We're looking for Shadows

We would like to invite all of you to become actively involved in the society. KASA includes every student of KSA, however positions open up to new members of the KASA executive. New exiciting opportunities include:

President 1 Position;

Lecture Chair 3 Shadow positions;

Merchandising 1 Shadow position;

Media 1 Shadow position;

Treasury 1 Officer position; 1 Shadow position;

External Operations 1 Shadow position;

First Year Rep 1 Position;

Social Chair 1 Shadow Position.



President

This position opens up to a fourth year student. It is a fantastic and enjoyable role, with particular opportunities available to you including personal meetings with important architectural minds. Some of your tasks include devising a design brief for a student design competition, meeting with teaching staff to address issues raised by students, ensuring KASA members have a prolific and engaging calendar of events. The position requires good communication and organisational skills and an ability to build a good rapport with fellow students, architects and teaching staff. Not only is this experience invaluable on a CV, it gives you the chance to gain proficiency in these skills which are very useful in practice.

Lecture Chair

In this role you will be in control of our lecture series, one of the focal events in the KASA calendar. You will talk to other KASA members about who they would like to invite to the school and speak to us. You will be liaising with architects, designers, graphic artist, philosophers, and so on to build an engaging list of speakers for your fellow students. As well as this, you will organise life drawing classes, discussion forums and portfolio clinics. This is open to three second year students with good communication skills and an enthusiasm for networking.

Merchandise

The merchandising officer organises KASA merchandise items such as our membership wristbands and hoodies. Designing the KASA hoodie and the KSA leavers' hoodie are included in your responsibilities as well as organising orders and making sure our members get what they want. If you are interested in business and merchandise and have a creative flair, this is the position for you. Open to one Second year student or one fourth year student.

Media

The marketing officer produces the image of KASA. To ensure that all of our members are kept informed of our movements, you will design posters for events, advertise our membership and hoodie offers and ensure that the lecture hall is set up for recording our lecture events. Open to one Second year student or one fourth year student.

Treasury

The role of the treasurers is one of the most important functions within KASA. In this position you will give KASA the means to do what we need to do for our members. You will devise fund raising methods and seek the sponsorship of architectural practices and other relevant parties. This is open to one fourth year student and one second year student.

External Operations

The role of the external operations officer is to keep a finger on the pulse of anything related to architecture outside of KSA. They will keep in touch with our RIBA rep and inform our students about architecture events and lectures. They will also get involved in fund raising events and engage with other faculties in the university to create an inclusive environment with opportunities to network with other students for various projects. Open to one Second year student or one fourth year student.

First Year Rep

The first year rep ensures that those new to studying architecture have a voice within KSA. They will be available to listen to their fellow first year students and relay any ideas or concerns to the rest of the KASA executive. Open to one first year student.

Social Chair

The function of the social chair is to encourage the sense of community within KSA by organising social events throughout the year. You will be liaising with camus bars to set up appropriate drinks promotions and special offers for our members as well as arranging different events like football matches or paintballing which our members are not required to drink alcohol at. Open to one Second year student or one fourth year student.

If you are interested, please contact the KASA President, Deborah De Boer by either email or through our Facebook webpage https://www.facebook.com/groups/21684365488/

WELCOME TO KASA! 2011-2012

A warm welcome to all new coming students of KSA!

We are the officially sanctioned Kent School of Architecture (KSA) student organisation. We are a growing and developing association established to promote all aspects of spatial design, whether interior or exterior, ‘for the students, by the students!’

In previous years we have organised a KASA open lecture series featuring notable visiting speakers such as:

- Haworth Tompkins Architects
- Rogers, Stirk & Harbour
- Article 25
- WS Atkins
- Studio 8 Architects
- Guy Hollaway Architects
- AC Deign Company
- Duggan Morris Architects

In addition to this, we have raised sponsorship, organised socials, and initiated design competitions.

This year we hope to build upon the success of our predecessors and provide a more diverse lecture series that will cover many topics across architecture, as well as graphic design, product design, and art

Will Mesher of Haworth Tompkins

This week we welcome Will Mesher of Haworth Tompkins Architects for our final lecture of the year.

Haworth Tompkins was formed by architects Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins. The London based prcatice work across a range of sectors, work includes desinging schools, galleries, theatres, concert halls, housing, offices, shops and factories.

Will is the Project Architect for London Library and the lecture will be discussing the work involved in the project, working with existing and new build.

Times are as normal, 5.45p.m if you fancy a drink with the lecture starting at 6p.m

Hope to see you all there!

Rogers, Stirk, Harbour

Kasa Lecture 1st March

This week we welcome John McElgunn of Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners.

As many of you will be aware Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners practice all over the world having completed projects such as Maggies Centre, The Welsh Assembly and Bodegas Protos to name just a few.

John McElgunn is a Project architect from the practice and we look forward to hearing him talk about a few of his projects including his proposed addition to the British Museum.

Times as usual, 6 p.m start.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Atkins

KASA Lecture 1st February 2011

Atkins – Valerie Evans
“Sketch to Reality”

WS Atkins is one of the world’s leading design and engineering consultancies. It is a multi – national firm with 650 architects across the globe. This KASA lecture will be led by Valerie Evans the one of the directors of Design and Engineering for Atkins in the UK. She will be joined by some of her colleagues from the design studio to share their thoughts on the profession but also explain how a big firm realises projects from initial drawings.


It should be a great opportunity to see some world class design and an insight into how design works in a large design and engineering organisation.

Future Cities

This week we welcome Austin Williams from Future Cities, a London-based architecture think-tank devoted to the critical exploration of issues of the city.

It is their belief that Architecture has become more about process, than product - evidenced by the fact that we have quangos and debates about the housing shortage and yet, year on year, fewer and fewer homes are built.

They feel buildings are now blamed for everything; from global warming, increasing the flood risk,and personal and societal ill-health; and yet urban design is charged with encouraging social engagement, building communities, kick-starting economies and engendering a sense of well-being. Future Cities challenges these notions as well as what they see as the detrimental affect of sustainability on architecture.

So from 5:45pm, come and have a drink on us, and listen to Austin WIlliams discuss his unique views on architectural cuture and the profession.

Guy Hollaway Architects

This week we welcome Guy Hollaway of Guy Hollaway Architects.

Guy Hollaway Architects are one of the South East's most successful practices with the RIBA South East award for Mill House being one of a number of their successful projects.

Based in Hythe they have recently expanded to London as they look to compete on both a national and regional scale.

As in previous weeks, come and have a drink at 5.45 p.m and listen to Guy Hollaway talk about his practice's work.

Adrienne Chinn Design

This week we are pleased to welcome Adrienne Chinn of Adrienne Chinn Design Company!

Fresh from giving interactive seminars at Grand Designs Live, Adrienne Chinn has been praised as being one of "...the rising stars, poised to set the world of interior design alight".

Based in London but practicing all over the world, Adrienne Chinn Design Company has worked on a variety of projects ranging from a houseboat to a riad hotel in the Moroccan mountains. Regardless of the location or size of the project, Chinn believes that “designing is a creative journey”, and a significant part of this journey is spent exploring the site and its context hunting for this creativity.

Her projects are highly personal and relative to their location. This sensitive approach to design has earned her a large amount of respect from industry professionals.

As last week; 5:45pm for drinks, 6pm to hear Adrienne Chinn Speak about her practice. See you there!

DMA - Joe Morris

This week we welcome Joe Morris from Duggan Morris Architects to begin our 2010-2011 series of Open Lectures!

DMA are one of the UK's most exciting young architecture practices, a fact reinforced by their nomination for this year's Young Architect of the Year Awards for their King's Grove project; as well as nominations in the Architect of the Year Awards and the AR Emerging Architects Awards. Truly one to watch!

Based in London and established in 2004, their work is borne of context, offering a stong sense of being within new surrounds, offering qualities 'evident for future generations'. The aformentioned King's Grove project in Peckham won accolades for just that, promoting high-Architecture in the unlikliest of surrounds.

So from 5:45pm, come and have a drink on us, and listen to Joe Morris talk about his practice's work and methods.

KASA 2010 | Jestico & Whiles

This week [30th March 2010] we welcome Heinz Richardson of Jestico & Whiles, one of London's current brightlights in the profession.

Now an established practice of both architects and interior designers, Jestico & Whiles operate offices in London and Prague; with projects based in Europe, the Middle East and India.

Having proven expertise for excellent and sustainable designs across a wide range of sectors - including universities, schools, housing, cultural facilities and retail - they have garnered over 100 national and international awards for our architecture and interior design.

We are delighted to welcome Heinz - one of the country's leading experts in sustainable design and housing - to this week's lecture, and hope you can join us for the last KASA lecture of this term.

We will be starting slightly later than usual due to a CREAte lecture with Larry Herzog, Professor at San Diego State University which starts at 5pm. So the lecture with Heinz will be starting at 6:30pm, with drinks at 6:15pm.

Hope to see you there!