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Amazing Afrofuturist work in the Congo Stars exhibition at the Kunstahalle in Graz, with exuberant and critical images of space science and urban development alongside critical futures works where technological waste is remade into the fabric of clot

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Architecture field trip to Oxford (pt 2) visiting modern and brutalist buildings located in amongst the historic college quadrangles. These buildings seem to resonate with a desire for a more radical future, but their optimism sits somewhat uncomfort

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Architecture field trip to Oxford (pt 1) — Edward King Chapel by Niall McLaughlin Architects, which uses elegant timber beams to create an uplifting sense of grace.
#oxford #architecture #chapel #ripponcollege #cuddesdon #niallmclaughlinarchit

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Yin Xiuzhen at Margate Turner Gallery, installation made from discarded clothes, stitched together and stretched across a grid without pattern or symmetry, creating a seemingly makeshift structure which is as varied as the garmets, and a personal int

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$Wonderful installation at Margate Turner Gallery by Jyll Bradley, 'Dutch Light' which refines the lean-to greenhouses of the same name down to a series of perspex sheets which refract and distill the sun in shifting patterns and seem to glow from wit$

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St Olaf House opposite London Bridge underground. Tasteful art deco modernism on the facade with beautiful chamfered brass signage and faceted angles in the window framing, patterns which are unleashed in a wildly unexpected and almost pop art underc

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Black Book by Gideon Rubin at the Freud museum redacts fascist imagery from books and magazines, and effaces every word from a first edition of Mein Kampf. This process of striking out reveals the violence in that which is now hidden, the objects are

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Willow Road, designed and occupied by Erno and Ursula Goldfinger. Spare and elegant detailing set off by an approach to materials which cherishes the everyday: twined rope in place of handrail spindels, inlaid cork set into stair treads, red lacquer

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Unexpectedly lovely friezes by Henry Haig at South Ruislip Station, shame about the CCTV cameras!

#londonunderground #architecture #concrete #mosaic #southruislip #henryhaig #freize

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Design for the picket line.
@newbridgeproject #ussstrike #ussstrike
@newcastleuni @nuarchisoc

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Stunning Durham students union building, Dunelm House by Architects Co-partnership. Brutalist forms cascading down the banks of the river with deep sliced slanted windows, "vibrating rhythms" of "heft and lightness" according to R

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A few images from the opening of 'Deformation Attends Her' by Verity Birt. Delighted to have been able to collaborate with Verity in designing and installing the landscape floor for this exhibition, translating the lines of site specific works back i

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Loved the 'library for the birds of London' by Mark Dion at the Whitechapel gallery. An aviary filled with ornithological paraphernalia and live finches. The birds are "indifferent" to the accumulated knowledge about them, and their pecking

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Finally made it to the fantastic 'room for art' work made by school children led by Matt + Fiona at the Whitechapel gallery. A stunning demonstration of what young people can achieve when they are valued and inspired by those who work with them, and

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Beautiful and insightful exhibition at the Baltic gallery, by Jasmina Cibic 'This Machine Builds Nations'. Explorations of identity through film works which play with the architecture and political rhetoric of nationalism.

#baltic #jasminacibic #fi

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Newcastle University student installations in response to films including Blade Runner and Alien, abstracting the spatial experience of otherness and representing it in large scale works which convey the relationship between identity and landscape.

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