Public events
Architecture Education: The Next 100 Years
This symposium will focus on the possible futures that may be facing architectural education over the next 100 years.
100 years of Architecture
This year we celebrate 100 years of Architecture study at the University of Huddersfield. The study of architecture in Huddersfield was formalised in 1921 by the establishment of a course in the School of Art, one of the forerunners of the present University. Degrees in Architecture have been offered since 1977 and the current pattern of education stems from the establishment of the ‘International’ course in 1989.
Architecture Centenary Lecture Series
Smout Allen
Proving Grounds and Instrumental Architecture
24 February 2021, 4pm
Martyn Dade-Robertson
Living Construction
2 March 2021, 4pm
Beatrice Galilee
Radical Architecture of the Future
11 March 2021, 5pm
Karen Burns
Ways of Making and Knowing: Stories from Diverse Archives
17 March 2021, 9.15am
Perry Kulper
Practice(d) Constructions
24 March 2021, 5pm
Architecture Centenary Lecture Series
Find out more about our Organised a lecture series.
Inspired Collaboration
A film celebrating the inspired collaboration between RIBA Yorkshire, AHR, Morgan Sindall and the University of Huddersfield which demonstrates the lived experience of teaching and learning in the Barbara Hepworth Building, and promotes the benefits of industry and academia collaboration.
SMOUT ALLEN
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Proving Grounds and Instrumental Architecture
SYNOPSIS
Smout Allen’s work takes two routes, architectural competitions, where the particular rigour of the competition brief, site and program provide the basis for new investigations and, conceptual design projects which test out the agenda and methodology of the design research practice. They focus on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape.
BIO
Mark Smout, Professor of Architecture and Landscape Furtures, and Laura Allen, Professor of Architecture and Augmented Landscapes are based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
WHEN
Wednesday 24.2.2021, 4pm
Martyn Dade-Robertson
Newcastle University
Living Construction
SYNOPSIS
Professor Martyn Dade-Robertson will introduce the work of the Living Construction Group, part of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, integrating the design of Engineered Living Materials into building construction at multiple scales. Through in vivo (in the living) and in silico (digital computational) work, he will describe the first steps towards systems that integrate the analysis and synthesis of material construction through engineered biological cells. The talk will answer the question: Can we grow a Building with examples of how we can (and in some cases have) used biology to construct complex materials and structures.
BIO
Martyn Dade-Robertson is Professor of Emerging Technology at Newcastle University and the Co-Director of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment. He has degrees in Architecture, Design Computation and Synthetic Biology from Cambridge and Newcastle Universities. He has published over 50 peer review publications and is the author of The Architecture of Information (Routledge 2011) and Living Construction (2020). He is also the Editor the Bio Design Book series.
WHEN
Wednesday 3.3.2021, 4pm
Beatrice Galilee
The World Around Institution
Radical Architecture of The Future
SYNOPSIS
‘Radical Architecture of the Future’ is a new publication sharing original projects by unique thinkers in the world of architecture and spatial design. The author, Beatrice Galilee, sees architectural practice today as going far beyond the design and construction of buildings and believes the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. In discussing the themes and ideas contained within the book, Beatrice's lecture will feature projects -surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening - that break rules and shatter boundaries. She will compare and identify the work of award-winning architects, designers, artists, photographers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers - all of whom synthesize and reflect our spatial environments.
BIO
Beatrice Galilee is an organizer of things, people, ideas and spaces. Former curator of architecture at The Met and currently the founder and director of The World Around institution, Beatrice is internationally recognised for her worldwide experience in curating, designing and conceiving original and dynamic city-wide biennales, museum exhibitions, installations, conferences, events and publications, bringing together the world’s most important institutions with cutting edge practitioners. Her research and writing has been published internationally in journals, newspapers and magazines.
WHEN
Thursday 11.3.2021, 5pm
Karen Burns
University of Melbourne
Ways of Making and Knowing: Stories from Diverse Archives
SYNOPSIS
The archive has become a site of increasing focus and action in recent years. Concern with the demise of paper-based knowledge systems has now intersected with renewed attention to the power of the archive: its gaps, silences and elisions. This lecture will discuss the politics of the feminist recovery narrative. It uses a current research project – The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960 – 2015, to reflect on the ways in which – without active intervention - the recovery paradigm can replicate structural inequities. Conversely it argues that placing different biographies together – such as those of Jennifer Bloomer and Minette De Silva – produces new insights into the long histories of modernity and feminism. Craft and local making traditions (known problematically in architecture as the vernacular’) can connect and rewrite conceptual categories of feminism and familiar narratives of architecture across the long twentieth century.
BIO
Karen Burns is the co-editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960 – 2015. She has written extensively on feminism and histories of women in architecture, was a founding editor of Parlour, and her essays can be found in AD, Assemblage, EAHN, Fabrications and the JAE.
WHEN
Wednesday 17.3.2021, 9.15am
Image: Acts of Parliament, Victoria Tower, Palace of Westminster, London, 2017.
Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/-jvl-/6397121215
Perry Kulper
University of Michigan
‘Practice(d) Constructions’
SYNOPSIS
‘Practice(d) Constructions’ will unpack the assembly of a spatial practice through the lens of architectural representation—a practice that attempts to develop cultural, disciplinary, institutional, and situational participation. Influences, including curiosity cabinets, Robert Venturi’s ‘Complexity and Contradiction’, Wallace Stevens’ poem ’13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’, Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Celestial Emporium of Celestial Knowledge’, Surrealism, Baroque architecture, and indeterminacy will be drawn out. Thoughts about language prompts, analogous thinking, the naming problem, tailored visualizations, typological rebooting and inventive programmatic formulations will populate the margins. ‘Practice(d) Constructions’ will get behind the scenes—under their metaphorical hood as it were, of a practiced (drawn) construction.
BIO
Perry Kulper is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Previously, he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 17 years. His interests include: the generative potential of architectural drawing; the spatial opportunities offered by using diverse design methods; and in broadening the conceptual range for architecture. He was the Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2018-19. In 2013 he published Pamphlet Architecture 34, ‘Fathoming the Unfathomable: Archival Ghosts and Paradoxical Shadows’ with friend and collaborator Nat Chard. They are preparing a new book to be published by UCL Press.
WHEN
Wednesday 24.3.2021, 5pm
Architecture Centenary Lecture Series
To celebrate the centenary of architecture being taught at the University of Huddersfield, the School of Art, Design and Architecture have organised a lecture series featuring some of the most innovative and inspiring practitioners working in design, research and theory today.
02.2021 @16:00 SmoutAllen, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
03.2021 @16:00 Martyn Dade-Robertson, Newcastle University
03.2021 @17:00 Beatrice Galilee, The World Around Institute
03.2021 @09:15 Karen Burns,University of Melbourne
03.2021 @17:00 PerryKulper, University of Michigan