Islands of Swarm, Kai Schiemenz

PayneShurvell, 16 Hewett St, London EC2A 2NN Tel: +44 (0) 2000 114 115

Opening hours: Wed-Sat 11am-6pm and by appointment

13 July – 22 September 2012

In a timely exhibition, Berlin based artist Kai Schiemenz examines the role of stadiums, auditoriums and associated architectures – historic, contemporary and imagined buildings, all of which organise crowds in circular ways.

The power of architecture organising human relations and social processes through the articulation of built form is particularly poignant in the typology of stadium buildings. Embracing large masses of enthused people in the form of a ring, architecture becomes a critical participant in the shaping of this crowd, its experience, control and arousal. Social and built geometries reverberate in tandem. Architecture is both stage and main actor.

Curated by Marianne Mueller / Casper Mueller Kneer & Concrete Geometries Research Cluster

PayneShurvell, 16 Hewett St, London EC2A 2NN
Opening hours: Wed-Sat 11am-6pm and by appointment
www.payneshurvell.com

New Website under construction

Concrete Geometries is pleased to announce a further phase of funding. We are currently busy developing a new extensive website documenting the work so far and announcing future events. 

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BACK to FRONT, Fran Cottell

Saturday, 8th and Sunday, 9th October 2011 from 2 - 6pm

18 Woolwich Road, Greenwich, London SE10 0JU.

Following previous house installations for CGP London, displaying the emotional qualities of chaos, and the relative status of the inhabitants and visitors as they perambulate through the house on increasingly higher platforms until, finally puncturing the ceiling and contributing to a collection of heads.
BACK to FRONT will return to the ground; creating a new through space. The visibility of the house, visitors and the inhabitants will in turn be brought into question.

Transport Details:

Tube: North Greewich on the Jubille Line then bus 129 or 422

DLR: Cutty Sark or River boat then buses 177, 180, 286

Rail: Westcombe Park

An OFFSITE PROJECT / CGP London

Image: 'Collecting Time: The Living and the Dead’ 2005/6
ⓒ Terry Watts. Construction: Brian Ho

Friday Session 46

'On the Relational in Architecture'

Friday, 17.6.2011

6.30h @ public works, 1-5 Vyner Street, London E2 9DG

A round of presentations and discussion followed by a book launch, accompanied by drinks.

With Rochus Urban Hinkel, from Urban Interior, a research group at the School of Architecture,  
RMIT University, Melbourne, Dr Hélène Frichot from Architecture + Philosophy, Marianne Mueller, Concrete Geometries Research Cluster, Architectural Association School of Architecture. And the presentation of the "Urban Interior - informal explorations, interventions and occupations" book, 
edited by Rochus Urban Hinkel.

 

Upcoming Events

‘Meet the Curators’

Curators private talk and brunch

Saturday 21 May 2011

11.00h, Front Member's Room

Saturday morning brunch will be served following presentations by the curators of current AA exhibitions. In the Gallery Stefano Rabolli Pansera will take visitors through a guided tour of Beyond Entropy, while in the Front Members’ Room Marianne Mueller and Olaf Kneer will lead a talk on Concrete Geometries. 

Cost: £20, please book in advance by calling 02078874034.

'Space versus Geometry'

Toni Kotnik (AA/ETH), Tim Ireland (UCL) and Marianne Mueller (AA)

Monday, 23 May 2011

12.00h, Front Member's Room

Informal lunch time talk exploring concepts of ‘space’ and ‘geometry’ and relating them back to bodily experience and the question of spatial orientation. Toni Kotnik is a mathematician, architects and research at the ETH, Tim Ireland is a phd canidate at UCL and Marianne Mueller is director of the Concrete Geometries Research Cluster at the AA.

'The Relational in Architecture' 

Finnisage

Friday, 27. May 2011

18.30h - 20.00h, Front Member's Room

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photograph by Sue Barr