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Screen/Print #48: "Lobby" Investigates Faith in Architecture

2016-12-13T01:07:00-05:00

The fifth issue of LOBBY, the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London's publication of thematically related essays and interviews, explores the meaning, fragility, and ultimate worth of a unifying architectural "faith."

The Bartlett's Director of Architecture, Bob Sheil, Pushes for Evolving Research in Academia

2016-10-11T12:05:00-04:00

The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is consistently one of the most highly ranked architecture schools globally, and occupies a significant part of revolutionary educational history in the UK. Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university to accept students regardless of religion, gender or social status, and was also the first to appoint a chair of architecture, in 1841.

Science Nonfiction: bringing emerging technologies into the UK's architecture education

2015-12-05T04:00:00-05:00

Taking stock of emergent technologies at The Bartlett and the Architectural Association in London – two of the most innovative and genre-pushing architectural education institutions worldwide – it’s difficult to not be in awe of the possibilities. Michael Weinstock, Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design at the AA, describes the current state of just what “emerging” means: "I think we are at a kind of break point where we are just starting to get free of the imitation of previous ways of doing things. We've already got the efficiency, fewer people, fewer materials – that's the first goal, that's established. But let's remember that emerging technology is the outcome of an evolutionary process."

Screen/Print #25: The debut issue of The Bartlett's "LOBBY"

2014-09-25T19:21:00-04:00

With a name like LOBBY, The Bartlett School of Architecture’s new architecture magazine puts itself in two camps. Interpreted as an architectural metaphor, the magazine is a waiting area, a limbo-space between inside and outside. Alternatively, it’s a political rallying group, pushing its agenda on the powers that be. From the looks of the first issue, Un/Spectacle, LOBBY is set on occupying both those territories.

Student Works: New Horizons Iceland Expedition

2013-02-04T14:01:00-05:00

In late November 2012, London's The Bartlett School of Architecture Unit 3 embarked on an expedition to Iceland.

Warmed by the Gulf Stream, endless geysers and caught between two major tectonic plates, this land of endless volcanic activity is also home to Europe's largest glacier.

Twelve 2nd and 3rd year students designed, built and tested a series of shelter/surveying devices to research and charted varied aspects of Iceland.