Bartlett Designs Speculating with Architecture

by Borden, Iain

• ISBN13: 9780470772805
• ISBN10: 0470772808
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-13
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is one of the world's leading institutions at which to study and teach architecture. Every year it attracts hundreds of students from around to world to come and participate in its highly experimental and rigorous range of architecture programmes. Its graduates have won an extraordinary range of prizes on the international stage, and are highly sought after by architectural practices globally.Bartlett Designs: Speculating With Architecture is a collection of the very best student work from the last decade. Through a detailed presentation of over 100 student projects, each succinctly explained by the individual tutors concerned, the book shows how architectural designs and ideas can creatively address some of the world's most pressing urban and social problems through buildings and other forms of architectural invention. The wide range of projects on show deal inventively with such important issues as cultural identity, housing, climate change, health and public space, as well as architectural concerns with the imagination of exciting forms and aesthetic languages.Complementing the student projects is a series of short, provocative essays written by tutors at the school. Ranging from landscape to buildings, from urbanism to interaction, from making to advanced technology, these essays postulate a series of manifestoes and agendas which both create a conceptual framework around the incredible variety of student work on display, and suggest some of the most current and pertinent agendas for architecture today.

Author Biography

Iain Borden is an architectural historian and urban commentator. He has written and edited several books. He is Head of the Bartlett School of Architecture, where he is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture and Director of Architectural History and Theory.

Table of Contents

Bartlett Designs

AColourworks Royal Victoria Docks, London

All the Fun of the Circus

Allegorical House and Registry Office, Mexico City

Auction House, London

Aural Experience

Bankrupts' Institute, Venice

Basilica of San Clemente, Rome

Berlin Infection

Biotechnology of Breakfast

Blossoming of Perspective

Camden Market Council, London

Capacitor, Lea Valley, London

Carbon Casino

Casino, Brownsea Island, Poole (mark Ng)

Cathedral and Catacomb for a Cultural Treasure

Cinema and Lecture Theatres, Venice

Clothed House

Collections of a Mud Lark

Continua

Cortical Plasticity

Cosmic House, Trafalgar Square, London

Culture

Death Academy

Digital Poetics

Dog Racing Track, Baku

Doing Un-doing Over-doing Re-doing

Domestic Sedimentary Space

Drawing On Chance

Dreaming of Flight

Efflorescent Drawing Device

Elements, Kai Tak City

Emperor's Castle, Tokyo

English Tropical Garden, Isles of Scilly

Environmental Parasite, London

Fabrication

Fish Farm, Camargue

Floating City 2030

Flood House, Rhine Delta

Flotsam and Jetsam

Funerary Landscape

Global Warming Causes Frozen Music to Melt

Gout Clinic, Swindon

Greasy Spoon Café, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Gulliver

Hooke's Invisible Monument

Horseriders' Hostel, Paracutin

Hotel Room

Icelandic Parliament, Thingvellir

Imagination

Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

Inhabiting Infrastructures, Levittown

Installation Projects (Year 1)

Instrumental Architectures

Intensive Care Installation

Interaction

Interactive Devices

Intimate Encounter

Island Works

James Bond Tableau

Land of Scattered Seeds

Landscape

London After the Rain

Living Tower, New York

Luxor by Horse

Made in China

Magicians' Theatre, Rome

Ministry of Pestilence

Mobile Appliances for the Hells Angels

Nano-Prosthetics

Narration

National Park of the Interior

Observatory and Ticket Office, Foro Romano, Rome

One Million Square Feet of Love

Opera House, Gibraltar

Opium Refinery, London

Palais Idéal

Parliament Building, Hong Kong

Patent Office and Archive, London

Perceptual Observatory, Greenwich

Performative Ecologies

Performed City

Perfumery and Exercise Facility

Pie Shop, Bloomsbury, London

Pilgrimage Chapel, Rome

Postcards from Dorothy

Process

Prosthetic Mythologies

Reflexive Lagoon

Remote Prosthetics

Resonant Observatory, UCL

Retirement Home, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Robert Street Cabinet

Salammbô

Salt Youth Hostel,

Scape

Scriptwriters'Retreat, Barcelona

Seismological Research Centre, Porto

Ship Cultivation, Epping Forest, London

Social Club and Distillery

Sonic Feedback Machine

Spectral Turn Around Venice

Stations of the Cross, St Ignatius of Loyola, Rome

Stolen Kiss

Strange Ducks

Symphonic Canon, Valletta

Synthetic Syncretism

Textile Reading Room

The Graduation, UCL

The Trial

Therapeutic Park, Shanghai

Times Square Tower, New York

Toward a Material Poetics

Toy City, Shanghai

Tube Driver's House, Brighton

Tuneable City

Twenty-Three Box Brownie Cameras

Uncle Toby's Garden

Unfolding Mobile Architecture

(Un)Natural History Society, London

Urbanisms

Watching, Waiting

Weights and Measures Institute: le Concombre

Whale House, Madeira

Whirl of Wonders!

Whisky Distillery, Arizona

Wordrobe

Summer Show

Index

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