The exhibition Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive presents six models of buildings commissioned or inhabited by the Warburg Institute from 1923 to the present. They represent buildings as ‘Bilderfahrzeug’; a receptacle carrying images and ideas through time and space. The models, created by students at AHO, were an act of research through making – uncovering various histories of the buildings while also representing in minute 1:75 scale the layers of exchange that took place as the Library travelled from building to building.
This event will delve into the research, commissioning and making of the models in the exhibition, as well as the models on show at Senate House of Charles Holden’s master plan for the University of London, as well as the model of the newest building project of the Warburg Institute – the Warburg Renaissance at Woburn Square.
Before the event there will be an exhibition tour of Charles Holden’s Master Plan at Senate House, as well as Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive at the AA. Spaces are limited to AA Members, please sign up with your membership number here.
SPEAKERS
TIM ANSTEY is co-curator of the Warburg Models exhibition, first shown in Oslo in 2021 before travelling to Hamburg (2023) and London where it is currently on show at the AA. Tim is a professor in architectural history at AHO, Norway, and since 2013 the director of AHO’s PhD Programme.
NICHOLA BARRINGTON-LEACH is an Architect, educator and founder of NVBL architects. Growing up across Europe, she returned to the UK to read a Joint Honours BA in Fine Art and History of Art, before completing her architectural training at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Architectural Association. She is the Recipient of the Royal Academy of Arts Architectural Residency and Co Founder of the International Architecture Collaboration. Nichola is unit master of Intermediate 15 at the AA. She regularly contributes to the academic discourse for institutions across the UK, currently also teaching at Kingston University of arts and mentoring at the Royal College of Art.
ELLIE SAMPSON is a model maker and lecturer. After completing her RIBA Parts I and II at the Bartlett School of architecture, she became the full-time model maker and workshop manager at Haworth Tompkins Architects in 2019. Currently she is freelance, teaching first year MSci architecture at The Bartlett and making models for architectural practices, as well as for editorial and commercial projects.
BILL SHERMAN is the Director of the Warburg Institute. He earned his BA from Columbia University and his MPhil and PhD from Cambridge. He was founding director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York, and he moved to the Warburg from the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he served as Director of Research and Collections and head of the V&A Research Institute (VARI).
MARA TRÜBENBACH is an architectural designer and PhD fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, strongly interested in the intersection of design methods, materials and performativity in architecture. She graduated from the Bauhaus-University Weimar with an MSc in Architecture in 2018, having studied previously at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Dusseldorf and at the Technical University in Vienna. In 2019, Mara had a residency at the Bauhaus LAB at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. She was selected to join the international PhD training network TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing in 2020, funded by the Marie Slodowska-Curie Actions fellowship.
This event accompanies the exhibition on show in the AA Gallery titled Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive, open from 19 January to 7 March 2024.
