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Exhibitions

SHIFTS: The Economic Crisis and its Consequences for Architecture

Rotterdam/Copenhagen-based Powerhouse Company and critic and architectural historian Hans Ibelings present a polemical exhibition illustrating the far-reaching impacts of new economic circumstances on architecture’s past, present and future.

Projects

New Windows on Willesden Green: Vacant Shops

Reactivating Vacant Properties

After a rigorous application and selection process, thirteen businesses and projects have been chosen to try out their ideas in Queens Parade – a formerly vacant eight-unit retail property on Willesden Lane.

Education

Heathrow Urban Pioneers

July - September 2012

As part of The Architecture Foundation's 2012 education programme, the Urban Pioneers are coming to Heathrow.

Events

Architecture on Film: Living in the City of Tomorrow / Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers + Q&A with Deyan Sudjic and Marian Engel

Tues 29 May 2012 7pm

In response to the Barbican Art Gallery's major Bauhaus: Art as Life exhibition, Architecture on Film brings you a double bill of films exploring the changing relationship between modernism and power, and the UK Premiere of Living In The City of Tommorrow (Leben in der Stadt von Morgen).

Events

South Kilburn Studios: Notes on an Experiment

Books now onsale

Edited by The AF and designed by Work +Play, South Kilburn Studios: Notes on an Experiment, documents the creation and life of South Kilburn Studios.

Events

SHIFTS: How Did We Get Here, and What Comes Next? Book Launch + Discussion

Tues 22 May 2012 7pm

Exhibition curators Nanne de Ru of Powerhouse Company and Hans Ibelings explore the themes of the exhibition and launch a new publication resulting from its research, in conversation with Alice Fung (00:/), Christopher Choa (AECOM), chaired by Peter Buchanan, author of Architecture Review's The Big Rethink.

Competitions & Awards

Scarce Times: Alternative Futures

Open Call for Collaboration

The AF and SCIBE London are issueing an open call for collaboration to strong groups of creative professionals capable of proposing innovative strategies and tools to address conditions of scarcity in the built environment.

Projects

Gibbon's Rent Community Garden

Launch Weekend 23-24 June

The Architecture Foundation is delighted to be working with Team London Bridge and Southwark Council to transform a forgotten cut through from Magdalen Street to Bermondsey known as Gibbon's Rent.

SHIFTS: How Did We Get Here, and What Comes Next? Full Panel Announced!

Posted: 16 May 2012

The AF is delighted to announce that Nanne de Ru and Hans Ibelings will be joined by Christopher Choa (AECOM) and Alice Fung (00:/, Hub Westminster) for SHIFTS: How Did We Get Here, and What Comes Next? The conversation will be chaired by Peter Buchanan, and take place on Tuesday 22 May, 7pm. Book now to secure your place.