The opening night saw over 400 guests and was a massive celebration of all the students of this Department!
ARCSOC is the University of Cambridge Architecture Society. With over two hundred student members, and over fifty committee members, ARCSOC is a group of young creatives starting their careers as designers.
Conversations with architecture’s most exciting and important voices; cult-favourite club nights with hundreds of attendants, and parties just for the students; packed-out life drawing sessions with models of all bodies, a weekly radio show of new hits and deep cuts, a garden that blooms and flowers: in 'Hello, House' the students celebrated exactly this. The potential for student agency to impact the architectural discipline; and how exciting (and lovely) this can be.
Unique among architecture schools, ARCSOC is fully responsible for the Cambridge exhibition: from fundraising and venue scouting to designing, moving, building, and partying — our student members do it all. Everyone is involved, and everyone is represented. There is a magic and joy to what ARCSOC does!
The show was made from foraged material, timber from skips around Cambridge, scraps and treasure. All the furnitures of the show were built by the students themselves, one week after submission of their final exam.
This exhibition hoped to speak to the culture of founders Jim and Helen Ede and the continuing ethos of Kettle’s Yard — inviting the curious into the private. ARCSOC celebrated the architecture students of Scroope Terrace — their models, drawings, and the mundane, but beautiful moments of sharing a studio. ARCSOC celebrated the in-between; the laughter, the joy, the tears.
More information can be found on ARCSOC's website: https://architecturesociety.co.uk/exhibition