07/03/2024
Leeds School of Architecture Open Lecture on Forms of Living5:30 pm R506
01/03/2024
Air AA Podcast interview. On the Steps of 36: Episode 10You can listen to the interview here
13/11/2023
Opening of the exhibition Portraits of a Practice: The life and work of MJ Long at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Designed by Forms of Living and curated by Elena Palacios Carral. The exhibittion will be run from 13/11/2023 to 09/12/2023
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24/03/2023
Forms of Living presented a paper at the CounterArchitecture/University of East London/ARUP conference in March this year Repurposing Places for social and environmental resilience.The research focuses on the past, present and future of New Towns in the UK. This is the result of architecture briefs set at UK universities in Cambridge, Kingston, and Oxford Brookes (2019-2023).
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16/12/2022
Together with OMMX and Sal Wilson, Forms of Living has been shortlisted for the Eco Home pavilion competition to rethink the future of sustainable living.The proposal, The Thick of It, explores the environmental and social imperative for materially resourceful, better insulated homes. The team is interested in the thickness of walls, the environments they create internally and externally, and how they mediate our lives together.
The competition is oranised by the London Festival of Architecture and the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects.
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01/12/2022
Elena Palacios Carral was awarded RIBA Research Funding Grant for her research project, Portraits of a Practice: The Making of a Doll’s House by MJ Long.Portraits of a Practice: The Making of a Doll’s House by MJ Long is a research project about the life and work of the architect Mary Jane Long as told through a study of a Doll’s House she made in the 1980s for her young daughter.
The research project is set to feature as an exhibition at the AA in 2023.
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