Brett will moderate ‘Real Architecture’ by Farshid Moussavi, at the London’s Tate Bankside Museum April 29th, 2008 at 7.00pm. The lecture by Farshid is on Foreign Office Archtects’ John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, in Leicester.
—29 April, 2008
London Tate Bankside
—London: Icon Magazine
‘We Did it on our Lunch Break’
The May 2008 issue of Icon Magazine (London) features the recently-completed AADRL Ten Pavilion, erected as a temporary pavilion in London’s Bedford Square, opposite the AA School. Made out of several hundred Fibre-C lightweight, reinforced concrete panels, the project was designed by Alvin Huang & Alan Dempsey, DRL graduates who collaborated on the competition-winning design. […]
—Mexico City
‘La Arquitectura a Partir del la Geografia’
Brett’s ‘Architecture after Geography’ essay is include in this month’s publication of Arquine (Spring 2008), the Mexican architectural journal published in Mexico City. The essay offers a short introduction to four recent graduate design projects undertaken at the AA School, and discusses the circumstances of a contemporary globaliation of architectural practise and education.
—New York
‘Literary v. Literal Architecture’
‘Literary v. Literal Architecture’ introduces the recent work of NaJa & deOstos featured in an upcoming issue of Pamphlet Architecture, in New York. Nannette Jackowski and Riccardo deOstos practise in London, and teach in the AA Intermediate School. Their upcoming Pamphlet Architecture issue (following their previous publication, titled ‘The Hanging Gardens of Baghdad’) features two […]
Reading Now:
‘79 Essays on Design’
On Brett’s Bookshelf
Michael Beirut’s essays on contemporary (graphic) design; a thorough survey of the forces, faces and fonts populating the field today. The book–surprisingly–surpesses its own design for the purposes of emphasising the author’s words and ideas.
—London
‘The Death of Models’
‘The Death of Models’ is a short essay just sent to the Print Studio for this month’s publication of ‘DRL Ten’, a decade-long monograph featuring more than a hundred projects by the Design Research Lab. The launches Tuesday evening March 11th at the AA–don’t miss it, and see accompanying exhibition and concrete pavilion in Bedford […]