OPEN JURY
Saturday 18th April 2009
The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, LONDON, WC1H 0QB
Euston Square station / Euston station
10:00-18:00 Open Jury: Open for public, Admission free
18:00-21:00 Award Announcement Reception: Ticket GBP 10.00 / Concession GBP 7.00
The Award Announcement Reception starts from 18pm till 21pm. VIPs guests from major design institutions and media in London will present. Availability is limited and we suggest making your reservation now (Ticket GBP10.00 book now from above). For further information please contact contact@wedesigngroup.com or visit website www.wedesigngroup.com/competition.
WE(WestEast) Design, The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL and Sichuan Provincial Institute of Architectural Design, co-organised the Sichuan School Conceptual Design Competition for an important school damaged in Sichuan earthquake. We hope this competition will provoke intervention of creative and sensible design in the reconstruction of hundreds of schools damaged in the Sichuan earthquake, and attract public attention to the design of education environment including the school projects in UK.
Till writing of this letter, there have been more than 400 participants registered, including young and experienced architect, product designers, fashion designers, artists and students, from over 35 countries.
The Open Jury Day of the competition will be held on Saturday 18th April 2009 in The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. The Open Jury will be a whole day event open to the public. It will provide a unique experience for the public, design professionals, students by showing the submitted works and sharing jury members’ debate.
The jury are of internationally experienced experts in design disciplinary, education and media. We are honoured to have the following members in our Jury.
• Professor CJ Lim The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, Chair of the Jury
• Arjun Kaicker Partner, Foster + Partners
• Louis Loizou Senior Lecturer, BA Fashion at Central Saint Martins
• Ching Lau Senior Engineer, ARUP
• Yan Ma School Expert
• Gerrard O’Carroll Senior tutor, School of Architecture and Design at The Royal College of Art
• Nicholas Rhodes Course Director, Product Design at Central Saint Martins
• Dr. Hongxing Zhang Senior Curator, V&A
Introduction of the Jury Members
Professor CJ LIM is the Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett UCL, and the Pro-Provost of University College London. Also, he is the founding director of Studio 8 Architects in UK - an energetic multi-disciplinary and international award-winning practice in architecture, landscape and urban design.His practice’s innovative designs focus on interpretations of cultural, social and environmental sustainability programmes. Their recent award winning eco-urban planning are for the Chinese and Korean Governments. His celebrated project “Virtually Venice” was an investigation of East-West cultures and identities - commissioned by the British Council UK for the Venice Architecture Biennale. CJ is listed in Debrett’s People of Today and the International Who’s Who for his architecture and academic contributions. The Guardian and the Independent newspapers, and Iakov Chernikhov Foundation Moscow have included CJ in their talent listings. In 2006, the Royal Academy of Arts London awarded CJ the Grand Architecture Prize, the prestigious award with past winners including Lord Rogers, and Lord Foster.
ARJUN KAICKER is an architect, partner and head of the Strategic Consultancy Group at Foster + Partners. The group analyse how architecture and interiors can most effectively fulfil the needs and aspirations of building occupants and users. Concentrating on the initial stages of the design process, Strategic Consultancy specialises in RIBA Work Stages A to C. This encompasses client needs appraisal, brief development and implementation of the design brief across a broad range of building types, from offices, schools and universities to hotels, civic buildings and masterplans. Over the past 8 years, he has worked on several of the practice’s major projects, including Swiss Re in London, Deutsche Bank Place in Sydney, Hearst Headquarters in New York, the Masdar City development in Abu Dhabi and educational buildings for Imperial College London, Oxford University and Yale.
LOUIS LOIZOU began his career in the technical aspects of design, originally in jewellery making and later as a pattern cutter. After a wide-ranging career as a senior pattern-cutter in design for Sonja Nuttall, Nichole Farhi, Reiss and i.e Uniform among many others, he re-focused his career in education, undertaking a number of teaching qualifications. He is now a Senior Lecturer on the BA Fashion course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Inspired by good design in all its forms and manifestations, he is particularly interested in the two-way dialogue, between designer and maker, the ‘conversation’ between concept and realisation using technical and craft skills and the contribution that the latter make to the design process and the quality and desirability of the designed object.
CHING LAU is a Structural Engineer currently working with Arup, Building London Group 8. Lau began his career as site engineer with Mowlem and joined Whitby Bird and Capita Symonds practising as structural engineer, before joining Arup as a Senior Structural Engineer.
Lau has worked on several prestigious UK and international projects and on commercial, educational and residential buildings as well as the appraisal of existing buildings for refurbishment. Within his own discipline of structural engineering, he has experience in tall building design, retractable long span roof structures, 3D modelling, computer finite element analysis and extensive experience in composite, concrete and steelwork design.
Lau is also the project manager for several recent multi-disciplinary projects, responsible for the successful project delivery within Arup.
MA YAN, a teacher at the High School of Peking University, is now working at Kingsford Community School. She has been teaching for over 20 years and have visited hundreds of schools of over 20 provinces in China. Having been to so many schools, she knew what kind of schools are better for students and staff. She was also invited, as one of the few experts, to help the students of Beichuan Middle School at Changhong TV training centre after the earthquake to prepare for their national examinations.
GERRARD O’CARROLL is an architect, writer, and curator as well as being a senior tutor in the School of Architecture and design at The Royal College of Art London. He set up a Critical design Studio with Fiona Raby at the RCA in 2001 which investigates near and alternative architectural futures based on unofficial statistics and social trends, the work of the studio has been described as the rise of “darkitecture” by Dazed and Confused magazine. He writes regularly on design issues for journals and his own multi disciplinary practice, The Office for New Environments (O.N.E) curates and designs exhibitions and design events around the world, including LONDON OPEN CITY - 2008 London, TECHNOTHREADS, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF FUTURE FASHION - 2008 Dublin. “?” IF I COULD DESIGN LONDON I WOULD…-2008 London, OPEN CITY IN THE PARK -2008, London and more…He has been visiting critic at various design schools in Europe as well as running successful competition and student workshops as far a field as the University of Eastern China in Shanghai.
NICHOLAS RHODES is Product Design course director in the Central Saint Martins College. He has years of experience and expertise in project design, new product development and strategic branding & education. He is active in providing design and branding consultancy and his projects include Paul Smith, Puma, Louis Vuitton ,Brand42: Smirnoff, CNN International, Red Stripe, London Artscom: Moët & Chandon, LVMH Group, Givenchy, Macallen, Chaumet. His published papers include What the Future Holds, Asian influences on European design, education, Shantou, China 2006. He curated What you Looking at? Agenda-driven product design from the UK in New York 2005. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and member of the Chartered Society of Designers.
DR ZHANG HONGXING is Senior Curator of Chinese Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. He curated several major exhibitions over the last few years, including the ground-breaking China Design Now at the V&A in 2008. In preparation for China Design Now he made frequent trips to Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing over a period of four years, meeting and interviewing Chinese creatives in areas of architecture, fashion, lifestyle and graphics. Also, he is an art historian with expertise in the history of Chinese painting at the imperial court and in other cultural centres in the 18th and 19th century. His books were published by the V&A, and the National Museums of Scotland and the British Museum; and his essays appeared in Artibus Asiae, Art History, and the Palace Museum Journal. He served on the Editorial Board of Art History (2004-2007).