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2017, Events, Talks

Nabeel Hamdi – Building a Humanitarian architecture – Oct 6th

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Collaborative Kaleidoscope continues with a Social & Development Architecture talk from Nabeel Hamdi.

October 6th, 8pm at Fitzroy House, 10 High Street, Lewes BN7 2AD

Hamdi is an architect and development specialist, with an international reputation for his work in the spheres of social and community participation, housing and urban development. Hamdi is Emeritus professor of Oxford Brookes University Centre for Development and Emergency Practice. Both his work and books, including Small Change, have significantly influenced the current new wave of development focused architects, such as Anna Heringer  and this year’s Serpentine Pavilion designer, Francis Kere .

Making Lewes is pleased to welcome Hamdi to Lewes, where his talk, titled Building a Humanitarian architecture: Deciding Interventions, continues our humanitarian architecture themed evenings, which began with World on the Move during last years Make Lewes Festival 2016. It promises to be a fascinating evening.

This Fridays talk is also another fantastic opportunity to visit the recently opened Fitzroy house, Lewes’s newest Arts Centre.

Fitzroy House, designed by George Gilbert Scott, was built in 1862. This striking example of Victorian Neo-Gothic architecture became the town’s first library between 1897 and 1956.

Talks are free though with a £5 suggested donation (to support continuing Making Lewes programming)
Cover photo: Anna Heringer – METI school, Bangladesh.

 

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The Lewes Maker Space

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A Maker Space for the 21st Century

Making Lewes is developing plans for an original and distinctive Lewes Maker Space.

With Lewes District Council’s rethink decision on the future of the Turkish Baths (see here), on thursday, 23rd February 2017, Making Lewes will be submitting a more detailed proposals for our envisaging of the Maker Space.

Download our first draft lewes-maker-space-v1 and let us know what you think. Email us if you want to get involved – info@makinglewes.org

The Lewes Maker Space will be a community and educational hub for the town and environs while also acting at the national and international level.

Our aim is to create a distinctive, cross-disciplinary and individual Maker Space, reflecting and helping maintain Lewes’s great individual sensibility, identity and character. Continue reading The Lewes Maker Space →

Events, MLF 2016

New Vernaculars for a New Century

An exhibition on vernacular building culture and contemporary architectures ongoing engagement in vernacular traditions.

29th – September – 2nd October 10.00 – 17.00

With a micro Symposium on October 2nd, 14.00 – 17.30

Venue – Turkish Baths, Friars Walk, Lewes BN7 2LE (map)

Tickets –  £8.50 Concessions – £6.50

SPEAKERS:

Adam Richards – architect to the recent redesign of the Ditchling Arts + Craft Museum on working with Sussex rural vernacular.

Ramun Capaul from award winning Swiss practice, Capaul Blumenthal, designers of Europe’s first rammed earth cinema, on Swiss regional vernacular and contemporary architecture.

Clem Blakemore –  the young award winning architect will talk about her self built Lacey Green School Music room project, which uses its Buckinghamshire site as a key starting point.

David Smith, from Lewes based Flintman, the leading flint wall builders, who’s work include Flint House, RIBA’s 2015 house of the year.

Meredith Bowles of Mole Architects – East Anglia’s Mole Architects  have developed an international reputation for exploring the regional vernacular style and introducing them to a contemporary architectural world.

New Vernaculars for a New Century is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016 in association with Fourth Door.

For more information email: info@makinglewes.org

Cover Image – Ditchling Arts + Craft Musuem

New Vernaculars for a New Century is supported by Lewes Town Council and the Swiss Cultural Fund.

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Events, MLF 2016

Southbank Architecture Student Exhibition

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This exhibition highlights the results of second and third year architecture students from South Bank University whose 2015/2016 project used Lewes as it’s context.

29th – 2nd October, 10.00 – 17.00 – Foundry Gallery, North Street Lewes, BN7 2PH (map)

The project brief called for proposals to rehouse the resident artists and crafts people currently occupying the warehouses. The chosen site was adjacent to a car park behind Waitrose and beside the Ouse river, and included the old WenbanSmith storage sheds. The brief emphasised buildings to provide micro-homes for up to 20 artists, associated studios and an exhibition space that is accessible to the public to withstand flooding.

Southbank Architecture Student Exhibition is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016

For more information email: info@makinglewes.org

 

Events, MLF 2016, Talks

World on the Move

Humanitarian and Emergency architecture projects from Kigali to Calais.

1st October – 19.30 – 22.00 Venue – Turkish Baths, Friars Walk, Lewes, BN7 2LE (map)

Julian Belart is a French student architect working in the Calais Jungle, supported by ‘Lewes Action for Refugees‘, on emergency shelter and other projects in the encampment. He will be talking about his work in Calais for the first time in Lewes.

Nerea Eloyduy is co-founder of Kigali based Active Social Architecture, who has been working on health and education projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Europe with emphasis on community participation and post conflict environments. Eloyduy is currently developing a PhD  at the Bartlett School of Architecture studying the influence of the built environment of long-term refugee camps in East Africa on young children’s development. 

World on the Move is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016

For more information email: info@makinglewes.org