Michael Snow

Michael Snow’s Wavelength is a classic structural film.

Erin Shirreff

'"Working online I oftentimes feel disconnected from my body," says Erin Shirreff, recounting the familiar experience of restlessly navigating virtual space. Half-engaged in a stream of weightless graphics and information, it’s easy to lose track of the screen’s physical parameters—and your own. Shirreff’s motivation for developing Shadow, Glare, however, stems from those moments when the screen’s material presence becomes impossible to ignore, when dust accumulations, errant smudges, and the movement of shadows and glares disturb the illusion of transparency. "In my living room the light will shift," Shirreff explains, "and suddenly I’ll be looking at all the dust on my computer screen, or the splotches of light. That will really jar me back into my chair." ' Shadow Glare site.

Unit B In Building Design Magazine

Unit B work has been selected by Building Design Magazine for an article on the Oxford Brookes School of Architecture summer show. The following link sends you to the relevant page. All work initially selected is by third year unit B students, Jon, Richard, Joe, Fed, Ned, Josh, Al and Jack, plus one second year unit B student Wai Sie Ng. Work from the other units has also now been added and attributed to those units, but B's (which is all at the start) is not as yet noted as B. See article here.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Richard, Ned, Al, Josh, Fed, Jack, Jon and Joe on their First Class Degrees. The images above are from their year 3 portfolios in name order from left to right.

Unit B Summer Exhibition 2011

The Unit B Summer Exhibition is presently open in London, at Chetwoods Architects, 12 - 13 Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0QJ until the 19th July 2011, from 10am - 4pm (mon - fri).

Interview with Peter Zumthor

Interview: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by Peter Zumthor from Dezeen on Vimeo.

Summer Shows and exhibitions

This is the time to visit the summer shows. In London the RCA, AA and Westminster shows are now on and the Bartlett show starts on the 1st July.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is also still open until 15th August, and also at the Royal Academy is an exhibition of recent work by Morphosis until 18th September (see image above). All well worth a visit for inspiration.

Peter Zumthor's Serpentine Pavilion

Peter Zumthor's first building in the UK, the 2011 Serpentine Pavilion, is now complete and has been open to the press. It opens to the public on the 1st July. The Guardian report that Peter Zumthor said at the opening: "This should be an escape, a place where nature is framed and compressed....Make of it what you like. There is no hidden, or even obvious, meaning here. This is a place for you to be. To be. Nothing else." Zumthor's written statement also said: "Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings – sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time." Read the full article here.