Love Something Hate Something

The Whole School Event is nearly here, and on Thursday lunchtime SUAS is taking over the well and comandeering a data projector to bring you a special open event: Love Something Hate Something.

Bring your lunch and enjoy some free fresh fruit and refreshments while we open up the stage for you to show us two pictures: one of something you love, and one of something you hate. These can be two buildings, two places, two spaces, two cities, two machines, maybe even two architects. You have five minutes to tell us why you love one and loath the other.

And because SUAS doesn’t want you to get too worked up about the thing that you hate, everyone who presents will get a free Gash Lucky Kit (r.r.p. £9) to help you go spread the love.

Turn up early, as slots are strictly allocated on a first come first served basis. We fire up the data projector for this one hour session at 13h sharp, Thursday 2 November, in the floor 16 well.

SUAS Update: My Architect

Following the ‘difficulties’ that we experienced with the projection system on Thursday night, SUAS is working to book a room to re-show the final truncated half hour of My Architect. This will likely be during lunch some time in the next week. Apologies to all our regular film night attendees for any disappointment caused by the automatic shut down.

Following last year’s successful exhibit, Art outside Architecture (AoA) and SUAS are showing another art exhibition which will have ‘Indeterminacy’ as its main theme. It is being held on Friday 3rd November in the newly refurbished 2nd year studio on Floor 15 of the Arts Tower at 17h00.

Any work (drawings, photographs, paintings, videos, sculpture, textile, music) you feel relates to this is brilliant, but any artwork you are proud of or feel is particularly strong would be most welcome. We also want to display ‘process’ of some of your work, so sketch books and note books would be more than welcome also.

On the night there will be a bar and nibbles (first drink free) and a chance for you to see your work as part of what will hopefully be a fantastic exhibition. It should also be noted that you can use this as an opportunity to sell exhibited work – last year several pieces were sold in the course of the evening.

Please come forward as soon as possible if you have work to exhibit: you can contact one of the Art outside Architecture team by e-mail at art@suas.org with a photo/image (no bigger than 500kb please) and a brief description of the work. (size, format, quantity…).

AOA are Rosie Greenwood (5th yr), Simon Rees (5th yr) and Paul Bower (6th yr).

Scott Farlow lecture re-scheduled

The lecture to be given by landscape architect and artist Scott Farlow that was cancelled earlier in the semester has now be re-scheduled to take place on the evening of Thursday 23 November. Watch for posters and the website for information nearer the time

SUAS Film Night presents our third film of the semester:

MY ARCHITECT
dir. Nathaniel Kahn (2003)

17h00, Thursday 26 October
Basement lecture theatre four
Free to SUAS and Landmark members, SUAS membership on sale.

In this week’s haunting film Nathaniel Kahn, the illegtimate son of architect Louis Kahn, presents a beautifully filmed travelogue as he tr,avels around the world in search of the buildings designed by the father he never knew. Nathaniel recounts always how he always hoped as a child that his father would come and live with him and is mother (one of two with whom Kahn had children outside his marriage). His father never returned, and was found dead in a men’s room in Penn Station when Nathaniel was only 11. Award winning cinema for you this Thursday.

** Best Documentary, 2003 Chicago International Film Festival

** Audience Choice, 2003 Chicago International Film Festival

** Best Documentary, 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival

** Best Documentary, 2003 High Falls Film Festival

** Best Documentary, 2003 Philadelphia Film Festival

“My Architect is a warm, richly suggestive, deeply humane film that offers no glib answers to the questions it raises, and leaves us thinking about Kahn, destiny and the endless complexity of life.” – The Guardian

Due to yet more frustrating circumstances beyond the control of our invited speaker, this week’s Thursday night lecture by Scott Farlow has been postponed, and will likely take place in November. Please keep an eye out for posters and e-mails announcing the rescheduled date later in the semester.

In place of the lecture, we have managed to secure a documentary about the architect whose Seagram Building in New York City inspired the design of our very own Arts Tower. For our second film night, SUAS is proud to present a film that (as far as we are aware) has never previously been shown in this country:

REGULAR OR SUPER: Views on Mies van der Rohe.
dir. Patrick Demers & Joseph Hillel (2004)

17h00, Thursday 19 October
Basement lecture theatre five
Free to SUAS members, membership on sale at the door

** Best Photography, 2005 Rome Documentary Festival
** 2005 Chicago International Documentary Festival
** Critics Choice, Chicago Tribune (Nov. 2004)
** Best Canadian Film, 2004 International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal)
** Special Mention, Best Urban Documentary, 2004 Barcelona DocFest
** 2004 Vancouver Film Festival

“Critic’s Choice!” – Chicago Tribune

” * * * * [4 out of 4 stars!] Should be seen immediately!” — Montréal Gazette
“Quite interesting… Insightful.” – Ballast Quarterly Reviews

“Recommended! A stylish documentary.”— Educational Media Reviews Online

“The world of architecture, cheerfully dissected. REGULAR OR SUPER serves up a mixed-bag of impressions on Mies by both experts and people off the street.” — La Presse (Montréal)

“A fitting tribute to the work of Mies van der Rohe, legendary architect of the 20th century.” — Le Devoir (Montréal)

“There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.”

The SUAS Film Night kicks off this Thursday with a classic of early silent cinema… Fritz Lang’s 1927 black and white masterpiece ‘Metropolis’.

“In the future, the society of Metropolis is divided in two social classes: the workers, who live in the underground below the machines level, and the dominant classes that lives in the surface. The workers are controlled by their leader Maria (Brigitte Helm), who wants to find a mediator between the upper class lords and the workers, since she believes that a heart would be necessary between brains and muscles. Maria meets Freder Fredersen (Gustav Fröhlich), the son of the Lord of Metropolis Johhan Fredersen (Alfred Abel), in a meeting of the workers, and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile, Johhan decides that the workers are no longer necessary for Metropolis, and uses a robot pretending to be Maria to promote a revolution of the working class and eliminate them.”

(plot summary by Murray Chapman)

The film is being shown this Thursday, at 17h, in Lecture Theatre one, in the basement of the Arts Tower. Admission is free to all SUAS members, and membership will be on sale at the door.

SUAS Film Night will be showing a diverse and loosely architecturally themed selection of films every Thursday during term time when there isn’t a SUAS lecture.

After the show, join us for a post-film discussion, drink and general chit chat in the Star and Garter pub, just behind the Arts Tower.

See you Thursday!

See the posters in the department for location. Open to all, show your SUAS card to get your exclusive drink specials: 2 bottles of Becks for £3 and 2 cocktails for £6.

The dress code for the evening is simple: dress like an architect. Or in other words, dress how architects like to dress themselves. We’re talking black, brown and muted colours set off with fuscia socks and spotted bow ties. Maybe a roll neck sweater or big thick rimmed spectacles. Use your imagination, observe your tutors and pilfer your housemates’ wardrobes… then come on down for your chance to win one of two prizes: £25 worth of Fopp vouchers each for the best dressed man and woman.
The party starts at 20h with costume judging at 22h.