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Sere BMW AJ
07/02/12: AJ Publishes Serie's BMW pavilion for London 2012-/ Read the article
New images of the BMW showcase pavilion have been released./ see them here
Plus: Serie Architects help "get the party started". And Building Design also feature the pavilion./ See their story here
 
 
Thinking India
14/12/11: Christopher Lee's Option Studio Final Review at Harvard Graduate School of Design
The studio focused on the design of a communal housing project for 1,500 inhabitants in the city of Beijing / see more

 

 
News-Lecture

01/11/2011: Christopher Lee's forthcoming public guest lectures in MIT and Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Guest Lecture in MIT Department of Architecure on Fri 18 Nov 2011 / details

Guest Lecture in Oslo School of Architecture and Design on Thu 24 Nov 2011 / details

 

 
News-Wuxi

23/09/2011: Serie wins Wuxi Xishan Civic Centre competition

Serie has been awarded first prize by the competition technical committee for the Wuxi Xishan Civic Centre competition / read it here

 

   
News-Type

15/08/2011: Christopher Lee on 'Type'

Chris Lee writes a short glossary on the theory and discourse of type for 'The City as a Project' PhD Programme in Berlage Institute / read it here

 

 
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15/07/2011: Serie unveils design for Yan ZhenQing Calligraphy Museum in Linyi, China

The Yan ZhenQing museum will display works from the important calligrapher of the same name who lived in Shandong Province in China during the 8th century. Construction is expected to begin in Feb 2012. / see more

 

 

  News-MKOT

14/07/2011: Christopher Lee on 'My Kind of Town'

Christopher Lee writes for Architecture Today's long running 'My Kind of Town' column / read it here

 

 

 
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01/07/2011: Christopher Lee appointed Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design

Christopher Lee will be running an Option Studio in Harvard GSD in Fall 2011. / read more

 

 

  News-Wis-AR
 

06/06/2011: Working in Series reviewed in the Architectural Review

The ever astute Prof. Peter Carl offers an insightful and complimentary review on Serie's monograph / read it here

 

 

  SAC-Lecture
 

26/04/11: Christopher Lee to lecture in Stadelschule Frankfurt on 11/05/11 and in ICD Stuttgart on 12/05/11

Christopher Lee will deliver a public lecture in Stadelschule's 'Research-Practice' Lecture Series and in the ICD Stuttgart two days later / more info

 

 

 
KEN-03-News

15/04/11: Serie's Kennedy Centre installation opens in Washington D.C.

Serie's installation at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts is now open for the entire duration of the Maximum India Festival. Named the Monsoon Club, the converted terrace gallery will host events for both contemporary art and performing arts. /see more

Watch Kapil Gupta's interview here / see it online

 

 

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10/04/11: Serie unveils winning proposal for Bohacky Residential Masterplan in Bratislava

Serie won an invited competition to masterplan a new residential development in the outskirts of Bratislava in Jan 2009. Serie will also be designing a cluster of villas in the masterplan/ see the winning proposal here

 

 

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05/04/11: Designboom interviews Serie

Erica Kim of Designboom interviews Christopher Lee and Kapil Gupta /read it here

 

 

  ICON
 

30/03/11: ICON Magazine features Serie

Christopher Turner, editor of ICON writes a brilliant piece on Serie /get it here

 

 

 
  Serie-News-AD
 

21/01/11: AD: Typological Urbanism edited by Christopher C.M. Lee and Sam Jacoby out now

'At the heart of this issue is an attempt to outline a possible position and approach that enables the conjectural impulses of architectural production to recover its relevance to the city. Implicit to this is that the relationship between architecture and the city is reciprocal and that the city is the overt site for architectural knowledge par excellence'.

AD Typological Urbanism includes essays from Pier Vittorio Aureli, Caroline Bos & Ben van Berkel, Peter Carl, Michael Hensel, Marina Lathouri, David Grahame Shane and Martino Tattara. / get it here

 

 

 
  Serie-Tote
 

12/11/10: The Tote wins Wallpaper's Judges Award

Serie's The Tote is awarded the Best Restuarant Design in Wallpaper's Judges Award 2011. Other winners inlcudes SANAA and Thomas Heatherwick. / see it here

Photo: Edmund Sumner

 

 

 
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19/11/10: Working in Series exhibition opens

Working is Series exhibition opens in the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. The exhibition brings together nine projects of Serie, three years into its formation. The exhibition also celebrates Serie's UK Young Architect of the Year Award win and will run till 15/12/10/ see it here

Photo: Michelle Young

 

 

 
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23/11/10: Chris Lee delivers public lecture in AA, London

'Drawing on his academic work and practice, Christopher C.M. Lee reflects upon the possibility of a renewed understanding of typology as an operative theory for the practice of architecture in a globalized world' /watch it online

 

 

 
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05/11/10: Serie wins BD Young Architect of the Year Award 2010

Serie wins this year's prestigious Building Design UK Young Architect of the Year Award. Oliver Wainwright of BD writes '... Serie Architects came out on top, wowing the panel with the intellectual rigour and ambitious scale of their work – as well as some beautifully crafted models'/ read more

 

 

 
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8/10/10: Working in Series book out now

Serie's first monograph, published to coincide with Serie's solo exhibition to be held at the Architectural Association in November 2010, is out now. It includes essays from Brett Steele, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Sam Jacoby and Laurence Liauw. / read more

 

 

 
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21/04/10: Serie designs new urban core for Hangzhou XTD

Serie is commissioned alongside Grimshaw and Pysal Ruge to design a new urban core in Hangzhou. The design involves the renovation of four disused factories into new multi-functional buildings./ see the proposal

 

 

  News-AAPC
 

30/06/10: Christopher Lee and Sam Jacoby direct new MPhil course in the AA

The AA Projective Cities Programme is a new MPhil course in the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. The programme is a course dedicated to a research and design based analysis of the emergent and contemporary city. It recognises the City as a new contemporary field, area of study, design and research agenda, and pursues through wider architectural experimentation and speculation the meaningful production of new ideas for the City / more

 

 

 
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30/10/09: Serie's featured in Centre Pompidou's L'enjeu Capital(es)

Serie's 2nd prize competition proposal for Xi'an Horticultural Masterplan was selected for Centre Pompidou's L'enjeu Capital(es), alongside projects by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Peter Eisenman, Stan Allen, Bernard Tshumi et. al. ./ see more

 

 

 
RUZ-04
 

01/12/09: Serie wins competition to design 440 apartment units in Bratislava

Serie has won an invited competition to design a new housing complex comprising of 440 apartment units in Bratislava. Serie saw off strong competition including Neutelings Riedijk and Querkraft. Construction is expected to begin in April 2011. /see the proposal here

 

 

  News-C3
 

01/10/09: C3 publishes a special monograph on Serie

Serie is featured in a special monograph segment of C3 magazine, issue 296, 09/04 / read Serie interview

 

 

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