Archilibs (Architecture ad libs) is an experimental design studio exploring the Form of Architecture and the Architecture of Form. A conceptual investigation, digital and analogue, through a process of drawing and making. Research that is both technical and philosophical.
Archilibs questions and reiterates the mission of form through continuous research, intense interrogation, and devotion to craft. It explores the geo(graphic)s, inform(action)s and morpho(logic)s of architecture.
The methodology of work is not limited by the normal conventions of architectural delineation of form making, rather a representation of diverse types of explorations, material, connections, notions; a body of works that transvers a wider process of the inherent reasons underlying the verbalisation, visualisation, and materialisation of the architectural construct. Some constructs start more as discursive investigations, some are visual records, some hint, others never reveal their architectural subject.
In all, they open up new frontieirs of the imagination whilst embracing, and never discarding, the power and potential of both analogue and digital form making.
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Bea Martin
Bea Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Huddersfield where she is also the BA (Hons) Architecture Course Director.
my drawing philosophy…
A drawing should be conceived as a machinic assemblage — a drawing that is multiple. Its function or meaning no longer depending on an interior truth or identity, but on the particular assemblages, it forms with other drawings. My methodology draws an analogy to the work of Deleuze and Guattari by exploring drawing as an assemblage. An exploration of how the drawing is put together and stratified as a subject, and a careful manoeuvre through the bleak conception of the ‘drugged body’ provided by these two philosophers. I argue that a drawing should, ultimately, be valued for what it can do (rather than what essentially ‘is’) and that assemblages should be assessed in relation to their enabling, or blocking, of a drawing’s potential to become other.
[ Education ]
APA/PgCert |
Birmingham City University
| 2020
Master of Architecture |
University of California, Berkeley
| 2010
Dip.Arch, MSc.Urban Planning |
University of Lisbon
| 1995 – 2001
[ Academia ]
Senior Lecturer in Architecture |
University of Huddersfield
| 2021 –
Lecturer in Architecture |
Birmingham City University
| 2018 – 2021
Instructor |
University of California, Berkeley
| 2008 – 2011
[ Practice ]
Architect | PLP Architecture, London
| 2012 – 2014
Architect | Rogers Stirk Harbour, London
| 2006 – 2007
Architect | Lifschutz, Davidson Sandilands, London
| 2005 – 2006
Architect | Metropolitan Workshop, London
| 2004 – 2005
Architect | Anshen + Allen, London
| 2002 – 2004
Assistant Architect | Inskip + Jenkins, London
| 2001
[ Organisations ]
FHEA | Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
RIBA | Royal Institute of British Architects
ARB | Architectural Registration Board
OASRS | Orden dos Arquitectos
[ Achievements ]
KRob | Finalist, Professional Digital/Mixed | 2019
KRob | Finalist, Professional Hand | 2018
KRob | Finalist, Professional Digital/Mixed | 2017
KRob | Finalist, Professional Hand | 2017
KRob | Finalist, Professional Hand | 2017
[ Features ]
Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Narrative Architecture /// “Topo[graphies] of the Un/conscious” | https://journals.ap2.pt/index.php/AIS/article/view/321/270
