Just away from the crowds gathered at the entrance to Hyde Park on the Park Lane side you’ll find the memorial to the 52 victims, murdered on the 7th July 2005. This one act of mass murder is a significant point in the minds of our generation. It is the point when those who would wish to threaten this nation finally got their way and committed the grossest act on the population of London. Yet those 52 people were 52 individuals with families and love ones who has set out that summers day to go there places of activity. Each one was held in esteem and there memory has endured ever since.
A stroll through Hyde Park to the Serpentine Gallery will set the scene for this years summer programme. Entering from Hyde Park Gate on a sunny day in high summer is like walking through the garden gate into London’s playground. Packed with sun worshippers, flaneur, and skaters, amongst other people, is a great experience. At this time of year there is the addition of the new Serpentine Pavilion which opens from July through to October. This year SANAA, the architecture practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has taken up the annual challenge of designing the pavilion.
Above: The struture acts as a gateway over the path from Temple Gate.
A highly organised and efficient person who can be relied upon, with previous leadership experience from The Young Enterprise Scheme and Boidus: Architectural website. His dissertation and final project examined urban regeneration and high density housing. A refined and simple architecture drives Mark’s design development to produce good quality homes that improve people’s lives and encourages sustainable living. Knowledge of low-tech materials, town planning and Brutalism combined with photographic, business and graphic skills make him a valuable member of any team.
In 2009 I was awarded my Post Graduate Diploma in Architecture and am currently seeking full time employment as a Part 2 Architect.
My dissertation and final project examined Brutalism, urban regeneration and high density housing in London. I hope to put this specialist knowledge into practice.
I am part of the Boidus team: working on a website dedicated to architectural discussion, debate and promotion of small architectural practices. I enjoy writing articles and researching for Boidus and my main role is to manage a team of approximately twenty contributors.
I’m enthusiastic about my work and am able to direct this energy efficiently in an office environment. I have a qualification in AutoCAD and work experience in Sketchup, MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Outlook Express. I am also skilled in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, MS Publisher, Gain Hevacomp, and Adobe Premiere. I have more than two years work experience and am currently working for the design team of a stone specialist company as an Assistant Design Coordinator; I produce detail and construction drawings for sophisticated marble and stone interiors.
My qualifications include:
Pg Dip Architecture – London South Bank University – Part 2
BA (Hons) Architecture – Second class honours, upper division (2:1) – University of Plymouth – Part 1
BTEC National Diploma Construction – Distinction – Weymouth College
GNVQ Construction & the Built Environment – Distinction – Weymouth College
City & Guilds – Two Dimensional Computer Aided Draughting and Design – Level 3
Key Skills – Information Technology, Communication, Application of Number – Level 2
11 GCSEs, including: Photography, Graphics, Business Studies, English & I.T. – Grade B
Young Enterprise – Managing Director of a PLC – Pass
Photography is a passion of mine and I am currently selling my best images at IStock. I am also working on a Motion Picture Portfolio that can be found on You Tube:
I enjoy making physical models, during my final project I explored various housing prototypes through physical modelling and 3D massing models. I have a strong belief that models should be part of the design process – not just the end result.
I realise job vacancies may be scarce because of the recession. I would, if necessary, be happy to consider part time or casual work. I would also consider freelance work as a photographer or model maker.
To contact me directly email me at mark.ellery@boidus.co.uk or call me on 07971461101
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References and letters of recommendation are available upon request.
When you are working in London between the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008 things are going well so you might think: this is it!
When you are working for a well known Architect on a major London project with a high profile client, things may look even better.
When the client prioritizes on environmental issues, there are even cherries on the cake.
Until, believe it or not, I decided to move to Africa to work for a local, Nairobi based, architectural practice. All of the sudden things look different, very different. Read more
The question that must be posed by this exhibition is what is your interpretation of interior design? Looking at the exhibition from an Architecture perspective should you be expecting an exhibition that deals solely with the shell left behind by Architects? If you consider the answer to be yes then surely you reduce the role of an Interior Designer to that of a painter and decorator. Hence on inspection of the work at Free Range you become aware that Interior Design is a holistic discipline where the best work emerges when the designer thinks outside that box, engages with the building and city, and adds something new.
Welcome readers, to a new section of Boidus – the “feature corner”. We at Boidus are all about promotion of good quality art, architecture and design and it is our goal to provide a platform for upcoming professionals.
For our first showcase I would like to introduce Charlie Field, a local photographer and student at Camberwell College of Arts. Charlie is interested in architecture and photography: his current project is titled ‘Liminality’ Boidus is proud to announce that he has kindly allowed us to feature his most recent work in progress -
This week saw the publication of the RIBA’s market future trend survey and the results though projected, are meant to show that the attitude and feeling in the industry is taking a positive turn. Even though we would still have actually to wait and many more jobs get lost this is rather a smallish improvement worth noting. Read more
The critique (or crit for short) is probably your best opportunity to achieving a high grade for your work, but so many students work all night – right up until the final minute before their presentation that when it comes to talking about their work they have no idea what to say. I have seen so many good projects presented so badly that I thought I would give a quick guide to presenting your work well… but before I begin, my main piece of advice would be to sleep for 7 hours before any presentation, you may be able to deprive yourself of sleep and still function, but I don’t know anyone who can give a good presentation after doing an all nighter. Personally I think it is more important to be able to talk about your work well (even if it is not finished) than to have great looking work and present it badly.
Begin with the general and proceed towards the specific:
- state the design problem
- discuss the parameters / constraints and aims
- draw attention to your design process and development
- explain the concept
- show how the concept is apparent in the plan / section / elevation
After 6 months I am still pondering parametricism…
the ideas behind it are so good, yet something, somewhere niggles away, something in the back of my mind tells me something is wrong….. I just cant trust a design led by figures, numbers, and ultimately.. parameters!
“This unreality has infused architectural production, often finding resolution in hysterical liquid, fluid form at audacious scale- the kind of thing recently dubbed‘Parametricism’ by Patrick Schumacher. Displays of beyond human formal complexity drop out of the computational design systems employed in search for exoticism and difference- a difference demanded by the market pluralism of ultra capitalism.”
Sam Jacob, 2008. ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. Parametricism How Quaint.
I am wild about technology but not about technology run wild.Technology must be focused by the citizen for the benefit of the citizen; it should seek to secure universal human rights and provide shelter, water, food, health, education, hope and freedom for all.It is my belief that the sustainable city could provide the framework for the fulfilment of these basic human rights.
Rogers, R – Cities for a small planet
“empty vessels make the most noise”
This saying can be applied to architectural theory –
The glossy buildings with the flashing lights, high end technology and over complicated designs are simply screaming for attention!But they are only skin deep, they have no texture, material, sense of place, atmosphere, human scale, sensitivity or quality.They are immature and “flashy” – shouting for attention out of fear that they may go unnoticed.
The best buildings sit quietly along side them, safe in “their knowledge” that those who know about good design, good architecture, and well thought out spaces for PEOPLE will notice them and ignore the “sexed up gloss” that some people call architecture.
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