Ephraim Joris :

“Lost in space” is a two week workshop in October 2008, repeated in 2009, at Canterbury School for Architecture, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.
Work produced through this workshop will be exhibited at the Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition, 18 - 23 June 2010
Opening Event 18 June, 6 - 11pm, Roundtable discussion on workshops 6 - 7pm
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Comments on the Abandoned Sacred Places workshop in St-Lucas Brussels. An international master class negotiating the po-ethics of reconverting abandoned sacred places.
We were sat in the northeast corner of Brussels, a capital in many ways and a self-proclaimed symbol for multiculturalism. Yet within these aspirations of theatrical political performance lays an urban space that reveals [...]

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Methods (5) an offset of a trajectory

A fifth chapter does install the start of something new. Maybe even a new practice; at least it is a new project. Analysis and review of the previous work and practice-strategies revealed a need for - and nurtured a strong believe in a project that I currently name [...]

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The second chapter as presented at the GRC conference;
An architecture preoccupied with negotiating contextual data at first largely guided by a historical context starts to explicitly engage with other types of context such as climate and tectonics. To accommodate the inclusion of these new types of information in the articulation and design of spatial [...]

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The undeniably hard process of developing a structure and narrative to write the book (now called methods but surely this will change) commenting on a body of work is now supported/nurtured/momentarily-sidetracked-yet-surely-helping-in-the-end by another postgraduate quest.
Last week I presented a reflection on my work as part of a PhD proposal on the practice of architecture at [...]

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It’s about spanning – reaching – reaching out – drawing an overcast – creating an abundance of space under – and seeing it - with the lack of a surface…

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…..methods….methods….at the moment the working title is methods. Riet and I are going through the minute pursue of orderings/colliding/commenting-on a number of years in practice and research into a book format. The main driver has been the recent conclusion of a research at RMIT. This research was more or less an inwards looking with the [...]

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This is a recently finished project. We still need a professional to hold a camera against the white reflecting surfaces. These are snapshots…
With this project we (Architecture Project) extended what was a very small and segregated kitchen adding a small toilet in one of the ‘cupboards’ reprogramming 25% of an existing free standing villa.
The new [...]

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This research has been a progression towards a practice where I operate as a practitioner and an academic exploring possible overlaps between practice and teaching. To develop the notion of the collaborative in teaching relating it with my practice, I started work on InsideOpen, as an online tool for collaboration between designers; students and people [...]

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For INTERFACE (an installation at the That’s Design 2008 Exhibition in Milan) Canterbury School of Architecture collaborated with Architecture Project. A selection of students worked for a number of days in the London practice with practitioners to prepare the design of the Milan exhibition. Student work to be incorporated in the exhibition was discussed and [...]

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Architecture Project London was founded by Riet Eeckhout, Tom van Mal­deren, the four founding partners of Architecture Project Malta and me. With this practice we bring together 8 years of practice with shared histories of collaboration and diverse interests in design research.
Architecture Project is defined as a network of practices with offices in London, Malta [...]

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Interested in exploring the subject of space beyond conventional representation and thus beyond conventional form I set up a ‘personal playground’ outside my ‘profession’ working with people from different backgrounds using different media.
To look beyond conventional representations and focus more on the relationship be­tween myself as a designer and the tools by which I [...]

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With the following projects I/we considered the ecological variable of particular sites to have a significant impact on the autobiographical memories we have of places. Climate, as a nested structure in places, both constitutes place objectively and influ­ences the way we experience and remember place.
Here drawings not only provide spatial representations but act as [...]

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The practical application of place and place perception started with the emotional invest­ment of myself as an architect in the historical context of Malta. Surrounded by its legacy I aimed to work with the importance of memories in the manipulation of spaces (with their implicit memories) through the restoration and re-instigation of some essence of [...]

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