2024

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio delivers The Bartlett Summer Show 2024

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 delivers the hybrid Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2024

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)

2023

Chee-Kit Lai delivers the Bartlett Fifteen Show 2023

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)

Bartlett Lecture with Jayden Ali, Aleema Gray, Chee-Kit Lai and Manijeh Verghese

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)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio delivers the first full show for The Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2023

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)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio delivers the first full show for The Bartlett Summer Show 2023

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 delivers the hybrid Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2023

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)

South Asia Gallery opens to the public

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)

2022

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio delivers the third hybrid Bartlett Fifteen Show

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)

Silver Lovie and People’s Lovie Awards

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 delivers the second hybrid Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows

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)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio delivers the first hybrid Bartlett Summer Show

Chee-Kit Lai (of Mobile Studio Architects) has been working as Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL to deliver the first hybrid Bartlett Summer Show 2022. The show is hosted online and in person simultaneously for the first time. A full virtual show will take place on the school’s digital platform at bartlettarchucl.com, and a physical show at 22 Gordon Street, London. See The Bartlett Summer Show 2022 (2 – 16 Jul)

Shortlisted for V&A East Museum galleries fit-out

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 delivers the virtual Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2022

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)

2021

RIBA Presidents Medal 2021 – Bronze Medal Winner (Ben Foulkes)

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 delivers the second digital Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows

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 appointed Associate Professor

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

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 delivers the virtual Bartlett Summer Show 2021

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.

Bartlett Summer Show 2020 shortlisted for D&AD Award

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)

Bartlett Summer Show 2020 nominated for The Webby Awards

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)

UCL Education Awards 2021

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)

Giant Flip Machine for Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Centre, Japan

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 delivers the virtual Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2021

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 delivers the virtual Bartlett FIFTEEN Show

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 Show, celebrating 15 months of innovation, process and interactivity by 3 Masters programmes: Design for Manufacture, Design for Interactive and Performance and Situated Practice. The groundbreaking platform is developed by Hello Monday in collaboration with staff and students from The Bartlett School of Architecture (19 Feb – 5 Mar)

+ You are invited to join us for the launch event on Fri 19 Feb, 1pm GMT on BSA YouTube. No registration required.

2020

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio delivers the virtual Bartlett B-Pro + Autumn Shows 2020

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.

A look back at the virtual Bartlett Summer Show 2020

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)

South Asia Gallery design competition – winner

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)

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action Competition – longlisted

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

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio delivers the virtual Bartlett Summer Show 2020

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 on Evening Standard – Homes & Property

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)

Modular Display Frames for The Glass-House and Open University

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)

2019

Studio C102 X Mobile Studio shortlisted for National Railway Museum Wonderlab gallery competition

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 delivers The Bartlett B-Pro Show, UCL

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)

Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio sets up The Bartlett stand at Blueprint for the Future

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 delivers The Bartlett Summer Show, UCL

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 for V&A on Dezeen

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)

Paper Castles at V&A Museum as part of LFA

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)

2018

Modular Display Frames at Pancras Sq Library Camden

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)

Workshop for Royal Academy of Arts at Open House London

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)

Acting Director of Exhibitions at The Bartlett, UCL

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

Resilience Lecture Series, The Oxford Architecture Society

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)

2017

Don’t Move, Improve! 2018 Awards – longlisted

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

Workshops for Creative Quarter at V&A Museum

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)

Architecture Drawing Day at RIBA

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)

Workshop + Presentations for #Futuropolis at V&A Museum

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-TanAli Conning-RowlandEleanor EvasonGeorge ProudJames RobinsonIvo Tedbury (12 Aug)

We have moved!

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

2016

Drawing Futures, Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture publication

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)

Completion of Giant Flipbooks for BEAM Camp in New Hampshire USA

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)

The Playable City Award 2016

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)

RIBA Constructing Communities, Open Call 2016

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)

Lecture by Chee-Kit Lai at Nottingham Trent University

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

Event Design for UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering 50th Anniversary Party

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

BEAM Camp Project 2016 competition – winner

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)

Wembley Park Drive Placemaking competition

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)

2015

‘Focus on China: Ai Weiwei’s Architecture’ in The Architects’ Journal

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

PAYD Housing by Mobile Studio Architects

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

New Ideas for Housing London competition

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

RIBA Shanghai Windows Project

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

Architecture Workshop at the Royal Academy 2015

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

2014

Loughborough Junction competition

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

One Day in the City 2014

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

UCLoo Festival awarded WINNER of the UCL Communications + Culture award for Public Event of the Year, London

Exhibition design and graphics by Mobile Studio (4 Apr)

The Unpublishables, London

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)

2013

Housing in the Private Rental Market competition

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

Central Saint Martins, London

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

The Unpublishables, London

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)

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, London

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

Icon Magazine at Clerkenwell Design Week, London

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

2012

BONE exhibition design + gallery fit-out for Florence Nightingale Museum

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)

Modular House of Cards for Junior Open House Festival 2012

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)

Making Building Prize Technology Award

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)

The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful exhibition design for Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Space

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

NLA New London Awards 2012

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)

One Day in the City, UCL Festival of London and Literature + Man Booker Prize Evening

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)

New exhibition – Display for a Display, Dreamspace Gallery

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)

attRAct at Royal Academy of Arts

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)

2011

Portable Gallery, UCL Museums

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)

NLA Architecture Workshop

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

The Resourceful Architect Competition

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)

Bartlett Architecture Research Marathon

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

RIBA Awards 2011

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

AJ Small Projects Exhibition

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)

Royal Academy of Arts – Architecture Programme

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)

2010

Serpentine Gallery

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

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010

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

Barbican Centre – The Surreal House

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)

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010

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

Wandsworth Arts Festival 2010

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

Story for London Competition

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

UCL Widening Participation

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

Centre of Contemporary Architecture, Russia

Mobile Studio’s lecture in Moscow (21 Jan)

2009

Victoria and Albert Museum – Architecture Residency

Runner-up (May)

RIBA: Le Corbusier’s Cabanon 1952/2006 The Interior 1:1

Mobile Studio sketch in RIBA exhibition (Apr)

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

Mobile Studio’s seminar in Istanbul (Jan)

2008

Open House 2008 – BeAmazed at P3 Space

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

Centre Pompidou, Paris

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

LFA – London Festival of Architecture 2008

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

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2008

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

Turbine Hall – Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth

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

2007

Tate Modern

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

Blueprint Magazine

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

2006

University of Westminster

Mobile Studio lecture at Architecture School (25 Oct)

Dilston Grove

New exhibition ‘Incomplete House’ opens (8 Apr)

2005

Jerwood Space

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

 

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