: Ed Nicholson, Nick Learoyd, Ruth Chadney

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Projects Material Room - The ‘material room’ and space and for the strategic ordering of Critical Ideas - A text based seminar is an enclosure, space or landscape that extensive landscapes. course introduced the critical themes and responds to conditions of topography, Topographies - A working limestone interests of the Materiality Studio. The material, time, weather, wear, programme quarry in Derbyshire was chosen as the students gave a multi-media presentation and inhabitation. The aim is to explore context to develop strategies for the re- to the year cohort. ways of colonising and energizing the presentation and re-programming of what Charged Void - This project aims residual spaces and material fabric of will imminently become a post-industrial to introduce and develop critical ways the city for socio-cultural practices. The landscape. Emerging strategies have of observing and documenting how use of models and maquettes as design been influenced by the Sculptors Talking the fabric and space of the city is tools is encouraged to develop, test and project and by an understanding of animated over time and under varying discuss ideas. The project is considered geological time, the processes, timescales environmental, sociological and as a process that moves from strategy and instruments of extraction, and by anthropological situations. The sites to material detail without programme a range of programme and landscape of investigation, and their associated complexity. narratives. spaces, are located along the city transect Sculptors Talking – The sculptors Thesis Design – Final year students inscribed by the railway viaduct between under scrutiny were Eduardo Chillida, develop the themes of the Materiality Station and Station. Rachel Whiteread, Donald Judd and Studio to resolve site and programme Documentary records comprised drawing, Victor Pasmore – a range that provided arguments and propositions for a detailed photography, video and sound. Emerging a dialogue to consider material, formal, building design. Project contexts range observations and ideas are tested with geometric, abstract, process-based and from urban, city edge and rural. proposals for a ‘material room’. conceptual approaches for the potential definition of architectural surface, form

Sculptors Talking: Tom Humphries, Ruth Chadney, Steve Connah

43 Topographies: Quarry Genealogy 1+2 Steve Connah

Quarry Patchwork Collage Fraser Martin

Thesis: Remediation + research facilities Longcliffe Quarry, Derbyshire Michael Pitman

44 Thesis: The Great South Wall, Dublin Ian Walsh

Thesis: Bosnor Lodgings + Geological Centre Sebastian Salisbury

Thesis: Fear of Space Clare Jones

45 BArch msa–p www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/msa-p/

We are witnessing the creation of new This year we have focussed our study forms of relational citizenship… This around the kinds of cities implied by new citizenship of capacity becomes current UK government policy approaches something to be earned, to be legitimated, towards citizenship. Working with The and to be conferred onto individuals or Joint Health Unit, groups as a reflection of their relational and the Valuing Older People Project, led 08/09: The relational city socioeconomic position and the extent by Programme manager Paul McGarry, to which they have proved their value as we have been introduced to residents and Staff good active citizens1. local government officers at sites across Helen Aston, Stefan White msa–p believe that architecture is Manchester. We have also consulted not just a formal, autonomous, practice with Dr. Thomas Scharf and members Workshops but also an ethical undertaking. Ever of the Keele University research group Berlin workshop in Märkisches Viertel: Dr. since the first attempts at defining ‘New Dynamics of Ageing’ and with Birgit Wolter, Institute for Gerontology form and function in the 18th Century2, representatives from the Department of and Frank Ritterhoff, Senior Lecturer, architecture has had considerable Local government and communities. department of Urban planning at the difficulty with defining a ‘plausible We have conducted comparative Technical University of Berlin with the relationship between architectural form research in Berlin working with CET-01 students of Urban and Regional Sociology and the social’3. msa–p investigate this architects, The Technical University of Masters course. relationship, taking inspiration from the Berlin Urban Planning department, and work of Gilles Deleuze4 arguing that the the German institute for gerontology. We Visiting Critics relations between things are as real and have had over 30 older residents and over George Epolito, Senior Lecturer, msa; as important as the objects themselves. 10 council officers from Planning, health, Phillip Hall-Patch, Architect; Jochen While architects are experts in social services, community engagement Rabe, Urban Designer, Arup; Sussanne composition, in an age of sustainability and ward organisations input into the Snorbusch, principle, CET -01 Architects; they should not limit themselves to the project through workshops and crit Rebecca Feiner Artist/Filmmaker; Sarah organisation of physical matter but also panels. Gilby, Architect. seek to produce transformative social We believe BArch students should relationships, advancing the potential select their own interests to discover and Our thanks to all the Manchester City of architecture through its process develop the kind of architect they want council officers and residents for their or projects as much as its products. to be. We encourage the development of enthusiastic participation. Architectural education can contribute intuitive reasoning alongside analytical to the development of our cities through research and direct contact with those engaging with its citizens and policy affecting and affected by ‘regeneration’. makers. msa–p collaborates with those So far we have used photo-montage, affecting and affected by regeneration models, drawings, narrative, workshops, and social architecture projects in surveys, statistics, CAD/CAM, Manchester involving marginalised or photography, needlepoint, tea-tasting, disadvantaged communities. ikebana, social science, film-making and animation to investigate the relationship between form and the social.

1 Mike Raco, Building sustainable 3 Rem Koolhaas speaking about his work communities, Policy Press 2007, chapter 2 in Radical Philosophy 154, 2009 2 Adrian Forty traces the history of these 4 Gilles Deleuze is a contemporary French terms in Words and Buildings and notes philosopher (1925–1995) whose key the first recorded use of the term function works include difference and repetition in architecture occurred in 1740, was and A thousand Plateaus borrowed from mathematics and led immediately to a dispute between a moral definition and an aesthetic one. 46 Above: field trip to Berlin – the lives of older people, Berlin architecture, culture, meetings with regeneration architects and investigating inclusive urbanism projects in problematic districts. Below: Manchester meetings with older residents, council officers and regeneration groups.

47 Anna Deacon – a Festival of Devolved Democracy 48 Amy Lythgoe From the first train to the last: revitalising Brunswick 49 BArch Future perfect... www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/futureperfect/ Future imperfect

Siobhan Barry Future perfect … future imperfect The unit seeks to answer these and Colin Pugh challenges notions of ‘sustainability’ questions, challenging preconceived with Mark Alston and how contemporary ideologies may notions through a diverse range of and Harriet Harriss be translated into living systems with a projects on both a global and local future, rather than future living systems. scale, seeking to offer an alternative Developing broad areas of research that sustainable model for mass development promote holistic rather than exclusive in the twenty-first century. The unit has architectural models for sustainable living investigated sites and visited projects and filter this enquiry through a range in China, Vietnam, India, Spain and of projects both locally and globally. throughout the UK. The global and diverse Examining the themes of housing, nature of the unit has been internationally sustainable development and the nature recognised, through highly successful of inhabitation in a changing world competition entries and corporate ecology, the college explored the making sponsorship, exploring architectural of a productive landscape, a tapestry of possibilities in everything from the deep inhabitation drawing on the changing ecocentric self build village in Europe nature of material and cultural context. and Asia, to the sky village techno mega Villages have become the new tower in the Far East. edge cities, whether high or low rise ‘’ is the single most the demand for housing and inclusive definitive characteristic of architecture community development globally has – whether it be ideological, physical, never been higher. The future of high spatial, or the actions that ‘construct’ rise design and its appropriation into the the events and episodes of our existence. architectural vocabulary of community We have one question: How might our development raises certain questions: can ‘worldmaking’ continue? the high rise village cater for the city and can it re-inherit the notion of community through design?

50 John Dent Evolo Competition Finalist

51 Tim Cornbill FC United Stadium

Romulus Sim Evolo competition entry Matt Ault Vertical Lilong Finalist for Cisco Connected Communities Urban 2020 competition Winner of MSA Best Student Award (MSA Design Awards 2009) Winner of Andy Robson Award (MSA Design Awards 2009)

52 Matt Flannery Green Communities competition entry

Romulus Sim Corus 09 finalist

Jinita Batavia Coffee Growers Energy Positive Self Build Housing sponsored by illycaffè S.p.A. 53 BArch Here is the News www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/hereisthenews/

Andrew Crompton This small unit will examine the ‘Several works of art in the last uncanny parallels between alphabets and decade have in fact had as their object architecture. We will study architectural the assembly of a large group of people lettering, use Illustrator, admire Jan who think they are there for some other Tschichold, possibly make silkscreen reason. When they realise that there is no prints, then appropriate the language of other reason they can start thinking about graphic design to draw mundane buildings what they are really doing.’ that are up-to-date in the way that Darian Leader 2002, Stealing the Mona newspapers are. Lisa, Faber & Faber. p.5.

above: styles of serif below: this building resembles the Morning Post of 1889: what happens if you try this with HEAT magazine?

Here is the News A study at Harvard* showed that This small unit will examine the uncanny parallelsrealistic between alphabetsimages of organs added little and architecture. We will study architectural lettering,to students’ use Illustrator, understanding of a medical admire Jan Tschichold, possibly make silkscreen prints, then appropriate the language of graphic design tolecture, draw mundane but cartoon drawings contributed buildings that are up-to-date in the way that newspaperssignificantly. are. Recognition depended on Andrew Crompton,identifying September the 2008 concepts. *Harvard Educational Review 1967, vol. 37 p.250. Several works of art in the last decade have in fact had as their object the assembly of a large group of people who think they are there for some other reason. When they realise that there is no other reason they can start thinking about what they are really doing. Darian Leader 2002, Stealing the Mona Lisa, Faber & Faber. p.5.

A study at Harvard* showed that realistic images of organs added little to students’ understanding of a medical lecture, but cartoon drawings contributed significantly. Recognition depended on identifying the concepts. *Harvard Educational Review 1967, vol. 37 p.250.

54 Nick Walkley

55 Melissa Rose Cohen

Nazar Ahmadi

Righnty Amade

56 Suliman Alla

Nazar Ahmadi

57 BArch Part-time www.msa.ac.uk/09/barch/parttime/ Flexible Delivery

The msa has developed a part-time part 2 The programme is nominally of four programme that responds to the need to years duration but can be accelerated to make more accessible routes that might three – the ambition is to develop a fully ultimately lead to final qualification as an modular approach in the future. architect for students who either find full The ‘thematic’ areas of study defined time study impossible or prefer to develop by current students have become more their career and practical experience in diverse this year with the opening up parallel with an academic award. of interests in the conservation and re This ‘student centred’ programme also use of historic buildings that is allied to creates the opportunity for students to the specialist expertise of professional more closely define the thematic areas practices with whom students are of study explored at part 2 – this allows employed. personal interests and career aspirations Students from the programme to be developed academically with continue to be recognised in architectural opportunities for ‘symbiotic’ relationships competitions including Grant Prescott to develop with professional practice and gaining a prize in the SPAB Philip Webb other external reference points. award. The programme is ‘flexible’ Students usually work in architectural enough to absorb student interests, practice as they accumulate an academic include ambitions for career development portfolio though this is not essential. and make academic capital from the opportunities that have arisen as a consequence. The changes in the regulatory framework for architecture education anticipated in the future will consolidate the programme as part of the ‘professionally’ oriented offer at the msa.

58 Owen Plummer Denbigh Castle Kaleidoscope

Andrew Cook Sustainable Neighbourhood

59 Jane Atkinson Casting Studies

60 Grant Prescott SPAB Philip Webb award Runner-up 2009

61 The School Architectural www.msa.ac.uk/09/technologies/ Technologies

The world is warming up. 150,000 Technology: Sustainability people are dying every year because of climate change and, within 50 years, & Climate Change one-third of all land-based species could face extinction. By 2100 the planet will be hotter than at any point in the past Staff two million years. The United Nations Dr Craig Lee Martin Head of Technology Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Professor Greg Keeffe Head of Design Change (IPCC) has suggested that human Nick Tyson Head of BA Technology society could eventually be reduced to a Dr Geoff McKennan Year 2 Co-ordinator few isolated groups eking out an existence Richard Brook Year 2 Construction near the poles. Stefan White Year 2 Structures In 2003, carbon dioxide emissions Siobhan Barry Year 1 Co-ordinator associated with UK energy use reached Amy Hanley Year 1 Structures 560 million tonnes. Almost half of this came from energy use in buildings. Students at the msa have therefore a vital part to play in shaping our planet. The Technologies programme at the msa is driven by the need to reduce this impact and to combat climate change. Technological design must be increasingly capable of survival within a non-fossil fuelled and energy uncertain future. msa design projects demonstrate an understanding of building technologies, environmental design, and construction methods in relation to human well-being, the welfare of future generations, the natural world, and the consideration of a sustainable environment. Within a holistic environmental ethos the msa aims to surpass existing criteria by facilitating a wider debate of the subject throughout all studio agendas, thus enabling climate change and sustainability to be placed at the forefront of architectural thinking, education and design.

62 Anil Pallan

63 The School Architectural www.msa.ac.uk/09/humanities/ Humanities

Co-ordinator Year 1 takes the students’ own Architectural Controversies’ [MAC]. Eamonn Canniffe architectural and urban environment This innovative project is dedicated to to explore the history of architecture students and researchers working on through the use of Manchester buildings debates and controversies surrounding The teaching of Architectural Humanities as case studies. The first semester, with design projects, buildings, master plans, at msa continues to be characterised by contributions by John H.G. Archer, Sally and urban development issues: www. a balance of traditional and innovative Stone and Richard Brook, culminated this msa.ac.uk/mac or alternatively www. teaching and assessment methods with year with a presentation by msa graduate mappingcontroversies.co.uk. The teaching courses developed from the research Tom Goldthorpe (Denton Corker Marshall platform led by Albena Yaneva and expertise of the staff. Architects) of the shortlisted Nick Dunn pursues a research-informed Manchester Civil Justice Centre, on which teaching strategy to develop new Tom was the job architect. In the second methods of visualizing and presenting semester students studied broader the connections of architecture and aspects of the psychology of place under society that can be expanded upon in Patrick Devine-Wright. future research, and which introduces the Year 2 focuses on an urban theme, students to the research culture of the with lectures on the history of urban form BArch degree. by Eamonn Canniffe, concentrating on The History and Theory course and his specialism of the Italian piazza. This Research Methods course in the BArch historical material is complemented in the culminate in the dissertations (co- second semester by Ralf Brand’s course ordinated by Ralf Brand and Sally Stone) on sustainable urbanism which introduces which are rooted in the research interests students to the broad range of debates of staff and colleges. and techniques around this significant A huge diversity of material is contemporary issue. mentored and submitted, ranging from Year 3 continued the critical direction traditional studies of architects and of recent years with seminars on the techniques to the analysis of new areas of history of recent architectural debates architectural exploration, as represented and architecture and film. Students again for example in Nicholas Walkley’s produced YouTube films of buildings dissertation ‘Towards Digital Ornament’ studied on field trips. The 150 films (supervised by Andrew Crompton). so far submitted (available at www. msafieldtripfilms.blogspot.com) continue to attract international interest so far having achieved over a quarter of a million hits. While most films continue to study European destinations, this year groups also visited and studied Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall in Chicago, SANAA’s New Museum in New York and Le Corbusier’s High Court in Chandigarh. In the second semester students participated in a new research project interactive web-based platform ‘Mapping

64 65 Research Introduction www.msa.ac.uk/09/research/

Research at Manchester School of During the 2008-09 academic session Recent publications include The Architecture draws upon a diverse three graduate students were awarded Ecology of the Architectural Model by research community stretching across research degrees. The msa would like to Nick Dunn (Peter Lang 2007), The Politics the disciplines of art and design through congratulate Year 1 staff tutor Victoria of the Piazza: The History and Meaning MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research Jolley who was awarded an MPhil for of the Italian Square by Eamonn Canniffe and Innovation in Art and Design) at the her thesis ‘Lee House, Great Bridgewater (Ashgate 2008) and Interior Architecture: Manchester Metropolitan University, Street, Manchester (1928–31): An Context + Environment by Sally Stone and and the humanities and social sciences example of the influence of the American Graeme Brooker (AVA 2009). through MARC (Manchester Architecture skyscraper on British commercial Post-graduate research activity falls Research Centre) at the University of architecture during the 1920s’. Further into three broad internationally focussed Manchester. This unique range of interests congratulations are also due to Anthony and interlinked themes: and expertise spans across theory, Ogbuokiri for his doctoral thesis ‘Pyramid- (i) Architectural History, Theory and design, policy and practice. Traditional i-city: Mutual symbiosis and thermal Conservation, (ii) Urbanism and (iii) study routes for MA, MPhil and PhD are comfort in the hot-humid context of Sustainable Design Strategies. complemented by the newly validated Lagos’ and also to Hacer Basarir for her PhD by Practice route available at MMU. PhD thesis ‘Architectural Conservation with reference to Famagusta’. Research projects include Eco Cities: The Bruntwood Initiative for Sustainable Cities (Simon Guy), Mapping Architectural Controversies: an innovative research- To discuss possibilities in research at based teaching platform (Albena Yaneva the Manchester School of Architecture and Nick Dunn) and URBE: The Urban contact Eamonn Canniffe Environment: mirror and mediator of [email protected] radicalization? (Ralf Brand and or Albena Yaneva Sara Fregonese). [email protected]

66 67 Research MA Architecture www.msa.ac.uk/09/research/maaandu/ +Urbanism

Good ideas are like good wine, they questions have been difficult to formulate Slow Studio. take a long time to mature. Thus in the using words alone; as we negotiate the MA A+U we take things very slowly interstitial space between content and Tutors indeed. The MA is a year-long party: form. Greg Keeffe, Nick Dunn, Richard Brook we can return to 1968, 1977 or 1989 and Frank Brown whenever we like. This year some of us Once September comes around, we’ll have been tracking surveillance systems know the answers, I promise. Visitors around the city, whilst others have been Dalibor Vesely, Paul Iddon, Joe Jessop, Rob calculating carbon in long spreadsheets A unique feature of the MA is the Hyde, Ade Aboaba, Martin Ellerby, Fionn and getting depressed. Someone else has production of the thesis not only in Stephenson, Sarah Bolsover, Andy Lovatt, clocked up thousands of miles – on the the traditional book form, but also as Steve Millington, Fergus Alexander, Suzie 43 bus! The course is characterised by an a synoptic output in a form suitable Fitzpatrick. interdisciplinary approach to urbanism for direct academic publication. This and critical practice with an emphasis on allows student work to reach out proposition and attitude. into the research community, rather The MA is personal: make no mistake than remaining in dusty covers. So about it, and painful. After being force- congratulations must go to 2008 MA A+U fed urbanism for three months, it’s a graduates Andrew Kitching and Emily straight trip to regurgitate and reinterpret Lang, who gave papers on their work at these propositions in a personal and the ‘Making Cities Liveable Conference’ open-ended way. Projects come and go: in Portland Oregon last month, also to from the Ship Canal to M62, from Urbil to Simon Sweitochowski who has had a , the MA students have struggled paper accepted for ‘Smart and Sustainable with content and methodology, but rigour Buildings and Environments 09’ in June is everything. Students have had to shed in Delft NL, and indeed for receiving their preconceptions, prejudices, and even Second Prize for his thesis ‘Bio-port’ in the their friends. Sometimes it’s felt like we’ve Landscape Research Group Best Masters joined the Khmer Rouge or Symbionese Design Project 2008. Liberation Army: in room 712, behind a locked door it’s all or nothing. The work being personal is extremely varied, but here have been two main themes this year: design projects and mapping projects, and to confuse things further even these are linked. Some questions seem easy like ‘Can Didsbury feed itself?’ or ‘What will Manchester be like in 2050?’ but open a can of worms that can be difficult to unravel. Others like ’ ‘Why are there so many fences in Salford?’ or ‘What visual cues create and reinforce urban pathways?’ create works of complexity and beauty that belie the place they’re in. Yet some other

68 Alice Edmonson Poly nucleic city Sun Shin Fortress Ordsal

Andrew Watson Stars of CCTV

69 Shervin Haji Ghassemi Tourist Movement

Lucy Flintoff Oxford Road

70 Rebecca Peacock Nazil Hydro City

Jon Djabarouti msa* ma:a+u

Naomi Rowland Carrots

Keith Mapingire PULSCity

71 Research MPhil / PhD www.msa.ac.uk/09/research/phd/

Alentejo, … is the one that is favourable AO: I chose Malagueira for two Alvaro Siza - Quinta to the budgetary restrictions and the reasons because on the one hand it has creation of comfort, that is, the courtyard a very strong relationship with the place, da Malagueira, Évora, introduces a kind of transition; the climate with Évora, with the environment, with in Alentejo is harsh, it is very hot and very the ethos, and on the other hand it has Portugal (1977) cold, it also has large thermal variations, almost a vision of the future, for example, so that is an area of transition. The white because that one element that binds the paint, has also clearly to do with the whole, … I think these two aspects of

An edited extract from an interview environment of Évora, with the color of relationship with the place, and demand conducted by MSA doctoral candidate Évora, all white, … for a relationship with the future are, in António Oliviera with the 2009 Royal AO: I find the Malagueira is a my view, essential. Gold Medallist Alvaro Siza Vieira representative project almost of the AS: Yes, once again I agree, but there Alentejo culture, I do not know if you are several, but you mean the viaduct. AO: What were the principles agree with that? One of the reasons for the viaduct, is underlying the Quinta da Malagueira AS: There are many reasons for each really a relationship, it is no coincidence project and what is the importance of thing in architecture. I have also heard that under the viaduct there is a great vernacular architecture in this project? this sort of project being classified as pedestrian way and beside it there are AS: … Hidden in the centre of neorationalist, for example, and of course cars, I do not like this thing pedestrians to Malagueira there is a street, which was nobody is working today without having one side, and cars to the other. illegal construction in the 1940s. It is no the background, even if they deny it, of By the way, in Évora when I got accident that it is put in the very centre the evolution of architecture which is the job, the idea was to make some of the land where it could not be seen, to usually called rationalism. collective garages, and those narrow maintain the image. I do not think we can separate the paths, between houses, were pedestrian, I must also point out that at that reasons of architecture by this or that, I also because lots of cars was unthinkable time, for example, levels of thermal mean, there are many reasons combining, in Malagueira, because that was really insulation were not required; there was sometimes there is even the taste of the meant for poor people, and a quick no regulation for that yet. So what moved promoter, which is something that isn’t change was not expected, which was a the vernacular model of the courtyard often mentioned, but which obviously has mistake to predict. But what is a fact is house, which is not the only one in influence. that it started, more cars began to appear,

72 more cars, …and people created a very AO: The existential place has an AO: How do you see the future of interesting rule, that in front of every important role in the outcome of your architectural creation and its relationship house, there is an eight-meter stop for the projects and works. Do you consider with society? owner and nobody else, and going along existentialism as thought important in the AS: Well I see a black future, if the well with this rule, no one violating this shape of architecture itself? trend is to give major strength to every rule, then the streets are too narrow for AS: Yes existentialism is something expertise, forgetting that journey I was the cars, but there too, as there are no that is almost no longer spoken of, talking about. If I am right, I may not sidewalks, there are no accidents because but it is not something that is gone, a be… (there is) the gap between the the car driver cannot accelerate like a Formula 1, he has to drive slowly because otherwise he will scratch the car, hurt people … Oh the viaduct, the viaduct, well, about my saying that there is a parallel between cars and pedestrians, one of the reasons for the viaduct is that I knew from the start that there would be no money for infrastructure. AO: The very simplicity of the materials of the viaduct? AS: Out of the same rule not to bury drains, … a network gallery could be made and kill two birds with one stone, introducing a new scale waiting for the thought that is not included in the way of equipment, because as you know, there thinking today, but I do not know what are distributed gaps in the plan, which sense architecture is seeing, but what are designed for equipment, a number of I find important in architecture, is the which I projected at the request of the attention to how people live and how town hall … Put simply no money ever they want to live. The balance is always came. What I could not imagine is that variable, ambiguous but it has always one who projects and the one who will until now no money would come, and some lines of force, which we must try to be using the projected product. In all money still does not come. understand, that is, one of the problems fields of architecture there are also new AO: Architecture has such adversity of architecture is the understanding of generations that are normally assimilating outside architecture itself that… what is happening and what is happening the huge increase of information that is AS: It is not always external, because is always persistence and innovation. coming, and (developing the) means to sometimes it comes from professionals, AO: Because the relationship with the assimilate this information and I want to obstruction by professionals themselves. site is part of sustainability? believe (in) that. AS: Yes, indeed, indeed…

Photographs Eamonn Canniffe

73 Research MARC www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/

Staffing Our research goals are to: Manchester Architectural MARC currently has six full time staff: Develop New Ways of Thinking Professor Simon Guy, Senior Lecturers Dr Developing a sociotechnical analysis of Research Centre Frank Brown, Dr Patrick Devine-Wright, architecture and urbanism which looks Dr Ralf Brand, and Lecturers Dr Andrew beyond ideas of buildings and cities as Head of MARC Simon Guy Crompton and Dr Albena Yaneva. either primarily aesthetic or technical Associated staff include: objects. MARC was established following a review Professor Michael Hebbert, SED, Planning, Develop New Ways of Researching of Architecture as part of the process Dr Maria Kaika, SED, Geography Exploring practices of design, of establishing the new University of Researchers development and habitation and the Manchester in 2004. The centre draws Dr Matthew Cotton, Dr Hannah Devine- diverse communities (e.g. professional, upon a wide range of interdisciplinary Wright, Dr Sara Fregonese, Liam Heaphy, private, informal) that inform them. research and teaching interests within the Dr Chris Hewson, Dr Andrew Karvonen, Develop New Ways of Engaging School of Environment and Development, Dr Fionnguala Sherry-Brennan Applying an interdisciplinary analytical the Faculty of Humanities, the University perspective to the debate about and the Faculty of Art and Design at the MARC agenda future cities in order to enhance our neighbouring Manchester Metropolitan We are developing a research agenda understanding of the contextual framing University (through the joint Manchester that aims at critically understanding the and contested nature of design and School of Architecture, the result of an co-evolution of design and development development. innovative collaboration between the strategies and socio-economic Collectively, MARC’s research is and Manchester processes shaping cities. Dissatisfied developing and applying theoretical and Metropolitan University, drawing upon with conventional interpretations of methodological insights from a range internationally recognised research and architecture as either isolated aesthetic of disciplines to develop sociotechnical teaching expertise within both institutions (art), technological (engineering) or perspectives on architecture and urban and with the aim of creating a well economic (property) objects, we aim to change. MARC projects cover a diverse resourced, interdisciplinary centre of connect architectural research with the range of topics: from ‘new urbanism’, excellence in architectural research and social sciences (sociology, geography, design and development of Manchester, education). Professor Simon Guy was psychology, cultural studies, anthropology thematic study of railway station design, appointed to lead MARC in November and political sciences) to explore relations tall buildings, museum architecture, 2005. between architecture and society. This design thinking and controversies, approach involves: the development through to ‘co-evolution’ of technological Aims and application of an innovative innovation and behavioural change, to Exploiting its unique institutional position sociotechnical approach to researching sustainable architecture, and community to connect design studies and social architecture, urban development, involvement and public engagement sciences, MARC aims to establish msa technological innovation and urban with renewable energy technologies and as a centre of international excellence change; analysis and integration of electricity networks. for research and teaching on the social previously disconnected research fields studies of Architecture. The success of – architecture and urban planning, the this interdisciplinary agenda is already property sector and utilities industry, and evidenced by a portfolio of funding of the stimulation of a collaborative, inter- approximately £2.5 million, spanning the disciplinary methodological approach to AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, EU, Government and architectural research. Industry.

74 Research Highlights An environmental psychology Guy’s ESRC Cities project on urban perspective on the sociotechnical regeneration (rated ‘outstanding’), his EU approach is being developed by Devine- research project on ‘intermediaries’ and Wright through ESRC and EPSRC funded his EPSRC work on low carbon buildings interdisciplinary projects (£1.1 million) (together valued at £625,000) has led to on community involvement, public an extensive range of publications and engagement and acceptance, for example stimulated dialogue across disciplinary with renewable energy technologies boundaries. His work on pluralist analysis and electricity networks. This work has of sustainable architecture has connected been publicly recognised through regular design and social science through media appearances and appointments a number of publications including; to policy advisory panels including (with Sustainable : Theories, Guy) Foresight on ‘Energy and the Built Discourses, Plans, Routledge, 2008, and Environment’ led by Sir David King (Chief has stimulated an international debate Scientific Advisor to the Government (for example: Sustainable Architectures: and Head of the Government Office for Cultures and Natures in Europe and North Science). This work is collaborative and America, 2005, Spon, co-edited with inter-disciplinary, as evidenced by a recent Steven Moore, UT Austin. Guy has also award from the FlexNet consortium pursued work on (multi)sensory urbanism funded by EPSRC for the renewal of the through an ESRC seminar series (2006–8) Future Network Technologies project. This and editorship of a special issue Senses involves collaboration with Manchester and Society (Vol 2, No 2, 2007), Guy and (School of Engineering/Joule), Cambridge, Yaneva are working to further connect Bath, Imperial, Edinburgh, Strathclyde, social sciences and Architecture through Surrey and Birmingham. Total value of the an international network, such as through consortium: £7m. Total value to MARC: their joint editorship of a special issue £625,000. of Science Studies, 2007, and a series of Brand’s work on the ‘co-evolution’ of international workshops in connection technological innovation and behavioural with the British Sociological Association change and Coaffee’s research on (2007), the European Association for designing-out terrorism and the everyday Study of Science and Technology (York, resilience of cities has led to collaborative 2002; Paris, 2004) and the Society for project “the urban environment: mirror the Study of Science and Technology and mediator of radicalisation” (ESRC New (Montreal 2007). Yaneva is specifically Security Challenges programme, 2007–9 advancing this work in relation to design Brand PI, £206,000) which compliments as the UK partner in a new EU funded an EPSRC project ‘resilient design for project ‘Mapping Controversies On Science counter-terrorism: decision support for Politics’ (2007–9) led by Professor for designing effective and acceptable Bruno Latour (Sciences Po, Paris). resilient places (2007–2009, £960,000). This work builds upon Brand’s monograph Brand, R. (2005) Synchronizing science and technology with human behaviour, published : Earthscan.

75 Research MARC Hebbert’s research on urban design MARC is currently developing its has been developed through work sociotechnical approaches to design on tall buildings (ESRC CASE with and development, with a particular English Heritage 2003–2006) which focus on processes and practices informed a Centre for Metropolitan of urban adaptation in response History seminar (October 2007) to climate change. The Eco Cities on ‘Tall Buildings in the London project, funded by Bruntwood and Landscape’ and a linked special issue The Oglesby Charitable Trust, seeks of the London Journal (2008); also to create a climate change adaptation historical studies of street architecture blueprint for the Manchester city- (in Modern Civic Art Routledge 2007) region, based on the analysis of climate and historiography of urban design change scenarios and the proposal of (opening chapter of Culture Urbanism appropriate adaptation responses. The and Planning, Monclús and Guàrdia work draws on the expertise of MARC, (eds) Ashgate 2006 and Institute of the Centre for Urban and Regional Historical Research History in Focus Ecology (CURE) and the Brooks World special issue 2007). Research related to Poverty Institute, and benefits from his on-going chairmanship of CrossRail a strengthening partnership with design review includes joint editorship Manchester City Council. Eco Cities of a special issue of ‘Planning Policy will facilitate the exchange of best and Research’ on Integrating Rail and practice and mutual learning with Land Use Investment (2008). He also developed and developing world contributed a Manchester case to cities, and a network of international an ESRC Research Seminar series on links is being established. Through an ‘Urban Renaissance’ (awarded July award from the Rory and Elizabeth 2007) and associated Routledge book Brooks Foundation, joint research (with Punter, Carmona and Tiesdell). between BWPI and MARC has begun New research is being pursued through into climate change and poverty in doctoral awards including ‘Between urban Bangladesh. Links are also Researchers and Users - the Regional in development with institutions in Studies Association as a Learned Singapore, Nagoya and Austin, Texas. Society 1965–2005’ (ESRC CASE with MARC is also playing a leading role RSA, joint with Cecilia Wong 2007- in research on ‘planning a greener role 2010), and ‘Methodist Central Halls for ’ as part of the Tesco funded as Public Sacred Spaces’, (AHRB/ESRC ‘Sustainable Consumption Institute’ Religion and Society Programme, in Manchester. This includes a recent 2007-2010) joint with Crompton, award from the SCI to investigate developing his work on fractal spaces, energy, ambience and sustainable who through a series of publications consumption in supermarkets. has been exploring connections between information theory, cognitive science and the built environment. This involves issues of scale and architecture, scaling and fractals in the built environment, and cognitive distance perception.

76 The School www.the-msa.co.uk/ in the City Introduction what is msa2?

The relationship between msa and The msa advisory board chaired by About the Manchester Society the Manchester Society of Architects Stephen Hodder MBE remains influential of Architects (MSA) (MSA) that operates under the msa2 in guiding the school in activities that The Manchester Society of Architects banner has continued to develop during reinforce its professional orientation (MSA) was formed in 1865; it was this academic year. The MSA design and will be complemented by Simon affiliated to become a branch of the awards are published here for the first Green (current president of the MSA) RIBA in 1891, and has a membership of time, MADF was launched this year and John Hickey (current Chair of the approximately 800. The Society is the incorporating ‘event month’ activities, RIBA NorthWest). Simon has been largest in the North West region of the easa 2010 was successfully launched and instrumental in establishing the MADF RIBA and our members comprise around the mssa has been actively engaged with this year and John (formerly Chair of 45% of the entire region’s total. MSA through a variety of joint events. RIBA NW Education Committee) has The MSA represents and supports the The momentum will be maintained this year become involved in developing architects and the architectural students and consolidated with plans to develop professional studies within the msa to of Manchester and promotes their work. more explicit relationships with the add to his extensive background of RIBA We are supported by our chapters, profession and other external partners activities both regionally and nationally. and Macclesfield within our programmes inspired by and and Bury. Manchester exemplars such as the msa–p (BArch Young Practitioners in Architecture are page 46) project on `ageing` that was also affiliated with the MSA. both supported and informed by our The MSA organises architectural relationship with Manchester City events, lectures, travel scholarships Council. The msa aims to creatively and bursaries to students. The Society explore opportunities for more promotes the annual MSA Design systematic engagement with ’real’ or Awards which showcases the talents of ‘live’ design contexts and agencies in Mancunian architects and architectural addition to working with the profession students. The Society meets monthly at in a way that celebrates the academic CUBE and has been a key driver behind context for design producing mutually the Manchester Architecture and Design beneficial outcomes. The relevance Festival (MADF). and creative challenge offered through For further information about the MSA this engagement is consistent with the please refer to our website www.the-msa. overtly professional ambitions of students co.uk . For details of the Manchester engaged in their second degrees. Architecture and Design Festival please refer to www.madf.co.uk

77 The School www.the-msa.co.uk/awards.php in the City MSA Design Awards 2009

The Manchester Society of Architects Winners Images overleaf, from top left to bottom right: was proud to present its annual awards at CUBE, commencing with the preview Stephenson Bell, House 1005 Small Scale Residential and awards evening held on the 30th Ian Simpson Architects, Parkway Gate Large Scale Residential April, which attracted many members Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams, Abingdon School Sports Centre Sport and Leisure of Manchester’s architectural and design Arca, Silver Cafe, Morecambe Small Commercial community, who gathered to hear the BDP Manchester Studio Commercial awards announcements. This year’s Sheppard Robson, Engineering Restructuring Project, Liverpool Community Education exhibition featured a selection of projects Walker Simpson, Travis Street Substation Community submitted by members of the MSA who Ollier Smurthwaite Architects, The Pavilion in a Walled Garden Un-built Private Dwellings competed for the Society’s prestigious Stephenson Bell, CUHK Teaching Building Un-built Community awards. This year saw winning schemes Triangle Architects, Church Drive Conservation and Reuse from Ian Simpson Architects, Stephenson BDP, Navigation , Wakefield Conservation Bell, BFAW, BDP, Sheppard Robson, Arca, Walker Simpson, Ollier Smurthwaite, Matt Ault, Vertical Lilang Student Projects and Andy Robson prize (p.52) Triangle Architects and Matt Ault. The Design Awards are held annually Overall Winner with the aims of raising aspirations for Ian Simpson Architects, Parkway Gate high-quality architecture and highlighting the important role this plays in enhancing the built environment. This year they were a key event of the inaugural Manchester Commendations Images overleaf, from top left to bottom right: Architecture and Design Festival which ran from 20th April until the 22nd May. Calderpeel, Wrenwood Small Scale Residential The MSA believes it is important to Triangle Architects, The Ridge Phase 2 Small Scale Residential promote the value of architectural design BDP, Abito, Large Scale Residential talent in Manchester and aspires to MBLA, Life Buildings Large Scale Residential highlight the design skills of its members, BDP, Liverpool One Commercial raising their profile to demonstrate the Sheppard Robson, Michael Smith Building Community Education benefits of good design. Taylor Young, Bolton Sixth Form College Community Education The MSA would like to thank our MBLA, Picton Health and Children`s Centre Community sponsors RIBA North West, MPG, Ceram MBLA, Walkden Gateway Community Excel and Royal Mosa who made this Ian Simpson Architects, National Wildflower Centre Un-built Community public exhibition of work possible. We Commended Schemes not pictured: would like to extend our thanks to CUBE Fuzed Architecture, Congregational Church Community who continue to support and promote Stephenson Bell, Shirecliffe New Homes Un-built small residential the annual MSA design awards. The MSA would like to thank the architects of Manchester who continue to support this exhibition.

78 MSA Design Awards 2009 Overall Winner Ian Simpson Architects, Parkway Gate

79 Winners of the MSA Design Awards 2009

80 Commendations for the MSA Design Awards 2009

81 The School www.madf.co.uk/ in the City MADF

A key aim of the festival was to Manchester Architecture and Manchester Architectural establish a working relationship between Design Festival Images practitioners in Manchester and students & Design Festival at Manchester School of Architecture from top left to bottom right: extending the links established by msa². –M– BLA celebrate at the MSA The inaugural Manchester Architecture The Festival was timed to coincide Design Awards and Design Festival (MADF) ran from with the School of Architecture events –M– SA Design Awards at CUBE the 20th April to the 22nd May 2009 month, and maximise publicity for events –A– rchitruck in transit encouraging interaction between organised in this period. Highlights –‘– Ugly House’ Exhibition outside members of the architecture and design included the student travel awards at –C– astlefield Walk with Warren Marshall community in Manchester and throughout CUBE, architectural walks throughout –A– rchitruck at the RIBA Awards the region. The active programme of the city, lectures by Glenn Howells –S– imon Green, President of the MSA, events was organised in collaboration and Seth Stein and a prolific series of presents Roger Stephenson with a between, the MSA, Manchester School of evening lectures organised by mssa. The Design Award Architecture, EASA2010, mssa, CUBE and Festival culminated in an exhibition of –M– SA Design Awards at CUBE RIBA North West, at various venues across student work at easaHQ and hijack of the –A– Manchester School of Architecture Manchester. MADF was established to: Exchange Square big screen to celebrate Crit in Architruck the end of the month long festivities. –P– romote good design and educate Architruck was the MADF mobile architects and associated professionals exhibition pavilion which promoted and scholars throughout the region. architecture to the people of Manchester –E– ncourage interaction between the through changing exhibitions, studio days, creative industries in Manchester. and ‘architect in the truck’ promotions –B– uild relationships between students during the festival. The MSA annual and practitioners. Design Awards Exhibition at CUBE raised –– Create awareness of the value of awareness of architecture and promoted architecture and design among the new links within the creative industries. people of Manchester. The MADF team look forward to bringing the Manchester Architecture and Design Festival to you in 2010.

82 83 The School www.msa.ac.uk/09/eventmonth/ in the City Event Month

After the easter vacation twenty six event _07 event _18 multidisciplinary events took place from Eamonn Canniffe Vicky Jolley 20th April until 15th May, culminating THE CITY THE BUILDING THE ROOM MOTORWAY / WATERWAY in an exhibition at the EASA HQ in event _08 event _19 Manchester. The events ranged from Ming Chung and Alan Sams Grahame MacDougall diagramming Manchester to architectural MODEL AND THE B/W IMAGE DESIGN FOR HUMANITY: EMERGENCY propaganda, from mural painting to post event _09 SHELTER occupancy studies and from proposing Andrew Crompton event _20 anti-capitalist follies to making good, bad ARCHITECTURE OUT OF DOORS Chris Maloney and ugly concrete houses. event _10 The origins and demise of propagANDA Una Daly event _21 event _01 SALVAGE // SUSTAINABILITY Geoff McKennan Fergus Alexander event _11 SWANNING ABOUT IN ASYLUM Rick Dargavel event _22 event _02 A FRESH BREATH OF FOUL AIR Richard Morton Helen Aston event _12 SLUM CITY PANDORAS BOX: follies of unsustainable Patrick Devine-Wright and Caroline Cravo event _23 sins and sustainable virtues DOES GREENER MEAN BETTER? Stefan White event _03 event _13 CONSTRUCT ARCHIPROPOGANSA Siobhan Barry George Epolito event _24 IMAGE CITY : CITY IMAGE THE BODY AS/IN MOTION Albena Yaneva event _04 THE BODY AS/IN ARCHITECTURE THE ARCHITECTURAL PRESENTATION: Gemma Barton event _14 techniques and politics diagramming MANCHESTER Ric Frankland event _25 ARCHITECTURE UGLY HOUSE Grahame MacDougall event _05 event _15 PORTFOLIOS: year 1 students only Everard Bektashi-Brown Ambrose Gillick event _26 THROUGH THE KEYHOLE SYNTHETIC VERNACULARS Richard Brook event _06 event _16 PORTFOLIOS: year 2 students only Ralf Brand in collaboration with David Amy Hanley Ritter, BDP, Manchester COMPETITION REALITY CHECK OF A SUSTAINABLE event _17 BUILDING: post-occupancy occupation of Karen MacDougall the brand new BDP building PUBLIC ART: BARROW-IN-FURNESS

84 Posters by Stephen Potts

85 The School www.msa.ac.uk/mssa in the City mssa

The Manchester Student Society of In keeping with tradition a number The Manchester Student Architecture – mssa – is the official of successful social events were held, student group representing every student including the first year social and Society of Architecture at msa and is entirely run by students. Halloween party. A number of new As well as continuing to work closely events also took place as a result of the alongside tutors and lecturers across developing relationship between the mssa Main Committee Members msa, MMU and UoM, this year the mssa and the Manchester Society of Architects, Luke Butcher, Carrie Bayley, Jon Carter embarked on a number of new initiatives most notably the msa2 Christmas Party. as part of its mandate to improve the The mssa was also a major partner in the Supporting Committee Members lives of students both academically inaugural Manchester Architecture and Katie-Hannah Wright, Malcolm Wilson, and socially. Design Festival (MADF) held in April and Jodie Gandz, Georgina Walker, Jodi This year saw the launch of the May, putting on guest lectures and social McLeod, Ben Hudson mssa student guide, a booklet aimed at events like the Student Travel Awards providing first year students with vital After Party. Most recently, students Lectures from the information about the school and the celebrated together at the end of the MSSA Lecture Series 2008/09 architectural ‘scene’ in Manchester – from year at the annual Summer Ball, this year Michael Hodge, GMP advice on enrolment to printing tips. held at the Palace Hotel with a record Gavin Elliott, BDP (BDP Manchester This document has proved to be highly high attendance. Studio, Open Studio Event) successful and other courses in MMU are The mssa is looking forward to the Tom Verebes, OCEAN UK + AA DRL looking into using it as a template for their next academic year and plans are already Nick Johnson, Urban Splash own students. The document was also in place to build on this year’s success. John Assael, Assael Architecture made available digitally to the rest Victoria Harris, Article 25 of the school through the re-designed Sam Brougham and Frances Chaplin, PRP mssa website. Marks Barfield Architects The most substantial undertaking this Chris Lee, Serie Architects year was the revival of the mssa lecture Tom Goldthorpe, Denton Corker Marshall series after a four year absence. After (Civil Justice Centre, Guided Tour) obtaining sponsorship from BDP the series Paul Scott, Make Architects ran with 17 lectures and 19 different guest Chris Maloney, EASA UK speakers, on a range of subjects including Arjun Kaicker, Foster + Partners Designing for Disaster Relief, Parametric Simon Doody, Feilden Clegg Bradley Modelling, Sustainable Housing Design Tom Coward and Vincent Lacovara, AOC and ‘How To Be A Happy Architect’. Guy Smith, Bauman Lyons Architects The series also included an open studio Charles Holland, FAT evening and presentation by BDP at their new Manchester studio and a guided tour of Manchester Civil Justice Centre.

86 87 The School www.easauk.net in the City EASA

Possibly the largest step in the six As it stands the easa010 team is: The European Architecture months since winning the bid was taking position of the tenancy of easaHQ as a Manchester Chris Maloney, Thomas Students Assembly base of operations. The old ‘Moonfish’ Bennell, Mike Walsh, Luke Butcher, Carrie building on Hulme Street will be the Bailey, Katie-Hannah Wright, Danill home of all things easa010 until after the Rudalevicius, Emma Uncles, Dhruva EASA was established by students and event next summer. As well as providing Dinesh, Sophie Samuels, Bhavika Mistry, tutors of Liverpool University in 1981 as the perfect space for the team to work Miles Reay-Palmer, Jenny Burns, Jonathan a way to bring talented students together on organisation and sponsorship, it will Carter, Dolores Jeronimo, Jihum Kim, Dido to discuss the issues facing both the provide gallery space for talent and Graham, Bryony Lee, Joanna Sharples, profession and urban environments. community groups working alongside Laura Lim Sam, Matt Duggan, Malcolm Every summer since then around 400 easaUK2010. Wilson, Michelle Tomlinson, Ronaya of the brightest students from every The first of these collaborations was Gedal, Al Ogle, Hadil Ali part of Europe have come together the hosting of the Manchester School of Brighton Paul Farrell, Alex Maxwell, Matt for two intense weeks of: workshops, Architecture’s Event Month exhibition Lambert, Joe Frame lectures, exhibitions and events; in the in conjunction with the Manchester London Vera Janakievska, Matthew name of exchange of: ideas, culture and Architecture and Design Festival. Colledge, Simon Kinneir experience. The UK team is proud to be able Berlin Martin Michette, Christophe Holz In November 2008, after a year to bring an event of this vibrancy to Malta Ian Borg Bellanti of planning, a bid team from the UK, the country that started it all, and to a Turkey Etem Ozkul comprising of students from Manchester city that has risen to the challenge and Bulgaria Boyka Ognyanova and Brighton Schools of Architecture, opportunities that the event brings. Spain Salvador Clariana backed by institutions both academic For more information see Holland Martin Dashorst and professional and colleagues unable www.easauk.net. Switzerland Jeanne Wood to attend, flew to Nicosia, Cyprus, to Ukraine Ja Ja present the UK’s proposal for easa’s 2010 summer assembly Manchester, to the easa Partners Ask Developers, Manchester network. School of Architecture, Manchester City Council

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