HEART OF LONDON Welcome to Open 2011 INTRO page 1 EXP page 2 P3 page 4 Interior Architecture Yr 1 page 6 Interior Architecture Yr 2 page 10 Open 2011 is the annual PhD and research programme experience opportunities in First Year page 14 celebration of student work and continues with publications and third year undergraduate, and page DS01 18 conferences. mentoring with employment for DS02 page 22 of their teachers who make it DS03 page 26 all possible. The exhibition is of year-out students and for Part 3. DS04 page 30 students’ work from Department Once again there has been DS05 page 34 of Architecture, and the catalogue exceptional success in the RIBA CLAWSA continues to offer prize DS06 page 38 provides a guide and a record of Presidents Medals 2010. Jon for the best first year portfolio in DS07 page 42 achievements of 2010/11. Each Schofield won the Silver Medal, Undergraduate and in Diploma, DS08 page 46 year notes a different external Clare Richards won the Dissertation and our link with the local RIBA Technical Studies page 50 environment. 2011 is dominated medal. William Firebrace and regional branch is them is highly by the prospect of the new funding Gaby Shawcross tutored the valued. We have close links with page DS10 52 Silver Medallist, and John Bold practice through the very successful DS11 page 58 regime in which students and DS12 page 64 Universities face uncertainty from tutored the Dissertation winner. Part 3 course and the course for DS13 page 70 2012 This does not detract from These achievements are part of Year- out students. All final year DS14 page 76 the fantastic achievement students an ongoing success story from an undergraduate students complete DS15 page 82 at this stage in the year, which academic and scholarly community a one-week work placement in DS16 page 88 provides inspiration and encour- that continues to encourage practice as an introduction to the DS17 page 94 agement to the next generation. and support new work from year-out and we are indebted to Dissertation page 100 students, teachers, researchers and those practices for this valuable We look forward to welcoming practitioners. opportunity and acknowledge all page MA Architecture & Digital Media 102 practice links in this catalogue as MA Interior Design page 106 new students, and to encouraging MA Arch. Cult. Id. & Globalisation page 110 the study of architecture as a In the Summer 2011 we say well as the generous sponsorship subject that is rich in its diversity farewell to Murray Fraser with of prizes and awards, and the new RIBA President’s Medals page 114 and range, encouraging the great sadness. Murray has been Shoaib Rawat award. Staff page 116 development of intellectual debate a huge part of this success story, Links with Practice 2011 page 118 and creativity with practicality. The both by leading the Diploma diversity of projects provided by in Architecture and nurturing Professor Katharine Heron studio and dissertation groups is the master programmes and Director of Ambika P3 part of the strength of this school, research development across Head of Department of Architecture and allows students to pursue the Department. We wish him School of Architecture and Built Environment their own interest in a choice of well and look forward to future contexts. opportunities to collaborate. He Open 2011 hands over the role of Diploma ISBN: 978-0-9562793-9-2 The exhibition reveals the Course Leader is being taken by expanding range of work of our William Firebrace and that of Co- Undergraduate programme and ordinator of the Post Graduate First published 2011 the celebrated Diploma course. programme to Richard Difford. Copyright © Westminster University We launched a new course - BA Interior Architecture – and the We value our links with over two work of their first and second year hundred practices in London is in the exhibition. The work including those that provide of the masters courses will be part-time tutors, lectures and Designed by François Girardin exhibited in a special Postgraduate examiners, as well as those Printed in London exhibition in September, and the practices who provide work openstudiowestminster.org Research Experimental Practice (EXP) This year, the EXP research group’s Supercrit series explored one of the most controversial and neglected classics of recent architecture. When it was built, James Stirling and Michael Wilford’s Neues Galerie in Stuttgart was acclaimed as Stirling’s greatest building so far, but it quickly became embroiled in the bitter controversy surrounding any project considered ‘Post Modern’; and has had little attention, even in the current revival of interest in all things 1980s. To coincide with the Stirling show at Tate Britain, and in collaboration with the Tate and the CCA in Montreal, where the Stirling show originated, EXP staged the latest in its seminal series which brings major practi- tioners back into the ‘studio’ to present their greatest projects to a panel of international critics and an audience of students, academics and the public. Supercrit #7 was presented by James Stirling’s partner Michael Wilford to a panel of critics including the Evening Standard’s architecture critic Kieran Long, author, critic and client Charles Jencks, Louisa Hutton of Sauerbruch Hutton, Berlin, John Tuomey of O’Donnell and Tuomey, Dublin and chaired by Piers Gough of CZWG. Other news from EXP: last year’s major project, the blockbusting Archigram Archival Project, was shortlisted this year for the RIBA Research prize. Visit the site at archigram.westminster.ac.uk 2 P3 Ambika P3 is dedicated to In 2010 P3 exhibited a survey of innovation, experimentation and British Sculpture including works by learning and the programme has Alison Wilding, Bill Woodrow, Boyd been conceived as a laboratory and Webb, Richard Deacon, Richard meeting place for practitioners, Wentworth, Richard Long, Carl industry and academia, aimed Plackman, Hamish Fulton and Paul at both specialist and general Etienne Lincoln, under the heading public enthusiasm for architecture, ‘From Floor to Sky’ , followed by design, media, fashion and visual an extraordinary solo show by and performing arts. Jannis Kounellis with a new instal- lation made for the P3 space. Ambika P3 works in partnership with others to commission artists In 2011 two exhibitions have and researchers across creative reached unprecedented disciplines, particularly those audiences in terms of numbers developing large-scale instal- and widespread interest - a new lations and prototyping, where commission ‘Vertical Works’ by full advantage can be taken of the Anthony McCall and the Deutsche large and accessible space. Börse Photography Prize with the Photographers Gallery. Ambika P3 opened in 2007 and has shown major exhibitions Later in 2011 there will be a including new works by Keith survey exhibition of photographs Wilson, Richard Woods, David of London Architecture 1960 Ward, Terry Flaxton and significant – 2010 in collaboration with the collaborations with Artangel Architecture Club, and once again (Heiner Goebbels’ Stifter’s Dinge), during Frieze, Ambika P3 will host Arts Catalyst (Ashok Sukumaran’s new galleries under the name of The Neighbour), Limoncella Gallery ‘Sunday’. (Sunday, Frieze). It also hosts events such as the Kinetica Art Fair and is a central venue for Design Week, Fashion Week, London Festival of Architecture and Open House. www.p3exhibitions.com 4 INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE Ro Spankie, Allan Sylvester, Julia Dwyer and Christos Antonopoulos FIRST YEAR STUDIO Students: Fatima AbdulHussein, Tom Afriat, Chloe Agron, Afifah Ahmad, Abdi Ali, Andrea Bedoya, Lilas Bizrah, Fernando Cano Larios, Georgia Charizani, Leonor Garcia de Sol, Abdul Haji Dheere, Basma Harasani, Alice Harrison, Inger-Marie Hennum, Phillip Herring, Zuzana Hozakova, Nadja Jeppsson, Olga Klyashtorna, Charlotte Knowles, Amna Meraj, Maya Metcalfe Rooney, Sara Rahimi, Adam Rodel Regala, Martina Rocca, Rhonda Sargeant, Shanae Sharpe, Shemelle Soyebo, Frances Thacker, Anthony Tyrrell, Ginah Wamulo. Light, Shadow, Position, View, Point of View B.A.Interior Architecture is now in its second year of existence. First Year started by looking at the basic spatial building block the room, looking outwards and framing the view. Starting with Le Corbusier’s le Cabanon, which was used as a measure, the projects expanded to accommodate other views, viewpoints and occupants. The term finished with a competition ‘Room with a View’, the winners going on to compete in Young Interior Designer of the Year. Second semester turned inwards to the murky world of the shadow puppeteer. Starting with a trip to the theatre, the studio adopted Matthew Robin’s fictional character ‘Flyboy’ as a client. The programme was to design a Pop-up stage for a one-week festival of shadow puppetry in Old Spitalfields Market. The students were expected to take into account the shadow puppet, the puppeteer, the audience, and also the random shopper in the market. Proposals were described at the scale of the stage, at the scale of the market, and in stop frame animation. Critics: Pippa Nissen, Andrea Placidi, Matthew Robins, Dr Sarah Stevens Guest lecturer: Martin Ball, Richard Difford, Debbie Kuypers, James Soane, Domonic Cullinan, Clementine Rodgers, Amit Patel, Cyril sweet. 6 . opposite page: Abdi Ali, Zuzana Hozakova, Andrea Bedoya, Nadja Jeppsson. this page: Zuzana Hozakova, Olga Klyashtorna. Interior Architecture first year studio 8 opposite page: Abdi Ali, Shanae Sharpe. this page: Andrea Bedoya, Shanae Sharpe. INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE Alessandro Ayuso, Mike Guy and Julia Dwyer SECOND YEAR STUDIO Students: Soneey Adil, Hager Al- Hakimi, Anfisa Bachina, Mahnaz Bahrami, Toolsy Bhantoo, Balduino Borico, Sher-Fynn Chua, Olivia Dunin, Elham Eslamian Koupaei, Saman Failey, Tania Ferreira, Charles Fish, Emily Hakin, Nura Idris, Lydia Kaddouri, Zilan Keklik, Nayab Khalid, Julian Kroni, Harpreet Lota, Sibilla Morsiani, Sali Mudawi, Mamoona Mughal, Aanuoluwa Oduyemi, Rasa Povilanskaite, Corinne Samuel, Harvit Singh, Parsa Tazrian, Rahel Uddin, Georgia Westwood, Sze Wong, Ksenija Zizina.