Light Wall by ecoLogicStudio has been shortlisted for AJ Small Projects Awards for 2009. The Light Wall reinterprets the traditional “massive” Italian wall as a thick concrete sponge, whose ability to absorb and alter heat, light and view can be changed and adapted to contextual requirements and is one of 24 projects from across the UK to have made the shortlist. The project will be exhibited at New London Architecture and other venues around the UK throughout the year, as well as feature in the architecture journal, the AJ. The overall winner will be announced at an awards ceremony in London on the 4th of February.

Supported by our ever-incresing computational power today we can feel, mesure, read and visualize complexity, where before we perceived it intuitively, philosophically. As a result a new relationship between architecture and science has emerged that is material and, ultimatly, prototypical. This symposium presents a variety of material approaches, indicating strands of research that are redefining the relationship not only between science and architecture but also between architecture and architects themselves. Inspired by Youniverse exhibition in Seville and by AA research work, it is co-ordinated by Marie-Ange Brayer (FRAC CenterOrleans) and Claudia Pasquero (AAInter10/ecoLogicStudio). Speakers will include Stefano Mirti, Theodoro Spyropoulos, Jonas Runberger, Ulrika Karlsson, Philippe Morel, Carlo Ratti, Marco Poletto. See link for more details: