Manchester Student Society of Architecture

30/08/2022

Welcome all MSA MArch 1 students!!! We have a WhatsApp group for you too! Join here:

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30/08/2022

Welcome all Freshers!!! We're looking forward to finally meeting all of you! If you'd like to get in touch with fellow first year students, join the WhatsApp group :

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28/03/2022

The next MSA Thursdays event on 31 March 2022 is from the Inspirations series:

‘This Space is Not Yours (Part 2)’

With Special Guest: Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, architect & founder of FAME Collective.

Discussant: Helen Iball. This will lead into a student-centred Q&A discussion with students from across the school, led by the MSSA.

COME GET INSPIRED AND GET YOUR ARCHITECTURAL JUICES READY! We start at 17.15 on our usual Zoom link. See you there!

21/03/2022

MSA Thursdays in-person, this Thursday at 17:15! (24 March 2022)

Come to our usual MSA Thursdays talk, where we will introduce atelier &rchitecture and their guests: Astrid Smitham and Nicholas Lobo Brennan of Apparata! The meeting will be chaired by Prof. Stephen White.

Apparata’s work is focused on creating an intuitive social architecture, constructed from the discipline’s primary elements!

So, the talk’s schedule sounds a bit like this:

COME TO THE TALK
GET YOUR CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING
EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS
GET SOME DRINKS AFTER!

#&rchitectureatelier

10/03/2022

Next Thursday 17th March, MSA Thursdays welcomes Hazel Rounding, Director of award-winning practice Shedkm. Hazel will be delivering a talk as part of our Inspirations series:



‘Northern Resilience’

Hazel Rounding - she joined Shedkm as a Part II graduate and became a Director in 2001. After the practice success in the North and Midland, she spearheaded the opening of their London office in 2013. She was also listed in the Top 100 Property People by Place North West in 2012 and got shortlisted a year later for the Architects' Journal Emerging Architect of the Year Award.



The discussant will be Professor Kevin Singh.



This in person lecture will be held Thursday 17th March 17:15-18:30 in Benzie lecture room BZ403 (Benzie Atrium 4th Floor), and will be followed by a drinks reception in the foyer afterwards.

02/03/2022

MSA SALONS is back!

On Wednesday 09th of March, Thursday 10th of March and Friday 11th of March, 10:00 – 12:45, online.

We are excited to announce the launch of the 2022 MSA SALONS, occurring next week, on the 09th-11th of March, 10:00-12:45, online. Places are limited so please sign up for your salon now using the link in your student email.

About the Salons

You are invited to sign up for a half day morning Salon with a pair of external invited practitioner/academic/artist guests. Salons are a rare opportunity for you to discuss your matters of concern or care in relation to design with someone from outside the University, and to meet other students from different courses/stages within the school. We are offering you three mornings of Salons which will all be online, and you can sign up for more than one salon. You will be grouped with 2 invited guests and other students from across the MSA.

You are asked to bring four things to the ‘virtual table’ to begin the discussion – a photograph, an object, a drawing, and a question. You will post these on a shared Salon Miro board online, where everyone in the group can ‘gather’. The Salon is not to be seen as a tutorial or crit, but rather as an enjoyable higher-level conversation concerning architecture, landscape, urbanism, design, and the wider contexts within which it sits. As with any conversation, equal input is expected from all within the group to stir ideas, thoughts, and opinions.

All students from BA Architecture, M.Arch, MA Architecture+Urbanism, and MA Landscape Architecture are invited to sign up for at least one salon.

25/02/2022

MSA SALONS is coming back with its second 5x5 event next Thursday 03 March, 17:15-18:30 (online) !

Event title: 'A Matter of Concern'

Ian Miller - Assistant Director, Salford Archaeology

Pablo Iglesias - Architect, Director & Founder, Grated Apple

Morag Rose - Lecturer in Human Geography

Robert McGinnes - Architect & Managing Director of hive Architects

Jen Clarke - Anthropologist, Artist, Architect & Curator

Jon Berry - Landscape Director, Tyler Grange

A reminder of the format: 6 speakers, 5 minutes each, 5 slides each. So it is going to be a fun and fast paced session encompassing many 'matters of concern' relating to design!

We look forward to seeing you here at 17:15!

11/02/2022

Thursday 17th of February sees the return of our first Pecha Kucha of this academic year:

A Matter of Concern

This session will introduce 6 amazing speakers to present 5 slides about their work in 5 minutes.

The session will be chaired by our own Johnathan Djabarouti as discussant. We will greet Kate White, Philip Etchells, Les Postawa, Paco Mejias, Robert Mantho, and Lucy Marshall to our virtual MSA Thursdays stage.

See you at our usual time of 17.15-18:30 (UK) on Thursday.

04/02/2022

We are delighted to announce our second in-person event from MSA Thursdays!

On the 10th of February we will be hearing from the renowned architect Paul Williams in our own MSA.

Discussion: From Sandpit to Seedbank.

He is regarded as one of the UK's most well-known architects, as Paul is the founder of the Stirling-Prize winning practice Stanton Williams (together with Alan Stanton).

We look forward to greeting you in-person from 17:15-18:30 in Benzie lecture room BZ403 (Benzie Atrium 4th Floor). This talk will be followed by a drinks reception in the foyer afterwards.

01/02/2022

Atelier: Praxxis

‘This space is not for you (part 2)’

With Special Guest: Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, architect, founder of the FAME Collective, trustee to the Mannan Foundation, alongside being a director at Our Building Design.

The talk by Tumpa will be followed by a discussion with Praxxis discussants Helen Iball and Abigail Patel. This will lead into a student-centred Q&A discussion with students from across the school, led by the MSSA. As usual we will wait for you at 17.15 on Thursday evening (3rd of February).

Please note there is now a new Zoom link for all online MSA Thursdays events moving forward - check our bio or in your inboxes!

24/01/2022

This week MSA Thursdays will be hosting another event from its Provocation series:

Remaking your city: can narrative be used to remake the city?
With Special Guests: Dave Lynch and Morag Rose.

The talks will be followed by a discussion with MSA’s Dan Dubowitz (as Discussant). This will lead into a student-centred Q&A discussion with students across the school, led by the MSSA.

We start at 17.15 and finish at 18.30 on Thursday evening (27th January), online.

14/01/2022

MSA Thursdays returns for 2022 with another event from its Atelier & Programme Night series:

Atelier: Continuity in Architecture

‘Ruining Ruins: A Manifesto for Failure’

With Special Guest: Edward Hollis, Professor of Interior Design at the University of Edinburgh.

The talk by Edward will be followed by a discussion with Continuity in Architecture’s John Lee (as Discussant). This will lead into a student-centred Q&A discussion with students from across the school, led by the MSSA. As usual we start at 17.15 and finish at 18.30 on Thursday evening (20th January).

Please note there is now a new Zoom link for all online MSA Thursdays events moving forward - check our bio or in your inboxes!