Department of Architecture
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Kevin Fellingham "Forgetting Architecture"
Abstract: The Woodland Cemetery was designed and constructed over a period of 25 years, by Sigurd Lewerentz and Gunnar Asplund and in its completed form bears very little...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 24 Apr 2012
Mary Ann Steane "Dark thoughts: light and architecture since electricity"
Abstract: In 1924, during the decade in which electricity first became readily available throughout Europe and the U.S., and accompanying the rise of international modernism, Le...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Fri 13 Jan 2012
Nicholas Ray "Rafael Moneo and the Problem of the Arbitrary"
Abstract: Rafael Moneo (born 1937) is one of the most thoughtful current architects, whose work has inspired a younger generation in Spain and internationally, since he has taught...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 17 Dec 2012
Peter Clegg "Pushing the Environmental Boundaries of Architecture: Three Recent Projects"
ABSTRACT:
Theory · Research · Practice · Evaluation
As a practice we have always been interested in blurring the distinctions between research and practice, and in learning from...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Wed 31 Aug 2011
Post Durban Panel Discussion
Collection: GreenBRIDGE Post Durban Panel Discussion 24th February 2012
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 17 Apr 2012
Prof. Alfred Jacoby "Constructing Blossoming Landscapes "
Abstract: The lecture title refers to Helmut Kohl's promise to construct "blossoming landscapes" in the former DDR after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The lecture deals...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Fri 13 Jan 2012
Prof. Christian Illies "Architectural Design between Ethics and Aesthetics "
Abstract: Technical artefacts are a topic for moral philosophy as much as crimes and other misdemeanors. After all, their design and structure matter a lot for human wellbeing and...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 24 Apr 2012
Prof. Colin Porteous "Solar 'Affordances' - Research and Observation Retrospective"
Abstract: Passive solar architecture, with some active assistance, will be viewed through the lens of James J Gibson’s theory of ‘affordances’, 1977, Jay Appleton’s...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 17 Dec 2012
Prof. Darren Robinson "Towards Urban Energy Micro-simulation - the Primordial Role of the Urbanite"
Abstract: This lecture will discuss alternative approaches to urban energy modelling, suggesting that the most powerful and flexible approach is one of micro-simulation in which...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 17 Dec 2012
Prof. Dr. Ing. Frank Petzold + Gerhard Schubert "Collaborative Design Platform"
Abstract The motivation behind the interdisciplinary research project "Collaborative Design Platform" (CDP) is to resolve the current discrepancy between analogue ways of working...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 17 Dec 2012
Professor Bill Hillier "A New Theory of the City"
ABSTRACT:
Cities can be thought of as socio-technical systems. In contrast to previous theories, here I propose a more complex and, I believe, true-to-life model based on the...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Professor Carlo Ratti "The SENSEable City"
ABSTRACT:
The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Wed 31 Aug 2011
Professor David Banister "The Sustainable Mobility Paradigm"
ABSTRACT:
This presentation has two main parts. The first questions two of the underlying principles of conventional transport planning on travel as a derived demand and on...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Thu 25 Aug 2011
Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou "Thermal Delight in Open Spaces: Can It Enhance our Adaptive Capacity under Climate...
ABSTRACT:
Open spaces can play an important role in cooling our cities. By providing networks of clean air and helping us to escape the heat of the built environment, they can be...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Wed 24 Aug 2011
Professor Martin Morris "Sustainability and the Traditional Architecture of Japan: Cities That Could Revert to Summer...
ABSTRACT:
This talk considers the traditional architecture of Japan from the standpoint of sustainability. With its preference for renewable biodegradable timbernot masonryas...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 25 Oct 2010
Professor Matthew Carmona "The Isle of Dogs: Four Development Waves, Five Planning Models, Twelve Plans, Thirty Five...
ABSTRACT:
The story of the redevelopment of London’s Isle of Dogs is one that has only partially been told. Most academic interest ceased following the property crash of the...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 25 Oct 2010
Professor Nabeel Hamdi "The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community"
ABSTRACT:
Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience worldwide, Nabeel Hamdi offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by practitioners when working to...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Professor Paul Richens "Simulating Historic Landscapes - Beckford's Ride"
ABSTRACT:
When the eccentric and reclusive connoisseur William Beckford (1760-1844), having exhausted the largest inherited fortune in England, finally abandoned his doomed...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
Professor Phil Jones "A Future Zero Carbon Built Environment?"
ABSTRACT:
Government policy in the UK and abroad is pushing hard the carbon agenda, with buildings as a main target. The current focus, to achieve zero carbon operating...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 25 Oct 2010
Professor Remo Pedreschi "Fabric Formed Concrete: Studies of a Disruptive Technology"
ABSTRACT:
Disruptive technology relates to a technology that emerges from a non-traditional route that may evolve to supplant, challenge or ‘disrupt’ the original paradigm....
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sat 3 Sep 2011
