TEACHING

Since joining University of Edinburgh in 1996, I have taught at various UG and PG levels and on every level of the professionally accredited Architecture programmes. Research interests, which directly correspond to taught courses, concern design practice as excited by the languages of theoretical critique.

I have taught in the  Master of Architecture Degree Programme for over 10 years with some notable successes: e.g. The Company of Dancers (a practice formed by students and myself [as team leader] in the M Arch programme The Grand Ball of Tectonics, 2001) won first prize in the USA Institute XVth International Competition for The Masques of the City, Brooklyn Heights River Promenade, New York; Nigel Peake was runner up in the President's Medals for his project The Galata Bridge Bazaar, coming out of the M Arch programme Borderlands in Istanbul 2004-5; Matthew Murphy won first prize in the Archiprix Urban Design Award for World's Best Graduation Project, 2009, for his project on Shanghai Metropolitan Markets in the M Arch Programme, Borderlands in Shanghai.

In addition to postgraduate studio teaching, I am also Course Organiser for Architectural Theory.

Current postgraduate studio:

Sardinia: Architecture, Landscape and Ecology

MArch 2011-2013

MSc AUD 2011-2012

Past studio

MSc Advanced Architectural Design 2005 Shanghai: Borderlands

M.Arch 2005-2007  Shanghai: Borderlands

M.Arch 2008-2010  Florence: Curating the City