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TEACHING

 

Central to Chris’ research interests are design-research and design-practice, both as the subjects and means of study. Chris’ studio teaching extends these interests. Chris has taught architectural design studios and theory courses at the University of Edinburgh since 2009, across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He is currently leader of an MArch studio entitled City Fragments: Palermo Institutions.

 

 

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO

 

City Fragments: Palermo Institutions. MArch, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Unit Leader with Dr Maria Mitsoula, 2018-19.

 

New Lands II: Donkey Trails and Florentine Irises. Architecture and Urban Design Summer School. Course organiser with Dr Maria Mitsoula, 2018.

 

PARA-Sites, Parapluies-Parasols: Tectonics as Landscape, Landscape as Tectonics. MA Hons, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Unit leader with Dr Maria Mitsoula, 2018.

 

PARA-Situation [Kolkata]. MArch and MSc Architectural Urban Design, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Tutor (Course Organiser: Dr Dorian Wiszniewski), 2017-18.

 

New Lands I: Donkey Trails and Florentine Irises. Architecture and Urban Design Summer School, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Course organiser with Dr Maria Mitsoula, 2017.

 

PARA-Situation [Kolkata]. MSc Architectural Urban Design, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Tutor (Course Organiser: Dr Dorian Wiszniewski), 2016-17.

 

PARA-Situation [Bari]: Baresi Blades and Captains Villages. MSc Architectural Urban Design, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Course organiser with Kevin Adams, 2015-16.

 

Loose-Fit Urban Territories. Stage 3, Architecture (BA), Newcastle University. Unit leader with Dr Katerina Antonopoulou, 2014-15.

 

The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape: PARA-Situation [Mumbai]. MArch and MSc Architectural Urban Design, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Tutor (Course Organiser: Dr Dorian Wiszniewski), 2013-15.

 

The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape: PARA-Situation [Olbia]. MArch and MSc Architectural Urban Design, ESALA, University of Edinburgh. Tutor (Course Organiser: Dr Dorian Wiszniewski), 2012-13.

 

 

SEMINAR COURSES

 

Readings in Contemporary Architectural Theory: Writing on the City. Seminar course developed for the MSc Architectural and Urban Design with Dr Ella Chmielewska. Course Organiser, 2019.

 

‘Eight Urban Paradigms’. Seminar series developed with Dr Dorian Wiszniewski and Dr Maria Mitsoula for ESALA Architecture and Urban Design Summer School (July 2017 & 2018).

 

Research Skills and Methods: Writing on Water. Seminar course developed for the MSc Architectural and Urban Design with Dr Ella Chmielewska. Course Organiser, 2017.

 

 

WORKSHOPS

 

Pop-Up Urbanism: Palermo-Edinburgh, Palermo. Urban Design workshop organised in collaboration with Associazione Balàd, involving students from the University of Edinburgh and UNIPA (14th – 15th October, 2018).

 

 

STUDENT AWARDS

 

2018. Rosie Milne’s project ‘A Gesture in Green: Newbattle Dance Mills’, completed on the course PARA-Sites, Parapluies-Parasols: Tectonics as Landscape, Landscape as Tectonics, was nominated for the Bronze Medal category of the RIBA Presidents Medal Awards.

 

2015. Marcus Inglis and Marshall Rothnie received a High Commendation for their thesis project ‘Chlorophyllous Urbanism’ in the Silver Medal category of the RIBA Presidents Medal Awards, completed on the programme The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape: PARA-Situation [Mumbai] (Course Organiser: Dr Dorian Wiszniewski). The project was also awarded the Dunbar Naismith Bursary Prize and the LDN Award at the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, and was exhibited at the RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition in 2016.

 

2014. Louisa Butler and Jamie Kinghorn’s thesis project ‘Filo Fragment Fictions’, completed on the course The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape: PARA-Situation [Olbia] (Course Organiser: Dr Dorian Wiszniewski), was exhibited at the RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition in 2014

 

2013. Ryan Hodge and Douglas Wright were awarded the Architecture + Design Scotland Urban Design Award for their project ‘Blue Lunacy: Salt Lines and the Olbian Lamprey’, completed on the course The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape: PARA-Situation [Olbia] (Course Organiser: Dr Dorian Wiszniewski).