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2012 Highlights
Max Dewdney
8 May 2012
Mobile Studio
Nominated for Young Architect of the Year Award in 2008, Mobile Studio is a London-based architectural practice specilising in gallery and exhibition designs for museums and public institutions. Mobile Studio's design for converting North Lodge, UCL into a contemporary gallery space was shortlisted for The Architects' Journal Small Projects Award 2011. The practice recently produced and published a booklet entitled, Display for a Display, cataloguing a series of their designs and reusable modular systems, which have been commissioned and used by clients as a spatial platform to engage their museum collections with a wider audience.
Apart from public work Mobile Studio also design high-end private residential projects and are currently designing a concept hotel in Borneo. Max Dewdney and Chee-Kit Lai, both graduates of the Bartlett School of Architecture, are the directors. Together they also run as award-winning BSc Degree Unit at the Bartlett, UCL and are visiting critics at a number of leading UK universities.
Abstract: Style Wars Chess Set - Modernists vs. Traditionalists
‘Style Wars (Chess Set): Modernists vs. Traditionalists’ drew on recent style wars surrounding the Prince of Wales’s controversial interventions into the UK planning process. Prince Charles’s speech at the Royal Institute of British Architects in June 2009, to celebrate the institution’s 175th birthday, continued to create divisions within the architecture community. The contentious issue originated from the Prince’s speech 25 years ago at the RIBA in which he kick-started a style war; Classicists versus Modernists.
Mobile Studio’s architectural sculpture took the form of a board game, continuing in the tradition of artists' Chess Sets (eg. Yoko Ono, Rachel Whiteread, Guy Debord, etc), that acted as a metaphor for the continuing debate on taste, style and the future of British housing, architecture and planning. The work was first fabricated with the latest 3D printing technology at DMC London (Bartlett, UCL). By utilizing the cutting edge manufacturing technology, the work also explored contemporary debates about art, craft and the construction process.
