On first Sunday, we started to get to know four different parts of London: Brick Lane – a place where artists and emigrants from Bangladesh work and reside, Bank – a finance and banking center, Piccadilly Circus – a tourist attraction and Canary Wharf – the new business/residential part of London.

We examined the behavior and dressing code and physical surroundings – that is, parallels of fashion design and architecture where fashion design studies the identity of the person and the architecture studies the identity of the city.

During our summer session, we also visited some of the most interesting exhibitions:

Skin+Bones in Somerset House - an interesting exhibition of parallels between architecture and fashion design.

New London Architecture – a public display of future building projects, since London is currently filled with cranes and construction workers because of the 2012 Olympics.

The Serpentine Gallery Pavillion in Hyde Park is a pavillion projected by a different famous architect every year. This year, the pavillion is a work of Frank Gehry. We visited displays and discussions held in this pavillion (Is the pavillion the most fashiony architecture gets? Is the pavilion the architectural outcome that most closely reflects the fashion approach in terms of: a) Skin as structure and skin as content? b) Seasonal 'event' structures?)

»Psycho Buildings« in Southbank Centre – installations made by world-famous artists on how they experience architecture.

»Street Art« in Tate Modern – better yet: on Tate Modern, since the display was held outdoors, on the riverside facade of Tate building.

... continued next week

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Jelena Grujiæ is the winner of the 2007 Trimo Urban Crash competition.

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Contribute to our blog! Professors and students from all faculties of architecture are kindly invited to post their projects or quick looks at their faculties on the Trimo Urban Crash Blog. Trimo Urban Crash team has already visited some faculties. In this post you can read about few interesting glimpses.

Milan – One-Man-House designed by students of Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa

House for one man is a highly interesting experiment and good practice, designed by the first year architecture students.
The model is designed in 1:1 scale and built from OSB building board (Oriented Strand Board), made from the wood of a coniferous tree.

In the house you can see prof. Massimo Fortis, director of Campus Bovisa.

London – Imaginative practice of statics at the University of Westminster

The students’ task was to create small sculptures which would bear their own weight.
To wind the project process up the students put together an exhibition where they put a model of themselves on the top of the sculpture.
In this way each construction supported its own authour.

Banja Luka – Faculty of Architecture’s first passive building

The Faculty of Architecture will re-design the exsisting building to become the first passive university building.
Projects for the renovation are already under preparation.

Belgrade – Serbia’s pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale co-designed by Belgrade students

The idea for the content of at the Serbian pavilion this year in Venice's Giardini was designed at the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture.
Take a look at the exhibition.