2015

Dust Free Friends Book Launch

November 2015

Friday 18th December, 6.30pm - 8.30pm AA Bookshop, 32 Bedford Square, London, wc1b 3es

 

Dust Free Friends is a manual for making a series of plywood furniture at home, designed by 6a architects. The rules are easy to follow, and even easier to change, to make best use of the sheet of plywood with the smallest number of cuts and least wastage.

 

For more information on the book, visit dustfreefriends.co.uk. For more information please contact Joe Tyrrell on 020 7242 5422 or email joe@6a.co.uk

Juergen Teller edits Salame Magazine

October 2015

Juergen Teller edits a special edition of Salame Magazine including photographs taken on the construction site of his new studio designed by 6a and a conversation between Tom Emerson and David Adjaye.

Paul Smith No. 9

October 2015

Paul Smith has designed a series of leather goods inspired by the cast iron façade of No. 9 Albemarle Street.

LC House

October 2015

6a's LC House has been photographed by the Modern House. The complete series can be found at their website. 

Accattone 2

September 2015

6a architects nominated for the 2016 Iakov Chernikhov International Prize

April 2015

6a architects has been nominated for the 2016 Iakov Chernikhov Prize.

 

The Iakov Chernikhov Prize is awarded every two years to young masters of contemporary architecture and is aimed at solving current social and cultural problems on the basis of humanistic principles in the art of architecture. It supports experimental, educational and research works in the field of innovative architecture and town planning. A jury of authoritative international architects will select the winner from nominees chosen by an international committee.

 

6a has been nominated alongside Studio Tom Emerson the practice's teaching and research studio at the Department of Architecture at eth Zurich.

 

Hôtel Wolfers

April 2015

6a architects’ limited edition furniture series designed for maniera will be exhibited in Hôtel Wolfers, Brussels. Built by Henry Van de Velde in 1929, the Modernist villa has remained unchanged since the 1970s. The undisturbed interiors will be home to the practice’s series Dust Free Friends and limited editions by artist Richard Venlet.

 

Hôtel Wolfers

60, rue Alphonse Renard

Brussels

Belgium

 

24-26th April

Out of respect for the Hôtel Wolfers and its owner, the number of visitors is limited. Group visits are scheduled for 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 & 16:00, please email info@maniera.be to confirm a place.

 

MANIERA

April 2015

6a has designed Dust Free Friends, a limited edition furniture series for Brussels-based design initiative maniera. The collection and catalogue will be displayed at Atelier Clerici, Milan on 14-19th April 2015.

 

Palazzo Clerici

via Clerici, 5

20121 Milan

Italy

Wallpaper* Handmade

April 2015

Invited by Wallpaper* Handmade, 6a architects has collaborated with Viennese glassware company Lobmeyr. A selection of glass objects will be on display as part of the exhibition Eat me! Drink me! Tell me that you love me! from 14-18th April 2015.

 

The Wallpaper* Arcade

via San Gregorio, 43

20124 Milan

Italy

Flemish Architecture Institute, VAi

February 2015

6a architects’ Tree House will feature in the exhibition City Outside the City curated and produced by the Flemish Architecture Institute and deSingel International Arts Campus. The exhibition explores the potential of the suburbs, with works by photographers, researchers and contemporary architects.

 

deSingel International Arts Campus

Desguinlei 25

2018 Antwerp

Belgium

 

27 February – 07 June 2015

Lecture, Harvard GSD

February 2015

Tom Emerson will give a lecture at the symposium Design Techniques II about the work and processes of 6a architects.

 

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall

48 Quincy Street

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

19 February 2015, 6:30pm  

 

LUMA Foundation

January 2015

6a architects and Richard Wentworth have produced an installation in Theater Objects: A Stage for Architecture and Art.

 

The first in a series of exhibitions that aim to initiate a dialogue between architecture and contemporary art, the exhibition is co-produced by luma Foundation and gta Exhibitions, eth Zurich.

 

The exhibition also features work by Uri Aran, Andrea Branzi, Pieter De Bruyne, Studio Tom Emerson, Dan Graham, gruppe, Trix & Robert Haussmann, Christian Kerez, William Leavitt, Made In, Josep Lluís Mateo, Mélanie Matranga, Helen Marten, Matthias Megyeri, Peter Märkli, Claude Parent, Magali Reus, Cameron Rowland, Carissa Rodriguez, Stephan Trüby, Günther Vogt, architecten de vylder vinck taillieu and Peter Wächtler.

 

luma Westbau / pool etc
Löwenbräukunst
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zurich
Switzerland

 

22 November 2014—25 January 2015