Architect and Academic, teaching, designing and practicing. Course Leader for the professionally accredited postgraduate ARB/RIBA, external examining, ARB independent examiner RIBA Presidents Medals Professional Courses. In practice and research working with choreographer/artist/composer etc and a series of practice collaborators through Moving Architecture.
MA Course Leader for M.Arch. (ARB RIBA Part 2) in focusing on architecture and performativity at AUB, Arts University Bournemouth. Educated at Bristol, Cambridge, Princeton and Columbia Universities and has taught at Bath Birmingham and Greenwich Universities. As a director and architect at Moving Architecture he has developed performance pieces and buildings in the UK, China, US and across Europe. His Greyfriars Surgery Project, in Hereford has been exhibited at the Royal Academy and won an AJ small projects award. He has a number of publications and articles on architecture and the humanities. He has written and reviewed for Building Design, Architects Journal, Architectural Design and the Guardian newspaper.
Director Moving Architecture projects included performance and building projects from a series of residential projects across north London from Hampstead to Hackney as well as a prize winning doctors surgery at Greyfriars on the city wall in Hereford and competitions and performances from Spain to China. Previous practice 1982-1990 – Diller + Scofidio Architects, New York; 1990-1991, Raoul Bunschoten, London; 1990 – Assisted on ‘Skin of the Earth’ Project for House of Architect’s, Moscow. – Julian Harrap Architects, London E8; 1989-1990 – Specialist restoration practice. Hugh Cullum & Nightingale Architects, London; 1989 – – DEGW Architects, London; 1987-1989 -MacCormac, Jamieson and Prichard, London E1; 1985-1986 – Form Structures, King St., Bristol; 1985 Teaching: Programme Leader & Principal Lecturer, School of Architecture, Design & Construction, Greenwich University. 1998- 2012 Principal Lecturer from 2007. Programme Leader for Diploma Architecture since 2007. Responsible for running, admissions and management of the programme. Course coordinator for design courses. Teaching focused through Diploma and Research Unit 11 – Thinkers and Makers – Gateway Games. Students achieving many prizes such as RIBA Serjeant Drawing Prize, BD Top Ten Students & 3D Reid Architecture Prizes plus RIBA Presidents medals commendations. Previously Programme Leader for Degree Architecture 2002-5, Developed emphasis on part-time students crossing with full-time and integration of technology with design. RIBA Visiting Board Co-ordinator 2012. UCE Birmingham School of Architecture, 1991-8, Lecturer. Visiting tutor at Bath School of Architecture during this time. External Examining, Independent Examiner for Architects Registration Board (ARB), Part 1 and Part 2 2005-2012, Oxford Brookes University School of Arch BA Hons 2003-7, UCE Birmingham BIAD School of 3D Design and Interior Design 2002-6. Visiting Fellow Princeton University / Visiting Scholar – Columbia University, Received Fulbright Scholarship in 1990-1 to research architecture and movement performance project (more below). Visiting Critic/Lecturer & Workshops: Alvar Aalto Symposium, Finland; Shenyang Architecture University, China; La Villette School of Architecture Paris; Konstanz School of Architecture, Germany; Columbia University, New York; Princeton University, New Jersey, Sarah Lawrence College New York; New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture; New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture; Bath University School of Architecture; Canterbury School of Architecture, Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Bath University School of Architecture; Oxford Brookes University School of Architecture; Newcastle University School of Architecture; Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Aberdeen.