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 Tahl Kaminer

  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh

  Dr Tahl Kaminer

  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh

  Tahl Kaminer is Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (University of Edinburgh). Previously he was Assistant Professor at the Delft School of Design (TU Delft) and a member of the Urban Asymmetries research group. Tahl completed his PhD at TU Delft in 2008, and received his MSc Architecture Theory and History from the Bartlett in 2003. In 2011, Routledge published his doctoral dissertation as Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation: The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture. He has also co-edited the volumes Houses in Transformation (NAi, 2008), Urban Asymmetries (010, 2011) and Critical Tools (Lettre Voilee, 2012). Tahl is a co-founder of the academic journal Footprint, has been its production editor 2007-12, and co-edited three of its issues: Transdisciplinary (issue 1); Defying the Avant-Garde Logic: Architecture, Populism, and Mass Culture (issue 8), and The Participatory Turn (issue 13, forthcoming).
   
  Tahl’s research has two main tracks. The first focuses on the role of architecture in society. It studies architecture as a discipline and practice, the manner in which architecture is determined by the forces external to it – political economy, ideology, politics, society – and the manner in which it affects them. Questions regarding critique, co-optation, or social transformation in general intertwine with architectural issues such as the status of the building as object and as commodity, or the recent positioning of architecture within the so-called ‘creative industries’.
   
  The second track studies the means of social amelioration via urban transformation. The spatial organisation of the city – the city being a vehicle of capital accumulation (urban development, real-estate speculation) as well as a locus of symbolics of power (symbolic public buildings) and of production (from factories to the creative industries or corporate headquarters) - reflects the organisation of society itself. The research studies the possibilities of altering societal organisation and integration by modifying the spatial order of the city.
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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

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  Richard Blythe
  Professor in Architecture and Dean of Architecture and Design, RMIT University
  
  Marc Boumeester
  Dean of AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art and Design
  
  Paul Carter
  Professor of Urbanism, Architecture & Design, 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
  Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Manchester
  
  Nick Dunn
  Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
  
  Hélène Frichot
  Docent and Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  
  Penelope Haralambidou
  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, University College of London
  
  Sandra Kaji o'Grady
  Head of School and Dean of Architecture, University of Queensland
  
  Tahl Kaminer
  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh
  
  Robert Kirkbride
  Associate Professor of Architecture and Product Design, Parson The New School for Design
  
  Perry Kulper
  Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan
  
  Julieanna Preston
  Professor of Spatial Practice, College of Creative Arts, Massey University
  
  Renée Tobe
  Reader in Architecture, University of East London
  
  Tatjana Schneider
  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sheffield
  
  Marc Schoonderbeek
  Assistant Professor of Architecture, TU Delft
  
  Naomi Stead
  Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Queensland
  
  Maria Theodorou
  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Leeds Beckett University
  
  Stephen Walker
  Reader in Architecture, University of Manchester
  
  Dorian Wiszniewski
  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh
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  Prof Richard Blythe

  Dean of School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University

  Prof Richard Blythe

  Dean of School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University

  Dr Richard Blythe is Professor in Architecture and Dean, Architecture Design at RMIT University, Australia a position he has held since June 2007. In 2010 he led the establishment of the RMIT University Creative Practice Research PhD program in Ghent, Belgium and was the primary author and lead researcher for the 2013 €4M EU Marie Curie ITN grant ADAPT-r. In 2013 Richard led the enlargement of this program to RMIT's Barcelona campus. Richard was a founding director of the architecture practice Terroir and Company Director until 2012 and continues to contribute to the Terroir team. The work of Terroir has been recognized through exhibition and publication nationally and internationally.
  
  Richard served as Chair of the Australian Institute of Architects National Education Committee from 2005-2011 and his most important achievements in that role were: leading the development and adoption of the AIA Research Policy and associated documents; implementing and refining the AIA's Education Medal, now known as the Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize. Richard’s academic passion is creative practice, developing approaches to creative practice research and in building communities of creative practitioner researchers. Richard undertook a Velux visiting professorship in Aarhus, Denmark in 2011.
  
  Prior to taking up his position at RMIT Richard lectured at the University of Tasmania for 14yrs where he served as Deputy Head of the School of Architecture and was the Vice Chancellor’s representative on the Tasmanian Government’s Building and Construction Industries Council. Richard gained a B.EnvDes and B.Arch from the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology and an M.Arch (research) specializing in twentieth century Australian architectural history from the University of Melbourne. Richard received a PhD from RMIT in 2009. During 2000-2001 Richard served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.
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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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  Dr Isabelle Doucet

  Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Manchester

  Dr Isabelle Doucet

  Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Manchester

  Dr. Isabelle Doucet is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Manchester, Manchester School of Architecture and the Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC). Having received her PhD in 2010 from the Delft University of Technology, Architectural Theory, Isabelle's research centres on transformations in architecture’s critical project at the intersections of social critique, politics and aesthetics under the so-called “post-critical” and “post-theoretical” turn. She has studied such transformations through an in-depth analysis of the changes in architectural critique in Brussels 1968-2008 (see for example “Making a city with words: Understanding Brussels through its urban heroes and villains” (City, Culture and Society, 2012; and the forthcoming book publication). She has also explored such transformations in more theoretical-methodological terms such as through the Footprint journal issue on Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice (2009, with K. Cupers) and the edited volume Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production: Towards Hybrid Modes of Inquiry in Architecture and Urbanism(Springer, 2011, with N. Janssens). Her current research focuses on counter-projects as a critical and political tool used in 1970s architectural education and activism (see for example the chapter “Counter-projects and the postmodern user” in Use Matters. An Alternative History of Architecture (K. Cupers, ed. 2013, Routledge).
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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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  Dr Hélène Frichot

  Docent and Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  Dr Hélène Frichot

  Docent and Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  Dr Hélène Frichot is a researcher and teacher in Critical Studies in Architecture, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH, Stockholm. She has co-curated the Architecture Philosophy public lecture series with Esther Anatolitis in Melbourne, Australia since 2005 (http://architecture.testpattern.com.au). Between 2004-2011 she held a continuing academic position (senior lecturer between 2007-2011) in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Her research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy. While her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney, 2004. Hélène’s published research has ranged widely from commentary on the ethico-aesthetics of contemporary digital architecture operating within the new biotechnological paradigm; to the role of emerging participatory and relational practices in the arts, including critical, creative, and feminist spatial practices; to a consideration of the ethics of immanence amid contemporary atmospheres of affect across the three ecological registers of subjectivity, sociality, and the environment. She considers architecture-writing to be her mode of experimental practice. A selection of recent publications include: “On Finding Oneself Spinozist: Refuge, Beatitude and the Any-Space-Whatever”, in Charles J. Stivale, Eugene W. Holland, Daniel W. Smith eds., Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (Continuum Press, 2009); ‘The Forgetting of the Ethics of Immanence’, in Architectural Theory Review, Emergence and Architecture, special issue, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2012; “Drawing, Thinking, Doing: From Diagram Work to the Superfold” in ACCESS, 30 (2011); “What can we learn form the Bubble Man and his Atmospheric Ecologies” in IDEA: Interior Ecologies (2011), “Following Hélène Cixous’s Steps Towards a Writing Architecture” Architecture Theory Review, 15:3 (2010). Hélène is an editor of Deleuze and Architecture, EUP, 2013, and is currently working on the book project Deleuze and the City with Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger. For further publications see helenejuliafrichot.net. For teaching blogs see archandphil.wordpress.com; philosophiesresarc.net
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  Dr Penelope Haralambidou

  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  Dr Penelope Haralambidou

  Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  
  
  Dr Penelope Haralambidou is a Senior Lecturer at 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

  Head of School and Dean of Architecture, University of Queensland

  Prof Sandra Kaji-O' Grady

  Head of School and Dean 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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  Prof Perry Kulper

  Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan

  Prof Perry Kulper

  Associate 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 an Associate 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 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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  Dr Tatjana Schneider

  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sheffield

  Dr Tatjana Schneider

  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sheffield

  My work is concerned with the social and economic mechanisms behind the production of the space. I am interested in an understanding of architecture as a collaborative, empowering and essentially political discipline. This focus takes various expressions: sometimes, it is formulated either visually or in written form as critique against normative intellectual and pedagogical tendencies; in other instances, it is expressed through direct spatial interventions. Occasionally, it takes activist dimensions.
  
  Together with other members of the workers cooperative G.L.A.S., of which I was a co-founder, I explored and developed strategies for spatial interventions and frameworks for a critical praxis. Probing the assumptions on which design decisions are normally made, G.L.A.S. worked with community groups, associations and individuals on socio-spatial alternatives to top-down decisions that had simply been dropped on neighbourhoods.
  
  Whilst G.L.A.S. actively drew on alternative histories of the production of space, it was the AHRC funded project ‘Alternative Architectural Praxis’ (2006-2010 with Jeremy Till), that further contextualised the importance of working in ways that challenged hierarchical, solely economical and service-driven operations of architecture. Talking about ‘alternatives’ in this context, however, marginalised the powerful and inspirational examples of spatial praxis that we had begun to collect. From this dissatisfaction and the desire to devise a vigorously propositional term, we coined the concept of ‘spatial agency’ to describe a form of praxis that is ethical as much as it is socially transformative; a praxis that is motivated by ecological, political, pedagogical, and professional agendas in order to explicitly address unjust development, inequality, and exploitation.
  
  Taking the consequences of the concept of spatial agency seriously has huge implications for pedagogy as well as on (spatial) practice itself, and much of my writing, teaching and working in recent years, both inside and outside of academia, deals with this and continues to push the boundaries towards the implementation of a more radical, but essentially social, 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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  Dr Naomi Stead

  Associate Professor in Architecture, University of Queensland

  Dr Naomi Stead

  Associate Professor in Architecture, University of Queensland

  Dr Naomi Stead is a senior research fellow in Research Centre ATCH (Architecture | Theory | Criticism | History) in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. 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, Leeds Beckett University

  Dr Maria Theodorou

  Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Leeds Beckett 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 the Leeds School of Architecture, Leeds Metropolitan University UK 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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  Dr Stephen Walker

  Reader in Architecture, University of Manchester

  Dr Stephen Walker

  Reader in Architecture, 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.