Infra_Manc opened last friday. An exhibition of great infrastructural projects, both realised and unrealised, within the enigmatic city of Manchester. Currently on at CUBE gallery, the collection on display illuminates you with a pure adventure of the imagination in to what our city may have been, whilst simultaneously cementing your amazement for the projects that came to fruition.
Whether it be a city of Helicopters, or the Guardian Underground Telephone Exchange, which still lays below our feet unbeknownst to us, this exhibition helps to show the true innovation and ideas that progressed the city through the post-war period.
Curated by the MSA's Richard Brook and Martin Dodge of the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester, and part of the Manchester Histories Festival 2012, this exhibition is truly worth a visit. It is on display on till the 24th of March at CUBE.
A new book has been published by two lecturers at the Manchester School of Architecture, Richard Brook and Nick Dunn. Entitled Isolative Urbanism: an Ecology of Control, the book is a collection of essays primarily dealing with issues surrounding the control of space, both public and private, with a myriad of other issues and topics explored within them. The essays have all been written by members of the Re_Map BArch Studio unit at MSA.
Last night (Tuesday 8th October 2009) Richard Brook, senior lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, kicked off the Manchester Student Society of Architecture Lecture Series for the 2009/10 season. In association with the 20th Century Society (highlighting architecture of the 20th century and seeking to preserve it) students, lecturers, architects and members of the public were entertained with a history of how planning policy has shaped the modern day city.
