Site visit: Walsall Art Gallery

Cultural Context site visit: Walsall Art Gallery by Caruso – St John As part of the Cultural Context module, Year 3 students embarked on a site visit to the Walsall Art Gallery, a seminal work by Caruso St John Architects that stands as a quiet

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Superstudio: Hybris Drawings

This Superstudio explores the intersection of digital and analogue methodologies through hybrid drawings, pushing the limits of representation and architectural speculation. The focus is on composite visual constructs—drawings that merge digital modelling, collage, hand sketching, and experimental mapping into complex spatial narratives. By layering different

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Design Studio 5: Interim Review

Packed day at BCU with enthusiastic students tackling their interim review with great work — well done, all! This studio is centred around plasticity—not just in the material sense, but as an operative concept that captures the city’s inherent ability to reshape, reorganise, and reconfigure

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Birmingham Urban Sketching

Taking the students on a sketching dare through rainy Birmingham — BArch Year 1. Taking the BArch Year 1 students on a sketching dare through rainy Birmingham was an exercise in both endurance and perception. Battling the drizzle and the cold, they learned to capture

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