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Myself, Natalia and Amina met today to have a look around the Barbican and work out a detailed plan for the trip. We also decided on a work pack for each of the students, each student will have an envelope with the itinerary printed on the front and inside will be information, a map, a leaflet and postcard about the exhibition and a workbook and pencil. I am working on trying to track some badges down, I dont think it is possible to get a name list by friday, so I was thinking we could get the badges where you write your name on yourself.

Exhibition: Peter Coffin

The latest installation in The Curve is by New York- based artist Peter Coffin. In this, the ninth new commission, Coffin explores various models of perspective and challenges the way in which we perceive space. In his sculptures, installations, photographs and videos, Peter Coffin examines our knowledge and interpretation of the world with curiosity and wit, borrowing from numerous disciplines, such as art history, science and New Age beliefs to test his ideas about the way things work and exist.

His largest installation ever in the UK, Coffin projects a 360- degree aerial view of Japanese gardens along the 90-metre curved wall of the gallery. When projected, this footage forms a continuous yet disjunctive landscape, challenging our sense of perspective and space. In Japanese garden design the use of illusionist effects such as overlapping elements, shifts in scale and multiple points of focus combine to give the viewer an abstract and heightened sense of reality. This spatial ambiguity of Japanese gardens and its illusionary affects are exaggerated by the 360 degree projection on the 90-meter length of The Curve.

Coffin introduces sound to further alter our sense of space. In various positions in the gallery, the visitor encounters the soundtrack of someone walking and whistling, which is played back across a series of directional speakers. Coffin also presents a number of sculptures based on organic and man-made objects that have been rendered using a three-dimensional scanner and distorted to create spatial transformations that challenge how we understand a thing to exist in space while confounding traditional notions of representation.

The Curve opening times: Daily 11.00am – 8.00pm

Point 4

OUTSIDE
-Lakeside Terrace
Outside spaces - welcoming to create an urban retreat from the noise and pollution of the City.
-Lakeside
Open spaces, serve as walkways, gardens, resting areas, meeting space, pass ways, entrance, exit, displays.

Point 3

FUNCTION
-Ticket Desk and Cinema Foyer
New design to show off the simplicity and all the original features of the 70’s, its uniqueness and strong identity.

Point 2

THE STAIRCASE
-Signage
The signage to improve navigation round the Centre. How it is integrated all together, how design repeats on every floor to help the navigation, how color is important

Point 1

THE ENTRANCE

-Barbican identity

As London’s major arts centre, hosting visual art, theatre, music, dance, film, education all under one roof.

-New interior design

New Entrance Interior with people. Alex Hartley has created a light wall in the main entrance of the Barbican which captures the dynamism and energy of the City’s creative powerhouse. The design plays on the iconic symbols of the Barbican.

Barbican Center

Barbican – walk around the venue

The Barbican Centre is the largest multi-arts centre in Europe, featuring art, film, music, theatre, dance and education all under one roof and under one creative direction. The Barbican has become the creative hub within London’s financial district, providing an urban retreat from the busy metropolis. It is not only a platform for the world’s greatest artists but a conference venue, which actively supports the artistic events, and a comfortable, quiet oasis, overlooking gardens and the Lakeside. The Centre comprises the Barbican Hall, Barbican Theatre, the Pit theatre, 3 cinemas, the Barbican Art Gallery, The Curve, the Lakeside Terrace, a roof-top tropical conservatory, conference suites and exhibition halls. Barbican is the vision of “all the arts under one roof”, which remains its special attraction. The Barbican has now become an iconic landmark on the City’s skyline.

“There is nothing like the architecture and planning of the Barbican Estate in scale, intelligence, engineering, ingenuity, quality of construction, urban landscaping and sheer abstract artistry anywhere else in Britain, and perhaps not in the world.“

Questions:

-what landmark is

-do you think Barbican is an urban landmark

-what is the scale and how would you describe Barbican scale

-is it original

Le Corbusier Exhibition

Exhibition: The Art of Architecture

Le Corbusier (1887-1965), widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century, was also a celebrated thinker, writer and artist. His architecture and radical ideas for reinventing modern living, from private villas to large-scale social housing to utopian urban plans, still resonate today.

Le Corbusier — The Art of Architecture is the first major survey in London of the internationally renowned architect in more than 20 years. This timely reassessment presents a wealth of original models, interior settings, drawings, furniture, photographs, films, tapestries, paintings, sculpture and books by designed and written by the architect himself.

Barbican Art Gallery opening times:
Daily 11.00am – 8.00pm

Introduction to the exhibition and the architect, the Modulor - a scale of proportions that consists of a human size, how important that is for a design?

21 February 2009

Barbican Trip

Trip schedule

Date: 27.02.2009

Place: Barbican

Time: 11-4pm

The nearest Underground station is Barbican, on the Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines. To reach the Barbican, exit the station and cross Aldersgate Street in front of you. Walk through the road tunnel (Beech Street) before taking the first turning right into Silk Street. The Barbican is straight ahead of you.