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Threshold
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Adaptation
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Luminosity
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Kiln process National Glass Centre
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Foss river flood barrier explained york
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Flow: Fisherman's rest: Bradley
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Hydro: River Response : Taylor
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Flow: Riverfront permeability model: Cutter
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Flow: Density model: Burnett
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Dynamo : Plan: Dynamic market: Broadstock
Design Tutor
BA (Hons), BArch (Hons), Registered Architect
As a practitioner and teacher, the power of architecture to resolve and innovate hinges on a delight in the search for lyrical and informed answers to an evolving series of key environmental questions. Individuals’ lives and stories, as influenced by smart husbandry of shared resources, guides and informs design thinking at every scale.
Year 3 studio design tutor at Sheffield since 2003, formerly teaching in M.Arch and running a year 3 design studio at University of Liverpool. In parallel with teaching, independent architectural practice has continued to deliver a series of built projects starting 5 years after graduating, including a £3m regeneration project in Liverpool delivered in a single-project partnership which received RIBA National award in 1995 (Pickles Martinez Architects) Artistic collaborations followed, and subsequent series of projects have been designed and delivered both within and at the helm of design teams, and in collaborative consultancies. (Pickles Associates, Bauman Lyons) Complementary cultural influences in design and practice have been incorporated from periods designing and building in Vancouver, central USA, and central Italy.
Early regeneration work creating bespoke homes for co-ops and facilitating community groups in Liverpool, was precursor to ongoing commissions for a personal, curious design service, often in historic environments, in which contemporary interventions evolved. Design drivers prioritise phenomenological appreciation, an underpinning holistic and integrated ethic of sustainability, and the crafts of articulating space and forming materials, in an endeavour to anonymously inspire all future users with the gift of their own optimism.
| Teaching Activities |
Year 3 Studio Tutor Hosting one of the parallel projects set within 3rd year studio, students are encouraged to develop their own position within a contextual and thematic framework. The search for lyrical answers to environmental questions drives the teaching, developing students’ skills in placing the design process at the centre of an informed resolution that could shape the future. The briefs are devised as a set of structured and progressive tasks that guide students through complex physical relationships, producing at each stage a piece of work which develops not only the relevance of the themes, but also accumulates over time to give rise to the character, form and material of the architectural proposition. The process begins with immersion in the locality and chosen aspects of the topic, bringing together through physical interaction on site a mode of visualizing and representing the poetic potential of inter-related characteristics. Visits to and studies of precedents kick starts the definition of a personal brief. Some recent themes integrated into Year 3 studio projects: Integrated carbon –neutral landscape strategies: Water – politics, potential, resilience, fear and fun Dynamic Energy Transfer – Thermal and optical Manufacturing – skills transfer, materials and energy Differentiated Climatic Environments Sustainable urban transport strategies: |
| Professional Standing & Distinctions |
Awards RIBA National Award, Pickles Martinez Architects for Blackburne House, Liverpool – Grade II listed 1995 Merseyside Civic Society Award for Conservation, for Blackburne House, Liverpool - Grade II listed 1996 Commendation Guild of Architectural Ironmongers for Blackburne House, Liverpool - Grade II listed 1994/5 Merseyside Civic Society Award nom’n, Pickles Associates Architects – Bluecoat Display Centre - Grade 1 Listed - Liverpool RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Award, design for Bauman Lyons Architects for North Parade, Leeds 2004 Cesar Award Good Hotel Guide Best UK Newcomer– design for Arcline: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool 2004 House of the Year Award, Pickles Associates Architects Individual Homes/Daily Tel- Beresford House, Lipool 1994 RIBA Regional Award – shortlisted, Pickles Associates Architects for Beresford House, Liverpool Completed buildings featured in publications: Liverpool: Pevsner Architectural Guide by Joseph Sharples, Blackburne House and Bluecoat Display Centre Liverpool: City of Architecture, by Quentin Hughes 1999: Blackburne House and Beresford House Liverpool: the First 1000 years, by Arabella McIntyre Flint 2007 Sunday Times, 24.04.05 30 North Parade, for Bauman Lyons Architects Architects Journal, Feb 1995 Blackburne House - Building Study Design Hotels, 2004 Hope Street Hotel, for Basia Chlebik of Archline Artists Newsletter, Bluecoat Display Centre 1998- collaborative design with Artists Definitive Individual Homes, July 1994 Beresford House Daily Telegraph, 1994 Beresford House: article on ‘House of the Year’ Cheshire Life, 1992 House Built Around a Tree: Beresford House Lancashire Life, 1986 Crabwall Manor Hotel Academic , assessor and teaching positions: External Examiner, South Bank University, London 1997-2000 Awards assessor: RIBA NW Regional Awards assessment panel 1996 Studio Design Tutor, B.A. and B.Arch 1987 - 1995 (part time), University of Liverpool School of Architecture Visiting critic /design tutor at University of Washington, Seattle USA 1988 Initiated/set up Access into Architecture course for Women – University of Liverpool. 1992 Set up careers Workshops for students and schoolchildren: Liverpool 1990 BBC: Radio and TV discussions on architecture and - Woman’s Hour: Blackburne House 1996 informed by experience working in NW USA and Italy. |