Lauren Dutton

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Architecture

  Programme

  MA Architecture, 2010

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• [email protected]
  07960 201261
  http://www.laurendutton.co.uk

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• ADS3: Horror

  NecRomance

  In response to the medical profession’s increased demand for human tissues, NecRomance creates a new death process. The body is dissected and traded to London’s medical institutions and a freakish mourning ritual is created to accompany this brutal process. Scientists/artists cultivate beautiful objects of mourning from cell cultures of the deceased. The architecture explores the contrasting processes of dissection and cultivation of bodily tissues. It transforms from the gory – drawing from the Gothic horror aesthetic – to the sublime, reflecting growth, cultivation and the afterlife. Mourners move through the building, sensing the transformation through their grieving process.

• Degrees

• BArch (Hons), Architecture, Cardiff University, 2006

• Experience

• Architectural assistant, Hutchinson Studio Architects, London, 2006/7; Architectural assistant, Arthurell and Kirkland Architects, London, 2008/9

• Exhibitions

• RCA Routemasters (London Festival of Architecture), Exhibition Road, London, 2008; Yard Screenings (London Festival of Architecture), Urban Salon, London, 2008

• Awards

• Architecture, T Alwyn Lloyd Travelling Scholarship, 2006