The London Architecture Diary

a here and a there

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Fri 27 Jan '12 - Fri 15 Jun '12.
Location: Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, SE14 6NW
Organised by: Centre for Urban and Community Research.

Utilising the city of Berlin as site for exploration, 'a here and a there' is a photographic exhibition exploring how fourteen photographers affiliated with the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Goldsmiths, University of London combine their photographic practices with the activity of...

Critical Territories

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Sat 14 Jan '12 - Sat 11 Feb '12.
Location: 36 Bedford Square, WC1B 3ES
Organised by: Architectural Association School of Architecture.

Critical Territories presents the work of two practices, Groundlab and Plasma Studio, which share a transdisciplinary approach and operate at multiple scales, from product and building design to landscape and masterplanning. The installation � a site-specific grid arrangement of light boxes covered...

Don�t Move, Improve!

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Fri 3 Feb '12 - Wed 28 Mar '12.
Location: NLA Space, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT
Organised by: New London Architecture (NLA).

An exhibition of the 72 shortlisted schemes from this year�s �Don�t Move, Improve!� competition, which invited architects and homeowners from across Greater London to submit their most innovative and well-designed home extension, interior design and small office conversion projects completed within...

HORTUS Hydro. Organisms. Responsive. To. Urban. Stimuli

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Sat 14 Jan '12 - Sat 11 Feb '12.
Location: 36 Bedford Square, WC1B 3ES
Organised by: Architectural Association School of Architecture.

HORTUS (Hydro Organisms Responsive To Urban Stimuli) is a new exhibition from ecoLogicStudio that engages with the notions of urban renewable energy and agriculture through a new gardening prototype. Over a four-week growing period, flows of energy (light radiation), matter (biomass, carbon...

IN SITU > Genius Loci + Foundations

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Thu 2 Feb '12 - Thu 1 Mar '12.
Location: St. John on Bethnal Green Road, E2 9PA
Organised by: Sophie Hoyle.

IN SITU features three young artists whose work relates to the architectural and the site specific. Kite & Laslett present Genius Loci, an immersive installation that seeks to capture the spirit of the Belfry through sound and light. Eleanor Wemyss presents Foundations, a series of intricate...

Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Sat 4 Feb '12 - Sun 17 Jun '12.
Location: Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD
Organised by: Royal Academy of Arts.

An exhibition exploring how the striking buildings of the great English Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, such as Christ Church, Spitalfields and St George, Bloomsbury, have sparked the imaginations of generations of architects, artists and writers. A range of fascinating images and quotations...

OMA/Progress

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Thu 6 Oct '11 - Sun 19 Feb '12.
Location: Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Organised by: Barbican.

This autumn Barbican Art Gallery is transformed by an exhibition on OMA, one of the most influential architecture practices working today. Celebrated as much for their daring and unconventional ideas as their inventive buildings, the work of OMA and its think tank AMO anticipates the architectural,...

Recording the New: The Architectural Photography of Bedford Lemere & Co. 1870-1930

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Mon 18 Jul '11 - Wed 18 Jul '12.
Location: Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL
Organised by: Victoria and Albert Museum.

DISPLAY: Explore the work of Bedford Lemere & Co, the leading architectural photography company of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In business from the 1870s until the 1940s, Bedford Lemere and his son Harry Bedford Lemere pioneered professional architectural photography and...

Zarina Bhimji

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000 GMT

Thu 19 Jan '12 - Fri 9 Mar '12.
Location: 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
Organised by: Whitechapel.

Landscapes and buildings haunted by their layered histories are the protagonists in British artist Zarina Bhimji�s photographs and large-scale film installations. India and East Africa are the repeat locations for her poetic foray into the archaeology of place. This first major survey exhibition...