Monday, February 9, 2009

UNIT 20 EVENTS

News / Events:
23.03.09
Marcos Cruz will lecture at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Canada

05.03.09 – 11.03.09
marcosandmarjan will run a workshop at CITA - Center for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Denmark

04.03.09
Marjan Colletti will lecture at the Bartlett International Lecture Series, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/lectures/lectures.htm

03.03.09
marcosandmarjan (with Yeoryia Manolopoulou) will host the PhD Research Project Conference at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/conferences/conferences.htm

19.02.09
Marcos Cruz will lecture at the Symposium ‘On the Future’s Ruins’, Teatro Rivoli, Porto Portugal (Paralell program to “Cinema and Architecture” official Section at Oporto International Film Festival - Fantasporto 2009)
http://www.fantasporto.com/

14.01.09
Marjan Colletti introduces Günther Feuerstein’s lecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK

03.12.08
Marcos Cruz wins RIBA President’s Research Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in 2008

November 2008
Marcos Cruz and Steve Pike (Unit 20) are guest-editors of AD – Neoplasmatic Design, November/December 08, Vol. 78 No 6, John Wiley & Sons, UK. The issue illustrates projects by Bartlett/Unit 20 (Steve Pike, Jia Lu, Andy Shaw, Samuel White, Stephanie Surjo, Tobias Klein, Anders Christiansen, Minna Ala-Jaaski), Bartlett/Unit 5 (Yiannis Kanakakis), and Westminster/DS10 students (Haroon Iqbal, Abdur Razzak).

12.10.08
marcosandmarjan work and Unit 20 diploma project by Tobias Klein are published in Digital Architecture new – A Global Survey of Emerging Talent (ed. Neil Spiller), Thames and Hudson, London UK

October 2008
Marjan Colletti runs an Urban Design course at the Institute für Experimentelle Architektur.studio3, Innsbruck University Austria (WS08)

October 2008
marcosandmarjan and Peg Rawes curate the Bartlett International Lecture Series - Term 2, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK. Invited speakers include: Guenther Feuerstein (Austria), Mette Ramsgard Thompson (Denmark), Oron Catts/Symbiotica (Australia), Jan Birkstedt (UK), Marjan Colletti (UK), Tom Wiscombe/Emergent Architecture (USA), Hernan Diaz Alonso/Xefirotarch (USA), Pancho Guedes (Portugal), Kjetil Thorsen/Snohetta (Norway).

01.10.08
Marcos Cruz lectures at the ETSAM, Madrid Spain

06.09.08
marcosandmarjan lecture at the ASAE conference ‘The Positive School of Architecture’, LTH University, Lund Sweden

17.08.08
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) exhibits drawings at the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition 2008, winning the Royal Academy of Arts Best Drawing Prize

09.07.08 – 09.08.08
marcosandmarjan participate at ‘The Urban Tendency exhibition’ - P3 Gallery, University of Westminster, London UK

July 2008
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) and Ben Cowd (Unit 20) 4th year project is published in ‘Visionary Bamboo Designs for Ecological Living’ (co-published by INBAR in Beijing), and ‘Innovation in Bamboo’ (Sandu Publication)

June 2008
marcosandmarjan work and Unit 20 diploma projects by Sara Shafiei, Kenny Tsui, Jay Williams and Tobias Klein are published in AD – Proto Architecture (guest-ed. Bob Sheil), July/August 08, Vol 78 No 4, John Wiley & Sons, London

20.06.08
marcosandmarjan launch Unit 20 exhibition – Sponge/Blister Wall - at the Bartlett Summer Show 08, Slade School of Art UCL, London UK
See article by Alex Haw in Building Design, UK – 04.07.08
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=429&storycode=3117318&c=2&encCode=0000000001815c7d

27.05.08
Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz present at the Store Street Lecture Series, Building Centre, London UK (on the occasion of book launch of Peter Cook’s Drawing – The motive force of architecture)

May 2008
marcosandmarjan’s project Dunes is runner-up for the invited competition of Sales Centre in Cairo Egypt

21.05.08
Marcos Cruz presents at the PhD by Design Conference ‘The Unwritten Rules’, University of Westminster, London UK

09.04.08
marcosandmarjan lecture and launch exhibition Taichung Expo at the TADA Centre, Taichung Taiwan

April 2008
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) listed as ‘Top ten best young designers’ by London Interiors Magazine

31.03.08 (31.03.08 – 08.04.08)
marcosandmarjan lecture and run a workshop at Tunghai University, Taichung Taiwan
www.thu.edu.tw/thunews/detail.php?newsID=890&prevID=38-24k

05.03.08 (04.03.08 – 08.04.08)
marcosandmarjan lecture and run a workshop at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway

March 2008
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) receives KPF/Architecture Foundation Public Space Travel Award runner-up prize.
Featured in BD on 13.03.08.

Feb 2008
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) wins international TECU Architecture Award for her innovative use of copper cladding in her final diploma project.
http://www.tecu.com/taa07_final/gewinner_en.html

Feb 2008
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) selected as one of 2008 graduates ‘Next Generation – our starts of tomorrow’, Wallpaper magazine, London UK

17.01.08
Marjan Colletti lectures at Southbank University, London UK
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/esbe/about/pdfnonsec/A+D_Lecture_series%202007_08.pdf

14.01.08 (13.01.08 – 18.01.08)
Marcos Cruz lectures and teaches at the International Winter School ‘Multipli-cities’, University of Liverpool School of Architecture, UK

09.01.08
Marcos Cruz lectures at the at the Bartlett International Lecture Series, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK

January 2008
Ben Cowd (Unit 20) publishes diploma work in ‘Graduate Directory 2008’, Wallpaper, January 08, London UK

January 2008
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) work is featured in Life Without Buildings website.
http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2007_12_01_archive.html

11.12.07
Marcos Cruz lectures at Southbank University, London UK
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/esbe/about/pdfnonsec/A+D_Lecture_series%202007_08.pdf

08.12.07
Ben Cowd (Unit 20) publishes diploma project in ‘Young guns aiming high’, The Financial Times, London UK

04.12.07
Marjan Colletti exhibits at the exhibition ‘Telling Places’, Woburn Studios, University College London, UK (04.-05.12.08)

08.11.07
marcosandmarjan present at the HOK lecture Series, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK

25.10.07
Marcos Cruz lectures at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris France
http://actualites.esa-paris.fr/index.php?arch=2007-11
http://boiteaoutils.blogspot.com/2007/10/marcos-cruz.html


22.10.07
Saraben (Unit 20 - Sara Shafiei, Ben Cowd) exhibit diploma projects in private exhibition at Dreamspace Gallery, London

Sep 2007
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) publishes diploma work in ‘Standout students of London graduate shows’, Icon magazine, London UK (issue 51, September 2007)

26.07.07
Marcos Cruz lectures at the University of Innsbruck, Austria

July 2007
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) and Ben Cowd (Unit 20) 4th year project is finalist at the International Bamboo Competition 2007.
It is exhibited at the Green Exhibition / Visionary bamboo designs for ecological living in Kassel, Germany (July 2007-Aug 2007), Colombian Society of Architects Exhibition Gallery in Bogota, (22-23rd March 2008), Ministry of Housing Gallery in Lima, Peru (10-20th March 2008)
http://www.bamboocompetition.com/spages/1396-11.html

July 2007
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) wins 3D REID Prize for best final year diploma project 2007 and exhibits the 3D REID Gallery, London UK
Featured in Architects Journal 25.07.07
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/dailynews/bartlett_student_scoops_3dreid_student_award.html

22.06.07
marcosandmarjan launch Unit 20 exhibition – Nurbster IX - at the Bartlett Summer Show 08, Slade School of Art UCL, London UK
Unit 20 wins Best Unit in Show Bartlett Openers Prize awarded by Lord Richard Rogers
Sara Shafiei (Unit 20) is awarded the Sir Banister Fletcher Bronze Medal for ‘highest marks awarded in Diploma in Architecture Final year examination’ and wins Hamiton Associates Prize for excellence in design process. She is selected as RIBA President’s Medal nominee.
See article by Ed Frith in Building Design, UK – 13.07.07
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=429&storycode=3091210&c=2&encCode=00000000018995df

March 2007
Marjan Colletti replaces Prof. Thorsen at the Institut für Experimentelle Architektur.Hochbau, Innsbruck University Austria as Visiting Professor and Deputy Head of the Institute (SS 07)

14.03.07
Marcos Cruz lectures at the Dundee School of Architecture, UK

06.02.07
Marcos Cruz lectures at the Nottingham Trent University, UK