DRL10 Exhibition

Monday 25 February 2008

DRL10 Exhibition

AA Exhibitions
DRL Ten
25/02/2008 -18/03/2008
Mon–Fri, 10.00-7.00, Sat, 10.00–3.00

The exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of the AA’s Design Research Lab (DRL), featuring current work by DRL tutors and students as well as projects selected from some 354 DRL graduates, as part of a series of events in February and March. The collective mission of the DRL TEN events is to narrate the history of student and staff work, to evaluate the programme’s collaborative teaching and learning methods, and to speculate on future terms of design research in an evolving global architectural culture.

A further physical manifestation of the DRL’s vision will be on display in Bedford Square in March in the form of a pavilion designed by Alan Dempsey (DRL 2002) and Alvin Huang (DRL 2004). Their (C)Space Pavilion – selected through competition – will be constructed of fibre-reinforced precast concrete panels.

DRL TEN: A Design Research Compendium, the second book in the AADRL Documents series will be published in March and combines a visual survey of the evolution of the DRL with texts by the programme directors and Andrew Benjamin, Mark Burry, Mark Cousins, Zaha Hadid, Christopher Hight and Jeffrey Kipnis, among others.

DRL TEN is curated by Yusuke Obuchi, Patrik Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes.

1 comment:

andres said...: yesterday afternon i was walking toward goodge street station when i abruptly saw this thing in bedford square called thing because i dont know what it was so i when there to find out but i deside to let my imagination
discover it after few minutes i thought it was a sunchair then i saw more people come and enjoy it even a squirrel so i realise it was the future a wonderfull structure that conbine nature and tecnology made from frienly environment materials and using this combinations we can change the wold then i could sit down relax and think about a better future; 4 August 2008 at 18:01

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ALAN DEMPSEY

Alan Dempsey studied at the Architectural Association, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and Dublin Institute of Technology. He has worked with Farjadi Architects, OCEAN, Future Systems and is a founding director of NEX, a London based architecture and design office with international projects.

He was an undergraduate unit master at the AA until 2005 and has been an invited critic at universities in the UK and Europe. His work has been widely published in the US, Europe and Asia and he is currently a director of the FAB research cluster at the AA, which facilitates research projects on novel design and fabrication technologies.

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ALVIN HUANG

Alvin Huang is the founding Director of SYNTHESIS. He is an award-winning designer and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice.

Prior to forming SYNTHESIS, he was a founding director of London-based architectural practice AL_A. He has also worked for Future Systems, Zaha Hadid Architects, and DMJM Design (AECOM).

Alvin received a Masters of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (2004) and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California (1998).

Huang has taught design studios at the Architectural Association / Tsinghua University Global School in Beijing and at the Chelsea College of Art in London. He has been an invited critic and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions in the UK, US, Germany, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and China.

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