Exhibition & Conferences
Gateway Games
Atelier 11, University of Greenwich School of Architecture
27th January– 24th February 2012
A studio exhibition emerging from Atelier/Unit 11 of the School of Architecture, Design & Construction, University of Greenwich that will entail an exhibition of speculative architectural models and drawings set in the Thames Gateway, investigating the wider context within which the forthcoming Olympic Games and its legacy is located.
This story is told with the help of Charles Dickens starting with the moment when, in ‘Great Expectations’, Pip is turned upside down by the convict Abel Magwitch – a scene set on the Hoo Peninsula, the geographical centre of the Thames Gateway. The story and the exhibition will develop and expand, with work being added, through the five weeks; the space being used as a production Studio by present Unit 11 students.
The architecture of the Olympics revolves around the body. Just as the rotation of Pip represents the metaphoric moment when past and future collide in the novel, the contemporary story of London’s shift to the east is both described and imagined in the exhibition where the body and its experience is at the centre of the projects presented.
Over the last seven years Atelier 11, in the postgraduate research of the School of Architecture at Greenwich University, has been speculating on the fictional and factual history and future of the Thames Gateway through drawings and models which have been presented at the Royal Academy and as part of the RIBA Presidents’ Medals. The postgraduate research Unit is continuing to explore the body and the movement of fictional architectural proposals in the Thames Gateway, this year with a tower in Deptford Creek.
There is a Body Architecture Movement Mini-Symposium on the evening of Tuesday 7th February and the exhibition will climax with an Opening-Closing Party on Thursday 23rd February.
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http://www.stephenlawrencegallery.net
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Gallery Director, David Waterworth
E: slg@gre.ac.uk
T : 0208 331 8260
W: gre.ac.uk/pr/slg
Stephen Lawrence Gallery
Queen Anne Court
University of Greenwich
Old Royal Naval College
Park Row
Greenwich
SE10 9LS