Reflecting Wales 09:09 - added: 10 June 2009

After the success of Design Circle's Reflecting Wales exhibition last year, showcasing the best innovative work in Wales, The Welsh School of Architecture, in partnership with the Design Commission for Wales and in collaboration with Design Circle RSAW South and the Cardiff School of Art and Design are pleased to announce the call for entries for Reflecting Wales 09:09.

Reflecting Wales 09:09 is an initiative that aims to highlight nine young/ emerging architectural designers who exhibit the potential to make a significant impact on design standards in our homes, working environments and the quality of places - cities, towns, villages and rural areas - in the decades to come.

For more information, please click here, and to download an entry form click here.

Ladies and Gentlemen... - added: 11 May 2009

we are proud to announce the details of the second Annual Design Circle Ball!

For more on this exciting event, please click here to find out what it's all about!

Symposium: Nutopia - Exploring the Metropolitan Imagination - added: 10 March 2009

Safle have kindly extended an invitation to all those who are interested to the above event.

With speakers from across the UK, Europe and beyond, Nutopia explores ways in which we can reinvent our cities, challenging the idea that city centres are purely spaces of consumption. Instead we look at possibilities for non-economic exchange and examine tensions between resistance and commodification and how this impacts our personal lives.

Nutopia will look at the creation and ownership of cities in the face of privatisation and the language of regeneration. It will look beyond physical space, exploring place as a perceptual landscape informed by a linguistic architecture.

For more information about this event, please visit www.arcadesproject.org, or to download a flyer, click here.

Detail Design in Architecture 8 - Call for entries - added: 10 March 2009

Detail Design in Architecture’s aim is to provide a forum for debate and the exchange of knowledge in relation to the technology, design and science of architecture and the links between the design process and the construction process. During the eighth conference of Detailed Design in Architecture, the focus will be the interface between design and construction from a sustainable perspective.

Papers are invited that address the challenges of translating sustainable design ideals into sustainable buildings and artefacts.

Please click below to download more information and entry forms:

• Call for Papers (253kb)
• Conference Booking Form (34kb)

The Design Circle Social - added: 17 February 2009

As part of Design Circle's aim to provide a social platform for its members, we're launching the monthly Design Circle Social as an opportunity for you to meet other architects, designers and construction professionals informally.

We'll look forward to seeing you every second Thursday of the month at 19:30, after the Design Circle committee meeting. To keep things interesting, we'll pick a funky new venue each month, so watch this space!

To kickstart the series, this month's venue will be Gwdihw Cafe Bar, Guildford Crescent, Cardiff, on 19 February.

Design Circle site visit to new Cardiff Library - added: 21 January 2009

This is Your Last Chance... - added: 17 November 2008

The RSAW conference and evening dinner will be on Thursday 20 November at St David's Hotel and Spa, Cardiff Bay. With a keynote address from Jane Davidson, AM for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, other speakers include Professor Phil Jones (Head of the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University), Jeff Perren (Head of Sustainable Development, Welsh Assembly Government), Joost Schrijnen (Head of Planning for the South West Dutch Delta) and Mark Hallett (Development Director, Igloo Regeneration Partnership).

Click Here for information to book your place.

Reflecting Wales Launch - added: 25 October 2008

This exhibition of Innovative Built and Unbuilt in Wales, organised by Design Circle, is scheduled to Launch this evening.

The exhibition will be held at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay and will be open to the public from 26 October until 1 November 2008 (Normal Senedd opening times). Click here to view the online exhibition.

Let us know who you are! - added: 25 October 2008

For another way to keep up to date with our events, and see who else takes part in our exciting events, why not join our newly set up group on Facebook?

Click here to join the group!

Roath Basin Design Charrette - added: 28 September 2008

Briefing documentation and information for the event is now available for participants to download!

Click here to go to the Charrette page where links are available to the event documentation.

Reflecting Wales - added: 28 August 2008

Just over 2 weeks to go before the deadline for entries!

With just over a fortnight left to go, preparations are hotting up! The latest announcement to come from the Exhibition Camp are that the Jury have now been formally appointed. Click here for more details.

Boat Trip 2008 - added: 11 August 2008

Following the success of last year's launch event, join us for a relaxed and fun trip around the Bay

Thursday 21 August 2008, Meet at The Waterguard, 19:00hrs
Tickets £9
Please click here for more information

Borja Ferrater - added: 19 May 2008

Awarded Spain's national prize in the category of "ephemeral architecture", together with Carlos Ferrater for the exhibition in Madrid: M.C. Escher. El Arte de lo Impossible, SAWSA is proud to present a lecture by Borja Ferrater, the founding partner architect of OAB alongside Carlos and Lucia Ferrater and Xavier Marti.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 18:15hrs; Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, followed by wine and snacks
£2 SAWSA Members, £4 Students, £5 Anyone else
(Please check SAWSA Website for more information)

Spring Ball 2008 - added: 31 March 2008

In order to mark Design Circle's first anniversary, and as part of it's programme of social events, all architects in South Wales are invited to join us at the Marriot to celebrate!

Meeting Minutes Now Available - added:31 March 2008

To view past meeting minutes click here

SAWSA Lecture Series - added: 21 January 2008

Design Circle teams up with the Student Association of the Welsh School of Architecture (SAWSA) to bring you a range of exciting speakers.

In a bid to bring the architectural community in South Wales a wide variety of professionally relevant events, Design Circle is working together with the Student Association of the Welsh School of Architecture (SAWSA) to present a series of lectures that should stimulate and inform.

The series is part of a wider effort to support the society by providing a wider audience for society activities, as well as providing a potential additional source of guest speakers, funding and support. At the same time, students can contribute more directly to the South Wales architectural community. As part of this effort, the SAWSA chair, Edward Dyhouse, taken up position as a Design Circle committee member.

Design Circle Formalised - added: 16 January 2008

After a series of informal meetings aimed at reforming the previously disbanded South Wales Branch of the RSAW, Design Circle is now formally the voice of Architects and Architecture in the South Wales Region.

In the presence of the RSAW Chair, a vote was held to formalise the re-instatement of the branch. Andrew Sutton was voted in to continue his role, albeit now on an official basis, as chair of the branch, together with Jonathon Jones as treasurer and Pierre Wassenaar as Secretary. The team will be completed by an enthusiastic committee, who have already made significant inroads to make Design Circle the network and voice of architects that South Wales deserves.

Moving Sustainability Forward in Wales - added: October 2007

A series of short presentations with subsequent debate considering the academic, professional, developer and political views of how sustainability is moving forward in Wales. Speakers include Igloo Development Ltd, the Welsh School of Architecture, Gaunt Francis Architects and (subject to confirmation) Welsh Assembly Government.
There will be drinks available after the discussions for the debate to continue in to the night!

Extra-ordinary General Meeting - added: October 2007

Through a series of launch events earlier this year, the local RSAW branch has been informally reformed with the aim of providing social and architectural activities to the architectural community in South Wales, along with promoting architecture in the area and lobbying on behalf of architects.

In order to make the organisation a recognised RSAW branch, an Extra-ordinary General Meeting is proposed, to vote in the positions of chair, treasurer and secretary.