FINAL PORTFOLIO REVIEW

The academic year is almost over, the graduation show and prize ceremony is in two weeks. Toby and I just assessed everyone’s portfolios with the help of other tutors from Westminster. This is a very stimulating day in which all the studios’ year-long student work is seen and its diversity revealed. Students could not be part of the process and witness the efforts and beauty of the some of the work so here it is, a little selection of some of our most creative portfolios this year:

Georgua Rose Colard-Watson - Temple for Love - Winner of the Burnin gMan Festival Grant — Georgua Rose Colard-Watson – Temple for Love – Winner of the Burnin gMan Festival Grant

Luka Kreze's Temple for the revolution in Tahrir Square — Luka Kreze’s Temple for the revolution in Tahrir Square

Dhiren Patel's Temple to Chakras on the Mount Meru — Dhiren Patel’s Temple to Chakras on the Mount Meru

Jacob Alsop's Temple to Bees and Wax Experiments — Jacob Alsop’s Temple to Bees and Wax Experiments

Michael Clarke - Temple to Making and WikiVault — Michael Clarke – Temple to Making and WikiVault

Josh Haywood - Monastic and Prison Cells — Josh Haywood – Monastic and Prison Cells

Mihail Andrei-Jipa - A Temple to Infinity - Inhabitable Fractals — Mihail Andrei-Jipa – A Temple to Infinity – Inhabitable Fractals

William Garforth-Bless - Temple to Water ion the Thames — William Garforth-Bless – Temple to Water ion the Thames

Marilu Valente - Bio-Polymer's Temple — Marilu Valente – Bio-Polymer’s Temple

Philip Hurrel's Temple to the Transition Movement in Totness — Philip Hurrel’s Temple to the Transition Movement in Totness

Christopher Ingram - Village to Electro-Sensitivity — Christopher Ingram – Village to Electro-Sensitivity

Thanasis Korras - Memento Mori Temple - Winner of the Burning Man Festival Grant - Recursive Koch Structures — Thanasis Korras – Memento Mori Temple – Winner of the Burning Man Festival Grant – Recursive Koch Structures

Tim Clare - Temple to Knowledge — Tim Clare – Temple to Knowledge

Author: Arthur Mamou-Mani

Arthur Mamou-Mani AA dipl, ARB/RIBA FRSA – is a French architect, director of Mamou-Mani Architects, specialised in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called the Fab.Pub which allows people to experiment with large 3D Printers and Laser Cutters. Arthur has been selected as one of the RIBAj's 2017 cohort of Rising Stars. He has won the Gold Prize at the American Architecture Prize for the Wooden Wave project installed at BuroHappold Engineering and since 2016, he is a fellow of the The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Prior to founding Mamou-Mani in 2011, he worked with Atelier Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid Architects and Proctor and Matthews Architects. View all posts by Arthur Mamou-Mani