Mobile Studio Architects

Chee-Kit Lai from Mobile Studio Architects appointed as Co-Director of Architecture BSc (Part 1) programme at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (28 Mar)

Congratulations to Yaowen Zhang who was awarded commendation at the RIBA Presidents Medals 2024 (Bronze category) with his project entitled ‘Land, Building, Dwelling‘ (Part 1, The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, UK). Yaowen Zhang was a student of Architecture BSc Unit 9, and was tutored by Associate Professor Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio Architects and Lecturer Doug Miller (4 Dec)

Showcasing the architectural work of nearly 900 students, The Bartlett Summer Show 2024 will be exhibited across all seven levels throughout the Bloomsbury campus at 22 Gordon Street, London. Featuring student projects from five architecture programmes – Architecture BSc, Architecture MSci, Architecture MArch, Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies BSc and Engineering & Architectural Design MEng. The work can also be viewed online. The show will be officially opened by Narinder Sagoo MBE, senior partner at Foster & Partners (21 Jun – 6 Jul)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver hybrid The Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2024. The eighteenth annual exhibition by doctoral students at The Bartlett School of Architecture. The groundbreaking digital platform is developed by Hello Monday, with a physical show on the ground floor galleries at 22 Gordon Street, London, plus a special tribute to Prof Jonathan Hill (1958-2023) (20 Feb – 5 Mar)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver the Bartlett Fifteen 2023. See The Bartlett Fifteen Show 2023 (8 – 22 Dec)

A panel discussion about the experience of home, identity and the everyday in relation to the annual theme of ‘Resource’. This year, Many landmark exhibitions — ‘Dancing Before The Moon’ in the British Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2023,  the UK’s first permanent South Asia Gallery in Manchester Museum, ‘A Home is not a Place’ at the Photographers Gallery, and ‘Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place’ at the Museum of London — have turned to material culture and practices of the everyday to explore diasporic senses of home, roots, and identity in the UK. This panel addresses the annual theme of ‘Resource’ as the construction of one’s home or as a return to the resilient source of the everyday. This event is part of the inaugural CRUNCH Series at The Bartlett School of Architecture, replacing the International Lecture Series (5 Dec)

The first full return of the The Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2023 will be exhibited across five levels throughout the Bloomsbury campus at 22 Gordon Street, London. Featuring student projects from six different programmes – Architectural Computation MSc & MRes, Architectural Design MArch, Bio-Integrated Design MArch & MSc, Urban Design MArch, Architecture & Historic Urban Environments MA, Landscape Architecture MA & MLA. Work can also be viewed on Bartlett’s award-winning virtual exhibition platform (26 Sep – 6 Oct)

Showcasing the architectural work of nearly 900 students, The Bartlett Summer Show 2023 will be exhibited across all seven levels throughout the Bloomsbury campus at 22 Gordon Street, London. Featuring student projects from five architecture programmes – Architecture BSc, Architecture MSci, Architecture MArch, Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies BSc and Engineering & Architectural Design MEng. A parallel digital show will run concurrently on the Bartlett’s award-winning virtual exhibition platform (23 Jun – 8 Jul)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver hybrid The Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2023. The seventeenth annual exhibition by doctoral students at The Bartlett School of Architecture. The groundbreaking digital platform is developed by Hello Monday, with a physical show on the ground floor galleries at 22 Gordon Street, London (21 Feb – 7 Mar)

The first permanent gallery in the UK to celebrate the lived experiences and contributions of the South Asian diaspora opens to the public. A place for emotional connections and new perspectives, it will bring together world-class collections and lived experiences in a landmark partnership with the British Museum and co-curated with the local community (South Asia Gallery Collective and Our Shared Cultural Heritage Manchester). The gallery is a keystone of ‘hello future’, an exciting new project to transform and develop Manchester Museum. See South Asia Gallery (18 Feb)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver the third hybrid Bartlett show hosted online and in person simultaneously. See The Bartlett Fifteen Show 2022 (9 -23 Dec)

The Bartlett School of Architecture’s online show platform has won a Silver Lovie, and People’s Lovie. The online platform was launched with The Bartlett Summer Show 2020, and now twelve shows are archived at bartlettarchucl.com The platform is developed in collaboration with Hello Monday (part of DEPT agency). The Lovie Awards are named in honour of Britain’s Ada Lovelace, credited as being the first computer programmer. They are the most prestigious and coveted award recognising excellence on the European Internet. Lovie winners are selected by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a global organisation of industry experts and technology innovators, and a public online ballot (25 Oct)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver the second hybrid Bartlett show, hosted online and in person simultaneously. See The Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2022 (27 Sep – 7 Oct)

Consortium ‘Studio C102 + Mobile Studio Architects + Manijeh Verghese with Sthuthi Ramesh’ has been shortlisted for V&A East Museum galleries fit-out. The winner will draw up plans for a pair of £1.4m-to-1.7m gallery spaces within the O’Donnell + Tuomey-designed V&A East Museum, and is due to open in 2025. A winner is expected to be announced later this summer (27 Jun)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver The Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2022. The sixteenth annual conference and exhibition presented by doctoral students at The Bartlett School of Architecture. The groundbreaking platform is developed by Hello Monday (22 Feb – 8 Mar)

Congratulations to Ben Foulkes winner of the RIBA Presidents Medals 2021 Bronze Medal with his project ‘Seeding Swanscombe Marshes‘ (Part 1, The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, UK). The project has since been published on RIBA Journal, The Architects’ Journal, Building Design, ArchDaily, Bustler, Stir World and e-Architect. Ben Foulkes was a student of Architecture BSc Unit 9. He was tutored by Associate Professor Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio Architects and Lecturer Doug Miller (7 Dec)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver the second digital B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2021. The groundbreaking platform is developed by Hello Monday in collaboration with staff and students from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. B-Pro Show features architecture projects from four programmes, Architectural Design MArch, Urban Design MArch, Architectural Computation MArch and Bio-Integrated Design MArch/MSc. Autumn Show features work from two programmes, Landscape Architecture MA/MLA and Architecture + Historic Urban Environments MA. See The Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2021 (29 Oct – 13 Nov)

+ You are invited to join us for the launch events on Fri 27 Nov, 12noon and 1pm GMT on BSA YouTube. No registration required.

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio has been appointed as an Associate Professor (teaching) at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (1 Oct)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio judges Archiboo Awards 2021 – Best Online Experience category with Vanessa Norwood and Adam Scott (1 Oct)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver the second virtual end of year Summer Show. The groundbreaking platform is developed by Hello Monday in collaboration with staff and students from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. The virtual show features architecture projects from over 800 students across five different programmes. Show trailer by Matt Lucraft and sound by Kevin Pollard. Also launching at the same time The Bartlett Show Index on shows.bartlettarchucl.com where visitors can browse past shows (23 Jul – 7 Aug)

+ You are invited to join us for the launch event on Fri 23 Jul, 6pm BST live on BSA YouTube. No registration required.

The virtual Bartlett Summer Show 2020 designed by Hello Monday in collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL has been nominated in the Digital Design category at the prestigious D&AD Awards. See The Bartlett Summer Show 2020 (18 May)

The virtual Bartlett Summer Show 2020 designed by Hello Monday in collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL has been nominated for The Webby Awards. See The Bartlett Summer Show 2020 (18 May)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) together with David Shanks and Prof Penelope Haralambidou, as part of The Bartlett School of Architecture Virtual Exhibition team, have been awarded UCL Education Awards (Staff-Student Partnership category) and nominated for the UCL Provost Education Awards. The awards recognise staff making outstanding contributions to the learning experience and success of students (20 Apr)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio Architects has designed the world’s largest flipbook for Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center, Japan. The installation is designed to encourage public participation in drawing and making and is an international exchange art project supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, British Council “UK in Japan” and The Japan Foundation. The project reached a much wider audience than originally intended. This was due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Drawings for the flipbook were received not only from local workshops in Kanazawa but also from remote workshops in Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagano and London, UK. See Giant Flip Machine (20 Mar)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver The Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2021. The fifteenth annual conference and exhibition presented by doctoral students at The Bartlett School of Architecture. The groundbreaking platform is developed by Hello Monday (23 Feb – 9 Mar)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver not one but two virtual shows, The Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2020. The groundbreaking platform is developed by Hello Monday in collaboration with staff and students from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. B-Pro Show features architecture projects from four programmes, Architectural Design MArch, Urban Design MArch, Architectural Computation MArch and Bio-Integrated Design MArch/MSc. Autumn Show features work from two programmes, Landscape Architecture MA/MLA and Architecture + Historic Urban Environments MA. See The Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2020 (27 Nov – 11 Dec)

+ You are invited to join us for the launch events on Fri 27 Nov, 12noon and 1pm GMT on BSA YouTube. No registration required.

Bartlett students past and present reflect on our 2020 Summer Show and the challenges and successes of an extraordinary year for the school. See the video online. See The Bartlett Summer Show 2020 (24 Nov)

Studio C102 in collaboration with Mobile Studio Architects have won a competition to design the new permanent South Asia Gallery for Manchester Museum in partnership with the British Museum and co-curated with the local community (South Asia Gallery Collective and Our Shared Cultural Heritage Manchester). See South Asia Gallery (16 Oct)

Design and ideas competition in collaboration with Studio C102 (16 Oct)

The Bartlett Summer Show 2020 virtual exhibition by Hello Monday has been shortlisted for Archiboo Web Awards (Best Visual Design), won FWA (Site of the Month) and Awwwards (Site of the Day). See The Bartlett Summer Show 2020 (2 Oct)

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver in response to the global pandemic the first ever virtual end of year Summer Show. The groundbreaking platform is developed by Hello Monday in collaboration with staff and students from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. The virtual show features architecture projects from over 700 students across four different programmes. The online format focuses on students’ voice and recreates the immersive qualities of visiting the galleries at 22 Gordon Street, London. See The Bartlett Summer Show 2020 (10 Sep – 2 Oct)

+ You are invited to join us for the launch event on Thu 10 Sep, 6pm BST live on BSA YouTube with a very special Show Opener. No registration required.

Not-Fully-Open-Plan House featured on Evening Standard – Homes & Property article entitled, ‘Removing and adapting walls: How room dividers, shelving units and bookcases can double up to create extra space in your home’. See Not-Fully-Open-Plan House (21 Apr)

Mobile Studio Architects delivers a 3-day architecture workshop for students between 15-18 years old. See 3-day Architecture Workshop ‘Skill Up’ (17 – 19 Feb)

Pop-up exhibition design by Mobile Studio Architects using Modular Display Frames for Empowering Design Practices event at St Paul’s Hammersmith by The Glass-House and Open University (12 Feb)

Chee-Kit Lai (acting Director of Exhibitions at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) delivers the Bartlett FIFTEEN show, celebrating 15 months of innovation, process and interactivity by 3 Masters programmes: Design for Manufacture, Design for Interactive and Performance and Situated Practice #BartlettFifteen (4 – 13 Dec)

Collaborators Studio C102 X Mobile Studio Architects together with Max Fordham are among five design teams shortlisted to design the £3m Wonderlab gallery at the National Railway Museum in York. The winner, to be announced shortly, will create a ticketed 1,466sqm interactive exhibition for 7-to-14 year olds featuring ‘powerful and memorable experiences’ focusing on engineering. It will be built within the museum’s ground-floor engineering workshop as part of their Vision 2025 regeneration masterplan. See Wonderlab Gallery (13 Nov)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio Architects, as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, delivers The Bartlett B-Pro Show 2019 at 22 Gordon Street, London (25 Sep – 4 Oct)

Exhibition design by Mobile Studio Architects, curated by Edward Denison and Chee-Kit Lai with Patrick Weber, and filming by Xin Zhan and VR by Edward Taft shortlisted for Archiboo Web Awards 2019 “Best Use of Technology” category. Winners to be announced mid-Sep. See Bartlett, UCL – Spring 2019 Guest Exhibition (23 Jul)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio Architects delivers The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL showcase at Blueprint for the Future exhibition held at USM London showroom. Eight of the best graduating MArch projects from the Bartlett Summer Show have been selected by Blueprint Magazine. Featuring work by Naomi Rubbra, Niki-Marie Jansson, Nicole Yu Xuan Teh, Naomi De Barr, Emily Martin, Finbar Charleson, Alessandro Conning-Rowland and Alistair Frederick Johnson  (9 – 11 Jul)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio Architects, as first time Director of Exhibitions, delivers the biggest show of its kind – The Bartlett Summer Show 2019 at 22 Gordon Street, London (22 Jun – 6 Jul)

Flights of Fancy, kinetic model by Mobile Studio Architects and Ian Ng for ‘Paper Castles’ at V&A Architecture Gallery on Dezeen. Exhibition extended until 28 July. See Flights of Fancy (5 Jun)

Flights of Fancy is a kinetic model designed by Mobile Studio Architects in collaboration with Ian Ng for an exhibition entitled ‘Paper Castles’ at V&A Museum curated by Meneesha Kellay and Rory Hyde as part of London Festival of Architecture 2019. See Flights of Fancy (1 – 30 Jun)

Modular Display Frames for DesignSingapore Council President’s Design Awards at D&AD Festival, Truman Brewery in east London (21 – 23 May)

Exhibition design by Mobile Studio Architects of Lin’an History Museum (by Wang Shu + Lu Wenyu) published on Dezeen. See Bartlett UCL Spring 2019 Guest Exhibition (11 Mar)

Pop-up exhibition design by Mobile Studio Architects for HereEast using Modular Display Frames (26 Feb)

Exhibition design and graphics by Mobile Studio Architects for The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL Spring 2019 Guest Exhibition entitled, ‘Lin’an History Museum: Wang Shu + Lu Wenyu‘. The exhibition was co-curated by Dr Edward Denison and Chee-Kit Lai with Patrick Weber. See Bartlett UCL Spring 2019 Guest Exhibition (28 Jan – 8 Feb)

Chee-Kit Lai (acting Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL) delivers the inaugural Bartlett Winter Show entitled FIFTEEN, celebrating 15 months of innovation, process and interactivity by 3 new Masters programmes: Design for Manufacture, Design for Interactive and Performance and Situated Practice #BartlettFifteen (11 Dec – 11 Jan)

Exhibition design by Mobile Studio Architects entitled ‘From Edgy Youth to All Grown Up‘ for The Building Exploratory and King’s Cross Story Palace at Pancras Square Library, Camden using Modular Display Frames (14 -27 Nov)

Join this drop-in workshop for adults, held in conjunction with the opening of Renzo Piano exhibition at the RA and Open House London. Create a collaborative growing structure, drawing inspiration from Renzo Piano’s buildings which often weave between traditional and high-tech architecture. Using simple materials we will test their architectural and structural ability to create form. 2-5pm, The Clore Learning Centre, no booking required (22 Sep)

Chee-Kit Lai, director of Mobile Studio Architects, appointed Acting Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (Oct 2018 – Jun 2019)

Rentable Modular Display Frames for a pop-up exhibition entitled ‘Growing Up in King’s Cross‘ at The St Pancras and Somers Town Living Centre (27 Jun – 2 Jul)

Mobile Studio Architects invited by The Oxford Architecture Society to give a talk entitled En Route at Oxford Brookes University, School of Architecture, JHB Lecture Theatre (20 Mar)

Exhibition design by Mobile Studio Architects for ‘Building Images‘, an exhibition at Sto Werkstatt gallery of the best architectural photography worldwide that was judged at the World Architectural Festival 2017. See: Building Images (9 Feb – 27 Apr)

Loft House designed by Mobile Studio Architects has been longlisted for Don’t Move Improve! 2018 awards (25 Jan)

Bite-size architecture workshops in 3D modelling using SketchUp for young people at Creative Quarter 2017, V&A Museum by Mobile Studio Architects (17 Nov)

Join Mobile Studio Architects at RIBA for a series of quick-fire live drawing workshops. Each session lasts 30 minutes. Working in pairs, one of you will dress up in architectural clothing and pose for your partner to draw. After 15 minutes, you will swap over and draw your posing partner instead (28 Oct)

Mobile Studio Architects shortlisted for 2017 Blueprint Award (Best Small Project category). Winner to be announced in Oct. See: Universal Play Machine for BEAM Camp (8 Sep)

Rentable Modular Display Frames for a Photography Exhibition by Marion Trestler entitled Vienna-London: Passage to Safety as part of Austria in Transit conference at King’s College London (31 Aug)

Mini architecture workshops in 3D modelling using SketchUp as taster sessions for young people at Futuropolis by Mobile Studio Architects. Plus meet Unit 9 students from Bartlett School of Architecture UCL where they will present work exploring the relationship between technology and the built environment. Portfolio presentations by Theo Brader-Tan, Ali Conning-Rowland, Eleanor Evason, George Proud, James Robinson, Ivo Tedbury (12 Aug)

Rentable Modular Display Frames for The Grand Trunk Project event at the Livery Hall, Guildhall (5 Jul)

Rentable Modular Display Frames for The York International Shakespeare Festival at University of York (16 – 19 May)

4-day Architecture Workshop at RIBA entitled ‘Skill Up: Skyline Style War’ designed by Mobile Studio for ages 15 – 18 years old who are thinking about studying architecture or design. The workshop is held in conjunction with ‘Mies Stirling Circling the Square‘ exhibition (15 – 18 Apr)

Come and say hello at our new studio space in Dalston… (31 Mar)

Rentable Modular Display Frames for The Accelerate pop-up exhibition (by Open House) at the new Bartlett gallery #22GS (31 Mar)

Mobile Studio’s installation of five giant flipbooks for BEAM Camp has been published on WIRED, Dezeen, DesignBoom, BoredPanda, It’s Nice That, DesignWeek, The Architects’ Journal, Bustle, Lost At E Minor, Lonely Planet and The Creators Project VICE (18 Nov)

‘House for a House‘ project by director Chee-Kit Lai has been published in Drawing Futures (ed Laura Allen and Luke Pearson) an international peer-reviewed conference on speculative drawing for art and architecture, founded by the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (11 Nov)

Mobile Studio Architect’s winning proposal, Universal Play Machine, for BEAM Camp 2016 has been installed on site in New Hampshire USA. Watch the film here (3 Oct)

Shortlisted. Design competition inviting artists, designers, architects, technologists and creative practitioners from all over the world to propose new and distinctive ideas to respond to the theme Journeys. See: Im[press]ion (27 Sep)

Mobile Studio Architects is pleased to announce our model ‘Planning Permission Granted (2010-15)‘ currently on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has been awarded The ARUP Prize for Emerging Talent in Architecture. We have been invited to talk about the work in the Main Galleries (15 Jul)

Mobile Studio’s model entitled ‘Planning Permission Granted (2010-15)’ has been selected (13 Jun – 21 Aug)

Shortlisted. Design competition for architecture and community. See Flipping Bricks (in collaboration with Piper Haywood). Exhibition at Peckham Levels as part of London Festival of Architecture 2016 (2 – 30 Jun)

Mobile Studio Architects hosted two digital architecture design workshops for young people working in collaboration with Create! at Victoria & Albert Museum. See: Digital Architecture Workshops (27 Feb)

People in Architecture evening talk by director of Mobile Studio Architects at Nottingham Trent University (16 Feb)

The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (15 Feb)

Design competition for a collaborative large scale installation to be built by a unique youth summer camp in New Hampshire, USA. See: Universal Play Machine (9 Feb)

Shortlisted. Design competition for urban regeneration and public interventions by Brent Council, The GLA, High Street Works, Meanwhile Space and The Architecture Foundation. See: Elevate for WPD (27 Jan)

Rentable Modular Display System for pop-up exhibition Capturing Clerkenwell Photography Exhibition hosted by Humanscale and Bene, supported by OnOffice (19 Nov)

Written by Chee-Kit Lai, director of Mobile Studio Architects (28 Oct)

Featured in New Ideas for Housing London published by NLA (14 Oct)

Rentable Modular Display Frames for pop-up exhibitions at King’s College London – Arts and Humanities Festival (15 Oct)

Shortlisted. Ideas competition by NLA in partnership with the Mayor of London. See: PAYD Housing (15 Sep)

Mobile Studio Architects designs window installation using modular system for retailer Giftique at XinTianDi, Shanghai. As featured in The Architects’ Journal and Building Design (2 Apr)

Concept image of Mobile Studio’s window installation for Giftique at Xintiandi, Shanghai, China as featured in The Architects Journal and RIBA online (Feb)

Mobile Studio Architects collaborated with attRAct to run an architectural workshop for A-level students from various London schools (Jan)

Mobile Studio designs modular pop-up folly for #AHFest. Full programme here (15 – 24 Oct)

Shortlisted. Regeneration competition by Meanwhile Space to overhaul two railway arches in south London (Oct)

Shortlisted. Design ideas competition for an open source, repeatable, modular design house for the rapidly growing town of Ejisu in the Ashanti region of Ghana. See: K:House for Ghana by Mobile Studio Architects (Oct)

Mobile Studio designs family workshop ‘A Room Without a Roof’ at the Royal Academy of Arts for Open House weekend, 11am – 3pm (21 Sep)

Mobile Studio designs modular system for kids workshop Open House Junior 2014. Part of the City of London Sculpture in the City 2014 project (20 Sep)

Film by Stephenson/Bishop and photographs as part of RIBA Windows. Featured in Evening Standard, Dezeen, The Icon Design Trail + Menswear Insight (18 Sep)

RIBA Regent St Windows TALK at the Apple Store Regent St, 7pm Tue (16 Sep)

Mobile Studio brings the essence of New York to London for Jack Spade’s window on Brewer St. From 1 Sep onwards for LDF (28 Jul)

Written by Chee-Kit Lai, director of Mobile Studio Architects + BSc Unit 9 tutor at theBartlett School of Architecture UCL (22 Jul)

A weekly series of short films by Jim Stephenson / Edward Bishop, talking to designers + artists about their processes, inspirations + workplaces (14 Jul)

Mobile Studio Architects for Lightbulb. Photography by Jim Stephenson (13 Jul)

Portable Gallery for UCL Museums has been featured in Temporary Architecture by Lisa Baker, by Braun Publishing (13 Jun)

New plug-in option to Mobile Studio’s rentable Modular Display System. Made from 100% recycled material and 100% recyclable. As used by UCL Global Citizenship Programme 2014 pop-up exhibition (13 Jun)

Pop-up exhibition and way-finding signage design for UCL’s literary festival using quick assembly and modular elements (13 Jul)

Modular design system by Mobile Studio Architects for CDW14 in London (May)

Exhibition design and graphics by Mobile Studio (4 Apr)

Mobile Studio’s Architecture Workshop for A-Level Students’ for attRAct/Royal Academy of Arts + Sensing Spaces has been featured online DesignCurial / Blueprint Magazine (3 Apr)

Mobile Studio as part of group show for Singapore Day 2014 in London, UK (29 Mar)

Mobile Studio Architects collaborated with attRAct to run a series of architectural workshops in conjunction with Sensing Spaces exhibition in the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts (Jan – Mar)

Chee-Kit Lai (director of Mobile Studio) in collaboration with Dr Victoria Watson contributes an article entitled, ‘Living Architecture: Chilcot Close’ to the second edition of THE UNPUBLISHABLES by Zoe Berman (6 Mar)

Longlisted. Mobile Studio’s scheme entitled ‘PAYD Houses’ has been longlisted for the RIBA + Wates Group ideas competition (25 Nov)

Mobile Studio presents exhibition + graphic design for UCLoo Festival at UCL (19 Nov – 3 Dec)

Chee-Kit Lai (director of Mobile Studio) teaches with Juliet Quintero on the at CSM (1 – 19 July)

Chee-Kit Lai (director of Mobile Studio) contributes an article entitled, ‘In Between Spaces’ to the first edition of THE UNPUBLISHABLES by Zoe Berman (20 June)

SSEES rents Mobile Studio’s Modular Display System frames for Summer School pop-up exhibition (7 June)

Mobile Studio Architects designs Mirare Maze Folly for Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 (21 – 23 May)

Mobile Studio Architects designs Modular Flat-Pack Plinth for Icon Magazine’s 10th Anniversary Chair Competition at Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 (21 – 23 May)

Mobile Studio Architects collaborates with NLA + Hidden Cities to design Store Street Shindig for Bloomsbury Festival 2012 (21 Oct)

Mobile Studio’s Style Wars Chess Set is exhibited in a new gallery, SWDZ, address: Gartnergasse 14, 1030 Vienna (29 Sep – 30 Nov)

Mobile Studio Architects collaborates with DeMagazine at DesignJunction event for London Design Festival 2012 (19 – 23 Sep)

Pop-up exhibition uses Mobile Studio’s Modular Display Frames. To rent frames please email Mobile Studio directly (12 – 13 Sep)

Come say hello.. (28 Aug)

Mobile Studio Architects feature in Youth VISION Magazine, China, August edition (Aug)

Mobile Studio Architects will transform part of the museum allowing visitors to explore objects including an x-ray of Sigmund Freud’s head, a cat skeleton to ward off evil spirits, a skull shaped candle made for Marilyn Manson’s wedding, a contemporary apothecary jar showing the effects of syphilis on bone, cutting edge medical bone imaging and Florence Nightingale’s pet tortoise ‘Jimmy’ (19 Jul – 31 Aug)

Open City invited Mobile Studio to design a modular system for kids at Celebrate the City Weekend. The lightweight system allows users to draw and subsequenlty construct their own self-supporting structures (23 Jun)

Mobile Studio’s final year student Gary Edwards (from BSc Unit 9, The Bartlett UCL) has won the annual architecture technology prize. Visit Unit 9 space to see the working prototype at the Bartfest Summer Show 2012 at The Slade Galleries (22 – 30 Jun)

New exhibition design by Mobile Studio for an at the RA’s Architecture Space (22 Jun – 16 Sep)

Shortlisted. Mobile Studio’s Portable Gallery for UCL Museums + Collections has been shortlisted for the New London Awards 2012,final results to be announced 10 Jul. Project will be featured in the 2012/13 edition of New London and an exhibition at The Building Centre (18 Jun)

Completion of exhibition design + pop-up space by Mobile Studio for UCL Department of English in UCL South Cloisters space. More info here (15 Jun – 22 Aug)

Student work from Mobile Studio’s teaching unit (BSc Unit 9) at theBartlett School of Architecture, UCL will be featured in a group exhibition at Sugarhouse Studios, London E15 as part of London Festival of Architecture 2012. The event is organised by Colin Priest and is supported by Blueprint Magazine (21 Jun – 8 July)

Mobile Studio will be speaking at The Gopher Hole alongside Hella Henberg, Olli Siren + Asif Khan. This is the first in a series of four events taking place in London + Helsinki, organised by The Finnish Institute in London in collaboration with Blueprint magazine + is an international satellite event for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. Full video online (24 May)

First solo show of Mobile Studio’s display system designs for museums and galleries. Display Systems in the show are available for hire, please email Mobile Studio for more info. Visit the exhibition here (4 – 27 Apr)

Mobile Studio designs and runs architecture workshop for A-level students as part of the attRAct at Royal Academy of Arts architecture programme. See video (3rd down) link here (25 Jan)

Runner-up. Image by Mobile Studio of their ‘Portable Gallery’ design for UCL Museums + Collections awarded runner-up in the UCL Graduate School ‘Research Images as Art / Art Images as Research’ competition (10 Jan)

Mobile Studio has just completed a new set of reusable modular exhibition display system for New London Architecture for current exhibition ‘Shaping the Future of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Design Competition’ (Dec)

Mobile Studio has designed a new-build ‘Portable Gallery’ for UCL Museums. The gallery is demountable for easy installation across different sites for the museum’s outreach programme (Oct)

Mobile Studio (in collaboration with ex-students Tamsin Hanke + Jo Dejardin) runs drawings + model-making workshops at NLA for Bloomsbury Festival 2011 (22 Oct)

‘They Have Designs On Us’ article about Mobile Studio’s Style Wars chess set at London Design Festival 2011 (1 Oct)

Mobile Studio has been invited by Blueprint Magazine to ‘Look Again’ at redesigning old-fashioned British road signs. The results have been published in the Oct issue and will also be exhibited at 100% Design together with other contributions by The Partners, Pentagram, Tomato, Postler Ferguson, Noma Bar and Pete Fowler (22 – 25 Sep)

Mobile Studio exhibits new range of colour chess sets at ‘A Few Friends’ an exhibition curated by Will Alsop as part of LDF 2011. 33 other exhibitors include Will Alsop, Vivienne Westwood, Richard Wentworth, Bruce McLean, Nigel Coates, Squint Opera, etc (19 – 25 Sep)

British Council has just launched The ADF Papers exploring new directions in British architecture, design and fashion. Mobile Studio is one of five architects to feature in ‘A1 Paper: Thinking Architcture’ by Clare Melhuish (28 Jul)

Mobile Studio’s BSc student Nada Tayeb (from Unit 9 at The Bartlett, UCL) is featured in Blueprint’s review article (20 Jul)

Mobile Studio’s teaching BSc Unit 9 show space at The Bartlett, UCL featured (9 Jul)

Mobile Studio listed on the AJ and Construction Network’s survey of architecture’s top Twitter users (29 Jun)

Collective submission/project ‘The Architects’ Adhocracy’ by Mobile Studio + Yesomi Umolu has been published in The Architects’ Journal (12 May)

Mobile Studio design research + exhibition stand selected for group exhibition at Slade Research Centre, UCL (4 – 7 May)

Shortlisted. Collective submission/project ‘The Architects’ Adhocracy’ by Mobile Studio + Yesomi Umolu has been shortlisted for the nextstage of competition held by the RSA + Architecture Foundation (20 Apr)

Mobile Studio presents 3 slides in 3 minutes with 300 words (21 Mar)

Chee-Kit Lai (director of Mobile Studio) has been appointed RIBA Awards Assessor (17 Mar)

Mobile Studio’s design for North Lodge Gallery (UCL Museums and Collections) in an exhibition to showcase AJ’s recognition of the ‘best architecture built for a contract value of less than £250,000’ at NLA Building Centre (10 Feb – 9 Mar)

Mobile Studio’s design for North Lodge Gallery (UCL Museums and Collections) has been published in the AJ Small Projects issue (3 Feb)

Shortlisted. Mobile Studio’s design for North Lodge Gallery (for UCL Museums and Collections) has been shortlisted from nearly 200 entries. Prizes will be announced in Feb (27 Jan)

Mobile Studio who spoke at the RA last year about their Summer Exhibition submission are holding a workshop for attRAct, the RA’s programme for engaging with A’ Level art students in London (26 Jan)

Mobile Studio’s Saturday Seminar at 3pm to discuss themes connected to the exhibition ‘Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside-Down‘ (18 Dec)

WORK SOLD – please email for further enquiries (26 Aug)

Mobile Studio designs the Surreal Garden to Barbican Art Gallery’s current show + curates a late night art + architecture event with invited special guests (22 Jul)

Mobile Studio’s informal talk at Summer Exhibition Architecture Room Talk (16 Jul)

Mobile Studio’s architectural chess set has been selected (14 Jun – 22 Aug)

Mobile Studio + Somi Umolu’s show opens at Platform 1 Gallery (15 – 23 May)

Shortlisted. Mobile Studio’s architectural proposal for competition held by GLA Greater London Authority (May)

Mobile Studio’s runs ‘introduction to architecture’ workshops for London schools (15 Feb – 12 Jun)

Mobile Studio’s lecture in Moscow (21 Jan)

Mobile Studio’s Saturday Seminar at 3pm for Design Real exhibition (9 Jan)

Mobile Studio in collective show at RA + Saturday workshop for families/young persons (9 Oct)

Mobile Studio interview by Katie Puckett, Building Design (Sep)

[Un]Representative House show opening. Group show curated by Mobile Studio (Jul)

Art + architecture group show curated by Sarah Williams (Jun)

Runner-up (May)

Mobile Studio sketch in RIBA exhibition (Apr)

Mobile Studio on the front page of Blueprint magazine (Apr)

Mobile Studio in collective show curated by Nicholas Bryne + Gareth Jones (Mar)

Mobile Studio’s seminar in Istanbul (Jan)

Mobile Studio in group show with Adjaye Associates, Buschow Henley, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects…

Mobile Studio + Tate Modern Raw Canvas presents new film work at Centre Pompidou (Nov)

Mobile Studio mentors Raw Canvas for European Youth Programme ‘Scenario 2050’ to design museum of the future (Nov)

Mobile Studio presents one-off event designed in conjunction with ‘Material Presence’ exhibition (12 Oct)

Longlisted. Mobile Studio for Young Architect of the Year Awards 2008 (Oct)

Mobile Studio + Dr P.Haralambidou presents interactive architectural installation (27 Sep)

Mobile Studio + Dr V.Watson + Somi Umolu + Chiara Marchini pavilion opens (Jul)

Mobile Studio’s work has been selected (9 Jun – 17 Aug)

Mobile Studio runs workshop Southwark school participants at Tate Modern (Feb)

Mobile Studio presents at Raw Canvas Careers Fair (2 Nov)

Mobile Studio runs youth workshop + mini exhibition (20 – 23 Aug)

Mobile Studio presents work with artist Richard Clegg (8 Jul)

Mobile Studio + M.Butcher/P.Richards presents new show ‘Ways of World Making’ at Swiss Gallery (8 Jun – 21 Jul)

Mobile Studio live performance at Limehouse Town Hall curated by artists Emily Wardill, El Vonne Brown + Laura Lord (31 Mar)

Mobile Studio’s Paper City proposal in Blueprint Magazine (Feb)

Mobile Studio + M.Butcher/Dr V.Watson presents new group show ‘Brief City 2051’ (22 – 26 Nov)

Mobile Studio lecture at Architecture School (25 Oct)

New exhibition ‘Incomplete House’ opens (8 Apr)

Journalist Charlie Gates reviews ‘The New Jerwood Museum’ exhibition (5 Aug)

Mobile Studio + M.Butcher/R.Silver presents ‘The New Jerwood Museum‘ (29 Jul – 6 Sep)