http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com The London Architecture Diary (LAD) provides free up-to-date information about architecture events across the city. en-us Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 GMT 60 editor@londonarchitecturediary.com http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/media/ladlogo_email.jpg http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com <img src="../images/thumbs/071009155141.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka"/><br /><br />Tue 13th October 2009 - Mon 5th April 2010.<br /> Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG<br /> Organised by: Tate Modern.<br /><br /> Polish artist Miroslaw Balka will undertake the tenth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1958, Balka lives and works in Warsaw and Otwock. Including installation, sculpture and video, his works explore themes of personal history and...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1783Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/250210141917.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="The New US Embassy in London"/><br /><br />Fri 26th February 2010 - Sat 20th March 2010, 9:30am.<br /> Location: NLA Space, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT<br /> Organised by: New London Architecture (NLA).<br /><br /> In January 2009 the competition was launched to find an architect to design the new London Embassy for the United States of America for its new site in Nine Elms, Vauxhall. The competition was organised by the US Department of State and involved a jury of distinguished American and British leaders...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1987Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/250210140507.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards"/><br /><br />Wed 17th February 2010 - Sun 6th June 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 2YD<br /> Organised by: Design Museum.<br /><br /> Now in their third year, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards, "the Oscars of the design world," showcase the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world. Last year's winner, the unofficial Barack Obama poster campaign by Shepard Fairey, demonstrated the power that design can...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1986Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/270110112528.gif" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Bronze Casting Course (10 Fridays over 3 months) - February 2010"/><br /><br />Fri 19th February 2010 - Fri 21st May 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: Ramsgate, CT11 0QZ<br /> Organised by: Meltdowns Ltd.<br /><br /> Following a last minute cancellation there’s a couple of places still available on this foundry education programme that’s now in its third year. Delivered over ten full day sessions, this is a unique opportunity for you to learn the bronze casting process and in turn produce a bronze sculpture...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1922Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/151209090152.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Don't Move, Improve!"/><br /><br />Tue 8th December 2009 - Sat 20th March 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: NLA Space, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT<br /> Organised by: New London Architecture (NLA).<br /><br /> NLA launched a competition this Autumn, in association with The Building Centre, Time Out, RIBA London and Elle Decoration, to find London's best and most innovative home extensions. This exhibition displays the 32 shortlisted and winning schemes, which will provide inspiration for homeowners...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1848Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/070110144613.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Gargoyles and Shadows: Gothic Architecture and 19th Century Photography"/><br /><br />Thu 7th January 2010 - Sun 16th May 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL<br /> Organised by: V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership.<br /><br /> Drawing on the V&A's rich holdings of 19th-century photographs, this display will examine the relationship that developed between photography and architectural practice in the 19th century and explore how photography facilitated the re-discovery of an idealised past. The display will also address...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1867Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMTTue 2nd March 2010 - Thu 18th March 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: Lobby Gallery, Bartlett School of Architecture, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London<br /> Organised by: The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.<br /><br /> Conference: G02, 10.00am-6.00pm Tuesday 2 March 2010 Exhibition Opening and Bar: Bartlett Lobby Gallery, 6.00pm Tuesday 2 March 2010 Exhibition Dates: 2 Tuesday March–Thursday 18 March 2010 Organised by Dr Ana Araujo, Professor Jonathan Hill and Dr Barbara Penner, PhD Research Projects 2010...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1968Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMTWed 10th February 2010 - Tue 22nd June 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: Royal Academy of Arts Archiecture Space, W1J 0BD<br /> Organised by: Royal Academy of Arts.<br /><br /> Prompted by the imminent demolition of an old London inn near St Paul’s, the Society for the Photographing of Relics of Old London set about using photography as a means of documenting buildings that represented old London threatened with destruction. This exhibition presents a selection of these...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1883Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/290110111522.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Richard Hamilton"/><br /><br />Wed 3rd March 2010 - Sun 25th April 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA<br /> Organised by: Serpentine Gallery.<br /><br /> The Serpentine Gallery presents a solo exhibition by one of the world’s most respected living artists, Richard Hamilton. Hamilton has embraced many different mediums since the 1950s, including painting, printmaking, installation and industrial design. The exhibition will reassess the nature of...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1943Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMTThu 4th February 2010 - Sun 16th May 2010, 10:00am.<br /> Location: Tate Modern , SE1 9TG<br /> Organised by: Tate Modern .<br /><br /> Tate Modern is organising the 1st UK exhibition devoted to Theo Van Doesburg (1883-1931), a multi-disciplinary artist, who founded the De Stijl movement and played a pivotal role in exchanging avant-garde ideas between 1917 and 1931. Painter, architect and designer, he formed relationships with...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1914Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/290110104440.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh"/><br /><br />Thu 21st January 2010 - Sun 11th April 2010, 11:00am.<br /> Location: 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX<br /> Organised by: Whitechapel.<br /><br /> This landmark exhibition gives an inside view of how modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been shaped through the lens of their photographers. From the days when the first Indian-run photographic studios were established in the 19th century, this exhibition tells the story of photography’s...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1941Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/290110102849.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Game Keepers Without Game"/><br /><br />Wed 10th February 2010 - Sat 27th March 2010, 12:00pm.<br /> Location: 63 Penfold Street, NW8 8PQ<br /> Organised by: The Showroom.<br /><br /> The Showroom presents the London premiere of British artist Emily Wardill’s new work, Game Keepers Without Game, a powerful feature length film based on Life is a Dream (La Vida es Sueño) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The exhibition will also stage the development of Wardill’s new film, Fulll...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1939Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/161209135135.jpe" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Michael Landy: Art Bin"/><br /><br />Fri 29th January 2010 - Sun 14th March 2010, 12:00pm.<br /> Location: South London Gallery, SE5 8UH<br /> Organised by: South London Gallery.<br /><br /> Michael Landy transforms the South London Gallery into Art Bin, a container for the disposal of works of art. Over the course of the six-week exhibition the enormous 600m³ bin will gradually fill up as people discard their art works in it, ultimately creating, in Michael Landy’s words, “a monument...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1864Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/290110102036.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="NaoKo TakaHashi - An Exploration of Perforated Space in Four Segments of Words"/><br /><br />Fri 5th February 2010 - Sun 4th April 2010, 12:00pm.<br /> Location: Unit2/210, Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9NQ<br /> Organised by: IMT Gallery.<br /><br /> IMT Gallery is proud to present An Exploration of Perforated Space in Four Segments Words, a site-specific commission by artist NaoKo TakaHashi. TakaHashi has been exploring issues of language and social space in her work for the last nine years in an investigation of differences and...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1938Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000 GMT<img src="../images/thumbs/290110095700.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" alt="Florian Hecker"/><br /><br />Fri 12th February 2010 - Sun 28th March 2010, 1:00pm.<br /> Location: 64 Chisenhale Road , E3 5QZ<br /> Organised by: Chisenhale Gallery.<br /><br /> Hecker's new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spacial perception. At Chisenhale Gallery he will present a series of four independent, electro-acoustic works that...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1935Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000 GMTFri 11th December 2009 - Wed 17th March 2010, 4:00pm.<br /> Location: SIR HUGH CASSON ROOM FOR FRIENDS ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS , W1J 0BD<br /> Organised by: Royal Academy of Arts.<br /><br /> This winter the Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of work from Richard MacCormac RA. This will provide the opportunity to view key projects that illustrate Richard MacCormac and that of his practice MJP Architects place within contemporary British architecture. The exhibition will...http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1860Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 GMTWed 10th March 2010, 6:30pm.<br /> Location: Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London, WC1<br /> Organised by: The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.<br /><br /> If there’s one thing that human beings do, it’s to find patterns. We find them everywhere, and if we didn’t we’d not be able to remember or recognise anything: in pattern we find constancy and thus we find our understanding of the things in, and ideas of, the world, which we can think of as wholes....http://www.londonarchitecturediary.com/event.php?id=1970Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000 GMT