Opening night Thursday 16th June – All welcome Please join us in celebrating the fantastic creative range shown by our students this year. School of Design SHOW 2022 Date: Thursday 16th June 2022 Place: 10 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD Private View 2022:  Doors open for Show at 6.00pm.  Showcase exhibition of our Design, Digital Media, Architecture and Landscape Architecture students on the first floor of Stockwell Street. Drinks and networking for students, staff and industry. All details Opening Night: Thursday 16 June 6:00pm-9:00pm  General Opening: 17 June – 3 July ..read more

Guan Lee Thursday 24th March 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] Guan Lee is an architect, lecturer, founder of Grymsdyke Farm and co-director of UCL Bartlett’s Material Architecture Lab (M-A-L). He believes that “material exploration is fundamental to material innovation”. He thus explores digital fabrication in conjunction with hands-on building processes using a range of materials, including clay, concrete and plaster. Grymsdyke Farm, in Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire, was created to establish and explore the value of a collective living and wor ..read more

Martyna Marciniak Thursday 17th March 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] How can we recognise and interpret the limitations, lapses and glitches of architectural recordings in order to shape the knowledge beyond the visible? Can we use architectural thinking to uncover what’s not immediately apparent? This lecture will explore the role of spatial recordings in constructing the evidence of environmental violence and cases of human rights violation. The lecture will describe the achievements of the open source community, multi-disciplinary approaches to forensic counter-invest ..read more

Adam Bell Thursday 10th March 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] ‘Today, our details tend to exist solely for the service of the whole structure, and become inherent particles of the whole structure … So much so that the details often fuse completely with the greater architectural form to point where it’s difficult to separate them.’ This proposes the question, does the architectural detail enforce the aspirations of the polemical stance of the specific site, client, brief and the aspirations of the club? Adam is a former student and current Design Realisation tutor at the U ..read more

Simon Withers Thursday 3rd March 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] “ *** turn left if you’re supposed to turn right; go through any door that you’re not supposed to enter. It’s the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.” – Malcolm McLaren Simon Withers teaches unit 14 in MArch Architecture and is a member of the Captivate Spatial Modelling Research Group at the University of Greenwich. He is currently using remote sensing to build a digital model of the entire Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, above and below gr ..read more

Shin Egashira Thursday 24th February 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] Shin Egashira is an architect, artist, educator and PhD candidate who works collaboratively worldwide. His experiments fuse old and new technologies, and include the construction of Alfred Jarry’s Time Machine alongside astrophysicist Andrew Jaffe; ‘How to Walk a Flat elephant’, ‘Twisting Concrete’ and ‘Beautifully Incomplete’ at Betts Projects. He conducts a series of landscape workshops in rural and inner-city communities inter-culturally. Shin Egashira is Unit Master of Diploma Unit 11 at the AA (Arch ..read more

Piers Townshend Thursday 17th February 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] Have you ever been flooded? Victims of tsunamis suffer greatly, but what upsets them most of all is loss of photos of friends and family. Prompt action and a little knowhow from a paper conservator can save an album before it goes mouldy. Did you buy a cheap Banksy print a few years ago, put it on the wall with sticky tape or BluTac? Now you find that it could be worth a small fortune, if only you could get the stains out. Send for the paper restorer. Architects drawings are often tightly rolled t ..read more

Usman Haque Thursday 10th February 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] At its best, technology in the urban environment should not be about efficiency (which restricts complexity, serendipity and diversity), but about connecting – people, places and situations – in ways that leads to novelty, engagement and agency. Usman will talk about designing interactive spaces and platforms for urban communities and about why reconnecting human, non-human and urban infrastructure is crucial for dealing with the challenges of the 21st century.  Usman Haque is founder and cr ..read more

Max Dewdney Thursday 3rd February 2022, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] “Humans are the only species that communicates information about things that don’t tangibly exist. Our ability to share abstract ideas is what has driven our evolutionary expansion. Today “the very survival of [real things like] trees and rivers and lions and sheep depends on the imaginary stories that Homo sapiens has invented.” – Yuval Noah Harari, ‘Sapiens’ Max Dewdney will show a series of projects from his practice Studio DERA, alongside examples of past students’ work, exploring ideas of ‘World Buildi ..read more

Rayan Elnayal, George Aboagye Williams, Sachini Jayasena Thursday 18th November 2021, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003] ‘House of Many Cultures: The Others’ Story’, curated by Rahesh Ram and Rayan Elnayal, was an exhibition in the Gallery at the Stockwell Street building in Greenwich, finished 12th November. The notion of what it is to be British has arisen yet again in the light of current debates instigated by Brexit, Black Lives Matter, the toppling of statues that celebrated slave traders and structural racism. It seems, like more than ever, understanding the multitude of cu ..read more