Monthly Archives: September 2021

Perry Kulper 6pm 28th September 2021

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‘in the margins’

We are delighted to have Perry Kulper join us for the second of our Experimental Design Practices REG autumn events on Tuesday 28th September at 6pm (online – link to follow). Perry will discuss a cross section of work, with an emphasize on process and how the work happens.

 

Perry is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He previously taught for 17 years at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and held visiting teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. He has worked for Eisenman/ Robertson; Robert A.M. Stern Architects; and Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown Architects.

Perry is engaged with the generative potential of architectural drawing, the different spatial opportunities of diverse design methods, and interested in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination. In 2013, he published Pamphlet Architecture 34, Fathoming the Unfathomable: Archival Ghosts and Paradoxical Shadows with Nat Chard with whom he also co-authored Contingent Practices.

All welcome.

The talk will be held online, links to follow.

Do get in touch if you have any queries: s.stevens2@brighton.ac.uk

Experimental Design Practices Research and Enterprise Group

 

 

 

ExDP Autumn Events

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We have an exciting programme of upcoming events this autumn. Links will be sent by email.

Tuesday 7th September, 11am Teams (recording posted below)

Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL

Tuesday 28th September, 6pm

Perry Kulper, Associate Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan

Tuesday 19th October, 6pm

Oliver Wilton, Associate Professor of Environmental Design and Director of Technology, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Tuesday 9th November, release

Nat Chard, Professor of Experimental Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture in conversation with Nada Subotincic, Professor, Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba

 

Professor Murray Fraser

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As the first of our autumn events we were delighted to have Professor Murray Fraser join us on Tuesday 7th September at 11am (Teams) to discuss the history of design research in architecture and its various potentials.

Murray has published extensively on architectural design, architectural history & theory, urbanism, globalisation, post-colonialism, design research and cultural studies. His book Design Research in Architecture is now a standard work in its field and forms part of book series also titled ‘Design Research in Architecture’, now published by UCL Press, which he co-edits. Murray has an amazing breadth of experience and probably needs little introduction, but there is a bio below that attempts to pick up just some of the things he has been engaged in. We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to have him join us on Tuesday.

The video of the presentation is below.

Upcoming events:

6pm 28th September Perry Kulper
6pm 19th October Oliver Wilton

 

ExDP REG 2021 Prize: movement

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Our symposium this year explored work that reflects on what it means to be in constant motion, and how we might reconsider design through this lens. Our 2021 Experimental Design Practices REG Student Prize continued this focus. We were interested in seeing work from all courses and levels which engages with experimental process to understand the implications of movement. The prize therefore foregrounds process and its impact on conclusions.

Students in all courses and levels in the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Brighton were invited to submit their explorations on the subject of movement for the Experimental Design Practices REG 2021 Prize. We wished to see what was at stake in the work, how this was explored and how the understanding garnered through this process informed any final proposal.

We live our lives through movement. From the movement of others around us, to the movement of the cells within our own bodies, nothing is truly still. Movement can however be a less explored foundation for design, and we received a wide rang of exciting exploratory work engaging with these concerns this year. The winner was Solange Leon Iriarte, MA Sustainable Design: