Reviewers

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  Dr Ella Chmielewska

  Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Visual Studies, University of Edinburgh

  Dr Ella Chmielewska

  Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Visual Studies, University of Edinburgh

  
  Writing with the photograph: espacement, description and an architectural text-in-action, 2013
  
  My work focuses on the intersection of city, visuality and communication: space-image-text; material presence of language in public space; place and memory, and methodologies of urban research.
  
  In my exploration of urban cultures and visual practices I use photography as a research tool and an instrument of documentation and presentation. The primary questions my research asks are: How do objects and texts, material contexts and spatial experiences, linguistic markings and modes of inscription figure in visual landscapes and in visual practices? How do they inform our (visual) knowledges, cultural identities, and disciplinary (sup)positions?
  
  In my research and teaching, I focus on the methodological potential of the visual essay, multimodal representations, curatorial practices and critical pedagogy in productively complicating the relationships between the disciplines of architecture and cultural studies, as well as between visual practice and visual theory. I am particularly interested in exploring site specificity, visual archives, fieldwork and design studio practices in the processes of cultural and disciplinary translations and transpositions.
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  Prof Mark Dorrian

  Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh

  Prof Mark Dorrian

  Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh

  
  Metis: Mark Dorrian & Adrian Hawker with Victoria Clare Bernie, Northroom (2006-2007)
  
  Mark Dorrian holds the Forbes Chair in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh and is Co-Director of the art, architecture and urbanism atelier Metis. His books include (with Adrian Hawker) Metis: Urban Cartographies (2002), (with Gillian Rose) Deterritorialisations: Revisioning Landscapes and Politics (2003), (with Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill and Murray Fraser) Critical Architecture (2007), Warszawa: Projects for the Post-Socialist City (2009), and (with Frédéric Pousin) Seeing from Above: The Aerial View in Visual Culture (2013).  Among recent articles by him are ‘The Way the World Sees London’ in A. Vidler, ed, Architecture Between Spectacle and Use (2008); ‘Transcoded Indexicality’, Log 12 (2008); ‘The Aerial Image: Vertigo, Transparency and Miniaturization’, parallax 15(4) (2009); ‘Falling Upon Warsaw: the Shadow of Stalin’s Palace of Culture’, The Journal of Architecture 15 (1) (2010); ‘On Google Earth’, New Geographies, 4 - Scales of the Earth (2011); ‘Adventure on the Vertical: Powers of Ten and the Mastery of Space by Vision’, Cabinet, 44 (2011/12); ‘Utopia on Ice: the Sunny Mountain Ski-Dome as an Allegory of the Future’, Cabinet, 47 (2012); and ‘Voice, Monstrosity and Flaying: Anish Kapoor’s Marsyas as a Silent Sound Work’, Architectural Theory Review, 17(1) (2012).  His book of collected essays, Writing on the Image: Architecture, the City and the Politics of Representation, will be published in 2014.  He is currently working on the political history of air-conditioning, and is member of the advisory board of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, where he is organizing a research theme on ‘Atmospheres and Atmospherics’: He is currently a visiting professor at Tianjin University, China, and at Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark.
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  Dr Dorian Wiszniewski

  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh

  Dr Dorian Wiszniewski

  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh

  
  Pyrotechnic Peonies, Portbello's New Marine Gardens. Wiszniewski Thomson architects, 2005.
  
  B Arch (Mackintosh), Dip Arch (Mackintosh), PhD (University of Edinburgh)
   
  Wiszniewski’s work in practice includes internationally renowned and award winning projects:  Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge (1988-93), Southwark Intermediate Concourse, Jubilee Line, London (1992-94), and Cable and Wireless Teaching College, Coventry (1990-1993) were completed with MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects (London); since 1996, as partner in Wiszniewski Thomson Architects, built and project work has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Wiszniewski Thomson Architects won the Royal Scottish Academy Medal for Architecture in 2006 for the ‘Water House', Crieff.  In partnership with Cadell2, WTa won the 2007 Roses Design Award and 2007 Scottish Design Awards for best building and best place-making project, respectively, for their design of Bellfield Dyke Housing and Landscape Gardens.  WTa won The Scottish Homes Award for Designer House of the Year, 2012, for The Promenade House, Musselburgh, Edinburgh.
   
  Wiszniewski was a Board Member on Architecture and Design Scotland [1] between 2005 and 2009.
   
  Wiszniewski is a senior academic in the University of Edinburgh and was visiting Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, 2012.  Wiszniewski has lectured internationally.  His academic outputs are extensive and published in China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Spain, Turkey, UK, and USA.  Recent themes on Architecture and Urban Design to be published in books and as book chapters include: Florence: Curating The City, 2010; Architecture, Landscape & The Ecosophic Object, vols 1 and 2, 2012 and 2013; and ‘The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape and The Public-Private Borderland’ in City Project and Public Space, 2013.
   
  
  [1] An advisory non-departmental public body, charged by the Scottish Government with raising the public and professional discourse on architecture and design in Scotland.
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  Reviewers List

  Reviewers List

  Reviewers List

  Reviewers List

  Richard Blythe
  Professor in Architecture and Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
  
  Marc Boumeester
  Dean of AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art and Design
  
  Paul Carter
  Professor of Design and Urbanism, RMIT University
  
  Nat Chard
  Professor of Experimental Architecture, University College of London
  
  Ella Chmielewska
  Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Visual Studies, University of Edinburgh
  
  Roger Connah
  Associate Professor of Architecture, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University
  
  Mark Dorrian
  Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh
  
  Isabelle Doucet
  Professor of Architectural Theory and History, Chalmers University of Technology
  
  Nick Dunn
  Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
  
  Hélène Frichot
  Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, University of Melbourne
  
  Penelope Haralambidou
  Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culture, University College of London
  
  Adrian Hawker
  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, University of Edinburgh
  
  Sandra Kaji o'Grady
  Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Queensland
  
  Tahl Kaminer
  Reader in Architectural History and Theory, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University
  
  Robert Kirkbride
  Dean and Professor of Architecture and Product Design, Parsons School of Constructed Environments
  
  Perry Kulper
  Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan
  
  Yeoryia Manolopoulou
  Professor of Architecture and Experimental Practice, University College of London
  
  Alessandro Melis
  Professor of Architecture,  New York Institute of Technology
  
  Julieanna Preston
  Professor of Spatial Practice, College of Creative Arts, Massey University
  
  Renée Tobe
  Reader in Architecture, University of East London
  
  Tatjana Schneider
  Head of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and the City, Technical University Braunschweig
  
  Marc Schoonderbeek
  Assistant Professor of Architecture, TU Delft
  
  Naomi Stead
  Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at MADA, Monash University
  
  Maria Theodorou
  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, London South Bank University
  
  Stephen Walker
  Professor of Architectural Humanities, University of Manchester
  
  Dorian Wiszniewski
  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh
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  Prof Richard Blythe

  Professor in Architecture and Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech

  Prof Richard Blythe

  Professor in Architecture and Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech

  Dr Richard Blythe is Professor in Architecture and Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, USA. Prior to taking up his position at Virginia Tech Richard served as Dean of the School of Architecture + Design at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia, Head of the School of Architecture + Design at RMIT, and Deputy Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Tasmania where he began his academic career as a lecturer. Richard has a strong track record in strategic institutional leadership.
  
  Richard has served in a range of representative rolls. He served: as a member of the Australian Deans of the Built Environment Executive Committee; the Vice Chancellor’s representative on the Tasmanian Government’s Building and Construction Industries Council, Australia; President of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand; Chair of the Australian Institute of Architects National Education Committee; and Chair of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Discipline Scholar Advisory Panel. He has served on many scientific committees and accreditation review panels. Richard was a founding director of the architectural practice Terroir.
  
  Richard’s research career is founded in a passion for creative practice, developing approaches to creative practice research and in building communities of creative practitioner researchers. He has achieved over $6.8M in research funding in practice based research as it relates to a range of disciplines. In 2015 Richard received $498,000 in funding from the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching (first tier Australian research funding) for the Design and Architecture Practice research grant (DAPr), a collaboration between 14 Australian Universities. From 2007 he led the establishment of the RMIT Practice based Research PhD program in Europe and Asia. He was the primary author and lead researcher for the successful 2013 €4M EU Marie Curie ITN grant ADAPT-r, a collaboration between RMIT and six European Universities. Richard is currently an Advisory Board Member for the Ashgate Publishing's Design Research in Architecture Series and a review editor for Routledge, the European on-line journal JAR, and Drawing On. In 2011 he was the recipient of a prestigious Velux Professorial fellowship, Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark.
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  Dr Marc Boumeester

  Dean of AKI ArtEZ, Academy for Art and Design

  Dr Marc Boumeester

  Dean of AKI ArtEZ, Academy for Art and Design

  Dr Marc Boumeester is the director of AKI, academy of arts and design, part of the University of the Arts ARTEZ. In conjunction with his artistic practice in moving image, Boumeester has been working as lecture /researcher at the Delft University of Technology and he co-founded and led the Interactive /Media /Department at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His research focuses on the interplay between non-anthropocentric desire, socio-architectural conditions and unstable media, cinema in particular. He holds a doctoral degree from Leiden University, Centre for the Arts in Society and he lectures and publishes in the fields of media-philosophy and art-theory.
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  Prof Nat Chard

  Professor of Experimental Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  Prof Nat Chard

  Professor of Experimental Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  
  Instrument 7. High-speed flash photograph of paint flying through drawing pieces. Photograph by Nat Chard. © Nat Chard. Reproduced by permission of the author.
  
  Nat Chard is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the Bartlett, University College London, following professorships at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen (Professor of Visual Communication), the University of Manitoba (Professor and Head of Architecture) and the University of Brighton (Professor of Architecture).
   
  He taught at the Bartlett throughout the nineties and has also taught at North and East London Universities. He is an architect registered in the UK and has practiced in London. His work has been published and exhibited internationally. His research practice develops means of discussing uncertain conditions in architecture and the recent work has been acted out through a series of drawing instruments. His work has been internationally exhibited and published, most recently with Perry Kulper in Pamphlet Architecture 34, Fathoming the Unfathomable, and in Perspecta 46.
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  Prof Roger William Connah

  Associate Professor, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University

  Prof Roger William Connah

  Associate Professor, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University

  
  Black rock trio
  
  
  Roger William Connah – Ruthin, UK. Currently Associate Professor, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Visiting Professor on Fashion, City and Architecture at the School of Art and Design, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou and holds the International Chair at Sushant school of Art and Architecture, Ansal University, Gurgaon, India. Responsible for a series of publications, exhibitions, films carried out over 4 decades in Finland, Sweden, India, Pakistan, Italy, USA, UK and Canada.
  
  Recent publications: What’s Wrong with This Picture – An Anti-Memoire (Helsinki, 2019);  Heron-Mazy – The Compendium (works 2002-2018) Vertigo-Zetaville 2018; The Phoney Island of the Mind (4 Pamphlets) Vertigo, 2017; The School of Exile, For or Against Theory  (Helsinki, 2015); The Santi-Library (10 Pamphlets) Vertiog, 215; Being: An Architect Ian Ritchie with Roger Connah (Royal Academy London, 2014); The Rest is Silence: Zahoor ul Akhlaq (Oxford University Press, 2011); The Ecstasy of No Further Communication (2015); Forthcoming: My Mother as Samuel Beckett (Venice, 2019).
  
  Practice involves formal, informal, improvised and speculative approaches to architecture and urbanism: The Behn House (the Red House), Son, Oslo (2018). Heron-Mazy (Connah-Maruszczak), founded 2001, is an architectural studio for speculative and alternative projects (competitions, films, drawing, animations, texts, provocations, VR): Chromopolis 2002, White House Redux, Storefront First Prize 2008, The Disinternet & The Black Walrus 2011, Architects Can’t be Existentialists 2012, Sick City 2015, Dark Architecture 2016, The Secret Life of Buildings 2017; The Favela of Unspace, 2016; Dark Architecture (Marfa ACSA 2017); Cornell: The Ghostly (ACSA Cornell 2018); Fairy Tale New York, Blank Space (contributions in Vols 1, 2 & 3).
  
  The City: an emerging area of research exploring Urbanism including the studios: Third City Urban Laboratory 2014, Ottawa You’re So Vanier, awarded AIA Studio Education Prize 2015, Exceptional / Exceptionable Space 2016, and Counter-Urbanism (4 Immature projects by Far from Immature Students 2017. Collaborator and consultant member/English editor of the Meganom Practice (Moscow) The Archeology of the Periphery (2012) and Leonid Pavlov, Collected Works (2015). Recent critical seminars on Urbanism: The Uncurious, The Indifferent, The Intertext.
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  Prof Isabelle Doucet

  Professor of Architectural Theory and History, Chalmers University of Technology

  Prof Isabelle Doucet

  Professor of Architectural Theory and History, Chalmers University of Technology

  Isabelle Doucet is professor of architectural theory and history at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Previously she was based at the University of Manchester, Manchester School of Architecture, and has also taught at universities in Belgium, Italy, Germany, and The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and social responsibility in architecture. She is particularly interested in the relationship between architecture and urban politics in the 1970s and the repercussions of architecture's "post-political" turn. She examines such questions through both conceptual-methodological inquiries and historical and contemporary cases.
  
  Isabelle’s books include The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968 (Routledge 2015) and the co-edited volume Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism (Springer 2011, with N. Janssens). She recently co-edited the thematic issue “Resist, Reclaim, Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City” (Architectural Theory Review 2018, with H. Frichot) and had previously co-edited thematic issues for Footprint Journal and Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge. Isabelle’s research has been widely published in journals including Architecture & Culture, Architectural Theory Review, Oase Journal of Architecture, City Culture and Society, and the Journal of Educational Administration and History; and in edited volumes, such as the recently published Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement (Routledge 2018). In 2018-2019, Isabelle was also a researcher for the Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Project called Architecture and/for the Environment, coordinated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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  Prof Nick Dunn

  Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University

  Prof Nick Dunn

  Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University

  Nick Dunn is Professor of Urban Design at ImaginationLancaster and Associate Director of Research of the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University. He is formerly of the Manchester School of Architecture where he was Principal Lecturer, Director of Studies and Co-director of the [Re_Map] atelier, whose research is concerned with the mapping and representation of urban networks, data and conditions. His primary research interests are in the fields of visualisation, modelling, mapping, representation in architecture, infrastructure, post-capitalist landscapes and urbanism. His work responds to the contemporary city as a series of systems, flows and processes, and is explored through experimentation and discourse addressing the nature of urban space: its perception, demarcation and appropriation. The culmination of numerous strands of research in this area was published as the co-authored Urban Maps: Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City (2011).   
  
  In particular, Nick is interested in why and how (maybe even where and when) we design, rather than what we design. His PhD thesis, The Ecology of the Architectural Model sought to contribute to the understanding of learning-by-doing in design education and has since been published as a book (2007). This area of his research continues to inspire and evolve his design thinking and activity. He is interested in the instruments we use to both make sense of our surroundings and also speculate upon its future. As such, his recent work investigates the extended toolkit available to designers via digital design and fabrication processes and techniques, and their application in relation to architecture as his latest book, Digital Fabrication in Architecture (2012) attests. His papers have been published and presented internationally and collaborative creative work exhibited across the UK and China.
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  Prof Hélène Frichot

  Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, University of Melbourne

  Prof Hélène Frichot

  Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, University of Melbourne

  Architectural theorist and philosopher, writer and critic, Hélène Frichot is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, and Director of the Bachelor of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is Guest Professor and the former Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, as well as Professor of Critical Studies and Gender Theory, in the School of Architecture, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Stockholm, Sweden, where she was based between 2012-2019. Her research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy, with an emphasis on feminist theories and practices. In 2017 she was the recipient of a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant, one outcome of which is Creative Ecologies: Theorizing the Practice of Architecture (Bloomsbury 2018). She is a co-editor of Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (Routledge 2017); Deleuze and the City (EUP 2016), and Deleuze and Architecture (EUP 2013).
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  Prof Penelope Haralambidou

  Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culture, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  Prof Penelope Haralambidou

  Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culture

  
  
  Penelope Haralambidou is a Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culturet the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she coordinates the MPhil/PhD Programmes and MArch Unit 24.
  
  Her early speculative architectural projects have received prizes in competitions and have been exhibited internationally, most notably in the form of digital films as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2000. She was a founding member of Tessera, 1999–2004, an interdisciplinary practice involved in experimental design, installation, curating and exhibition design, whose work was distinguished in architectural competitions, exhibited and published internationally. Projects included: Drawing Fix, an installation for the Museum of Modern Art, Athens, 2002, and exhibition designs at the RIBA, London, 2003, and the Art Directors Club, New York, 2003.
  
  Her current work lies between architectural design, art practice and curating, experimental film and critical theory and has been published and exhibited internationally. Curatorial/research projects include Spatial Imagination, 2006, the culmination of work produced for an EPSRC and AHRC, Designing for the 21st Century, Research Cluster; The Blossoming of Perspective, a solo exhibition at the DomoBaal Gallery, 2007; and Speculative Models, a two person exhibition at London Gallery West, 2009. She is the author of Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire (Ashgate, 2013), author and editor of The Blossoming of Perspective: A Study (DomoBaal Editions, 2007), and has contributed writing on themes such allegory, figural theory, stereoscopy and film in architecture to a wide range of publications.
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  Prof Sandra Kaji-O' Grady

  Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Queensland

  Prof Sandra Kaji-O' Grady

  Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Queensland

  Professor Kaji-O'Grady is an architectural educator, academic leader and researcher with a PhD in Philosophy from Monash University (2001) and professional architectural qualifications and experience. She led the design and delivering of a new progressive design education while Head of School at UTS (2005-2009) and in September 2013 commenced as Head of School and Dean of Architecture at the University of Queensland. She is committed to critical approaches to design learning and to preparing students for a radically volatile professional future.
  
  Kaji-O'Grady's research is focused on the transfer of ideas and techniques between contemporary fine arts and architecture, and architecture and the experimental sciences. Her work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Architecture, The Journal of Architectural Education, Architecture &, and le Journal Spéciale’Z. Kaji-O'Grady has won several competitive external research grants from the Australian Research Council, including a Discovery Grant for ‘From Alchemist’s Den to Science City: Architecture and the expression of Experimental Science’. She has presented invited lectures and peer-reviewed conference papers in the USA, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Finland, Amsterdam, France, Belgium, Germany, England and Scotland, where I was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2012). Her own artwork investigating serial systems using pianola rolls and commercial paint samples has been exhibited in Singapore and Australia.
  
  An active contributor to the architectural profession, she co-directed the 2013 National Conference of the Australian Institute of Architects, has published over forty reviews of buildings and exhibitions in the design press and have been a regular member of awards juries. Kaji-O'Grady has been a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (2010-2011) and has reviewed submissions for several scholarly journals and sit on the editorial boards of Architecture and Culture, Studies in Material Thinking and Architecture Theory Review.
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  Dr Tahl Kaminer

  Reader in Architectural History and Theory, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

  Dr Tahl Kaminer

  Reader in Architectural History and Theory, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

  Tahl Kaminer is Reader in Architectural History and Theory at the Welsh School of Architecture (Cardiff University). Previously he was Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (University of Edinburgh) and Assistant Professor at the Delft School of Design (TU Delft). He has published two monographs: The Efficacy of Architecture (2017, Routledge) and Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation (2011, Routledge). He has also edited three anthologies: Urban Asymmetries (2011, 010), Critical Tools (La Lettre Volee, 2012) and Houses in Transformation (2008, NAi), and was a founding editor of the academic journal Footprint and its managing editor from 2007-12.
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  Prof Robert Kirkbride

  Dean & Professor of Architecture and Product Design, Parsons School of Constructed Environments

  Prof Robert Kirkbride

  Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture and Product Design, Parsons School of Constructed Environments

  Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Professor of Architecture and Product Design, is a scholar-practitioner whose work centers on memory, identity and the built environment. Robert is director of the design atelier studio ‘patafisico and Spokesperson and a founding Trustee for PreservationWorks, a national 501c3 organization promoting the adaptive reuse of Hospitals for the Insane planned by Thomas Story Kirkbride, a relative. Dr. Kirkbride has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and architect-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy. Robert designed the Morbid Anatomy Museum, in Brooklyn, NY, with Anthony Cohn, and authored the award-winning multimedia online book, Architecture and Memory, which reconstructs the educational and rhetorical uses of two Renaissance memory chambers. Dr. Kirkbride also explored architecture and memory in a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, and the volume, Geometries of Rhetoric, guest-edited for the Nexus Network Journal. At Parsons/The New School, where he recently received the University Distinguished Teaching Award, Robert established the Giuseppe Zambonini Archive at the Kellen Design Archives and Special Collections, and is an ongoing contributor to the Memory Studies Group. Robert received his Ph.D. from McGill University, and a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Arts in Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania.
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  Prof Perry Kulper

  Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan

  Prof Perry Kulper

  Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan

  
  Central California History Museum, Proto-formal Section.
  
  Perry Kulper is an architectural educator, design researcher and licensed architect who makes drawn spatial speculations. He is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture Urban Planning. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he lived in Los Angeles and was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 17 years during which time he also held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to graduate studies at Columbia University GSAPP he worked in the offices of Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles.
   
  Recently his work and articles have been published in the issue of Architectural Design (A.D.), ‘Drawing Architecture’, ‘A World Below’; in the Journal of Architecture, ‘The Calculus of Paint’; and in the Princeton Architectural Press Pamphlet Architecture 34, ‘Fathoming the Unfathomable: Archival Ghosts Paradoxical Shadows’ with Nat Chard. He and Nat are also working on a forthcoming book, ‘Contingent Practices’ for Ashgate’s Design Research in Architecture series. Kulper has lectured, presented peer-reviewed conference papers, conducted workshops and exhibited his drawings in Canada, U.S., U.K, Australia and Norway.
   
  His design and teaching practice interests included the roles of the language of architecture and the language of representation with respect to the cultural agency of architecture. He has also written about and worked on the framing and implementation of varied design methods in the production of architecture while broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination. Kulper is vehemently committed to establishing expansive and critical approaches to design thinking and to effects of that breadth to the fifty to sixty year productive lives of students of architecture.
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  Prof Yeoryia Manolopoulou

  Professor of Architecture and Experimental Practice, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  Prof Yeoryia Manolopoulou

  Professor of Architecture and Experimental Practice, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  
  Drawings extracted from Yeoryia Manolopoulou's book Architectures of Chance (Routledge, 2013).
  
  Yeoryia Manolopoulou is Professor of Architecture and Experimental Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a Founding Partner of the award-winning design studio AY Architects, based in London. Professor Manolopoulou works in the overlapping fields of architecture, design and art. She is the author of Architectures of Chance (Routledge, 2013) and the founder and general editor of the Bartlett Design Research Folios series.
  
  In 2014, she was nominated Emerging Woman Architect of the Year. In 2016 she was the curator and co-author of the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, presenting a collaborative research project and multimedia drawing-based installation on the subject of dementia and architecture.
  
  Her practice AY Architects places a strong emphasis on craft and the conceptual and hands-on intensity of the design process, creating progressive buildings, drawings, objects and installations that reflect the nature of their environments, historic and social contexts. It has realised notable projects in the education, community and art sectors, including the Montpelier Community Nursery (Winner of the Stephen Lawrence Prize and a RIBA National Award, and mid-listed for the Stirling Prize); and House of Flags, an iconic installation erected on Parliament Square for the London Olympics and Paralympics.
  
  She has exhibited, lectured and acted as peer reviewer, critic and external examiner for architecture institutions internationally. She has served in the RIBA Awards Panel and the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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  Prof Alessandro Melis

  Professor of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology

  Prof Alessandro Melis

  Professor of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology

  
  Energy Gallery, Pisa. Competition Entry. H21 Architetti. 2014.
  
  Alessandro Melis is the inaugural IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and a professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology. In 2021, he was the curator of the Italian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia. Alessandro has been nominated Ambassador of Italian Design (ADI - Italian Ministry of External Affairs) in 2021 (Paris) and 2022 (New York and Washington). Previously, he was director of the International Cluster for Sustainable Cities at the University of Portsmouth, director of Postgraduate Engagement at the University of Auckland, co-director at the TPAI program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, visting professor at the Anhalt University Dessau, Politecnico di Torino, University of Perugia, and honorary fellow at Edinburgh University.
  
  The relevance of his contribution to research is evidenced by 200+ publications, by as many citations in popular publications, and by conferences at institutions such as the University of Cambridge, MoMA, China Academy of Art, and TEDx. Recent monographs on his work include "Alessandro Melis. Utopic Real World, Invention Drawings," published by D Editore, and "Heliopolis 21," published by Skira Editore.
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  Prof Julieanna Preston

  Professor of Spatial Practice, College of Creative Arts, Massey University

  Prof Julieanna Preston

  Professor of Spatial Practice, College of Creative Arts, Massey University

  
  
  Julieanna Preston’s research practice spans across architecture, art and philosophy and draws from her background in interior design, building construction, landscape gardening, material processes and performance writing. Julieanna has delivered live art performances and lectured on her creative and scholarly works in the United States, UK, Sweden, Australia, Scotland, The Netherlands, Canada and New Zealand. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech (1983), Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art (1990) and a PhD through creative practice from RMIT (2013). Recent works and publications include a sole authored book Performing Matter: interior surface and feminist actions (AADR 2014), Idleness Labouritory: Attuning and Attending (in collaboration with Mick Douglas, Syracuse, NY 2016), Performing, Writing: A symposium in four turns (Wellington, NZ, 2017) and three solo performances: windwoundweatherwovenwirewoman as part of Performing, Writing, murmur as part of a Visiting Professorship at Newcastle University, UK and ground-wearing as part of an artist’s residency with AKI Academy of Art and Design (Enschede, The Netherlands) including ground-bearing, a video installation at the Sixth Annual Lowlands Deleuze Scholarship Conference A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT.
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  Prof Tatjana Schneider

  Head of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and the City, Technical University Braunschweig

  Prof Tatjana Schneider

  Head of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and the City, Technical University Braunschweig

  In the face of epochal urban transformations and increasing socio-spatial inequalities in many parts of the world, my research and teaching engages with case studies that foster principles of justice. It is particularly concerned with the social, economic and political parameters within and through which cities, territories and architectures are made and the tools and methodologies that allow citizens to intervene transformatively in the (re)production of space.
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  Dr Marc Schoonderbeek

  Assistant Professor of Architectural Design, Delft University of Technology

  Dr Marc Schoonderbeek

  Assistant Professor of Architectural Design, Delft University of Technology

  Marc Schoonderbeek is the coordinator of the research group Border Conditions & Territories at the Faculty of Architecture (TUD) and received his doctorate in architecture from TU Delft in 2015. His dissertation, 'Place-Time Discontinuities; Mapping in Architectural Discourse', presented a theory of mapping in architectural discourse by making explicit the relationship between spatial analysis and architectural design. Marc has practiced architecture in the Netherlands, Germany and Israel. In 1998, he and his partner Pnina Avidar founded '12PM-Architecture; Office for Architecture and Urbanism, Design and Research' in Amsterdam. He is currently editorial board member of the journal Footprint, lectures at various architecture institutes, and contributes regularly to architectural magazines. In 2004, he co-founded 66EAST Centre for Urban Culture in Amsterdam and published 'Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification' (2008; with J.J. Berg, T Kaminer, and J. Zonneveld); ‘Border Conditions’ (2010), the ‘Modi Operandi' series (initiated in 2013) and 'X Agendas for Architecture (2015, with Oscar Rommens and Loed Stolte).
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  Prof Naomi Stead

  Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at MADA, Monash University

  Prof Naomi Stead

  Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at MADA, Monash University

  Naomi Stead is Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at MADA, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests lie broadly in the architectural humanities, intellectual history in architecture, and the cultural studies of architecture: in its production, reproduction, and reception. Her doctoral thesis, ‘On the Object of the Museum and its Architecture,’ examined the cultural politics of architecture in recent social history museums. Current research projects examine architectural criticism, experimental writing practices in architecture, and the representation of architecture and architects in other media. Stead is a co-investigator on the ARC Discovery project ‘The Cultural Logic of Queensland Architecture: Place, Taste and Economy’ with Professor John Macarthur and Dr Deborah van der Plaat. She is the leader of the ARC Linkage project ‘Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership.’
  
  Naomi edited the 2012 book Semi-Detached: Writing, Representation and Criticism in Architecture (Uro, Melbourne, 2012), and co-editor of Architectural Theory Review. She is also co-editor of Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, an online journal based in Sweden; and co-editor with Justine Clark and others of the award-winning website Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture.
  
  Naomi was trained as an architect at the University of South Australia, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture with first class honours before taking up a PhD scholarship at the University of Queensland in 1999. Moving to Sydney in 2001, she was employed in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, where she taught for seven years, most recently as a Senior Lecturer. Having completed her PhD dissertation in 2004, in late 2007 Naomi was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, Norrkoping, in a position funded by the Swedish Institute. Her scholarly work has been published in anthologies such as Critical Architecture (Jane Rendell et al. eds, Routledge, London, 2007), Architecture and Authorship (Katja Grillner et al. eds, Black Dog, London, 2007) and Architecture, Disciplinarity and Art (Andrew Leach and John Macarthur eds, A & S Books, Ghent, 2009). She has also published work in journals including the Journal of Architecture, Volume, OASE, Performance Research, JAS: Journal of Australian Studies, the Journal of Visual Communication and the Open Museums Journal. She is an Editorial Board member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, and has edited three volumes of conference proceedings.
  
  Naomi also maintains a number of ‘para-academic’ writing, exhibition, and art projects. These include the 2009 exhibition ‘Mapping Sydney: Experimental Cartography and the Imagined City’ and its accompanying catalogue; a series of short films made in 2009 for the UTS Equity and Diversity Unit in collaboration with Sam Scotting; an ongoing writing collaboration with Dr Katrina Schlunke of UTS, and the visual research project Documentation: The Visual Sociology of Architects. Naomi is widely published as an art and architectural critic in Australia, having written more than fifty commissioned feature and review articles in professional magazines over the last decade. These include Places @ Design Observer, Architecture Australia (of which she was a contributing editor between 2003-2012), Architectural Review Asia Pacific, Monument, Artichoke, Pol:Oxygen, and [Inside]: Australian Design Review. In 2008 she was awarded the Adrian Ashton Prize for architectural writing by the NSW chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.
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  Dr Maria Theodorou

  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, London South Bank University

  Dr Maria Theodorou

  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, London South Bank University

  
  POLYPOLIS by SARCHA: a mind shifting social game at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad London Jeremy Bentham room UCL.
  
  Dr Maria Theodorou is Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Architecture coordinator at London South Bank University and Director and founding member of the independent School of Architecture for All (SARCHA). Maria holds a PhD History and Theory of Architecture (Architectural Association), postgraduate diploma (La Sapienza, Rome), architecture professional degree (AUTH, Greece), and has been a Fulbright visiting fellow (School of Architecture Princeton USA 2005). Since August 2013 she co-ordinates the History and Theory of Architecture at the Leeds School of Architecture where she promotes the study of “architecture as apparatus” and advocates for “an intense engagement with the history and theory of architecture and a firm grasp of the contemporary conditions”. In charge of SARCHA’s research programme since 2006, she has directed the CCR Athens Gerani, a city resources reset pilot project commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry for the Environment and shortlisted at The Resourceful Architect international competition in London (Royal Society of Arts, May 2011). She directs the development of POLYPOLIS, a role paying social game on the ‘in common’ administration of the human, natural and physical city resources, which was presented at the British Council’s International Architecture and Design Showcase at the London 2012 Festival. She has been in charge of the Un-built: international programme (SARCHA – Athens Byzantine Museum 2008), Head of the Architecture Network (Athens 2001-2006), Council of Europe expert (2003), exhibition curator Athenscape (RIBA, 2003), Director, Ephemeral Structures in the city of Athens, International Architecture Competition, (Athens 2002-2003), editor of the Athens D.O.E.S. series (2003), national co-ordinator, Archimed best practice EU pilot project (1996-2001). M. Theodorou’s own professional practice includes the design/construction of 18 building projects (2002-1982). Her current research, publications and teaching focuses on architecture and the political. Latest project: DEMOS by SARCHA presented at the London 2013 Festival of Architecture following invitation by the British Council.
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  Prof Stephen Walker

  Professor of Architectural Humanities, University of Manchester

  Prof Stephen Walker

  Professor of Architectural Humanities, University of Manchester

  My work broadly encompasses architectural and critical theory and examines the questions that theoretical projects can raise about particular moments of architectural and artistic practice. A developing methodology has brought together aspects of theory with a broad range of practical work including Mediaeval Breton architecture, ring-roads and the work of contemporary artists. In particular, I have worked on the artists Gordon Matta-Clark and Helen Chadwick, about whom I have spoken and published extensively.  More recently,  I have been developing a project on the architecture of travelling street fairs and fairgrounds.
  
  I was a founder member of The Agency Research Centre, School of Architecture (2009), and have been writing and editing various articles and collections as part of this group. I’m a member of the AHRC peer review college, and an editor for Field journal. I’m also on the editorial steering group for Architecture & Culture: the Journal of the AHRA (Bloomsbury), and am a reviewer for the Architectural Press, Ashgate Publishers, Blackwell Publishers, Architectural Theory Review, Architectural Research Quarterly, The Journal of Architecture, and the Nordic Journal of Architecture.