The artist, their work, their legacy.

The UK has internationally recognised art market. The work of artists is now les of a singular activity but one that revolves around a collective effort of makers, gallerists, and publicists. This year Unit B has been investigating this world and looking in depth at the lives of some of the UK's artists that are living and working in London.

The unit sites were places within the Hatton Garden Conservation Area, and the students were asked to study Camden Councils Conservation Area appraisal and management strategy within which there were a serious number of sites that had been deemed as contributing negatively to it, or being sites that were still vacant having been bombed out during the war.

In the first half of the year we asked the students to investigate how their chosen artist makes their work, a series of sites within the conservation area and importantly to study an important precedent building with a particular emphasis on the precedents structure. Students were then asked to respond to theses studies by making a series of thematic models that asked each student to translate their understanding in three dimensional form. Each student has then developed their own brief independently responding to the Site, the Artist, and the Structural Precedent to create their own individual brief.

Unit B is interested in the design of buildings and space. We have then worked almost exclusively at larhe scale challenging the students to work at scales of 1:100 or less. We have asked them to look closely at buildings and spaces that have inspired them, not by image but importantly in plan, section, elevation and detail.

Tutors: Stephen Baty, Alex Scott-Whitby.

Student Participants:

Y3: Sarah Alkhazraji, Vanessa Campanelli, Nathalia Cordona De Castro, Adam Emmerson, Timothy Eves, Ezichiebuka Joshua Ewurum, Oscar Frith, Alten Gomes, Thomas Joy, Rahat Kamal, Ali Mohammed, Alma Odoleanu, Izaak Sallows, Lewis Smith, Yulia Tanana.

Y2: Lewis Curtis, Adrian Grant, Ahmed Khan, Naima Khan, Balla Ngom, Kathlyn Pagador, Stephanie Stocks, Robert Venning.

Critics and Collaborators:

Colin Hayward - PT Projects, Osman Marfo-Gyasi, Graeme Massie - Graeme Massie Architects, Jeff Tidmarsh - Sir Robert McAlpine, Mary Tyulkanova, Mark Whitby - WhitbyWood.

Special thanks to:

The Bleeding Heart Bistro, The Gunmakers Pub.