After a lengthy sabbatical, Architek10 is retuning with a long overdue newsletter for the new academic year. A lot has changed in Architecture since the last newsletter, largely due to our current age of austerity, where my friends and peers who left university last year and now spending their days working at the post office, and the lucky ones, cobbling. The articles included in this newsletter give a little insight into the past year, and will hopefully spark a little debate to the future.
In March, I represented Architek10 at the ‘Belfast – City of Quarters’ conference which took place in various venues within the city. The topic for my brief interlude was our view of Belfast in 2030. It some ways, this is a very difficult avenue to present, without churning out an experimental Archigram view of the city or falling back on old faithful, sustainability. “What will Belfast be like? It will be Green”. Yawn!
I’ve always been an advocate of learning from the past; from our mistakes. Unless we look at the mistakes we are making now, how can we ever change things for the better? It’s not always about forming new ideas; it’s about amending old ones. Refining the things that have been laid out for us. Fixing and changing Belfast one step at a time. I think it was Confucius who once said “A journey of a thousand miles begins with wondering how Belfast will look in 2030”.
Architecture has links with a number or arts and disciplines. It is the aim of Architek10 to include as many of these in our newsletters in the future. For now, please enjoy our 10 new articles and please join or start a discussion. Without discussion (and thumbs) we are but no better than the Belgians.
Roy Fitzpatrick - 6th year MArch student
Index- - hello - Steven Spier
- - the secret laboratory - exhibition review
- - a visit from mr libeskind
- - the elephant in opmeer
- - the trace of the fugitive gods
- - learning like the french
- - architectural education and the fee increases
- - the grand tour (five architects and 'de' volvo)
- - a day at the museum
- - the thesis and the artifact
- - goodbye - Bill Thompson
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