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M.ARCH Project 01
UCA Satellite



UCA Satellite
Or Herbert Read goes to town

Three weeks into the semester, our Master of Architecture students presented their first project of the year. The brief asked for the design of a new exhibition and event space for the University for the Creative Arts – an outpost of the long-established Herbert Read Gallery on UCA’s Canterbury campus.

Founded in 1984 and named after the British art historian, writer and anarchist Herbert Read, the campus gallery hosts exhibitions on fine art, architecture, design and fashion. Artists who have shown at the gallery include Yoko Ono, Jeremy Deller, Hans Haacke, Fischli & Weiss and Atelier Van Lieshout, to name just a few. The gallery also regularly displays works by students and staff as well as the annual Graduation shows.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions the gallery has been unable to welcome visitors since spring 2020 and was provisionally turned into a teaching space in 2020/21 – a situation that continues in the current academic year. Students revived the dormant gallery by speculating about a centrally located exhibition and event space, a new interface between the campus and the city, that would allow UCA to contribute to Canterbury’s cultural and civic landscape in new ways.

What actually is a gallery? What could and should it be? Are there alternatives to the ideology of the “white cube” (Brian O’Doherty, 1986)? If so, how can one re-contextualise the gallery typology? How can architecture offer new opportunities to curate art and design exhibitions? How can a university gallery actively contribute to the public realm? How can UCA share its talent, knowledge and expertise and engage with the wider urban community?

UCA Satellite
Or Herbert Read goes to town

PROJECT TEAMS
01 | Rebecca Alexander // Jess Dowson // Keerthigan Thavaseelan
02 | Bianca Angheluta // Maria Domide // Narges Fakhari // Matt Ralph
03 | Chang Gu // Dimple Manmovanlal // Louis Quill // Beihan Zhang
04 | Valentina Condrea // Shuaib Mukhtar Bhat // Savannah Walker // Elliot Waters
05 | Daud Butt // Junyan David Du // Anish Rai
06 | Jack Harding // Clinton Olajide // Gabriel Peck // Harsha Vissapragada
07 | Abdullah Al Hossain // Mst Faujima Rumman
08 | Helen Li // Abdullah Shabab // Shandri van Rooyen
09 | Celine Elham Sadek // Chinmay Rajeshirke
10 | Vanessa Cheong Yuen Zing // Borcsi Bán // Paula Sabuda // Madeleine Seymour
11 | Ellys Gudger // Ksenia Lenina // Diya Seepaul
12 | Olivia Christodoulides // Katerina Kalogridi // Alex Marno
13 | Ethan Burley // Edu Flores AcuÑa // Jacob Hedge // Maks Molsa

TUTORS
Carla Novak & Adam Hiles // Gabor Stark

M.ARCH
Master of Architecture
(ARB/RIBA Part 2)
2021/22

https://www.uca.ac.uk/study/courses/master-of-architecture/