Many thanks to everyone who entered their photographs into the EUSAS Photography Competition – there were over 30 entries and they were all of a very high standard. Congratulations are extended to Angel Hsiao who was awarded first prize (and a £30 Analogue Books voucher) and to Paul McDonald who was awarded second place and a £10 Analogue Books voucher. Our thanks also to Victoria Clare Bernie for lending her keen eye to the judging process and for the fascinating seminar she gave on her work as a digital video artist.
Angel’s winning entry
Paul’s submission (second place)
Ruth Acheson’s Enty
More of Angel’s work
Another entry by Ruth
Stephen Wilson’s entry
Thank you to all of you who came to the STASUS lecture, exhibition opening and book launch on Friday, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! For those of you who haven’t yet made it along, the Exhibition is open until this Saturday 4th February in the Tent Gallery (Evolution House) and there are some beautiful drawings and models on display. The following photos were taken at the book launch last Friday - thank you to Keith Milne for providing them for us.
ESALA is proud to welcome Professor Mike Cadwell, the George Simpson Visiting Critic, giving a lecture entitled “Four Lines”.
Wednesday 18th January
Main Lecture Hall,
University of Edinburgh
ECA, Lauriston Place
6.30pm
This event is free but we would recommend that you come early to ensure a place.
(Image – An interior view of OMA’s McCormick Center at IIT – One of the buildings that will form the subject of the lecture).
Members of your EUSAS committee with CJ
7-9pm, Wednesday 19th October, Minto House Lecture Theatre
Discover how much more there is to sustainable design than carbon. Howard Liddell (Gaia Architects), author of Ecominimalism (2008), gives A Carbon Free Lecture and facilitates discussion at this event chaired by John Brennan, Director of MSc Advanced Sustainable Design, with contribution from Dimitris Theodossopoulos on conservation.
Contact Alice O’Rourke for more information
Register for free at: www.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/challenges
Friday 14th October, 6.30pm for 7.00 start – Lecture Theatre 183 @ Old College
EUSAS are delighted to announce this lecture, to be given by CJ Lim, of Studio8 Architects and Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett and winner of the 2006 Royal Academy of Arts London Grand Architecture Prize (past winners of which include Norman Foster and Richard Rogers).
‘SHORT STORIES: London in two-and-a-half-dimensions’
“Combining place and fiction, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles from tens sties across the city of London and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories. The medium is an intersection of paper assemblages and text, occupying a liminal territory where familiar characters find themselves in unexpected environments and places transform into active protagonists. The stories have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum but are collected for the first time in a single volume, laid out as one phantasmagoric city vision. Painstakingly constructed, the stories encompass a retelling of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ at Smithfield, a dating agency at Battersea, and a ringed transport system manifesting as a celestial river over the great metropolis. Enthralling and inspirational, this cabinet of curiosity and wonder depicts a vision of the city that is immoral, anarchic, unscientific and at the same time glorious, ravishing and a pleasure to behold.”
Following the lecture, copies of his new book (which shares the same title as the lecture) will be available at the specially discounted price of £15 (normal retail price £19.99). Cash only.
Prior to the lecture, an exhibition of the sixth year Island Territories investigations will be open in Studio 5 – we warmly invite you to come and see our work.
Thank you to everyone who came to the first EUSAS lecture of the season! There was a great turnout and we hope you all enjoyed the lecture as much as we did.
We’re very excited to be able to announce a further four lectures on the horizon: CJ Lim on the 14th October; Allan Murray on the 30th October; Andy Stoane on the 18th November and Rural Design on the 25th November. We’ll announce more details nearer the time and hope to see you there!
Friday 28th October, 6.00pm for 6.30 start – ECA Main Lecture Theatre, Lauriston Place
Allan Murray of Allan Murray Architects will be joining us to talk about ‘Making Room for Public Space’. This innovative, Edinburgh based, practice is well known not only for architecture (Missoni Hotel) but also for urban design. They have many large scale ongoing projects throughout Edinburgh including Caltongate, St James Quater and Fountainbridge South.
Admission for EUSAS members is free; students on the door £3; members of the public £5 (public EUSAS membership available). One free drink with every entry. EUSAS membership available on the door – see here for prices
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