Architecture, art, photography, and graphic design have more in common than creativity. We share a passion for transferring our knowledge to make an impact in society. Our portfolio review workshop offers one-to-one in person sessions intended for students who are interested in architecture and those within various creative professions developing personal projects. This can be suitable for architects and non architects that want quick professional feedback on organizing their pieces, their content, presentation formats, ideas to improve, or simply asking questions about their work. Perhaps there are personal projects you are working on—book designs, art installations, photography works, etc. This can be your chance to present it to the reviewers within the various industries.

We recommend a sample of 10 pieces to bring to the workshop for review.
*Priority will be given to students

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Format

These are 20 minute one-to-one in person review sessions. Each participant will have the opportunity to receive 2 reviews from different reviewers.

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Participants

This is aimed at students with an interest in architecture or associated architectural studies who would like feedback on organizing their work. We are also opening this to practioners across all creative generes or non architects who would like feedback from creative professionals on small projects. Priority will be given to students.

Recommended:
University students, Foundation course, 6th Form, A Levels, High School, early year professionals

Open to:
non architects, creative practitioners

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Tickets

Registration is essential as there are limited spaces. Tickets are available by clicking on the button below. After registering you will be asked to send samples of your work to an email provided. Before the event you will recieve a confirmation with more information.

Registration closed
We cannot guarantee each participant receiving their choice of profession however we will do our best to match everyone’s needs. As we may not be able to accept everyone will keep you on a waiting list for the next immediate opening.

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Venue

Zaha Hadid Foundation
10 Bowling Green Lane
London, EC1R 0BQ
www.zhfoundation.com

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The ZHF foundation was founded in 2013 by the globally recognized architect, designer, and artist Zaha Hadid. ZHF aims to preserve and make publicly available the full range of Zaha’s extraordinary output, and more broadly to advance research, learning, and the enjoyment of related areas of modern architecture, art, and design.

The main entrance is located on Bowling Green lane via a black metal gate with the signage ZHF Zaha Hadid Foundation. Click the buzzer to let reception open the gate.

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Reviewers

Rafael Portillo (Architecture)
Director | Founder Artificial Kreativity, UK.
Rafael founded Artificial Kreativity as a design-led architecture studio merging technology, art, and architecture, with the aim to advance society. With his studio, he is supporting the creative community with the Cross Pollinator Project. It aims to make architecture accessible to everyone and expose students to the profession through a multi-disciplinary approach. For over 10 years, he has reviewed portfolios for architecture candidates applying to Cornell University’s architecture school in New York. Prior to launching his studio, he worked with Zaha Hadid Architects. His career spans over 18 years of designing iconic buildings at multiple scales ranging from cultural buildings, FIFA stadiums, masterplans, commercial retail, and private residential designs. Key projects comprise Pierres Vives, Chartres Parc des Expo, Symbiotic Villa, and Diyar Town Center Masterplan. Design interests stem from music, art, landscape, fashion, creativity, and technology. He is a native of Los Angeles, received his BArch from Cornell University, MArch from the Architectural Association, and sits on the board of trustees with London Play.

Maria Loreto Flores (Architecture)
Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, UK.
Chilean-born architect, Maria Loreto, manages multi-disciplinary teams that specialize in complex geometries and construction for projects in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She focuses on large scale projects comprising masterplans, towers, expos, and convention centres. Built work includes the luxury Morpheus Hotel in Macau, China; Pierres Vives, France; and d’Leedon Residential Complex, Singapore. She is part of the steering committee of Women in Architecture UK and previously taught workshops and design studios at the Universidad de Chile. She has been a visiting critic in architecture schools in both Chile and the UK including the Architectural Association and Bartlett at UCL.

Graham Modlen (Architecture)
University of Greenwich, UK
Graham has over 30 years experience working with acclaimed offices as a project architect and designer. This includes director of Zaha Hadid Architects where he was involved in her early career from the 90’s and an associate at Austin-Smith: Lord in London. Key projects include the Sheikh Zayed Bridge and Qasr Al Hosn in Abu Dhabi. As an architect and artist with his own practice Graham continues to explore design through a sketching process. Currently he co-lectures with Nicholas Boyarsky at the University of Greenwich on professional practice in architecture.

Catherine Yass (Art, Photogrpahy, Film)
Catherine Yass Studio, UK.
Yass's photographs and films disrupt notions of power through the disorientation of the camera and seduction of colour. With her photographs, she combines a standard colour image with a cross-processed blue negative, to produce a psychological space that is surreal. She often displays these on light boxes to remind the photographer’s contingency upon light. With her films they are frequently turned upside down or captured from unusual perspectives—high up, underground, or underwater—and often filmed from a camera mounted on the moving objects they depict. The resulting disorientation turns institutional frameworks on their head, questioning their stability through the disruption of the image.
          In 2002, Yass was shortlisted for The Turner Prize. She also represented the UK at the 10th Indian Triennial, 2001, and won the Glenn Dimplex Photography prize in 1999. Her work features in a number of collections worldwide including Tate, London; Arts Council of England, The British Council and the Government Art Collection, London; The National Museums and Galleries of Wales; MoMA, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; the National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection, Washington DC; The Linda Pace Foundation, USA and the Phillips Collection, UK.
         She lives and works in London and trained at the Slade School of Art, London; the Hochschüle der Künst, Berlin; and Goldsmiths College, London. Visit her new public commission at Paddington Square opening in summer 2023.

Noel Bowler (Documentary Photography)
Noel Bowler Photography, UK.
Noel Bowler is a photographer and educator. Over the past two decades, his photographic practice has produced many outputs such as exhibitions, monographs and publications situated within the context of visual arts practice and discourse. He’s known for his long-term projects and overarching research interests into the role of the labour market, and the construction of societal work practices in a globalised world. His previous two books include Union – A look at the spaces of organised labour, and Above The Fold – Visualising media work practice in a globalised workplace. He has been nominated for both the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and for the Prix Pictet Photography Prize. His work has been exhibited worldwide including New York Photofestival, Dali International Festival, Yunan, China, with recent solo exhibitions in Photo Museum Ireland, Impressions Gallery, Bradford and RPS Gallery, Tokyo. Bowler’s works continue to look at the ongoing consideration of the political forces that shape our world, reflected through the organisation of social space. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Suffolk.

Anna Borup (Graphic Design / Illustration)
Senior Art Director at TBWA\Media Arts Lab London, UK.
With a background in graphic design, Anna creates advertising campaigns for Apple, the exclusive client of TBWA\Media Arts Lab London. This includes creating ads in various formats for print, TV, and digital media, including the launch campaign for iPhone 14: Big and Bigger. Independently as an illustrator, she creates her own artwork and freelances for commissions. She is known for working in a colourful range of bold colours that are produced as giclée prints or screen printed on T-shirts depicting abstract compositions of animals, nature, or figurines. Her pieces are available online through her website or can be found at various independent shops, including Wildcard Brewery. She is a regular exhibitor at the London Illustration Fair, and has produced a number of illustrations for the restaurant Kanada-Ya. She completed a Masters of Advertising in France and has lived in London, Amsterdam, and Bordeaux.

Dagmar Binsted (Architecture)
Associate at Scott Brownrigg Architects, UK.
With a passion about the future of the architecture profession, Dagmar is involved with apprenticeship programs to teaching professional practice and mentoring students within Scott Brownrigg Architects, RIBA (Royal Institute of Architects), and Oxford Brookes University. This includes being part of the initial start-up of the Architecture Apprenticeship Trailblazer group, at Scott Brownrigg Architects. It emphasises in-practice experience by combining work-based learning with academic training. Professionally she has worked on international projects ranging from commercial development to student housing, and large scale refurbishments. She was the chair of SLSA (South London Society of Architects—RIBA Southwest and Southeast) and served on the Practice Committee and Education Trust Fund Committee as part of her role as a member of the RIBA council and RIBA London regional council. Raised in Transylvania (Romania) and Bavaria (Germany) she received her architecture degree, Dipl-Ing, at the Technical University of Munich and has worked in Germany, Luxembourg, and the UK. As a student her work experience included a three month internship at the Chinati Foundation in Texas (USA).

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