Bartlett Review 2016
Explore the 2016 edition of the Bartlett Review.
Big stories: Design
Modern business requirements change more quickly than the physical workspace can keep up with, but does a new collaboration between Google and AHMM point towards a workable future?
New UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings contributes to substantial improvement in the understanding of moisture in buildings.
2016 ushered in a new era for The Bartlett School of Architecture, as it marked its 175th anniversary and launched four new courses.
More than 50 years since its inception, the EDE’s expanding remit reflects new demands on buildings to deliver wellbeing.
‘Losing Myself’ at the 2016 Venice Biennale explored a research collaboration between two Bartlett architecture lecturers and a group of UCL dementia specialists.
The RIBA’s Annie Spink Award 2016 goes to The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Professor Christine Hawley.
Big stories: History
History is written by everyone
The Survey of London has embarked on its most experimental and collaborative project in more than a century of publishing: Whitechapel Histories.
Preserving the smells of history
Heritage scientist Cecilia Bembibre wants to add an extra dimension to the study of historic locations and objects: smell.
Three years of urban pamphleteer
A collaboration with Central Saint Martins explores the long tradition of using pamphlets to instigate change in cities.
Dr Katherine Curran has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to explore how polymers degrade – and how better to preserve them
Big stories: Equality
Making urban policy-making work for those that need it most in the Global South means elevating the voice of the urban poor. The DPU is showing how it can be done.
How do you close the health, wealth and opportunity gap between the capital’s richest and its most deprived?
Research from UCL Urban Laboratory shows impact of LGBTQI nightlife venue closures on London’s communities.
The way migrant communities are integrated, or segregated, within cities in the future may determine if a city functions successfully.
How should society value itself?
Students interested in reconceptualising prosperity for the 21st century should look no further than a new MSc in Global Prosperity.
Too often, the response to climate-related disasters is to relocate local inhabitants. The answer instead lies in managing urban growth, new research suggests.
Big stories: Data
At the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, CASA is putting a human face on the Internet of Things.
CO2 emissions from international shipping for 2012 were estimated to be 796 million tonnes – so why don't more people care about it?
Prestigious industry-prize win for two Bartlett School of Architecture students hints at new collaborations possible in architecture.
How CASA created the UK’s largest data display for the London Transport Museum.
Big stories: Place
How the School of Planning picked up where the Farrell Review left off, helping to create and nurture the Place Alliance into a leading voice on best practice in urban design.
New project aims to show that urban diversity is an asset in European cities.
What does a 360-degree view of western Europe’s tallest building tell us?
The Bartlett’s soon-to-be-launched Real Estate Institute will look afresh at how we define and value the built environment.
The power of unlikely connections
Dr Ben Campkin talks about how Engaged Urbanism can help us reimagine cities and think about urban challenges with fresh vigour.
Big stories: Infrastructure
Why London leads the world at Megaprojects
New approaches to major construction works in London have set a model of efficiency for delivering megaprojects on time and on budget.
Analysis from UCL Energy Institute suggests that the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear plant will be obsolete within a decade of being built.
Diesel and taxes
New report outlines tax options to tackle the growing public-health emergency of air pollution from diesel cars.
Strong action needed on resource efficiency
High-profile report shows resource-efficiency policy can help in tackling climate change, while increasing global economic output.
Behind the Carbon Budget
UCL Energy Institute model plays pivotal role in helping to set targets to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions.
Essays
Essay 01: Welcome to the post-digital city
The newly formed UCL Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment operates at the interface of digital engineering, computer science and human experience.
Essay 02: Jumping the species barrier
Why zoonoses – diseases that jump across the species divide from animals to humans – present a challenge for global prosperity.
Essay 03: How to run a successful lab
Over the past 15 years, Sonja Curtis has helped take CASA from a two-man team to a leading force in the science of smart cities. She shares her advice for new institutes and research labs.
Why is now the time to talk about ethics in the built environment, and how do we know if we’re asking the right questions?
Essay 05: Taking the fight to climate change – on time and on budget
Climate change isn’t just a scientific problem or a political challenge – it’s also a management issue. And there’s a lot project management can do to address the threats it poses.
Essay 06: The future of practice
Where does architecture education go from here? The Bartlett School of Architecture believes there’s no single answer – and that’s the point.
Essay 07: How universities can be better neighbours
Higher education institutions should listen to those who are less powerful when planning expansion, says Clare Melhuish.
Essay 08: Culture change starts at home
How striving for gender equality can create a culture at The Bartlett that works best for everyone.
Essay 09: Lighter, cleaner, more cost-effective
A paper published in Nature Climate Change in 2016, reveals cost-effective ways to reduce emissions from passenger aircraft to 2050 – and the aviation industry is listening.
Essay 10: Life imitates architecture
In the year it reopens its flagship building – 22 Gordon Street, Rebecca Spaven looks back at how The Bartlett’s own architecture has influenced the relationship between the faculty and its students.
Faculty news
The Bartlett is expanding – and that expansion is following a particular agenda. By Professor Alan Penn, Dean of The Bartlett
22 Gordon Street: Worth the Wates
With the unveiling of 22 Gordon Street – formerly Wates House – in 2016, we look at the philosophy behind the redesign and ask how The Bartlett School of Architecture’s new home will shape the future student/teacher experience.
London’s Here East isn’t your typical university real estate. By putting creative design and advanced technologies in the same space, The Bartlett is taking a bold step into a future that will strengthen its interdisciplinary research and teaching.
New space, new programmes, and more new students than ever – it all points to The Bartlett’s intention to become the world’s number one faculty of the built environment.