mantownhumanKowalsky Gallery, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX
Media partner: 
BlueprintVenue: 
"Blueprint is delighted to be media partner for Critical Subjects, an intellectual endurance test for aspiring architects. With an intensity of ideas combined with practical challenges, mantownhuman's Winter School has the potential to shift the outlook of a generation towards a more ambitious view of the future".
The Advisory/ Judging Panel includes:
Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic, Financial
Times;
Matthew Collings, writer and presenter of This is Modern
Art, and host of Channel 4's Turner Prize coverage;
Vicky Richardson, director, Architecture, Design & Fashion,
British Council;
Peter Kelly, acting editor, Blueprint;
Amin Taha, Amin Taha Architects;
Cany Ash, Ash Sakula;
Pauline Hadaway, director, Belfast Exposed;
Cathy Slessor, editor, The Architectural Review;
Nadim Karam, founder, Atelier Hapsitus [Beirut];
Munira Mirza, director, Arts, Culture & the Creative
Industries for the Mayor of London;
Rafael Vinoly, founder, Rafael Vinoly Architects;
Kristen Richards, editor-in-chief, Oculus and ArchNewsNow.com
[New York];
Jonathan Glancey, architecture and design correspondent,
The Guardian;
Kate Goodwin, architecture programme curator, Royal Academy;
Enrique Norten, principal, TEN Arquitectos (New York/
Mexico City);
Lise Anne Couture, principal, Asymptote Architecture (New
York);
Joe Ewart, founder, graphic design studio, Society;
Tim Marlow, creative director at White Cube; writer/
presenter Tim Marlow on..;.
Michael Sorkin, founder, Michael Sorkin Studio; director
of the graduate urban design program at New York's City College;
Gilane Tawadros, chief executive, Design and Artists Copyright
Society;
Gordon Murray, founder,
Gordon Murray Architects; past president, RIAS; chair, SCHOSA (Standing
Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture)
Guest performance from the "New Palladians" (Ben Pentreath, George Saumarez Smith and Francis Terry) constructing a major work over the course of the day.
| 10:30 | ARRIVALS | SPEAKERS / GUESTS |
| 11:00-12:00 | How to think critically? | An excuse for elitism; all things to all people; or an aspirational standard? A panel of experts try to 'define' beauty? |
| 12:00-13:00 | What is Beauty? | Three critics explore the meaning - and role - of criticism |
| 13:00-13:30 |
Guest Speaker: |
TBA |
| 13:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Whatever happened to 'ism's? | Futurism, Modernism, Post-Modernism... Environmentalism? |
| 15:00-16:00 | Drawing things together | Measured drawing class |
| 16:00-17:00 | Is less more? | Potentially; the more choices you have, the better the project? Discuss. |
| 17:00-17:30 | Tea | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Is architecture social policy? | Should architecture tell us how to live? |
| 18:30-19:30 | Is risk-taking too risky? | Where's the Big Ideas? |
| 19:30-20:00 | Guest architect/ designer | TBA |
| 20:00-20:15 | Design Brief | Setting the brief for the DESIGN EXERCISE - an urban intervention |
| 20:15-08:30 | STUDIO DESIGN EXERCISE | Start of all-night design project |
| 12:00-00:45 | Guest speaker | TBA |
| 06:30-07:15 | Guest speaker | TBA |
| 08:30-12:00 | Final Crits | Presenting your project... and the ideas behind the concept - to a panel of influential judges |
Note: Food and drink will be available throughout the day
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