Exhibitions - Jamie Fobert Architects

Our working models and samples of the ceramics created for Tate St Ives will be exhibited as part of ‘Hand Held to Super Scale: Building with Ceramics’ at the Building Centre. The exhibition celebrates the resurgence of ceramics in contemporary architecture, showcasing newly completed projects, buildings still under construction, handmade items and classic examples of ceramics in architecture.

The faience-clad pavilion at Tate St Ives makes reference to the history of ceramic artists in St Ives. The extruded tiles were made by Agrob Buchtal with an ochre engobe and the beautiful blue-green glaze was produced and applied by Froyle Tiles. The tiles went through many iterations – several of which are on display here – to achieve a finish which captures the colour of the sea and sky.

‘Hand Held to Super Scale: Building with Ceramics’ is at The Building Centre from 20 September 2019 until 31 January 2020

Mon to Fri: 9.00am – 6.00pm
Sat: 10.00am – 5.00pm

The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT

The RIBA Stirling Prize Exhibition 2018 will provide a glimpse of the six schemes shortlisted for this year’s Stirling Prize. The exhibition, which is free, will first be on display at the RIBA’s home at 66 Portland Place, London, before moving to RIBA North in Liverpool.

RIBA
66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
10 October to 9 November 2018
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RIBA North
21 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP
16 November 2018 to 23 February 2019
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Jamie was invited by Wallpaper* to design a one-off ‘offertory bag’ with leather specialists Studioart for the annual Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition, launched at Salone del Mobile 2017.

“While researching offertory bags I came across many historic examples that were both deep and lined in richly tactile material, like luxuriant velvet. I interpreted this as an attempt by the church to endow the act of almsgiving with a brief moment of pleasure. I began to imagine a bag where the act of reaching inside became a sensory journey. Three iterations of the offertory bag were created: one with a tough, black outside and a soft, warm interior; one with a mild, malleabale outside and a prickly interior; and one with a natural, hairy outside and a slick, cool interior”.

Jamie’s ‘Dig Deep’ bags and concept sketches are featured in this month’s Wallpaper* Magazine.

A section through our new gallery for Tate St Ives (here, top right) has been included in this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.

The architecture room has this year been brilliantly curated by Farshi Moussavi and we are thankful to have been included. Today we joined in the celebrations of Varnishing Day!

Summer Exhibition 2017 is at Royal Academy of Arts from 13 June until 20 August 2017.

Saturday – Thursday 10am – 6pm and Friday 10am – 10pm.

Main Galleries, Burlington House, Picadilly, London, W1J 0BD.

For those looking to escape on a seaside holiday this Summer, while our extension at Tate St Ives will not be open just yet, there is still plenty on offer at Tate over the coming months. The exhibition ‘That Continuous Thing’ explores 100 years of ceramics and will be on display in the newly refurbished Evans and Shalev galleries until 3 September.

JFA curated Gallery 1 of ‘That Continuous Thing’, which features ceramics from studio potters Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. For futher information see JFA work or visit the Tate St Ives website.

Last night saw the opening of the RIBA’s summer exhibition, ‘At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow’, which runs to 29 August.

We designed the exhibition layout and bespoke aluminium panels, skilfully made by Formost Fabrications, which display materials from the RIBA archives and design work by six practices re-examining the familiar housing typologies of the cottage, terrace and flat.

Our design project, ‘New fruit on old twigs’, re-imagines the cottage vernacular, inspired by a 1955 rural housing study by Alison Smithson in the Yorkshire village of West Burton.

From 18 May, the RIBA exhibition, ‘At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow’ will present historic material from the RIBA Collections and proposals from six contemporary architecture practices which transform three familiar typologies – cottage, terrace and flat – to reflect the way we live and work today. JFA has been asked to redesign the cottage as an affordable contemporary housing solution to rival the developer-driven, mass-produced suburban housing aimed at first-time buyers.

The exhibition will run from 18 May to 29 August 2016. The Architecture Gallery at RIBA is open from 10am – 5pm Monday to Sunday and until 8pm every Tuesday. Free entrance. RIBA is at 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD.

Read more in the RIBA Journal.

A sketch by Jamie (here pictured on the right) is part of La Galerie d’Architecture’s 15th anniversary exhibition ESPACES LIBRES in Paris from 17-27 Feb.

You can view the exhibition catalogue online.

In the final room of Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World – a retrospective of Hepworth’s work at Tate Britain – sits an abstraction of the Rietveld Pavilion.This installation was devised and created by eight RCA MA Architecture students as a ‘Live Project’ under the tutelage of Jamie Fobert and two JFA Associates, Oliver Bindloss and George Dawes.

The students spent six months researching the iconic 1955 pavilion – which is formed of simple horizontal and vertical lines, made from concrete, brick, steel, glass and wood – and negotiating the practical challenges of recreating it within a gallery space.

Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World is at Tate Britain until 25 October 2015.

Our exhibition in Paris is now open.

JFA designed and installed six 2.4m-long light boxes and a set of ten bespoke aluminium tables to display photographs, drawings and artefacts relating to a variety of the practice’s past and present projects. The intention is to convey not only the finished product of an architecture practice but also the process of design inherent in the work .

‘Working in Architecture’ will be at Galerie d’architecture, until 16 May.

Next month in Paris, there will be an exhibition of JFA’s work, coinciding with Artifice Books’ publication of Working in Architecture. Like the book, the exhibition aims to demonstrate the making of things and the materiality that is explored in our practice.

‘Working in Architecture’ will be at La Galerie d’Architecture, 11 rue des blancs manteaux, 75004 Paris, from 18 April to 16 May 2015.

Jamie was invited to exhibit his drawings at the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD). The exhibition installation included a continuous perspex panel, snaking along the corridor and around the gallery, to display loose-leaf sketches, mainly on trace.

A table was designed and built to display Jamie’s sketch books, opened to show a mixture of travel sketches and design sketches.

Our installation from our exhibition at the British School in Rome was transported to London and displayed at the Architecture Foundation’s exhibition space on Old Street. We also created a new piece for the display – a huge scale model of the gallery for Tate St Ives. It was elevated on stilts so that, by standing inside, you could view the interior space from approximately the correct eye-height. On the adjacent wall, a huge photograph of the sea view from the site gave the model some context.

We held a party at the exhibition to celebrate ten years of practice for JFA.

For this exhibition, coinciding with JFA’s ten year anniversary, a long light box strip was made to display transparencies, telling the story of the practice’s built projects.

Another installation told a different story: of the process of designing interior spaces. Working models of interiors were fitted behind a large screen of black mdf. Brass viewfinders were inserted into the screen to allow viewers to peep inside the models, with scale distorted to make the views seem true to life. Yet walking behind the screen, viewers could see how the illusion had been created – with carefully arranged spot lights and the unfinished exteriors of the models, foam board, card and masking tape.