UCL Urban Laboratory

UCL Urban Laboratory will host a major international symposium on global approaches to urban higher education on 16 and 17 September 2015.

The programme will include public panels and a symposium with delegates from universities linked to the Urban Lab+ initiative. A call for papers will be announced in January 2015.

Stadtkolloquium's 6th Annual Workshop will take place over Monday 30 - Tuesday 31 March 2015 at UCL.

The Bartlett School of Architecture's new architectural history lecture programme, drawing on academics from the institution, continues during the second academic term of 2014/15.

Part of The Nocturnal City series. Dr Matthew Beaumont (Co-director, UCL Urban Laboratory and Senior Lecturer, UCL English) discusses nightwalking in London in a public lecture complementing the release of his new book Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso, 2015), a captivating literary portrait of writers who explored the city at night, and the people they met.

Part of The Nocturnal City series. How might the work of the American film director David Lynch speak to contemporary urban and architectural concerns?

The history of Modernist architecture has emphasised its white European and American roots and manifestations – an embodiment of Enlightenment values of universalism, order and purity, and rejection of the hybrid, disordered, or otherwise unclassifiable. But Paul Gilroy has called for a re-framing of modernism and modernity as a ‘rhizomorphic, fractal, transcultural, international formation’, recognising the experience of the Black Atlantic as central to its history. Thislecture will consider the implications for perspectives on Modernist architecture in its various manifestations ‘at the periphery’, with reference to the work of French post-war architects Candilis Josic Woods – better known for their design of mass housing in France and North Africa - in the French territories of the Caribbean.