• We will produce small, highly resolved architectural projects responding to the continuing themes of Studio 2. We will engage particularly with the experiential and phenomenological implications of an architecture of both ‘individual’ and ‘community’ and will take inspiration from the work of selected film makers, artists and writers.

    Each student will form the functional and emotional brief for the architecture of a small museum building of unique typology, inspired by a chosen ‘curator’ and addressing the value placed on everyday objects and spaces in contemporary life and their role in shaping the human condition within the context of an imagined urban location at the Barbican Estate in London.

  • Maia Guppy-Hall

    Christina Chen

    Simeon Chua

    Michaela Prunotto

    Hao Yu Chen

    Felix Garner Davis

    Nina Holden

    Daniel Ji

    Saran Kim

    David Liu

    Carla Mileo

    Sheng Wen Qin

    Tang Wen Xuan

    Fan Zhang

  • Ben Kronenberg

    John Gatip

    Jeremy Bonwick

    Lucy Jenkins

London, my London.
Shared in your name and lived under your spell
Lost in the flickering flame of a dream that took us there
New beginnings on sites of devastation

Brutal beginnings. of hands – held pitted and weary
When in cabinets their stories are told
whispers heard through the aural shelter
Earning respect, no matter skin or language

The Barbican saw our lives performed
at once impromptu and mundane
Secrets shared through visions of terrains exposed and re-framed
London fragments of a ruin again. yet eternally modern.

Now, in lo-fi gardens we find ourselves
With all our monsters conserved. dirty and beautiful
Forever surrounded by disturbances - minor but lucid
So our solace, for now, is contained – in four-squares

In the chapel of our Barbican forever
Regina embodied looms above us, in pearls + sadness
Barbican, we wont forget but now our journey continues
Meet us at the airport. A Modern Babylon is beckoning.

BARBICAN

2022 Semester 01