'Peel 'Here', an exhibition of works by Foundation tutor Takako Hasegawa  opens at ARCHGallery on 18 November, with a preview on 17 November, 6.00–9.00.

Obsessed with the unseen and unconscious systems of the city and its people, Takako works in a variety of media to decode and expose the anatomy of the ordinary and mundane.

The exhibition continues till 19 December (Wednesday to Saturday 12.00 to 5.00) at ARCHgallery, 15 Resolution Way, Deptford, London SE8 4NT.
For more information, visit http://www.paulmarks.net/Current%20exhibition.htm

London-based ecoLogicStudio (co-founded by C.Pasquero and M.Poletto
Inter10) presents revised proposals for a woodland
home in Haslemere, West Sussex

See AJ article:
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/ecologicstudio-unveils-redesigned-pps7-house/5210761.article

London-based ecoLogicStudio (co-founded by C.Pasquero and M.Poletto
Inter10) presents revised proposals for a woodland
home in Haslemere, West Sussex

See AJ article:
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/ecologicstudio-unveils-redesigned-pps7-house/5210761.article

See http://www.metalocus.es/content/node/400?lng=en

Francisco Gonzalez de Canales (Inter Unit 8, H&T tutor, AACP) presented a paper 'From Po-Mo to Digital' at Critical Digital Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also co-organised the symposium Creative Cities at the University of Seville.

ARCH+ journal publishes article by Eva Eylers (AA PhD candidate), Emanuel de Sousa (AA HTS tutor, AA PhD candidate) and Kirk Wooller (AA PhD candidate) in November 2009 issue (vol. 195). The article discusses the recent AA PhD Dialogues 2009 ‘Ideology in Transparency’ symposium and reflects upon issues raised during the event and their implications for architectural practice.
See archplus.net

Team Shampoo (Kostas Grigoriadis, Irene Shamma, Alex Robles-Palacio, Pavlos Fereos) publish DRL 09 thesis project Urban Reef in Digital Architecture: Passages through Hinterlands (pp.82–85).
The project has also been exhibited in the Digital Hinterlands exhibition at the Arup Phase 2 Gallery.

http://www.digital-architecture.org/hinterlands/exhibitor/shampoo/
http://www.passagesthroughhinterlands.com/book/index.html
http://www.shampoo.net/

Superfusionlab has been shortlisted in RIBA's Bexhill-on-Sea windshelter and kiosk competition along with nine other practices.
Superfusionlab was founded by AA DRL 2000 graduates Nate Kolbe (AA Unit Master 2001–08), Lida Vanessa Charsouli, Yas Mostashari and Djordje Stojanovic.
See architectsjournal and architecture.com

www.anycorp.com
Log 17 includes Teresa's text Venetian Dusts 'mops floors in Venice, immerses itself in Joseph Brodsky's haptic experiences of the city and in Henry James's stifling palazzo interiors, to scratch beyond the surface of Jorge Otero-Pailos's Biennale installation The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice (2009).' The issue is guest edited by Mark Foster Gage and Florencia Pita, and features essays and conversations focusing on relationships between new media and materiality in architecture – with an emphasis on sensation and affect.

A panel discussion was organised by Tomorrow's Thoughts Today for the Festival of Urbanism (This Is Not A Gateway)

Urban thinktank Tomorrow's Thoughts Today moderated a panel discussion of emerging and seasoned urbanists as part of the TINAG Festival of Urbanism. The roundtable discussion explored the issue of alternative urban practice that has its basis in dystopian fantasies and speculations where things go wrong, in perverse opposition to the current trend for naive optimism in urban regeneration which is as much powered by having to sell to clients as to win votes.

But rather than simply offer cynicism as a response, can we describe an alternative practice where current power structures of patronage and regulation are channeled, subverted or engaged in new ways? What is the power of a critical urbanism within the practice of design? And how might dystopian visions paradoxically offer a productive way of approaching the urban question?

Panellists included: Darryl Chen and Liam Young (Tomorrow'sThoughtsToday); Austin Williams (Future Cities Project); Tomas Klassnik (Klassnik Corporation); Karl Sharro (ManTowNHuman); Elena Pascolo (Urban Projects Bureau, Architectural Association); and Finn Williams (Common Office, RCA).

For more information, see info@tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com

or visit http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com

AA DRL 2009 thesis project by Rafael Contreras, Matei Denes, Julian Jones and Diego Ricalde shortlisted for d3 Natural Systems org exhibition.

The Crackology project was also published in Digital Architecture: Passages through Hinterlands.

See passagesthroughhinterlands and digital-architecture

The Crackology project was by Rafael Contreras (Peru); Matei Denes (Romania); Julian Jones (Peru); and Diego Ricalde (Mexico).

See d3space and d3NaturalSystemsExhibition

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The Crackology project was also published in Digital Architecture: Passages through Hinterlands. See passagesthroughhinterlands and   
digital-architecture
 
The Crackology project was by Rafael Contreras (Perú); Matei Denes (Romania); Julian Jones (Perú); and Diego Ricalde (Mexico).
 
See d3space and d3NaturalSystemsExhibition

FAT projects in Duplicate Array: Objects/Buildings/Plans range in scale from objects to buildings and masterplans. The projects explore an idea of architecture as narrative, media and communication engaging directly with the culture, communities and scenarios that surround them. Using tactics including appropriation, irony, patterning and juxtaposition, they set out an architectural agenda addressing issues of taste, ornament and meaning in contemporary culture.

See lucymackintosh

The programme is coordinated by Harriet Harriss of Oxford Brookes, a graduate of the AA Building Conservation course.

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA2010) has announced the brief for the International Architecture Student Festival (IASF) that will run as part of the LFA2010 and calls for expressions of interest from universities and/or students who wish to participate.

The Festival will take place from 19 June to 4 July, encompassing three weekends and two intervening weeks. The theme of the LFA2010 is The Welcoming City, a reference to the design of cities, which are amenable, tolerant and engaging, as well as to the Olympic slogan for 2012 that 'London welcomes the world'.

For more information please visit www.lfa2010.org

In the face of a new global culture ridden with social and economical crises, new forms of solidarity have arisen in the light of ecological awareness and a new found faith in politics. They allow for the affirmation of new systems of organisation and trade founded on cooperation and the open sharing of knowledge.

Insiders bears witness to a new way of looking at different customs and know-how emanating from singular cultures and territories. The modernisation and modes of transmission of this popular knowledge – or folklore – operates within a global system and inside of local contexts. They highlight the complexity of identities shaped by the appropriations, transformations and combinations without witch such contemporary singularities would not emerge.

This two-fold exhibition, devised as an archipelago of artistic and architectural proposals, combines and assembles a series of recent works, projects, works-in-progress and commissions.

See www.fat.co.uk, arcenreve and www.strangeharvest.com

To mark the 175th anniversary of the RIBA the BFI presents a season of film looking at architects, architecture, and cities. Of Dreams and Cities offers a wide range of films, from expressionist silent drama to contemporary documentary, from vintage Hollywood studio fare to European auteur classics and highly personal 'essay films'. A key feature of the season is the extended run of Orson Well's celebrated Citizen Kane.

For full details go to www.bfi.org.uk/go/ofdreamsandcitiescourtauld