Architecture, Culture and Tectonics Research Group

Events

Visitors at an information lecture June 2019 Open Day, University Park (1)

ACT Guest Seminar - 2nd November 2022

Date
02/11/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
B5 Marmont
Description
The ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham invite you to join them for their seminar. This presentation considers Pasmore's SW Area housing schemes in detail, and argues that – despite subsequent dilution of its architectural language - its urban legacy is quietly radical, confronting prevailing wisdoms of streetscape and defensible space, and offering a still-relevant, alternative generosity in respect of public realm. The presenter, Alison Davies is an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, where she runs architectural design studio unit 5A.

Workshop - 30 November 2022

Date
30/11/2022 (14:00-17:00)
Location:
B38 Lenton Firs
Description
Arthur Piper is an award-winning writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications in the UK, Europe and the US, including The Times, The Telegraph, and The Daily Mail. This afternoon workshop provides some core strategies and ideas to help you cut through the confusion. The workshop will look at using appropriate vocabulary and sentences, pacing and structure between paragraphs, and invites writers to bring their own writing to work on and discuss. It will also suggest a range of helpful resources.

ACT-Guest-Seminar - Tuesday 2 August 2022

Date
02/08/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
B38 Lenton Firs
Description
The ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham are hosting a seminar which will be delivered by Professor Kiyoko Kanki. Kiyoko KANKI, born in 1966 in Osaka, is a Professor at the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University. She graduated from her masters course from the Graduate School of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University and received her Dr.Eng from Kyoto University, in 1997. Her seminar is about the cultural landscapes in the city of Kyoto, Japan.

ACT Guest Seminar - 4 May 2022

Date
04/05/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
B38 Lenton Firs
Description
ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham hosted a seminar that was delivered by Laura Hanks. Laura Hanks is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, where she teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She spoke about her new book 'New Museum Design'.

ACT Guest Seminar - 6th April 2022

Date
06/04/2022 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
B38 Lenton Firs
Description
The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham kindly invite you to their seminar with guest speaker, PhD students, Hatice Sule Ozer and Xijing Chen. In this seminar, discussions centre around the study which shows that Musician House Museums could teach how they survive with unique struggles in the museum world and its effective uses of interpretations for blind people.

ACT- Guest-Seminar-March 2022

Date
16/03/2022 (11:00-13:00)
Location:
Marmont Centre
Description
The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham kindly invite you to their seminar with guest speaker, David Ames, Executive Director, Stewardship and Development, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. In this seminar, the story of Letchworth from its inception to today will be explored. This will include a discussion on how we ensure Letchworth continues a great place to live, to improve live chances for people and to provide people with a healthy environment are our objectives and the modern challenges of meeting Letchworth's growth requirements, applying a modern interpretation of these values and design principles.

ACT Guest Seminar - 1st December 2021

Date
01/12/2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
B38 Lenton Firs
Description
The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham kindly invite you to their seminar with guest speaker, Dr Richard Hayes. In this talk, architectural historian Richard W. Hayes focuses on three of Moore's eight houses to delineate a portrayal of the designer. As experimental works, the houses evince Moore's interest in the role of memory, the importance of the sensing body, and contrasts between high art and pop culture.

ACT Guest Seminar- November 2021

Date
03/11/2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
B38 Lenton Firs
Description
The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham are hosting a seminar from guest speaker, Dr Nader El-Bizri. Nader El-Bizri is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Intellectual History at Durham University and a Professor of Civilization Studies and Philosophy at the American University of Beirut. This talk focuses on the confluences of the architectural-pictorial arts with the optical-mathematical sciences within the Perspectiva traditions that unfolded in the European milieu from the High Middle ages and up to the early-modern epoch, and passing by the Italian Renaissance.

ACT Seminar - October 2021

Date
06/10/2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
B38 Lenton Firs
Description
The ACT Research Group warmly invite you to attend their Wednesday seminar with guest speaker, Dr Arthur Piper. Arthur Piper is an award-winning writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications in the UK, Europe and the US, including The Times, The Telegraph, and The Daily Mail.

ACT Guest Seminar - June 2021

Date
16/06/2021 (12:00-13:00)
Location:
mircosoft teams
Description
The ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham are hosting a seminar with guest speaker, Efthymios Kapsalis. This seminar intends to explore the societal and developmental importance of designing for inclusion whether in the macro-, meso-, or micro-scale. It will feature an up-to-date outlook of accessibility conditions in the built environment, supported by findings from socio-spatial studies.

ACT-Guest-Seminar - May 2021

Date
05/05/2021 (12:00-13:00)
Location:
Microsoft Teams
Description
This seminar is being hosted by the ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham. Guest speaker includes Executive Director David Ames. David is a Chartered Town Planner and qualified surveyor and is responsible for strategic town planning, heritage and environment matters. He has 26 years experience in private and public sectors and returned to the Heritage Foundation in 2011, following working for us between 1997 to 2002.

Working at Home: Architects during the Pandemic in China - February 2021

Date
03/02/2021 (10:00-11:00)
Location:
Zoom
Description
The exhibition Working at Home: Architects during the Pandemic in China shows the spatial condition of homeworking by Chinese architects during the Pandemic. It also showcases recent work of Chinese architectural practices to demonstrate the current thinking of how to be at home in the city during and after the pandemic.
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Architecture, Culture and Tectonics

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