Stories of Change
A diverse wealth of highly creative film, architectural design and text entries were submitted by students worldwide to a competition looking at issues affecting the future of the built environment. The competition was a response to Arup’s Drivers of Change publication and our third collaboration with Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. (13 July – 30 September 2011)
Paper Planes
French-Polish artist Nicolas Grospierre photographed the surfaces of the Polish Aviation Museum and flattened its distinctive form into a series of photo mosaics. Then he folded a further set of large-scale prints into paper planes, referring to the function of the building and acting as a playful homage to the architect’s design. (31 March – 1 July 2011)
Bridge Stories
The works in this exhibition celebrated the last half-century of bridge projects and the engineering that has made them possible. They also show how the use of film and photography has changed since the first decades of Ove Arup and Partners – founded in 1946. (22 October 2010 – 18 March 2011)
Constructing Realities
Constructing Realities highlighted the relationship between research and practice in architecture and engineering, showcasing work from the postgraduate Advanced Architectural Research course at Barlett School of Architecture, UCL. (1 July – 1 October 2010)
Ways of Seeing London
Ways of Seeing London brought together the work of engineers and architects with that of artists who deal with the notion of ‘city’ in different and unusual ways. (16 March – 18 June 2010)
Renoma: Reflections of Wroclaw
This exhibition mapped the turbulent history and changing face of Wroclaw city, Poland, by telling the story of Renoma. The 1930s modernist retail store was carefully restored and extended by Arup and Mackow Procownia Projecktowa in 2009. (16 October 2009 – 26 February 2010)
Sustaining Identity Symposium II
Hosted by the RIBA Trust and Arup Associates at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this event was dedicated to the topic of identity and architecture, seeking to prove that the creation of enduring, uniquely localised, people-centred space is both possible and desirable. (26 November 2009)
Digital Hinterlands
Digital Hinterlands featured a diverse range of work by some of the best architecture graduates from London’s Architectural Association, Bartlett, Royal College of Art, and University of Westminster - selected in consultation with Arup. Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands, a book showcasing the work from the exhibition, is now available. (8 September – 2 October 2009)
The Last Scattering
In spring 2009 Arup commissioned New York-based artist Matthew Ritchie and Arup's Daniel Bosia to create an installation for Phase 2. The new work was inspired by the Big Bang theory and the collection of points in space and time when light separated from matter. (8 April – 26 June 2009)
Force Field
Created by Arup's lighting designers in collaboration with students and staff from the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, this interactive installation consisted of 64 luminous rods forming a wave of changing colours reacting to the movement of people through the space while imitating other forces that flow through a building. (14 October 2008 – 20 February 2009)
China in Motion
A selection of film, photography, models and digital displays focused on people involved in the dramatic developments in Beijing and Shanghai and the role of migration in making these changes possible. (7 July – 2 October 2008)
Drivers of Change
This exhibition celebrated the launch of Arup's latest Drivers of Change publication, a series of cards identifying leading issues that affect our future. (28 April – 27 June 2008)