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No 2 | Spring 2015 | The Bartlett School of Architecture Clairvoyance Contents Reception The Seminar Room The Crit Room The Library 8 Editor’s Letter Micro Readings of Macro Conditions: 84 Jus’ Like That? 116 The Clear Sight of Words by Regner Ramos Words by Alan Penn an Architectural Historian 53 Crowds and Power Words by Stylianos Giamarelos 10 Visions With Purpose Reprinted Text by Elias Canetti 87 PoohTown Profile by Regner Ramos A Project by Nick Elias 120 The Naked Architect 55 Civic Depth Words by Gregorio Astengo 17 Pushing Forward Reprinted Text by Peter Carl 90 Fragile Thresholds Profile by HLM Architects A Project by Eliza de Silva 122 Back to the Future of Formalism! Visions of the City and the People Therein: Words by Emmanuel Petit 93 Resourceful Fallibility The Exhibition Space 57 This is Water A Project by Wangshu Zhou and Jieru Ding 123 Historico-Futurism Words by Sam Jacob in a Clockwork Jerusalem 20 Approaches to Tomorrow 96 The Sublime Words by Sam Jacob Words by Patch Dobson-Pérez 58 The Unhappy Pursuit Wilderness Institute Words by Adam Nathaniel Furman A Project by Xuhong Zheng 126 Branding Remaking 23 Future’s Tense on the Urban Scale Words by Kyle Branchesi and 59 The City Scale Narrative Words by Neli Vasileva Shane Reiner-Roth Words by Giovanni Bellotti and Alexander The Staircase Sverdlov 128 Queering Architectural History 24 One of a Libeskind 100 Reversing to the Future Words by Stylianos Giamarelos Words by Regner Ramos 60 Depth Charge Words by Ilkka Törmä Words by Patrick Lynch 130 Far From Predictions 31 The Tabernacle 103 Déjà Vu Words by Blerta Dino Words by Joshua Broomer and Louise 61 La Foule Words by Laura Narvaez Bjørnskov Schmidt Words by Shumi Bose 106 A Forest of Experiences The Toilets 34 The Floating Cathedral 63 Seminar Discussion Words by Benni Allan in the City of Sleep James Taylor-Foster in conversation 133 Slow Metabolism A Project by Woojung Kim with Giovanni Bellotti, Shumi Bose 109 Learning From the Past Words by Nikos Magouliotis and Patrick Lynch Words by Fernanda Lima Sakr 36 Back to the Future and Back 141 Hide and Seek Words by Marcela Aragüez 112 Jane Jacobs Revisited Words by Max Colson The Lift Words by Martin Traunmüeller and Mrinal S. Rammohan 38 Night Sky Observatory A Project by Laszlo Dohnanyi 68 Ghost Landscapes A Project by Ivo Tedbury 40 Riots Words by Fani Kostourou 70 Going Dutch Words by Lachlan Anderson-Frank 42 Digital Detox A Project by Laurence Blackwell-Thale 72 Eye Catcher A Project by Lin Zhang and Ran Xie 44 Preparing for Apocalypse Words by Hannah Wood 74 Building Opportunities Words by Heidi Au Yeung 46 Seeing is Believing Words by Lachlan Anderson-Frank 76 Following Christian Norberg-Schulz Words by Anna Ulrikke Andersen 48 My Willy Words by Petr Esposito 79 No Guilt Words by Felipe Lanuza Reception 4 LOBBY No 2 LOBBY No 2 5 Reception In the spirit of all things clairvoyant, we asked four of LOBBY’s team members to open Contributors up their third eye and give us a prediction: You look into a crystal and it reveals an image of London in 2115. What do you see? Patch Dobson-Perez, Contributing Writer Yoranda Kassanou, Editorial Assistant EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Regner Ramos A third year undergraduate Yoranda studied Architecture in student at the Bartlett School Athens, Greece. Her eagerness to of Architecture, hailing all experiment with new technologies the way from Stoke-on-Trent, in architecture in a more inter- DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION studio 4 Patch is working with LOBBY disciplinary environment led her magazine for a second year run- to the MSc. Adaptive Architecture ning. And this practically makes and Computation at the Bartlett him a veteran. When he’s not School of Architecture in Editorial maniacally trying to print out September of 2014. She is a portfolio sheets the night before detail freak and is often being The Exhibition Space Regner Ramos hand in, he can be found in a referred to as a ‘Duracell Bunny’. The Seminar Room James Taylor-Foster kimono playing with Bonny, his pet royal python. Patch’s hobbies The speed at which she works at has led our Editor-in-Chief to The Lift Nito Ramírez include rock climbing and writing about himself in third person. describe her as having fingers that have “tiny little rockets attached The Crit Room Nahed Jawad-Chakouf “A monolithic concrete statue of Kim Jong-Un surrounded to each of them.” The Staircase Laura Narvaez by a huge stage on which a botox-ridden, immortal Justin “I look into a crystal ball, and I gaze through a window. The Library Stylianos Giamarelos Bieber mimes a dictatorially-approved anthem about world A man wakes up, has a shower. He eats breakfast, dresses up in The Toilets Mrinal S. Rammohan domination. The Shard is dwarfed by enormous nuclear his good suit and goes to work. He sits at his desk, starts working cooling towers and the London Eye has been modified to on his computer, has a lunch break and a cigarette. The hard- Editorial Assistants Ana Alonso Albarracín, become an enormous hamster wheel on which any opposers working man talks to a co-worker, whom he is secretly in love Yoranda Kassanou, Daniel Stilwell of the realm have to jog for all eternity.” with, and goes back to his desk. The time is now 5 pm—time to go home. He cooks and eats dinner in front of his TV. It is now 9 pm; time to sleep. The year is 2115, and it is an ordinary Contributing Writers Benni Allan, Anna Ulrikke Andersen, Cover Illustration Sara Andreasson Daniel Stilwell, Social Media day, just like any other day.” Lachlan Anderson-Frank, Gregorio Astengo, Marcela Aragüez, @danieljstilwell Heidi Au Yeung, Giovanni Bellotti, Louise Bjørnskov Schmidt, Published Student Work by Laurence Blackwell-Thale, Jieru As well as being a writer with Shumi Bose, Kyle Branchesi, Josh Broomer, Max Colson, Blerta Ding, Laszlo Dohnanyi, Nick Elias, Woojong Kim, Eliza de Silva, a keen interest on etymology James Taylor-Foster, Seminar Room Guest Editor Dino, Patch Dobson-Pérez, Petr Esposito, Adam Nathaniel Ivo Tedbury, Ran Xie, Lin Zhang, Xuhong Zheng, Wangshu Zhou Photography: (Daniel Stilwell) Josh Redman and lexicography, Daniel is a @J_Taylor_Foster Furman, Sam Jacob, Fani Kostourou, Felipe Lanuza, Patrick beard enthusiast and wannabe Although James has one foot Lynch, Nikos Magouliotis, Alan Penn, Emmanuel Petit, Shane Contributors Hussam Chakouf, Jorge X. Méndez-Cáceres, farmer. After graduating from in architectural research and Reiner-Roth, Fernanda Lima Sakr, Alexander Sverdlov, Ilkka Seda Zirek his under-graduate degree the other in writing, he also has Törma, Martin Traunmüeller, Neli Vassileva, Hannah Wood at Canterbury School of one hand in spatial design and Copyeditor Nicola Kavanagh Architecture, he now resides another in 20th Century art Photographers Anna Ulrikke Andersen, Marcela Aragüez, in the Garden of England history. He’s an Editor for Heidi Au Yeung, Max Colson, Patch Dobson-Pérez, Yoranda Social Media Assistants Madalina Hanc, Carrie Lai Tieng —aka Kent—where he works ArchDaily and currently works Kassanou, Jurgen Landt-Hart, Felipe Lanuza, Frankie Meinhof, Leong, Daniel Stilwell, Jacob Westmoreland in Conservation. Daniel’s work, as a practice researcher for Ben Sykes-Thompson, Josh Redman, James Taylor-Foster, both design and written, stems Mecanoo in Delft. In between, Märta Thisner Marketing Assistants Felicity Barbur, Shneel Malik from a fascination and intrigue into the notions and themes of he contributes to research context, ecology, nature, the environment and the multi-sensory. collectives in Rotterdam whilst Illustrators Giovanni Bellotti, Sam Jacob, James Taylor-Foster, With Special Thanks to Our Benefactors Factory Fifteen, He can usually be found not too far away from a nice slice of trying desperately to pursue a sideline as an art historian in Kaiser Ulla HLM Architects, KIRBY, Le Royal Hotels & Resorts, Mecanoo watermelon. London. People tend to wildly miscalculate his age (which we and PLP Architecture “At this rate just darkness from the million towers ego-ing won’t disclose here). James can also be found trolling art shops for light to shine like a bunch of wilting sunflowers. We would pretending to be wealthy enough to buy pieces he can’t afford. have run out of ‘good’ names for these buildings too so they’d “A country within a country, a place that it no longer The Bartlett School LOBBY is printed by Aldgate Press www.bartlettlobby.com be called ‘the Whisk’, ‘the Pizza Cutter’ and any of those resembles a capital city but more of an enclosed city-state. of Architecture facebook.com/BartlettLOBBY obscure kitchen utensil used rarely, like the pestle and A place where you can point at certain areas on a map and 140 Hampstead Road twitter: @BartlettLOBBY mortar—although those forms would be yet more travesty state: ‘I’ll never live there. It’s too nice.’ At least that’s the London NW1 2BX instagram: @BartlettLOBBY to the skyline.” dystopian nightmare.” [email protected] ISSN 2056-2977 Reception 6 LOBBY No 2 LOBBY No 2 7 Reception Editor’s Letter Fancy a Reading Dear Reader, Oracle at Delphi to reflect on how the future can Please come in and have a seat while I light be so seductive for us, or we can simply think back the candles and the sandalwood. When we set on the days of playing Ouija (or perhaps even on out to produce ‘Clairvoyance’, we framed the theme those not-so-distant moments when we’ve dusted parting from the idea that architecture and urbanism off the old Magic 8-Ball).