Funambulist Review

Unit A student work reviewed by the Funambulist.

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Day 1 - London Bonds

Welcome to unit A!

We are meeting tomorrow, Thursday at the British Library at 10.00 am, where we will start our site visit.
(address is: 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB)
We will spend all day outside and will be walking all over our Mount Pleasant study area. We aim to finish by 16.30.

Please bring with you: Pen, sketchbook, tape measure, camera, A-Z / GPS equivalent

We have e-mailed you two texts, which you should read in preparation of tomorrow.

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Ways to get there:

-If you are on the Oxford Espress, get off at Baker Street, and take the Circle, Metropolitan or City & Hammersmith Line towards King's Cross St. Pancras.
(journey time approx 10 mins) - or get one of many busses from Baker st, 30, 205, etc...

-if you are on the Oxford Tube, you can get off at Marble Arch, catch the Central line up to Oxford Circus, change to Victoria line towards, King's Cross St. Pancras (journey time approx 25 mins)

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk

Back to the Streets

Domus Article

40 Titles for New Architecture Students

by Juhani Pallasmaa

Complicit Infrastructures Magazine

A magazine collecting student projects and study trips undertaken by Unit A, Undergraduate BA design studio at Oxford Brookes University, School of Architecture 2010-11.

LINK TO PREVIEW
LINK TO BUY

Teams & action

Exhibition Teams

next meeting Tue 17 May 5pm

Mon 9 May, 5pm - end of year exhibition meeting

We ask the whole unit A to attend our "planning the end of year exhibition chat" at 5pm on Monday 9th May in Unit A space.
Know you will be all relieved and enjoying the sunshine - but this last stage of the year is essential so please be on time.

We also ask you all to come in a white shirt / t-shirt. It will all make sense on the evening.

See you then
Carsten + Colin

Pina at Phoenix

It's an immensely attractive film that uses 3D interestingly to create theatrical space and it makes one want to learn more about Bausch and the development of her art. I most enjoyed a piece in which the company, wearing lounge suits and full-length dresses, process around a theatre, then along the rim of an abandoned quarry to Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five's version of "West End Blues". FILM SET IN THE COLLERIES OF RUHR VALLEY...


LINK HERE
GUARDIAN REVIEW

RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN

This series was curated by Robert Mull and Kieran Long of London Met Architecture and Spatial Design to place the work of the school in relation to broader debates about the city. The lecture series ran contemporaneously with political and economic shifts, and the website will provide a living archive of the lecture series. You will find transcripts, recordings, and presentations from the lectures and the follow up events.

ASD LINK HERE

Stirling

James Stirling: Notes from the Archive
5 April – 21 August 2011

"It is eighteen years since James Stirling’s death, and he is long due a retrospective exhibition. Given his close association with Tate, in the form of the Clore Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Tate Britain is an especially appropriate place to review his work. This exhibition, curated by the renowned architectural writer Anthony Vidler, draws on the Stirling archive held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. It will be presented in the Clore Gallery, designed by Stirling and opened in 1987. Unfashionable at the time, it, like its designer, is the subject of renewed interest and appreciation. The exhibition will cover the whole of Stirling’s career, from the iconic Engineering Building of 1959 at Leicester University through to the late 1990s, including built and unbuilt projects, drawings, photographs and furniture."

TATE LINK HERE

important upcoming dates

Please note following important dates for the next weeks:

Thu 28th April: PORTFOLIO TUTORIAL (CJ+CP)

Mon 2nd May: Bankholiday - no tutorials

Thu 5th May: Y2 SUBMISSION

Mon 9th May: Y3 SUBMISSION

This is Whitechapel

Much like today, east London in the 1970s was undergoing rapid social and economic change. The Whitechapel Gallery commissioned Magnum photographer Ian Berry, to document this period of transition. He captured a now distant history of iconic local landmarks, such as Bloom’s kosher restaurant, the Blind Beggar pub, Brick Lane and Petticoat Lane markets and the people who lived in Whitechapel and Spitalfields.


LINK WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

Adolf Loos

The RIBA have organised a series of exhibitions, talks and events remembering Adolf Loos's work. As his writing in 'Ornamnet against crime' was our theoretical point of departure this year, we recommend to have a look next time you are in London.

Learning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands
24 February 2011 - 03 May 2011

LINK RIBA EXHIBITION
LINK RIBA ADOLF LOOS SEASON

PARTICIPANTS WANTED ON MONDAY EVENING

You are invited to take part in a live performance at Modern Art Oxford, conceived by renowned Slovakian artist Roman Ondák, on Monday 7 March 6-7pm. The performance will be filmed and screened as part of Ondák’s forthcoming exhibition at the Gallery, Roman Ondák: Time Capsule (12 March – 20 May 2011).

DO IT UNIT A!!! SERIOUSLY - I WOULD IF WERE IN TOWN...

Fill out the form here - MOMA OXFORD LINK