MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE

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1 MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE Graduate Journal 2014

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3 Beginnings 2 The M.Arch is the AUB s professional and performative postgraduate, ARB Part2 Course which has been creatively collaborating this year. There has been dancing with the fishes, building on the beach, travelling into the forest (via ArtSway) and waterside cycling (in Lisbon). There have been lectures from Studio Weave and Zaha Hadid s office; Peter Cook was appointed Visiting Professor and his practice CRAB have also been commissioned to create a drawing studio on the AUB Campus. The M.Arch has been growing and emerging with its second graduating year. The final Thesis work develops from both the first year M.Arch projects, and the Professional Studies & Ecological Strategies units in second year. The work is individually focused but is linked by certain key texts such as Felix Guttari s Three Ecologies, where the mental, social and environmental ecologies combine. Many of the students in this graduating year have come from the recently established degree course at AUB, with highly collaborative and making skills, they have fabricated some fascinating and wide-ranging thesis projects. Nathan Ball collaborated with the National Trust on their changing coast-line project, based at Studland beach. He was looking at the future proofing of the beach hut. Nicole Dobbie charted, and sensitively remodelled, the Bournemouth district of Charminster; it s fabric, landscape and social spaces. Daniel Hambly explored the new AUB M.Arch space at ArtSway transforming it into to Venice and his Institute of Landscape. Two projects at and adjacent to Bournemouth gardens celebrated the performative: Melanie Kaviani s through a festival, collaborating with other art forms particularly modelmaking; the other Ali Jafari s, examined the memory and rituals of old age. Andrej Keltos took the lack of connectedness and environmental awareness in front of the train station and crossed it with J.G Ballard s Crash. Heading back a few centuries with the processes of the Hospital of St Cross & Almshouse of Noble Poverty, Winchester, Richard Neale turbocharged them into the twentieth century with his remarkable making and thinking skills. Ben Randall s project questioned the future structuring and ecologic of AUB. He examined the collaborative education processes and its future spatial organization on an expanding campus. There were many other highlights in the academic year. See the back page and the M.Arch website for more of the story.

4 The Future proofed Beach Hut Nathan Ball

5 Nathan collaborated with the National Trust on their changing coast-line project, based at Studland beach.

6 A Place in Charminster Nicole Dobbie

7 Nicole charted, and sensitively remodelled, the Bournemouth district of Charminster; it s fabric, landscape and social spaces.

8 Fedora: A Manifesto for Architectural Landscapes Daniel Hambly

9 Daniel developed his Institute of Landscape in Venice Arsenal paying homage to Carolo Scarpa, he also explored the new AUB M.Arch space at ArtSway it became a gallery studio for drawing fragments of new landscapes.

10 Dwelling with Memories Ali Jafari

11 Ali examined the memory and rituals of old age, with a family based short term care and support home near to the seafront in Bournemouth, using a refined palette of Portland Stone.

12 Spacial Calligraphy of Lower Gardens Melanie Kaviani

13 In Bournemouth gardens, celebrating the performative Melanie s festival project collaborated with fashion, film, performance and modelmaking students.

14 Digital Boulevard Andrej Keltos

15 Andrej took the lack of connectedness and environmental awareness in front of Bournemouth train station and crossed it with J.G Ballard s Crash.

16 Addition to Existing Richard Neale

17 Heading back a few centuries with the rituals and buildings of the Hospital of St Cross & Almshouse of Noble Poverty, Winchester, Richard turbo-charged them into the twentieth century with his remarkable making and thinking skills.

18 The Arts Nest Ben Randall

19 Ben s project questioned the future structuring and ecologic of AUB. He examined the collaborative education processes and its future spatial organisation on an expanding campus.

20 The year opened with the cross Degree and M.Arch, Body Architecture Movement Symposium with visiting visual and movement artists and collaborators; Lucy Orta, Hannah Bruce, Rosa Couloute and Caroline Salem and from AUB performance course Ellie Nixon. In the first term there was the trip to Lisbon, co-ordinated by Richard Eastham that linked with UMEA Sweden, and then to AA s Hooke Park with Jez Ralph from Timber Strategies and Martin Self, and work by Frei Otto, ABK, Edward Cullinan, and AA students. The M.Arch s expansion has seen the use of architect Tony Fretton s gem of a building, ArtSway, in the New Forest. The first event at ArtSway was an exhibition: The Model - feel the realness by architect Nic Howett, his models including those with Jonathan Tuckey Associates, Moving Architecture, and Patrick Lewis Architects. We look forward to using it as a base for the M.Arch next year. A presentation in London at Moving Architecture, Hackney also took us to the Soane Museum where Steve Witherford of Stirling Prize Winners, Witherford, Watson & Mann explained the special exhibition of their Astley Castle and other projects. This was followed by a visit to the RA and the Sensing Spaces exhibition curated by Kate Goodwin, Drue Heinz Curator of Architecture, who came and presented the story behind the exhibition at AUB the following week. Other lectures and associated seminars were given by Esme Fieldhouse of Studio Weave, Pierre D Avoine of D Avoine Architects, Pete Barber, Uli Blum an Associate at Zaha Hadid, Graham Bizley of Prewett Bizley Architects, Ben Rowe of Ramboll, Elaine Stowell of the ARB, Ben Townsend of Squint Opera and Richard Horden. This has been my first year of running the M.Arch and great thanks to the AUB team: Oren, the Richards, Anthony, Channa, Michelle, Simon, Rebecca, Dale & Linda et al. And former M.Arch students and now AUB staff, Michael Lane and David McCarthy. Next year we will build on the performative and projective work this year through making at the local (via Sway) and the global levels, examining both formal and informal settlements. Ed Frith, Programme Leader

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23 Course Details Mode of Study: Full-time Course Duration: 2 years Contact Admissions Tel: / admissions@aub.ac.uk For detailed entry requirements and standard offer information, please visit aub.ac.uk

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