Leicester School of Architecture students James Flynn and Ashley Clayton exhibit at the Royal Academy.
Tutors: Sara Shafiei & Ben Cowd

link to RA summer Exhibition

Students tutored by Sara Shafiei and Ben Cowd at the Leicester School of Architecture (De Mntfort University) win student prizes:

Leicester and Rutland Society of Architects Prize:

Best graduating Part 2 Student (BArch) Richard Isslieb

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Best Performance by a non graduating student award

5th Year: Simon Davies & Ashley Clayton

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Peter Elderfield Award

This award is given to a student who has investigated, in a design project or thesis with a focus on housing, issues of social sustainability, re-definition of the social housing type, the notion of ‘home’, spatial quality within dwelling and its connection to the urban context, and to have offered a critique of current theories and orthodoxies.

6^Th year

Richard Isslieb

Manpreet Bassan

Joseph D’Abbro

5^th year:

Richard Bailey (House for Wax-maker);

Ashley Clayton (House for a Magician)

3^rd Year:

Rebecca Smith

Gareth Patrick

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David Nesbitt Prize

Ashley Clayton

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Adiyan Prize

Simone PLASSARD (BA final year)

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Ibstock Award For Best use of digital technology

Alex Taylor

Ibstock Award For Best Best model/ drawings

James Flynn & Ashley Clayton

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RIBA East Midlands Student Low Carbon Award

Richard Isslieb

Ashley Clayton’s project ‘The Magician’s Workshop and Practice Hall , George IV Bridge, Edinburgh’ is nominated for 3D Reid Prize 2010

Ashley is a student at the Leicester School of Architecture (De Montfort University) and tutored by Sara Shafiei and Ben Cowd

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Unit E Architecture Design tutors

Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui  / Justin C.K Lau

Luxurious, Luxuriance, and Loss 

2nd year students / Abigail Reid, Abigail Whitelow, Anna Beer, Ayiannis Christo, Bharat Pankhania, Edmund Drury, Ergit Bedalli, James Booth, Jonathan Gillett, Joshua Evans, Kah Shuen Lee, Sebastian Andraos

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The experimentation of the unit studio is driven by the research topics through the academic organizations of Horhizon and Horhizon-Paris. The polemic of the works focuses primarily on a ‘digital green’ design methodology that is intrinsically associated with a sense of formal, structural and spatialcomplexity as seen in the nature of plants, while borrowing from the baroque thinking along with the morphing with classical architectural semantics into playful theatrical tectonics and typologies. The creative technological methodology pursues a synthetic model for design- where organically embodied flesh encompasses new ornamental, sensual and bodily qualities in architecture.

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The Agave, often called the Century Plant, can live up to 60 years, but it only blossoms once in its lifetime. When it blooms, it is unexpected, and takes less than 4 weeks for the ornamental plant to grow a thick stem that enable spiraling branches and beautiful fl owers to reach for the sky, up to 12-15 metres. The main plant then dies after its once-in-a-life-time moment. Nonetheless, the after life of the plant provides a wide range of useful resources for human beings. For hundreds of years, humans have used various parts of the Century Plant to produce rope, clothing, pins, needles, food, tequila, and many more. Hence, the blossoming period is a spectacle would attract unprecedented attentions and public interests on an architectural scale, generating a small temporary economy. (e.g. local news, school and children visits, talks, research, education activities, exhibitions, tourist attractions, production of consumer goods, etc) The long and short-term narratives of the Century Plant will be used to initiate a wide range of design themes. Throughout the year, students will be asked to respond to the unit’s agenda, by investigating the spatial enquiries of ‘luxurious, luxuriant, and loss’, and incorporate such qualities into their designs.

biometamorphic architecture: organ transplantation clinic and laboratory

Studio Lau Kinugasa Tsui from Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris

For more information, please visit the followings:

http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=2337&dop=True

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/12/02/riba-president%e2%80%99s-medals-student-awards-2009/#more-52075

Leicester meets Canterbury @ AA

Leicester school of Architecture and Canterbury School of Architecture students traveled to London to showcase their work on Polyark. Critics included Prof David Dernie, Sara Shafiei, Ben Cowd, Tim Brindley, Allan Atlee, John Bell, Oliver Froome-Lewis and Sam McElhinney.

Thank you to guest critics: Prof David Greene, Prof Stephen Gage, Linnea Issen, Tobias Klein and Ruairi Glynn.

Studio C.K Lau  / Summer Exhibition 2009 at Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris

In a society where all productions tend to become uniform insidiously, while ignoring the cultural, historical or social, while architecture is struggling daily with the standards imposed by industry and government policies and architecture monuments arose either on the surface of the globe, schools are guaranteed the latest diversity of thought, positions and actions.

The Special School of Architecture was born there over 140 years, a revolt against academic. It has always regenerated in the fight inventive in its teaching and in its structures. Today, while all schools in Europe are arranged in a reform that the second effect could be a form of unified knowledge, ESA must renew its ancient promise to be special.

For more information, please visit www.horhizon-paris.com

Studio Lau Kinugasa Tsui / Winter Exhibition 2008 at Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris

In a society where all productions tend to become uniform insidiously, while ignoring the cultural, historical or social, while architecture is struggling daily with the standards imposed by industry and government policies and architecture monuments arose either on the surface of the globe, schools are guaranteed the latest diversity of thought, positions and actions.

The Special School of Architecture was born there over 140 years, a revolt against academic. It has always regenerated in the fight inventive in its teaching and in its structures. Today, while all schools in Europe are arranged in a reform that the second effect could be a form of unified knowledge, ESA must renew its ancient promise to be special.

For more information, please visit www.horhizon-paris.com