This week, there are plenty of opportunities to look at architecture's origins, both collectively and personally. Whether you admired the experimental, striking work of Cedric Price as you first explored an architectural career, or whether this spark was born from playing The Sims, this week is a chance to reflect and question your origins. 

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Lygia Pape Exhibition | 22 October - 19 November

Image: Ttéia 1C, 2001/2016, by Lygia Pape. Image: Ken Adlard

What is architecture without light? Neo-Concrete artist Lygia Pape's work is well know for its take on light; showing the subject as both medium and focus. This exhibition will showcase her talent for representing concepts of expression and relationship between reason and nature through geometric forms.

Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective | Open now until 29 October

Image: Cedric Price Estate

Cedric Price studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in the '50s, and has now, returned (in spirit) to where he started at the London establishment. Accompanying Samantha Hardingham's book launch, this exhibition, Cedric Price Works  1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective, features work by this experimental and inspiring architect in the form of the Memory Bank Project -  an interactive living memory of Price's design process and theories.

Video Games and Architecture: Cities in Virtual Worlds | 24 October

Image: The Tower of London in SimCity 3000 © Electronic Arts

For many young architects, a key factor in beginning architectural exploration were teenage years spent exploring virtual worlds and cities on screens in bedrooms. In this talk, speakers include the Director of the Interactive Architecture Lab (Bartlett School of Architecture), Ruairi Glynn, Dr Diane Carr (UCL), Nic Clear (Greenwich University), Andrew Caleya Chetty (Umbrellium) and Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Ed Mascarenhas. The talk will cover how space and community is expolored through virtual worlds, and how this has affected the next generation of designers. 

Talk: Where Architecture Begins | 24 October

Image: Ordinary Architecture, 2016

Commissioned by the Royal Academy, Ordinary Architecture has created interventions throughout Burlington House to explore the origins of architecture, and the myths surrounding them. This talk will see Charles Holland and Elly Ward discuss the effects of these interventions, the 'creative possibilities of erroneous theories, misunderstood histories, personal mythologies and speculative ideas'. This facinating work is part of the Origins project, which aims to invoke discussion and open up different perspectives to architectural theories and ideas. 

Georgia O'Keeffe at The Tate Modern | Open now until 30 October

Image: Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1932. Image: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London.

This week marks a last chance to see Georgia O'Keeffe's work in the Tate Modern. This celebration of such a prolific and successful artist life's work shows some of her most famous works, the first of which debuted a century ago in 1916. O'Keeffe's work has always been subject of many discussions, especially surrounding gender, to the trailblazing artist herself's dismay. 

Talk: Rowan Moore on the Future of London | 24 October

Image: The East End Preservation Society

This free talk from Rowan Moore will build on themes covered in his book "Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century", and explore the concept of connecting the 'political and architectural decisions of London’s enfeebled and reactive government '. Moore, with a steadfast background in architecture, was Director of the Architecture Foundation (2002-2008), and has used this vast experience in becoming an established architecture critic for the Observer and notable author.

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