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Lucy Bullivant --- architecture --- exhibition curator --- |
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--- Architecture and design critic, author --- Curator of exhibitions and events |
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| ARCHITECTURE / OVERALL EXHIBITION CURATOR : Lucy Bullivant - architecture and design critic, author and curator of exhibitions and events has been invited to be Architecture / Exhibition curator. | |||
| EDUCATION AND EXHIBITIONS : She studied art history at Leeds University and cultural history at the Royal College of Art, London (MARCA), and was an art curator before becoming Heinz Curator of Architectural Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts (1993-4). She has worked internationally since 1987, curating many major highly successful touring exhibitions and discussion events including Leading Edge (AXIS Centre, Tokyo and tour, 1988), The near and the far, fixed and in flux: some design perspectives on the urban experience (XIX Milan Triennale, 1996, supported by the Cultural Affairs Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Kid size: the material world of childhood, on children's environments within and beyond the Western world (Vitra Design Museum; Kunsthal Rotterdam, 1997 and world tour to 2005; supported by IKEA and Habitat) and Space Invaders: new UK architecture, with Pedro Gadanho (for the British Council: Experimenta, Lisbon, 2001, and tour to Tallinn, Prague, Berlin, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Rio). | |||
| CONFERENCES AND DEBATES : In 2003 she curated and staged two major international conferences in London, 4dspace: interactive architecture, at the ICA (supported by ACE), and Home Front: new developments in housing for the Architectural Association (AA), evolved from an issue of AD (Architectural Design) of the same name she guest edited (July/Aug 2003). In Feb 2005, 4dspace: interactive architecture, guest edited by Lucy for Wiley/Academy was launched at an international symposium she curated and chaired at the AA. A regular contributor to Archis magazine (now Volume), she curated, staged and chaired a 3 year series of international architectural events in London for the publication (1998-01). She also curated the ICA's Spaced Out III architectural series including the Smart Practices in a Complex World conference (1997, supported by ACE). Shared Territories, on architecture and design as social arts, a new debate series staged at the Royal College of Art in spring 2006, and Kinaesthetic: responsive environments by artists, architects and designers is planned for the Science Museum later in 2006. | |||
| CHAIRING AND LECTURING : Lucy is active as a chair of architecture and design events and in 2006 will chair a new series of design and architectural talks at Central St Martins College of Art and Design and at the Royal College of Art in London in 2006. During 2004 she staged and chaired Christian Moeller, A Time and Place: media architecture at the ICA in London, with the pioneering interactive architect and architect Shona Kitchen of Kitchen Rogers Design. She also chaired a conference on Dutch/British alliances in design, organised and funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and others. Lucy has most recently lectured at the Trans-genre Gallery, Kyoto (Multi-use: young UK architects); the Architectural League, New York (Bypass codes: issues of civic context in contemporary housing design); the ICA, London (Breaking the Boundaries, on how Foreign Office Architects challenge conventions of urbanism), and twice at the Royal Society of Arts. In the spring term of 2005 she was a jury member at the Architectural Association and for the Royal College of ArtŐs Architecture department. | |||
| JOURNALISM : She is an international correspondent to leading specialist publications Domus (Italy), I.D. (US), Harvard Design Magazine (US), a+u (Japan), The Plan (Italy), The Architect's Newspaper (US), Architectural Record (US), Indesign (Australia), Blueprint (UK) and is a guest editor of Architectural Design (AD; UK). She also writes for The Independent on Sunday's Sunday Review and The Financial Times' FT Magazine. | |||
| WRITING : Her latest book Anglo Files: UK architecture's rising generation was published by Thames & Hudson in September 2005 (and by Princeton Architectural Press in USA and DVA in a German edition). Her other publications include Space Invaders (British Council, 2001) and Kid size: the material world of childhood (Skira editore, 1997). In July 2006 her next book Kinaesthetic: responsive environments, on contemporary interactive spatial installations will be published by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. | |||
| www.lucybullivant.net | |||
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