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Gabor Stark

Senior Lecturer in Architecture/Interiors, UCA Canterbury

Academic, Canterbury School of Architecture

Gabor Stark lectures on our architecture and design courses at UCA Canterbury. Gabor studied architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.

Gabor Stark convenes our Master of Architecture course at UCA Canterbury. Gabor studied architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.

On graduating from the TU Berlin Gabor worked on architecture and urban design projects as a freelance architect in Berlin where he co-founded his own practice tx – büro für temporäre architektur in 2000. From 2000 to 2005 Gabor taught architecture and urban design as a guest lecturer and assistant professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the TU Berlin. He joined the University for the Creative Arts as a senior lecturer in 2007. Gabor initiated and led the MA Urban Design course from 2013-2019 and now convenes the Master of Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) programme at UCA Canterbury School of Architecture. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Research Statement

Gabor’s research focuses on temporal and programmatic aspects of urban transformation processes. He successfully participated in national and international design competitions and has conducted research projects commissioned by the Senate of Urban Development in Berlin, the German Federal Ministry of Traffic, Building and Urban Development and the German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning.

Gabor’s practice, research and teaching agenda comprises temporary uses, cultural landscapes, participatory planning and programmatic urbanism. Parallel to his urban studies Gabor explores the liminal space between architecture, art and urban space. He has realised public art commissions in England, Germany, Cyprus and Russia.

In 2013 Gabor won the first prize in the international design competition ‘Worlds of El Lissitzky’ in Novosibirsk with his portable monument to the Russian architect and artist El Lissitzky and the German art historian Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. In 2016 he won the commission for a temporary art & architecture installation in Cyprus as part of the Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture programme.

In 2017 he completed a permanent WW1 commemorative sculpture project in collaboration with the East Kent Railway Trust in and between Shepherdswell and Eythorne in Kent. Gabor conducted an artist walk for the Chalkup 21 Art & Architecture Coastal Trail in 2018. In the same year, he held an artist residency at Kearsney Abbey as part of the 'Art in the Park: Kearsney Interpreted' project.

In 2019 he was appointed by The Land Trust to work on the realisation of his proposal for an archaeological shelter and communal gardening area at the West Wing Battery of Fort Burgoyne in Dover.

Varying in terms of their respective contexts, formats, genres and durations, Gabor's projects are rooted in the concepts of site-specificity, collaborative place making and the activation of the civic urban realm. He has published, exhibited and lectured about his work in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Greece, Cyprus and Russia.

Professional Membership, Affiliation and Consultancy

Awards, Grants and Commissions:

Commissioned Public Art Projects

2019 Mais il faut cultiver notre jardin (completion scheduled for 2021). Archaeological shelter and communal gardening area at Fort Burgoyne, Dover, UK. Commissioned by The Land Trust.

2018 Meander (Spiegel im Spiegel im Spiegel). Artist residency, installation & concert at Kearsney Abbey in Dover, UK. In collaboration with composer Matthew Brown and the Leon String Quartet. Commissioned by Dover District Council, funded by Arts Council England.

2018 Space Standards. Portable sculptures & artist walk for the ChalkUp 21 Art & Architecture Coastal Trail in Dover, UK. Commissioned by DAD Dover Arts Development, funded by Arts Council England.

2017 PolyCatOikia - Unité de la Cohabitation. Art & architecture installation in Pafos, Cyprus. In collaboration with Emilio Koutsoftides. Commissioned by Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture. 

2014-2016 EKR - The Friendly Army. WW1 commemorative sculpture project at East Kent Railway, Dover, UK. Commissioned by Dover Arts Development, funded by Arts Council England and Kent County Council.

2013-14 Black Currency – The Portable Monument. Public sculpture project. Commissioned by the Siberian Center for Contemporary Arts and the Siberian Center for the Promotion of Architecture, Novosibirsk, Russia.

 

 

Commissioned Research Projects

2010 THF - Tempelhofer Feld: Freiraum- und Stadtentwicklung mit Raumpionieren (Landscape and Urban Development with Urban Pioneers). Implementation strategy, commissioned by Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung Berlin (Senate for Urban Development) & Tempelhof Projekt GmbH, Berlin.

2006-2010 Wriezener Freiraum Labor (Open-Space Laboratory). German pilot project within the ExWoSt (Experimental Housing and Urban Planning) research area: Innovationen für Familien- und Altengerechte Stadtquartiere – Gestaltung Urbaner Freiflächen (Innovations for Family friendly and Cross-generational Civic Districts - Design of the Public Realm), commissioned by the BMVBS (Federal Ministry for Traffic, Building and Urban Development) and the BBR (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning), Berlin.

2007-2008 Stabilisierungsstrategien für Strukturschwache Räume (Strategies for the Stabilisation of Structurally Weak Regions). Research project and conference organisation, commissioned by the BMVBS (Federal Ministry for Traffic, Building and Urban Development) and the BBR (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning), Bonn/Berlin.

2006 Gestaltung der Kulturlandschaft durch die Raumordnung auf Bundesebene (The Structuring of Cultural Landscapes through Federal Regional Planning).  Strategic paper and conference organisation, commissioned by the BMVBS (Federal Ministry for Traffic, Building and Urban Development) and the BBR (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning), Bonn/Berlin.

2005 Future Landscapes – Perspektiven der Kulturlandschaft (Perspectives of Cultural Landscapes). Research project and publication, commissioned by the BMVBS (Federal Ministry for Traffic, Building and Urban Development) and the BBR (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning), Bonn/Berlin.

2005 Tempo.Tope. Zwischennutzung von Freiflächen in Berlin (Temporary Use of Open Urban Space in Berlin). Research project and filmic documentary, commissioned by Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung Berlin (Senate for Urban Development), Berlin.

 

Competitions and Awards

2014 Gateway to the White Cliffs of Dover. Public art competition. Runner-up for the project ‘Aeolian Gates’, Dover, UK.

2014 Worlds of El Lissitzky (Stage 2). International design competition. Shortlisted project ‘Polytope – Lights of the Avant-garde’, Novosibirsk, Russia. 

2013 Worlds of El Lissitzky (Stage 1). International design competition. First prize for the project ‘ Black Currency – The Portable Monument’, Novosibirsk, Russia.

2007 Rheinboulevard Köln. Landscape architecture competition. Second prize for the project ‘Magnetic drift’, Cologne, Germany.

2006 Innovations for Family friendly and Cross-generational Civic Districts - Design of the Public Realm. Call for projects by the ExWoSt (Experimental Housing and Urban Planning) research area of the Federal Ministry for Traffic, Building and Urban Development. Selected pilot project ‘Wriezener Freiraum Labor’ (Open-Space Laboratory), Berlin, Germany.

2004 Spitalhöhe/ Krummer Weg. Rottweil. Urban design competition. Runner-up for the project ‘Landschaftsterrassen’, Rottweil, Germany, 2005
EUROPAN 7. Suburban Challenge. International architecture competition. Runner-up for the project ‘Programmatic fields. Re-composing suburbia’, Pilea, Greece.

2004 Tatort Stadt. Urban design competition. Runner-up for the project ‘Luxus’, Duisburg, Germany.

2003 e2 Exploring the urban condition. Concours International d’ Architecture. Fourth prize, Paris, France, 2003.

1997 Architekturpreis der TU Berlin. Award for the best diploma project in architecture. First prize for the project ‘Glasgow DIALECTicS - Concepts for a shrinking city’, Berlin, Germany.

Research Outputs

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