London developer named Bass Fellow
Roger Madelin, a London developer,
has been named the third Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Fellow in
Architecture. Selected from among leaders in the development community, Bass
Fellows participate in an advanced design studio led by a chaired architecture
professor and organized around a development project with which the Bass Fellow
is engaged; the aim is to expose architecture students to the real-world
application of their art. Madelin, chief executive of Argent, will be teaching
the studio with London-based architect and Bishop Visiting Professor Demetri
Porphyrios. The studio will design schemes for King's Cross Central, a 67-acre
site in the heart of London adjacent to a new Channel tunnel rail link to St.
Pancras station. Argent's current scheme for the area proposes new residential,
commercial, retail, and cultural spaces, as well as a new home for the
university of the arts. The challenge for the students will be to integrate the
rich historic fabric with new structures while also focusing on sustainable
development for the future. Yale students in the studio will investigate master
planning issues of the project and will visit the London site.
Architecture student takes top
design prize
Yichen Lu, a first-year master of
architecture student at Yale, has won first prize in the 2006 Shinkenchiku
Residential Design Competition sponsored by Shinkenchiku (New Architecture) magazine in Japan. The objective
of the competition was to employ new media or definitions to describe the new
urban lifestyle. Lu designed a portable device entitled "The Meaning of Life,"
which participates in and drives the development of urban lifestyle -- observing,
reading, resting, wandering the streets of Manhattan -- and transforms
people's activities from "program" into poetic narrative. The prizes and
winners were announced in the December issues of Shinkenchiku and JA magazines.
Dutch designs at Architecture
gallery
The Architecture School Gallery will
be converted into a three-dimensional graphic this spring to highlight the work
of Dutch architecture firm UN Studio. "UN Studio: Evolution of Space" will
focus on 18 years of the firm's work, including the recently opened Mercedes
Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, and past projects such as the Moebius House and
the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery
from February 12 to May 4.
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