March 11, 2009 – 12:27 pm
During his recent UCA visit to Jiangnan University in China, MAKE’s Gary Clough had the opportunity to introduce the MAKE Research Cluster to students and academics at the university’s School of Design in Wuxi. Outlining the university’s research profile, he went on to present recent MAKE projects, including Repetition and Difference, opening up the possibility of future collaborative research between the universities.
Gary’s talk in China coincides with the visit of Dr. Zhu Rong to us here at UCA. A professor at Jiangnan University, Zhu Rong will be based for three months within the architecture department at Canterbury, where she is developing her own research and forging links with the university.
Jiangnan University Website
Jiangnan University School of Design
On Tuesday 24th February students and staff from the BA Modelmaking and 3D Foundation Course visited the Barbican Centre in London to see the major retrospective exhibition of Le Corbusier ’s work. Accompanying a range of architectural presentation and sketch models, were examples of his furniture, painting and sculpture. A great day and a in-depth insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest designers.
Barbican Website
January 30, 2009 – 11:57 am
Click on the link below to see Jessica Dawson’s review of our Georgetown University show in today’s Washington Post.
Imitation as Art by Jessica Dawson
January 17, 2009 – 12:10 am
Like train-spotter’s who revel in the joy of unexpectedly seeing that carriage or engine appear on a line it shouldn’t, my visit to S.M.A.K, in Ghent (arguable one of the most interesting contemporary galleries in Europe), was blessed with a surprise sprinkling of work by the Belgian/Flemish artist Panamarenko. Alongside a series of sketches the museum displayed two of his three-dimensional models, developed as part of his long term fascination with the concept of flight.
http://www.panamarenko.org/home.php
January 17, 2009 – 12:07 am
Having re-encountered a series of Constant Niewenhuis’ models in Berlin at the end of 2008 (image above), at the interesting ‘Megastructure Reloaded’ exhibition being held at the cities former state mint, it was exciting to explore them in more detail on a recent student study visit to Amsterdam, where a series were on display at the Gemeente Museum in Den Haag.
Developed over 18 years from 1956-74 Constant embarked on an attempt to imagine a global city designed to accommodate the possibility of human mobility in a world in which the need for work would be eradicated by vast changes in technology. Envisioning the future, Constant’s models seem to have recently grown in public profile again. As the idea of city and even global planning becomes a hot topic once more amongst both cultural critics and architects alike (I’m thinking particularly of developments taking place in the Gulf states) Constant’s work has re-emerged a number of times as a marker (whether as warning or hopeful signification) that the problems and possibilities that come with thinking big are back on the table again.
January 8, 2009 – 11:58 pm
On the American leg of its journey and amidst anticipation of Obama’s up-coming inauguration, Repetition & Difference opened at Georgetown University, Washington yesterday. Installed with drawings, objects and 3D digital video, the exhibition received strong support from the university and local press alike. On show until 20th February, the work is accessible to the public Monday to Friday during college hours.
November 1, 2008 – 11:58 pm
A few still-shots taken at Studio Eliasson in Berlin whilst shooting a film about Olafur Eliasson’s long working collaboration with one of this years MAKE Lecture Series speakers: the geometrist and architect Einar Thorsteinn.
October 26, 2008 – 2:00 am
This year’s MAKE lecture series drew to a close on Thursday evening with Richard Armiger of Network Modelmakers talking to students, staff and guests at UCA Rochester about his distinguished career in modelmaking. An alumni of the university, Richard talked openly about current changes in the industry, outlining his company’s projects past and present and giving current undergraduate students a real taste of what it’s like working in the field.
Richard’s lecture will be made available on-line with the rest of this year’s lectures, under the research section of our website in the coming weeks.
October 5, 2008 – 9:00 pm
The Repetition & Difference catalogue is now available to download on-line.
Click here to download
October 2, 2008 – 10:46 pm
Yesterday night saw the first leg of MAKE’s Repetition & Difference open at Keynes College, University of Kent in Canterbury. We also had the pleasure of launching the cluster’s first publication (published by the UKC) If all goes to plan we should have a digital version of the catalogue on-line at www.makemodels.co.uk within the next week. The exhibition is now open for 3 months until 16th December, before heading across the pond to Georgetown University in Washington DC in January 2009.
