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10 x 10 Drawing Workshop Date: 3 November 2012 Time: 2-4pm Cost: Free Children 6-12, any skill level Location: Somerset House 10 x 10 Exhibition Gallery Space The Strand, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA Register: on arrival at Somerset House The Museum of Architecture (MoA), Gilles & Cecilie Studio and Somerset House are hosting a free children's architecture drawing workshop as part of 10 x 10 London – Drawing the City, the annual exhibition and auction in support of international development and disaster relief charity Article 25.  The workshop is free for children and parents. Drawing materials and worksheets will be provided on arrival.

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10 x 10 Drawing Workshop Date: 15 September 2012 Time: 2-4pm Cost: Free Adults, any skill level Location: Covent Garden Paul Davis + Partners London WC2E 9EB Register: info@museumofarchitecture.org The Museum of Architecture (MoA) and Gilles & Cecilie Studio are hosting a free adult architecture drawing workshop as part of 10 x 10 London – Drawing the City, the annual exhibition and auction in support of international development and disaster relief charity Article 25.  One drawing from the workshop will be chosen by Article 25 to be exhibited at Somerset House as part of the exhibition showing works by Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and designer Paul Smith. The workshop is free and all skill levels welcome. Drawing materials will be provided by MoA. Please email info@museumofachitecture.org to book your place.

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Home Location: Mosaic Rooms, London Date: 21 June - 7 July 2012 Home, an exhibition that picked apart the very fabric of what makes up the home in the Arab world. Part of the British Council’s International Architecture and Design Showcase 2012 and presented in partnership with the Embassies of Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, and Yemen, and venue partner The Mosaic Rooms. The notion of home is explored through visual conception, materials, and forms that reference traditional typologies and environmental contexts that are uniquely Arab. Participants included: Ministry of Culture (Bahrain), Shahira Fahmy Architects (Egypt), AMBS Architects (Iraq), LEFT Architects (Lebanon), Kilo Architecture (Morocco), Virginia Commonwealth University and Independent Architects (Qatar) and The Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation, led by Salma Samar Damluji (Yemen) Sponsored by VCU Qatar, the British Council and the Mosaic Rooms

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Forward Thinking Symposium: Discussions on the Future of Architecture in the Arab World Location: RIBA, London Date: 19 July 2011 Throughout the next 20 years, many of the housing projects, souks, hotels, office buildings, planned cities, and cultural centres in the Arab world will be completed. As the region continues to shift both economically and politically, what will the discussions around architecture in the region be? This talk brings together a broad group of experts to discuss the questions we may be asking in the coming months and years. Topics will include the development of new technologies and materials, how the Internet could shape physical and virtual spaces, and the pursuit of Arab identity in architecture. Moderator: Tim Makower, Partner, Allies and Morrison Architects and Co-Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Qatar University with speakers: Ahmed Al-Ali and Farid Esmaeil, Principals, X-Architects; Aidan Chopra, Google; Salmaan Craig, Foster + Partners; Ahmad Humeid, CEO, Syntax; Peter Oborn, Deputy Chairman, Aedas Architects; Dr Aylin Orbasli, Programme Leader, MA International Architectural Regeneration and Development, Oxford Brookes University Nous & RIBA Architecture Events at Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, Presented by the Mayor of London, Sponsored by HSBC

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Public Domain Symposium: Public & Civic Spaces in the Arab World Location: RIBA, London Date: 12 July Using material drawn from photojournalists, professional photographers, and architectural practices, the exhibition will provide a journey through the public and civic spaces of the Arab world and showcase daily life in the region. The images and films will feature the places where people meet, socialise, shop, exchange ideas, demonstrate, and celebrate; they will include images from the on-going protests and from everyday life in streets, cafes and markets. The exhibition will also explore factors shaping public and civic spaces in the region, such as rapid economic change, a focus on public infrastructure in Arab cities, recent political events, and the use of the Internet. Contributors include Iwan Baan and Charlie Koolhaas; photojournalists commissioned by news wire Demotix; photographers and filmmakers from the Arab region; and, architecture and urbanism practices. Sponsored by Austin-Smith:Lord and Demotix Nous & RIBA Architecture Events at Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, Presented by the Mayor of London, Sponsored by HSBC

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Public Domain Exhibition: Public & Civic Spaces in the Arab World Location: RIBA, London Date: 12 July - 24 September 2011 Using material drawn from photojournalists, professional photographers, and architectural practices, the exhibition will provide a journey through the public and civic spaces of the Arab world and showcase daily life in the region. The images and films will feature the places where people meet, socialise, shop, exchange ideas, demonstrate, and celebrate; they will include images from the on-going protests and from everyday life in streets, cafes and markets. The exhibition will also explore factors shaping public and civic spaces in the region, such as rapid economic change, a focus on public infrastructure in Arab cities, recent political events, and the use of the Internet. Contributors include Iwan Baan and Charlie Koolhaas; photojournalists commissioned by news wire Demotix; photographers and filmmakers from the Arab region; and, architecture and urbanism practices. Sponsored by Austin-Smith:Lord and Demotix Nous & RIBA Architecture Events at Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, Presented by the Mayor of London, Sponsored by HSBC

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Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition Location: Tea Building, London Date: 18 - 23 June 2010 With the participation of hundreds of tutors and thousands of students, this exhibition showcased the outcomes of 86 architectural workshops around the world as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2010. At the opening, a round table discussion was held about the future of workshops and their role in the discipline. While workshops are rapidly becoming an important platform for experimentation and the production of ideas, they have never been critiqued outside of specific reviews, or as a broader methodology in architectural teaching. Nor have workshop outcomes ever been exhibited together and discussed as a key element of architectural education. It is an exhibition and publication that aims to explore why workshops exist and provides some insight into their role in architectural education. Sponsored by Derwent London

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Alternative Initiatives: Cuba Conference Location: RIBA, London Date: 8 October 2010 Alternative Initiatives Cuba Conference explored the impact of Cuba's political and economic conditions on its architecture and speculated on the future of Cuban architecture and development. The event was curated in collaboration with Francisco Gonzales de Canales and Nuria Lombardero. Participants included: Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, the Havana City Historian, director of the restoration program of Old Havana and its historical center; Ricardo Porro, Architect; Nuria Alvarez Lombardero and Francisco Gonzalez de Canales, Architects and tutors; Dr. Francisco Gomez Diaz, Architect and tutor; Felipe Hernandez, Architect and tutor; Emily Morris, expert on the Cuban economy; Brett Steele, Director of the Architectural Association.

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Boys and Their Toys Exhibition Location: LOT Gallery - Lexington, Kentucky, US Date: 30 October - 8 November 2009 Boys and their Toys explored the close relationship that designers have with technology. The work was designed and fabricated using a set of tools that varied from digital cameras to laser cutting and cnc milling machines to subverting software programmes. Technology is now entirely ingrained in the methodology of architectural design and creates infinite possibilities for projects and production. We can now appreciate the creativity of architects and designers on a smaller scale, allowing quicker exposure to new talent and access to designs at any scale.

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Algorithmic Structures Workshop and Exhibition Location: Shunt, London Date: 30 September 30 - 4 October 2009 This exhibition was part of a larger event organized by Din-collective and emphasized the creative prowess of the students involved in re-designing London Bridge, London their installations from the Algorithmic Structures Workshop for the space at Shunt. The challenge was transforming 2000m2 of cardboard installations from the Mare street exhibition space into a 15m vault in one of the arches of SHUNT under London bridge. The installations were component based, human scale structures, composed entirely from self-similar, mass produced, cardboard pieces that connected into one whole using an intelligent, rule-based system. Local external factors operated as informing parameters to generate component variation, resulting in an overall structure responsive to its environment. Variations in size, orientation or perforation resulted in varying degrees of light infiltration, view or function. Architectural students from schools in London and abroad started the upcoming academic year by joining this four-day Design + Build + Exhibit Competition Workshop during which they were given the unique opportunity to experiment with the unlimited potentialities of this design method. Assisted by tutors that practice and teach at the forefront of the contemporary architectural scene, two selected structures were designed and built for the exhibition. This exhibition was part of the London Design Festival and was led by Kristof Krolla and Jeroen van Ameijde.

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Blink and You'll Miss It and Wide Eyed at Beyond Media Festival 2009 Location: Florence, Italy Date: 9-17 July 2009 Nous was invited to Participate in the Beyond Media Festival 2009 with the installations ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ and ‘wide eyed’. Director, Melissa Woolford, participated on the panel discussion ‘exhibited visions’ on curating and architecture. Blink and you’ll miss it was an installation that responded to people’s subconscious response to images of architecture in collaboration with Sunand Prasad, President of RIBA and Kieran Long, Editor of AJ and Architectural Review. Designed by Tom Cecil in collaboration with Phil Langley and Shajay Bhooshan. Wide Eyed An installation produced by Evidently including films by some of the most innovative design studios, architects, and engineers of today in response to: What are you working on right now that excites you? How will it impact the field of architecture and design? Where will it be in 2020? including work by Alex Haw | Atmos, Alisa Andrasek | Biothing, Carlos M Mediero & Gabriela Sanz | CG ARCHITECTS, Claudia Pasquero & Marco Poletto | ecoLogic Studio, Ed Keller | AUM Studio, Elif Erdine, Emmanuel Ruffo | R(e)thinking Architecture, Eva Christina Sommeregger, Florencia Pita | MOD, Jeroen van Ameijde | AA Digital LAB, Joseph Choma | ArchitectuRE defined, Kawamura Ganjavian, Kristof Crolla, Lab[au], Lawrence Friesen, Open Systems, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Philip Beesley, Robert Mezquiti | Studio Autoforma ATX, Supermanoeuvre, Yiorgos Artopoulos

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Ship of Theseus Location: London Date: 19 – 28 June For his first solo London exhibition, Ship of Theseus, Peter Macapia designed an installation of sixteen intensely turbulent forms generated from geometrical Clerkenwell, London and algorithmic processes. Suspended in mid-air, one could see each form radically change from one state to the next even though each “form” is exactly the same. Each one entailed a shift of detail wherein another turbulent geometry which characterized its surface was altered and replaced consecutively introducing one of the generative features of material behavior which is the conflict between form and pattern. Thus the paradox of the Ship of Theseus was reconstituted as another problem of identity and form.

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Digital Intuition: the design space of artificial learning Location: London Date: 27 March - 12 April 2009 Digital Intuition as an apparent contradiction showed a series of network of Artificial Learning models from the field of artificial intelligence applied to architecture. Can models derived from artificial neural networks emulate the mechanics of learning and reveal qualities of space invisible to the eye? The exhibition showed a collective of design researchers who developed artificial learning in architectural design over the past decade. Including work by CECA | Christian Derix; Tim Ireland; Phil Langley; John Harding; Army of Clerks | Pablo Miranda; Åsmund Gamlesæter & Alexander Berman; Professor Wolf-Plottegg; DAG | Andrea Flamenco and Gabriel Bach; Tom Cecil | Steel Rope Bench This exhibition was done with Christian Derix and Paul Coates, who helped found Nous Gallery.

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Border Lines Location: Notting Hill, London Date: 11 - 17 November 2008 Border Lines brought together a network of artists, architects, and others whose works were engaged in original forms of transnational social activism. The exhibit included manifestos for design proposals, performance art videos, and development programs. Technologies, politics, and territories came together in a network of projects involving social and geopolitical borders throughout the world. All projects are federated by the Space for Human Rights organization which seeks to contribute to the development of Human Rights by extending the field to new territories and linked practices, reassembling and contributing to a global culture of Human Rights. Curated by Nathanael Dorent (Space for Human Rights) and Melissa Woolford (Nous Gallery), with projects by Association Kalanke, Association Flux, Architecture for Humanity (UK), Peter Macapia (Labdora) + Abbey Dubin, Skylar Tibbits, Maxime Aumon Bemelmans, Arnaud Depeyre, Martial Coudamy, and Martina Bjorn.

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Architecture of Media Location: Kings Cross, London Date: 11 September - 2 October A collaboration between Nous, Workspace Group PLC and Tent London to present an exhibition of 9 entries to the Workspace Group Urbantine Project® Fast Architecture Competition held by Tent London at Nous gallery in King’s Cross. The exhibition looked into four categories that started to describe how the work was related such as Analogue Space of Virtual Communication, Adaptive Structures, Sensory Environments and New Craftsmanship. The participants included winner WAG, Jon Goodbun, Open Tables; Amenity Space, Nicholas Kirk,The Cabinet Room; Nissen Adams, Pippa Nissen, Julia Hamson, Inbox; labRAD, Wayne Congar, Zach Heineman, Amandine Kastler,Troy Therrien, Tube Space; CLAIM, Olga Skaba, Hartmut Flothmann, The Maze; NAU, Jean-Lucien Gay, Michael Brown, Tino Schaedler, Sensual Immersion; CGC, Gabriela Sanz, Carlos M., Clara Garcia, The Mountain; Kawamura-Ganjavian, Key Portilla-Kawamura + Ali Ganjavian, Sticking Rings; Araki + Sasaki, Motoki Araki, Takayuki Sasaki, Tamaho Sasaki, SaShiMoNo. The panelists for the discussion included Lesley Gavin [BT futurologists], Olivier Geoffroy [untothislast], Jon Goodbun [winner of the Workspace Group Urbantine Project®), WAG], Usman Haque [Haque design and research], Alvise Simondetti [Foresight & Innovation at Arup], Chair: Christian Derix [Nous, Aedas R&D] This exhibition was done with Christian Derix and Paul Coates, who helped found Nous Gallery.

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Residue Location: Kings Cross, London Date: 10 April - 9 May An exhibition of the work of Small Architecture about how to use computing and related technologies (in design) in a manner that provides a more direct and sensuous connection with how we perceive and understand things. This exhibition was done with Christian Derix and Paul Coates, who helped found Nous Gallery.

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Mechanical Curator for the Museum of the Unknown Location: Kings Cross, London Date: 4 - 20 October 2007 The exhibition shows the work of CECA and ecoLogic Studio. It addressed how it is quite common nowadays that people talk about algorithms in quite general ways, which are only vaguely related to the computer science definition. It is perhaps unfortunate that words such as “process” are bandied about in phrases such as “design process” or “building process” as well as being used to describe the mechanics of some piece of software. Generally all that is meant is that the topic can be seen as a set of linked activities. Similarly, to say that the inclusion of time into the description of an activity is evidence of the acceptance of the “emergent” philosophy and often fails to distinguish between any old activity that takes place in a serial manner (the process of building) and the idea that, with a parallel dynamic system you can’t possibly know/predict the outcome without running the algorithm. So you can play the algorithmic game using diagrams, actions and drawings of all kinds, but there is too close a correspondence between the operations and their description, and the intended outcomes of the process. When algorithms are expressed as text, in some language, then the distance between the description of the algorithm and the intended outcome becomes greater, and as described below, this abstraction into “real” language (as opposed to metaphorical “languages of form” for instance) give access to the infinite variety of generative grammar. Hence it was proposed by Nous gallery that there is a difference which matters between grammars as normally understood and for instance “shape grammars”, and that the former, as part of text. This exhibition was done with Christian Derix and Paul Coates, who helped found Nous Gallery.