Concerns 2014-15, Birmingham School of Architecture Annual Review by Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

Concerns Birmingham School of Architecture

Annual Review 2014-15

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Birmingham School of Architecture

Annual Review 2014-15

Cover art: Joanne Yu, MArch Architecture

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Gurav Janey BA (Hons) Architecture Year 3

Contents

Introduction

BA (Hons) Architecture (RIBA Part I)

MArch Architecture (RIBA Part II)

PgDip Architectural Practice (RIBA Part III)

MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design

PgDip / MA Conservation of the Historic Environment

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GradDip / PgDip / MA Landscape Architecture

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Co.LAB (live projects)

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Birmingham Student Architecture Society (BSAS)

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Tutors / Critics / Speakers / Practices

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Acknowledgements

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BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

Welcome to Concerns 2014-15, Birmingham School of Architecture’s Annual Review which celebrates the work of the School during this academic year.

All of our programmes continue to go from strength to strength and I’m sure that you will see even greater confidence in the student work as well as an overriding sense of the School being very clear about its philosophy, direction, and ethos. The students are increasingly embracing both traditional and contemporary (model) making as part of the design process and I for one love the fact that you can hardly move for models in the studios! At the start of this academic year, our former Faculty, BIAD, merged with the Faculty of Performance, Media and English to become the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media. The new Faculty has 9 Schools as varied as Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham School of Acting, and the School of English, and we look forward to exciting collaborations as the Faculty matures.

This year we were joined by a whole host of new staff. Both of our BA courses have new Programme Directors, Victoria Farrow for BA Architecture, and Lucas Hughes for BA Landscape Architecture, whilst Matt Lucas and Chris Maloney joined us as studio tutors, and Tom Tebby was appointed onto an Academic contract from his previous role as a Technical Demonstrator. Finally, Harriet Devlin MBE joined our team to launch our new MA Conservation of the Historic Environment course. I’m delighted to say that all of our new colleagues are already making their influence felt in the School. This year also saw the validation of our BA Landscape Architecture franchise course with SHAPE in Hong Kong, with a similar arrangement in Wuhan, China following suit. Our BA Architecture course was re-validated, receiving an incredible 9 commendations for

Parkside Building and Curzon Building, City Centre Campus, Birmingham City University

good practice, cementing the School’s of place at the forefront of contemporary Learning and Teaching strategies within the University.

It was announced that the disciplines of Interior Design, Product Design, Design Management, and Design and Visualisation would join the School to create the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design from 1st August 2015. We look forward to an exciting future in the new School, and the inevitable collaborations

As you can see, it’s been as busy a year as ever and I’d personally like to thank all of our staff and students for their hard work and contributions to help make the School continue to be the exciting environment that it is. Finally, I would like to thank those people, practices, businesses, and organisations for their continued and generous support this year and for making it the regional centre for Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a key part of those professional and social communities.

Thank you. Professor Kevin W Singh RIBA SBID FRSA Head of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

Following the success of last year’s work placement scheme for our 2nd year Architecture students we were supported by even more practices this year resulting in some 55 students being placed. A testament to the scheme is that a number of the current 3rd year students have found Year Out positions with the practices they did their placement with last year.

and overlaps between the disciplines.

ARCHITE Alex Billingham MArch Architecture

ECTURE 7

BA (Hons) Architecture Programme Introduction

Looking ahead to the course revalidation in May 2015, we began the new academic year with mobilising agendas and clear themes for Year 1, 2 and 3: Principles - Process - Exploration. Year 1 allowed new students to gently embark on their journey into architectural education by learning and discovering itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basic principles. The first year students have completed many exciting projects and continued to explore new design and communication techniques through their designs, which grew in complexity as they advanced through the exercises. Building skills in hand drawing, sketching, orthographics, model making, CAD in 2 and 3 dimensions, nurbs modelling and rendering, first-year students enjoyed gathering a range of different presentation and representation techniques to gain confidence in communicating ideas.

Documenting this journey together with their design development process online via blogs provided the group a good foundation for portfolios. Projects were linked appropriately to technology and cultural context modules. This pattern repeats itself at Year 2 and Year 3 where students are encouraged to feel confident having already practised similar ways of working in the previous years. As each student moved steadily through each stage of their course, previously established ideals are reinforced and stretched. With new confidences, Year 2 students embraced the architectural design process. Students were exposed to real life practice scenarios, which were enriched by time spent in work placements and modules such as CoLAB, which provided a vehicle for collaboration and experimentation. As a lively and active part of the programme, the cohort gained better

Bonnie Carswell BA (Hons) Architecture Year 3

understanding of their place within the world of architecture. Working with engineering students from the University of Birmingham alongside design studio projects which required consideration of environmental design, communities, urban space and the public realm, the programme created a solid stepping stone towards Year 3.

Victoria Farrow BArch DipArch MArch, ARB Programme Director BA (Hons) Architecture

In the final year, the programme requires more independence from students. The suite of modules including cultural context, technology and design studio, allowed students to discover their own values, set agendas and put forward more complex design proposals both conceptually and technically. Three design studio units encouraged exploration and the production of architectural schemes which have been detailed to an appropriate level for third year students. Preparing the cohort

further for professional practice following their experiences in Year 2, Year 3 promoted creative thinking, further confidence and constructed an environment for decision making.

Year group 1:200 site model, Warley Woods, West Midlands

BA (Hons) Architecture RIBA Part I Year 1

Design Studio 1

Victoria Farrow Tom Tebby Julie Fitzpatrick Jemma Browne Yusuf Adams

The first studio module began with an introduction to precedent study to explore one of the many principles of architectural education. Continuing in this theme, the students then engaged with a number of different group and individual projects involving the exploration of ergonomics and anthropometrics in Project 2 with the design of a chair and basic spatial planning, relationship to client and site context in Project 3. This module was intended to be a building block to assist the students to learn skills in hand drawing, presentation, model making and orthographics as a foundation to architectural design, communication and representation. Fun and playful exercises enabled the cohort to be experimental whilst developing key skills for Design Studio 2.

BA (Hons) Architecture

Tutors

Design Studio 2

Further advancing web skills and strongly encouraging the documentation of the design development process, the students continued to build a record of their architectural experiences online with blogs in Project 4. Having already gained basic skills in projects 1-3, this project required the learner to discover form making, timber structures and nurbs modelling in Rhino. Gently building CAD skills in both 2 and 3 dimensions and linking through to technology modules, Project 4 enabled the students to gather more confidence when expressing and communicating ideas. This was followed by an introduction to three sites in the Jewellery Quarter.

Project 5 began with site surveys, basic mapping exercises and a more complex client brief to reinforce the principles of Project 3. Working on an urban site in context to design a small live/work unit, Project 5 linked design and technology by encouraging students to work with brick, stone and concrete. Skills in video making Vectorworks and Cinema 4d are gathered in the latter projects of this module to provide a rich suite of graphical and communication techniques.

The year concluded with Project 6, a natural site, rich in topography. A group model making exercise initiates the programme of the design for an environmental education centre with residential accommodation.

Charlotte Arnold

BA (Hons) Architecture

Roxana Cislariu

Year 1 group photo

Precedent Study/ Group Project - Daniel Hopson, Natasha Grapes, Rasna Mal & Chido Mawoneke

BA (Hons) Architecture

Tom Willington

Simon May

PRELIMINARY SITE ANALYSIS

BA (Hons) Architecture

Chloe Dent

Abdul Azeem

BA (Hons) Architecture

Daniel Hopson

Tom Willington

BA (Hons) Architecture

Mozakir Ali

Liam Schulz

Charlotte Arnold

BA (Hons) Architecture

Roxana Cislariu

Jeevan Kalsi

BA (Hons) Architecture RIBA Part I Year 2

Process

Hannah Vowles Ian Shepherd Christopher Maloney Olive White Jim Low

Design Studio 1 Year 2 began with a series of exercises, which drew from skills learned in previous projects in Year 1. Students were tasked with producing precedent studies and were required to use existing knowledge to furnish small design projects, such as a Belvedere. Gradually building in scale, the design enquiry culminated with the proposal for a university library of 400,000 books in Birmingham. Maintaining close connection to local context enabled the programme to maintain emphasis on the city, planning legislation and community, which continues the link to the process of processional practice.

BA (Hons) Architecture

Tutors

Design Studio 2

The second design module for the year began to explore a more direct connection to the notion of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Through the design of live/work accommodation, the project made reference to knowledge collected at the end of Year 1, yet built in complexity, requiring the design of 16 apartments with family and single occupant provision. Creative construction and environmental design are key considerations, which linked through the studies in technology. This module assisted students in the lead up to Year 3 and the challenges that will be faced in their final year.

Study visit A variety of different locations were visited by the students this year. Ranging from UK destinations to European destinations, including Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Budapest. The visits provided a rich itinerary to assist the investigations into contemporary housing design and supported Design Studio 2 module through live visits to real precedent studies. Work Placement

The course provides the extraordinary benefit of an integrated work placement in Year 2. All students took part in this exercise, which provided the opportunity to engage in a two week work placement in practices in the West Midlands and London. Many students secured paid employment over the summer and in the past have continued to work in these practices for year-long placements.

Erasmus Exchange 2014-15 saw the successful continuation of student exchange between Umea University School of Architecture and the School; three of our 2nd year students travelled to Sweden in January for the semester. The Erasmus programme is an exciting opportunity provided to our students, which helps some become well rounded and enriched individuals. BA (Hons) Architecture

Sarah Ives

William Haynes

Maham Tahir

BA (Hons) Architecture

Nurul Amalin Mahadon

BA (Hons) Architecture

Wadzanai Mhuka

Alexandru Marangoci

BA (Hons) Architecture

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BA (Hons) Architecture

Ashley Li Chien Ooi

Sarah Ives

BA (Hons) Architecture Latticia Morapedi

BA (Hons) Architecture

William Radburn-Todd

Joseph Bowman

BA (Hons) Architecture RIBA Part I Year 3

Copy Culture Alessandro Columbano Rebecca Walker Nowtopia Matt Lucas Julie Widowson Outside-In Anna Parker Paul Wakelam Experiment Cities Tom O’Donnell Tim Richardson Part Time 4 Andy Hilton Barbora Bott

Year 3 Design Studio is divided into five distinct Studio groups led by a tutor with support from technology tutors and visiting critics. Each studio responded to an overarching metatheme of mobility and infrastructure. All Studio projects were tested against the impending HS2 line that will dissect Birmingham and Warwickshire’s eastern corridor. Students began with conceptual site explorations that respond to a common statement:

BA (Hons) Architecture

Studios and Tutors

‘Consider, investigate and respond to the [existing and proposed] Civic Infrastructures across the Blythe Valley as an integrated composition of industrial, post-industrial, cultural, service, residual and ecological landscapes whilst it undergoes significant change around new social conditions, networks, connectivity, technologies and urban expansion.’

They then developed a small scale intervention which subsequently informed their major project – a cross programmed HS2 Ltd. Regional Headquarters with a local innovation/ incubation centre.

Callum Campbell

BA (Hons) Architecture

Saffa Dehghani

Vanessa Alexandra Guimaraes Joaquim

AUGMENTED REALITIES:

BA (Hons) Architecture

_TRANSIENT SPACE

_PEDESTRIAN

_CAR-DRIVER

_TRAIN PASSENGER

Dagmar Heiman

PRECEDENT STUDY #1 // LONDON ORBITAL

Cultural

Landscape

Infrastructure

Industry

Human

Residential

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Joseph Bowman

INCIDENTAL CINEMA // NETWORK PRODUCTION SEQUENCE

BA (Hons) Architecture

Joseph Bowman

Laura -Elena Nicula

Lucy Dunn

BA (Hons) Architecture

Obinna Williams

Anila Safeer

BA (Hons) Architecture Frances Chappelow

53 Myles Sharples

BA (Hons) Architecture

Sukhvir Singh Lall

BA (Hons) Architecture

Bonnie Carswell

Lysianna Coudray

BA (Hons) Architecture

Poppy Palmer

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1:1 Construction

Matt Evans

Vitalijus Duk

BA (Hons) Architecture

Jac Doody

Ross Hetherington

MArch Architecture RIBA Part II Year 5/6

Studio Plastic Rob Annable, Axis Design Mike Dring, Birmingham School of Architecture and Design (BSoAD) Rav Kumar, Associated Architects – Teaching Practice Tutor Mark Barry, Architype – Technology Integration Paul Graham, Raven – Guest Critic Studio 3 Holly Galbraith, Níall McLaughlin Architects Prof Christian Frost, BSoAD Gavin Orton, Bryant Priest Newman Architects – Teaching Practice Tutor Mike Driver – Technology Integration Tutor Paul Kittle, Partner at FlowerKittle Architects – Guest Critic Rod Heyes, Director at Caruso St John Architects – Guest Critic Luke Nagle, alumni of Studio 3 – Guest Critic

Studio Fable Alexis Germanos, 3X Architecture Patrick Lewis, Patrick Lewis Architects Neil Rose, Broadway Malyan – Teaching Practice Nic Howett, Jonathan Tuckey Design – Technology Integration Tutor / Guest Critic

The programme is ambitious and outward facing, exploring and constructing innovative modes of architectural education and practice including the ‘Teaching Practice’ and ‘CO.LAB Collaborative Practice’ initiatives, developing professional, creative and technically able graduates, resulting in a confident, highly motivated student community. Led by an experienced and committed tutor team, four cross-level studios allow students to select from multiple theoretical, contextual and methodological trajectories that build on the School’s diverse research hubs. The work presented here is a glimpse into the innovative and original work of our MArch students.

Studio Scarcity Eduardo McIntosh, Populous Matt Lucas, Lucas Architecture & BSoAD Sophie Hamer, Glenn Howells Architects – Teaching Practice Tutor Henry Morris – Technology Integration Tutor / Guest Critic

Welcome to the MArch (RIBA Part II) at Birmingham School of Architecture, a progressive Master’s level programme within one of the UK’s foremost creative academic institutions, located in new, multidisciplinary studio and workshop spaces in Birmingham’s Eastside.

MArch Architecture

MArch Studios and Tutors

STUDIO PLASTIC

With the reduction of Welfare State Funding and rise of neo-liberal politics, the postindustrial city of the global north is an unstable platform, subject to oscillating forces of private enterprise and civic action and reaction. In this context the strategic, tactical and operational role of architecture and urbanism is given greater impetus as a civic act, while simultaneously expanding historically defined job descriptions to encompass new modes of analysis, synthesis and production.

The Architecture/Machine dialectic, as defined by Negroponte in 1969, has arrived and continues to evolve with the advent of new amateur and professional tools and techniques. The interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction has led to an emergent transformation in the expression of architecture where data and material, programming and construction are interwoven (Gramazio & Kohler, 2008). With this in mind, Studio Plastic: 1. Considered a strategy for the future of architecture practice in the landscape of the global Anthropocene 2. Explored the tactical deployment of buildings in the ‘dark matter’ of a region’s infrastructure 3. Created procedures to turn our local actions into form with the help of machines

In order to: 1. Campaign for an architecture forged from global politics for the civic good (because we need to believe in the profession’s civic duty) 2. Consider the role of the architect against a recent history of reduced authority (because we need new skills to create future practice opportunities) 3. Experiment with alternative production techniques using new digital technology (because the opportunities in digital design and craftsmanship are immense) As an extension of Latours ‘Actor Network Theory’ our non-human actors were Digbeth in Birmingham and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In Birmingham, students developed proposals for the live brief for the Birmingham Production Space, a national centre for the production of art and design where thinking through making is made public, where audiences engage at the point of production and creative exploration rather than the final point of presentation. Rotterdam became the site for a strategic, tactical and/or operational exploration of the Anthropocentric city.

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MArch Architecture

Keith Nye

MArch Architecture

John Burton

STUDIO FABLE

Studio Fable believe in magical structures that exist throughout the world in stone and timber and in legend and method. We believe that learning to design is about instilling a confidence that magic still exists. Our students are encouraged to find their way into these fictional worlds: once inside they must learn to return and describe their journey through rigorous drawing and bold making. Fable is about translating these ideas back into a real architecture of quality and delight.

In Fable, knowledge, observation and understanding of context and building is imbued with literature, myth, character, science, history and fiction to encourage a critical design debate about issues of cultural sustainability and sociopolitical agendas. In the tradition of the dĂŠrive, thesis students embarked on psychogeographical and psychoanalytical wanderings across central Vienna. Retracing the footsteps of Freudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fabled walks along the Ringstrasse, students created their own fables as they searched to uncover the hidden desires, anxieties, phobias, obsessions and complexes of our own atomised, technologised 21st century city societies. As the economic, political, and social schism between London and the rest of the UK continues grow (it could be argued that London has more in common with New York

or Shanghai than Birmingham or Manchester) the studio imagined a Birmingham that asserts itself as a more independent, autonomous political and economical centre to become a counterweight to Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national dominance. In doing so students considered the nature and typology of the architectures that emerge from and facilitates this seismic shift towards an autonomous political, cultural and economic identity, through study sites in Birmingham and Vienna.

MArch Architecture

Tom Higginson

MArch Architecture

Nick Joyce

Nur Nuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;man Bin Che Hassan

MArch Architecture

Daniel Jew

STUDIO 3

“Poetic discourse brings to language a preobjective world in which we find ourselves already rooted, but in which we also project our innermost possibilities. We must thus dismantle the reign of objects in order to let be, and allow to be uttered, our primordial belonging to a world which we inhabit, that is to say, which at once precedes us and receives the imprint of our works. In short, we must restore to the fine word invent its twofold sense of both discovery and creation” Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor

destructive as any masterplan), whereas the planners, conscious of their broader responsibilities, offer a more strategic approach, establishing infrastructure projects, creating a masterplan (mostly by public investment).

Like poetic discourse, the invention that we undertake in designing and making architecture requires both discovery and creation. This means that before it is possible to discuss how things should change, as architects it is essential that we develop an ability to clearly articulate how they are, based on what you see, experience, represent and communicate.

Therefore, in line with Paul Ricoeur, Studio 3’s work began by evaluating the current conditions of the Jewellery Quarter, discovering places before developing proposals. Into these discovered situations a building paired with a well-defined public space — such as a street, square or garden — was nurtured out of given ground, with students making proposals for a primary school, a community hall and workshops with studio and living accommodation.

Studio 3 explored sites in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, using Florence as a guide to the making and remaking of civic urban space. The Jewellery Quarter is a place of mixture where workshops and small businesses have lived hand in hand with houses and flats, institutions with restaurants and churches with shops. As the various agencies active in the area have begun to assert their aspirations, conflicting strategies for change have emerged. The local residents would prefer the area to develop slowly, of its own accord, building on the influx of new businesses and residents (individual, private development can be as

Both strategies have strengths and weaknesses, but because both approaches fail to stress ‘discovery’ as much as ‘creativity’ in their ‘reinvention’ processes, the likelihood of further missed opportunities is increasingly likely.

MArch Architecture 79 Studio 3, group model

Alex Billingham

MArch Architecture

Alex Billingham

Large Salon

Ross Hetherington

MArch Architecture

Simon Day

STUDIO SCARCITY

“Perhaps when you cut into the present the future leaks out“ William Burroughs For the last 20 years, the architectural profession has arguably been complicit with the ideology of late capitalism, assuming that the economic forces of growth and expansion are the only means by which society can develop and prosper.

The current economic crisis makes us question whether a future of unlimited growth is not only possible, but taking into account environmental factors, actually advisable. We have reached a moment of crisis – economic, environmental and technological – where we have to make choices about the type of future that we want, but also the type of future we can actually achieve. Scarcity offered a series of alternate voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life and trying to find visions of the future. Students sought to understand the boundaries of ‘architecture’ in its many forms architecture as process, as story, as agent, as building, etc – asking the questions ‘What is our role? What are we here to discover?’ Students explored storytelling / narratives as a means to develop architecture and experience a city through literature / characters / film.

Texts from Ballard, Davies, Jameson and Benjamin formed the basis for the creation of a series of credible and legitimate future scenarios founded in fact and created through tested ideology and theory. Careful decisions and tactics were founded in the delicate excavation of sites in Gravesend and in Athens. Analysis took place at a range of scales – micro and macro, local and global, excavated and constructed – creating a series of delicate and detailed narratives, with characters to inhabit the final set pieces.

MArch Architecture

Dale Hickman

Jay Rajpra

MArch Architecture

Meteorology Hub

Research and Exhibition Zone

Lagoon Activity Zone

y Harnessing and Production Zone

Jasjeet Bassi

Overview of Complete Section 1:100 @ 1089mm x 520mm 65

oanne Yu

MArch Architecture

Joanne Yu

BPN Architects, Birmingham

PgDip Architectural Practice RIBA Part III Year 7

Ian Shepherd Anthony Clerici

This professional practice course can be commenced following 24 months’ relevant practice experience and includes personal reflection, a case study, practice and professional examination and an oral exam.

Invited Speakers Ruth Reed Michael Dunn Keir Hurst John Jacobs Rob Annable Robin Nicholson Bob Pritchard Dan Gibson Basil Sawczuk Lorna Parsons Adrian Dobson Rachel Hobbis Tom Taylor Hans Haenlein Anthony Lavers

The course duration is two years, however, can be completed within 10 months. Enrolment takes place in the autumn andspring of each year.

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Tutors

The course that prepares students for the exams is delivered through a number of two-day modules at the School, spread over several months and leading to the oral exam in either December or June.

This fully accredited course covers the criteria set down by the Architects Registration Board and adopted by the RIBA, giving exemption from the RIBA Part III examination. On completion, successful candidates can register with the ARB entitling them to use the title ‘Architect’. They can also apply for chartered membership of RIBA.

The course aims to provide education in architectural practice that provide skills, knowledge and understanding that are not only for the purposes of professional qualification but that can be taken forward in to practice to form the basis of life-long learning and professional development.

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Ability to identify their future learning needs and the opportunities of specialisation and diversification in their careers.

The Programme Director will provide guidance and support throughout the course.

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Knowledge and support for professional experience to enable students to satisfactorily complete the final examination and join the ARB. Ability to act in a professional manner and in accordance with the codes and standards of the profession. Critical understanding of the requirements of the legal framework for practice, practice management and construction procurement. Ability to identify good practice and excellence and adopt it in their professional life.

Contact ian.shepherd@bcu.ac.uk (Parts II & III) ant.clerici@bcu.ac.uk (Part I)

“I thought the course was a rich learning experience, and every part of it was very useful. I really enjoyed it.“ Kalpesh Patel, Graduated Part III December 2014

PgDip Architectural Practice BPN Architects, Birmingham

Professional Examiners

Our â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Beyond Graduationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; programme provides support for those either working in practice or looking for work including those seeking to develop a career outside of architecture. The programme runs at both post-Part I and Post-Part II levels as a non-credit based course to help support students through their early career choices.

Madeleine Dring - Glancy Nicholls Architects Paul Mulligan - BDP Helen Wootton - Glazzard Architects Ltd John Norfolk - Associated Architects Mary Kelly - Mary Kelly Architect Sue Spackman - Sue Spackman Architect Amanda Harmer - Harmer Fitz Architects Martin Killick - Martin Killick Architect Amanda Jones - Troyka Associates Ltd Bob Ghosh - K4 Architects Paul Hewes - IBI Group Phil Cole - Weedon Architects Sandy Greenhill - Vivid Architects Ltd Satwinder Samra - University of Sheffield Nicola Hopwood - Glenn Howells Architects

The School provides a Professional Studies Advisor (PSA) to guide students through the process as well as careers support, access to library facilities and IT resources. The School has a wide network of contacts to help support students into work.

External Examiner Kathy Gal - Architectural Association

Beyond Graduation

Khan Prigboonchan

MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design

Lubo Jankovic Kevin Singh Ian Shepherd Jim Sloan Visiting Tutors John Christophers Rebecca Walker

This course develops a new type of professional, educated to rise to the challenges of climate change, and to deliver both new and retrofit design for zero carbon buildings or facilitate their procurement and approval. The course unifies design with technical, social and economic aspects of building performance. It is an extension to a career of an architect, whilst engaging with other related disciplines to provide a holistic combination of multidisciplinary skills. Graduates from this course will have a unique set of skills for zero carbon design and retrofit of buildings that will not only enable them to fulfil legislation requirements, but will also make them champions of change from a carbonintensive to a carbon-neutral architecture, and designers for the future world.

MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design

Tutors

Purvesh Bharadwaj

MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design

Rachel Fachini

PgDip & MA Conservation of the Historic Environment

Harriet Devlin MBE

The new postgraduate course in Conservation of the Historic Environment, validated in 2014, has been popular this academic year with 21 new applicants in year 1 of the 2 year part-time degree. This course fits in well with the expanded School, with courses in historic interiors and historic landscapes as well as a strong emphasis on conservation philosophy and understanding the significance of exisiting buildings and their sustainable futures. The course continues to offer Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for architects, surveyors, engineers or homeowners who wish to gain knowledge about the historic environment.

The decay of building stones, metals in buildings and timber as joinery or frame are crucial and students have the opportunity to work with a

One of the important aspects of the course is the number of specialist lecturers used to deliver the workshops as can be seen from the partial list on page 102. Another is the practical nature of the course, with students getting hands on experience and understanding of traditional building materials . The knowledge of lime as a mortar, plaster, render or limewash is the cornerstone of working with pre-1919 buildings and structures, and all students attend sessions at Llanymynech Limeworks in north Shropshire. They try mixing mortars, as well as plastering onto lath and repointing stonework.

PgDip / MA Conservation of the Historic Environment

Course Tutor

banker mason, a timber framer and large scale metal conservators to understand both material defects and the palette of repair techniques. Likewise, ceramic building materials â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tile, terracotta and brick â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are all explained and explored practically. The decay of reinforced concrete is important to the conservation of 20th century structures as are the aesthetics of brutalist architecture. Wallpapers, surface finishes, textiles and carpets are all part of the Historic Interiors course held this year at National Trust property, Wightwick Manor, while a yomp around the park at Hagley Hall showed the discovery of the former designed landscape that is just being restored.

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The sustainability of historic buildings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both financial and environmental - is another important part of the course, and students have been working with Building Preservation Trusts to consider options for both secular buildings and redundant places of worship. They have explored sources of funding to undertake works and suggested strategies for improving thermal performance. In addition an introduction to current conservation philosophies is being delivered to architecture students in the hopes that they will have the knowledge to conserve the historic environment as well as enhancing it with new designs and buildings.

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Visiting Tutors and Specialists The Historic Environment:

Building Defects:

Nick Molyneux - English Heritage Mike Hodder - Archaeologist Conservation philosophy Victoria Bryant - Worcester council Joe Holyoak - Urban designer David Mahoney - PCPT architects Simon Buteux - Birmingham Conservation Trust

Robert Demaus - Demaus building diagnostics Alan Gardner- Conservation surveyor Ian Bapty - Historic England

Conservation Legislation: Mary King - Conservation consultant Peter Frith - Architect Andrew Fuller - Birmingham City Council Tony Herbert - University of Birmingham

Sustainability and Adaptation: Tony Barton - Donald Insall Associates Ltd Philip Belchere - Hook Mason Architects Andrew Mottram - Historic England Edward Holland - Conservation consultant Financing Conservation:

Kathryn Sather - Conservation consultant

The Heritage Lottery Fund Ian Morrison - The Architectural Heritage Fund Urban Splash Elizabeth Perkins - The Association of Preservation Trust

British Buildings:

Project Management and Urban Design:

Professor Geddes - Aberdeen University Dr Jeremy Ashbee - English Heritage Tony Herbert - University of Birmingham Shane Kelleher - Industrial archaeologist

Joe Holyoak - Urban designer Nick Morris - Stowe School Corey Lane - Conservation consultant Tim Ratcliffe - Conservation architect Simon Linford - Linford Developing Heritage

Conservation Plans:

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Heritage and Disaster Management: Steve Emery - Historic England Suzanne Spicer - Manchester Beacon Sarah Hayes - The Coffin Works Tony Berry - The National Trust

Practical Workshops

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1. Lime Tim Ratcliffe - Conservation architect Stuart Preece - Lime Plasterer Simon Ayres - Lime Green , lime supplier 2. Stone Alan Gardner - Conservation surveyor Andrew Arrol - Arrol and Snell Veronika Vlkova - Conservator Brad Steele - Stone mason 3. Metal Paul Belford - Industrial archaeologist Eura Conservation Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust 4. 20th Century Buildings Professor David Chapman - Birmingham City University Henrietta Billings - The Twentieth Century Society Professor Robery â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Concrete Society Tim Lewis - Heritage consultant Alan Clawley - Library of Birmingham David Platts - BPN architects 5. Ceramic building materials Tony Herbert - University of Birmingham Lesley Durbin - Jackfield Conservation Studio Craven Dunnill - Jackfield Conservation Studio Terrence Lee - Conservation bricklayer Andrew Fuller - Walsall Council 6. Timber Treasures of Ludlow Simon Harper - Severn Oak Duncan James - Insight Historic Buildings Research Robert Demaus - Demaus building diagnostics 7. Historic Interiors Sarah Kay - consultant curator Katriona Hughes - Consultant Conservator Dr Ian West - University of Leicester John Wood - National Trust house manager Dr Andrew Bush - The National Trust Laura Stevens - Specialist decorator 8. Estates, Parks and Gardens The Longner Estate Jane Bradney - Garden historian Ryan Taylor - Dudley Council Joe Hawkins - Head of Landscape, Hagley Hall

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Jennifer Berry

BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

CAPE ECTURE

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Evie Davenport

BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

Lucas Hughes Russell Good Mark Cowell Maria Caserio Adam Carthy Sam Roberts Kathryn Moore

As a course accredited by the Landscape Institute we explore vibrant, living environments, curating elemental outdoor experiences consisting of a storyboard of artistry, utility and natural systems. Year One was the foundation for understanding. Students explored the scale and connectivity of landscape architectural ideas including the transformative scope of inspirational design, of reimagining character, experience and function.

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Tutors

Year Two: was an advancement in realism and purpose including achievable design solutions and construction, developing connections between theories and real-world practice.

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Year Three was the culmination of the undergraduate journey. A series of guided but self-directed investigations, the student found their own academic pathway. Via research and design exploration, student groups successfully communicated and produced broad-scale, multi-layered design projects that will inspire in them a desire to ensure a more sustainable human future.

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Visiting Tutors

The programmes continue to respond to global, regional and local challenges with both live and theoretical projects and provide the basis for employment in both the UK and overseas. During recent years we have been welcoming ever increasing numbers of students from across the world who are attracted by the programmes. In 2014, Kathryn Moore PPLI was elected President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), enhancing the programmesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scope and reputation. The international theme has been extended further with Russell Good delivering a workshop on rainwater harvesting at the Cost Action TU1201 Summer School in Zurich which involved 65 students from Africa, Japan, China and many European countries.

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Liz Ackerley Peter Dunlop Sam Roberts Adam Carthy Sandra Costa Peter Dunlop Robert Kitch Paj Valley Graham Woodward Andy Williams David Jarvis Noel Farrer Barry Moore

Our Landscape Architecture programmes emphasise the teaching of design skills, crossing the boundaries between nature and culture, social responsibility and ecological processes, art and science, supported by an extensive range of in-house and visiting staff.

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Birmingham Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture The large and culturally-diverse city of Birmingham provides the locus for many of the issues explored in the programmes. It reflects many of the problems and opportunities that derive from the shift in the role of cities in the 21st century and changing social, cultural, ecological priorities. Urban greenspace, new infrastructure, residential development and leisure facilities are all topics that arise in the course of projects. At the wider, planning scale, projects have dealt with the urban fringe, development in designated landscapes and the conservation and use of resources such as water. Since 2013 the programmes have been housed in the new, purposebuilt Parkside Building, which, as its name suggests, is adjacent to Eastside City Park – the result of an international design competition won by Patel Taylor and an invaluable study resource for landscape students.

The Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture is the first part of the School’s ‘conversion’ programme which offers a route into a career in professional Landscape Architecture for those from a wide range of backgrounds. The programme has continued to explore many of the environmental and conceptual territories that Landscape Architecture covers as well as giving students a solid base in history, culture, planting design and construction. These have been increasingly supplemented by taught sessions in digital media such as AutoCAD and InDesign. PgDip / MA in Landscape Architecture Sustainable Landscape Planning While the city of Birmingham forms the basis for several projects, the programme recognises that the landscape around and between urban settlements is a significant area under pressure and subject to contention regarding agricultural production, biodiversity, residential and retail development, conservation, etc. Such issues and places require spatial landscape planning at a large and comprehensive scale and this project focuses on the landscape and settlements of North Gloucestershire as an exemplar of these problems and opportunities.

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The Design Process Studios The Design Process Studios at postgraduate level are designed to develop artistic practice and critical visual skill; interpretative and transformative studies are given a clear purpose. As students gradually become more aesthetically aware in the studio, well-established myths separating language from emotions and art from intelligence begin to evaporate. Students gain confidence and fluency in the expression of ideas in form and interpreting form through ideas.

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Work and Practice

This public lecture series has continued to feature a range of highly experienced, local, national and international visiting tutors giving students the opportunity to engage with some of the most eminent practitioners and policymakers from across the world. The links with La Villete School of Architecture continue to develop with this collaborative educational exchange now in its third year. The students and staff from La Villete explore the potential of industrial landscape along Birmingham’s canalscape and this is reciprocated with investigations into Parisian city living led by Mark Cowell.

Globally, we have seen an increasing demand for professionally qualified landscape architects. Demand is continuing to grow in the UK in response to an increasing awareness of the significance of the landscape as the cultural, physical and social context of our lives and that the landscape (in a variety of senses) is the context within which the processes of development take place. The Landscape Institute’s own annual employment survey for 2014-15 has indicated virtually zero unemployment for qualified landscape architects.

The Thesis Design Project

Students graduating from the programmes are already working in a range of landscape practices in the UK and overseas, and innovative career programmes have been supported by Atkins Global, now in its second year.

This project aims to enable students to contribute to a growing international debate about ways that Landscape Architects can respond to the challenges of climate change, city development and regeneration, biodiversity, resource management, etc. via innovative responses to spatial design, master planning, regeneration and green infrastructure. The nature of the project allows students to choose from either a given project, typically Birmingham or Kidderminster (useful for overseas students recently arrived in the UK and unfamiliar with the city), or to develop their own project and brief that is consistent with the projects aims.

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During 2014-15, such student-led projects included the landscape of the HS2 route around the eastern urban fringe of Birmingham and the NEC, the M6 corridor around Spaghetti Junction, Milton Keynes, central Wolverhampton and Nottingham.

During 2014-15 students found employment in:

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Co.LAB Live Projects

Alessandro Columbano Mike Dring Jim Sloan Lubo Jankovic Russell Good Matt Lucas Lucas Hughes Christopher Maloney Stuart Whipps (School of Art) Jez Monk-Hawksworth Lakshmi Devi (St.Edmund’s School)

Collaborative Laboratory (Co.LAB) is a crossdisciplinary architecture and design initiative within Birmingham School of Architecture and Design. We focus on live projects where our students and staff engage with real clients, delivering outcomes across a range of scales and formats.

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Co.LAB used the architectural discipline to set a new agenda in collaborative output in urban strategies, architectural design, investigating the built environment and communicating ideology and form alongside the visual arts. Students develop skills in entrepreneurialism, employability and engagement – all through a ongoing process of collaborative design. This year students from both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes participated from: BA (Hons) Architecture

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Wyre Forest Explorations with partner: Kate Darby Architects, Wyre Forest Landscape Partnership Aluminium Tectonics with partner: Ash & Lacy Malvern Outdoor with partner: Malvern Outdoor Elements Modern Gazetteer: Paradise Lost with partner: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Museum Collection Centre Zero Carbon with partner: Birmingham City University Research Heath Town Open Platform with partner: Black Country Make Trends Pavilion with partners: Global Color and Birmingham City University Textile Design Stirchley High Street with partner: Lifford Business Association Design Mentoring with partner: St. Edmund’s RC School

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Stuart Brand, Luke Millard, Elgan Hughes at CELT (Birmingham City University) for their continued support; Charmaine Stint, Jo Birch, Steve Harding, Tom Cahill-Jones, David Wright and David Rees at EIBE (Birmingham City University); Stuart Whipps; An Endless Supply; Matt Dobson and Gursharan (RIBAWM); John Hall and Jean Ensell (Ensell + Hall); Tim Selman (WFLP); Kate Darby, John Iles (St.George’s Guild); Trevor Nock and Nick Pike (Solutions2); Henry Woodlock (Ash & Lacy); Bonnie, Spurge and Rowan in the workshop; Nick Hands and Beverley Nielsen (Malvern Outdoor); Rob Kennedy (MDA Consulting); Jez Monk-Hawksworth (BCM); Lakshmi Devi (St. Edmund’s RC School); Rhiannon Hodgeon (The Concrete Lady); Mohammed Rahouma and Shamil Chauhan (Backpack Studio); Andre Reid (Black Tape Studio).

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How the platform works The platform works through community members entering the platform where they want to develop an idea, skill or talent. This entity is developed through open dialogue between all members of the platform where it can develop and prosper. The community can bring any skill/idea to the table where they can for example develop this or learn a new skill and implement this into the community to create/support development of the community. The ability to tap into the skills and talents of the community enables a strong network to develop where co-designed civic communities are able to facilitate change responsibly where it is needed.

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Birmingham Student Architecture Society (BSAS)

BSAS is a not-for-profit group set up in 2012 by a collective of the School’s students who were looking to further enhance studio culture through the organisation of events such as workshops, lectures and socials. As a student led body, BSAS’s agenda is to bring together undergrads, postgrads and staff, facilitating debate on architecture, design and culture while encouraging social interaction and debate between the various groups of the School and those from the practicing architectural community. In the past BSAS has organised film screenings, guest speakers, first year workshops and social events.

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At the end of a busy year for BSAS, we would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the year’s events and begin to share our experiences and thoughts on why the School’s Architecture Society is becoming an increasingly important part of student life.

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Lecture Series 14/15

Ho Yin Ng – AL_A

This year our primary focus has been establishing an open lecture series partnership with Birmingham Architectural Association. This has seen us host six guest speakers from a range of backgrounds varying from working architects, to writers and academics. As students we felt that supplementing our existing academic programme with speakers chosen by ourselves was an essential part of the society’s role in furthering our exposure to architecture.

Ho-Yin Ng’s talk, ‘Prototyping in Architecture’, was an eye-opening look at the way that he and the studio team at Amanda Levete Architects approach design challenges and opportunities. He is very interested in emerging digital technologies such as computational CAM software and parametric and algorithmic modeling used in all stages of the design process, from form finding and prototyping to the final design resolution and installation. The inclusion of these technologies allows the design process to become enhanced while also resolving the technical application and performance concurrently. This notion came through strongly throughout the innovative designs presented such as the Timber Wave project for London Design Festival at the V&A Museum.

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CJ Lim/Studio 8 Architects – Monday 6th October (Interface, Ibstock, Solus Ceramics) Paul Shepheard – Monday 20th October (Interface, Ibstock, Solus Ceramics) Ho Yin Ng/AL_A – Monday 3rd November (Interface, Ibstock, Solus Ceramics) Harbinder Birdi/Hawkins/Brown – Monday 26th January (Interface, Ibstock, Solus Ceramics) Joe Morris/Duggan Morris Architects – Monday 2nd March (Reynaers) Chris Bryant /Alma-Nac – Monday 23rd March (Interface, Ibstock, Solus Ceramics)

Employing algorithmic modeling as a key piece within the design process lead to the creation of a complex structural and aesthetic strategy, a sweeping filigree curve that swept out from the entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London onto Cromwell Street. It was constructed made from around twenty repeated timber sections, only accomplishable by the use of algorithmic modeling to test structural loads thus making the traditionally expensive double curved surface a much more cost effective installation. The setting of parameters meant that the design could be controlled through a number of iterations, each affected by a number of factors to come up with the final section profiles that could be constructed extremely easily. This process of prototyping in digital and physical forms allowed the design to develop in both realms at a variety of scales. From the structural load analysis digitally to 1:1 elements constructed to show the connections and tectonic assembly of the piece. Compared to the grid-like construction of the Timber

It was a really interesting insight into a mediumlarge London firm that has established itself not only within architecture but also furniture design, applying the lessons learnt within architecture to a smaller scale and vice versa; creating an interesting and unique relationship between the two disciplines.

Acknowledgements Following the talk, a number of third year students in the middle of final year studies made their way to AL_Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office off Caledonian Road, North East London to investigate the relationship between working environment and the projects themselves. A tour of the office was really interesting in how they formulated both architectural and furniture projects into one cohesive studio ethos.

Finally we would like to take this opportunity to thank our supporter, who without this would have not been possible. Firstly, thank you to Mike Duff, president of the BAA for his continued support of BSAS and the CELT department for their funding. Secondly thank you to, Ibstock Brick, Interface, Reynaers Aluminum and Solus for their generous sponsorship.

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Wave, the Spencer Dock Bridge in Dublin, Ireland was another recent project to use similar technologies in a new and innovative way. The double curved bridge is constructed out of precast and insitu concrete to form an undulated surface set to the rippling waves of the canal. To create the swelling texture, blocks of extruded polystyrene were milled to create a mould that concrete could be poured onto while creating structural supports; this to date is the largest application of the material process to create a surface of this size. A truly innovative piece of design only accomplished through use of parametric modeling influenced by the site constraints, material properties and the formâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dictated by the designers, once again using prototypes to form a beautiful use of a completely different material.

A number of prototypes of both arms of the studio were on display, from early Styrofoam seating tests of the DRIFT bench to a number of steel perforation tests that were tested for the cladding at the V&A extension project on site at the moment. An interesting point was the use of hand physical model making within all departments. Originally the preconception was that rapid prototyping and precisely laser cut components would be key in the parametrically driven design models of the office, but it was refreshing to see the use of more traditional methods of card cutting and clay molding to form initial designs. Rather than let the computer algorithmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dictate the design process and therefore the outcome itself, AL_A uses the powerful software packages to enhance the designs already formulated by the team into sophisticated proposals which have a full technical approach with constructability key to the historically complex geometries.

School Staff Prof. Mohsen Aboutorabi Shajdha Anwar Dr. Maria Caserio Ant Clerici Prof. Richard Coles Alessandro Columbano Mark Cowell Harriet Devlin MBE Mike Dring Victoria Farrow Prof. Christian Frost Russell Good Lucas Hughes Prof. Ljubomir Jankovic Matt Lucas Chris Maloney Davinder Mehat Prof. Kathryn Moore Wendy Ross Prof. Kevin Singh Ian Shepherd Jim Sloan Tom Tebby Hannah Vowles

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Visiting Tutors/Specialists Emeritus Prof. Jim Low Emeritus Prof. Derek Cassidy Prof. Richard Snell Julie Fitzpatrick Jemma Browne Yusuf Adams Tom Perks Olive White Anna Parker Andy Hilton Tom Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell Julie Widowson Rebecca Walker Tim Richardson Paul Wakelam Barbora Bott Mike Driver

Henry Morris Nic Howett Mark Barry David Sharpe Alan Budden Eduardo McIntosh Patrick Lewis Alexis Germanos Holly Galbraith Rob Annable Dr. Sandra Costa Liz Ackerley Peter Dunlop Eccles Ng Adam Carthy Sam Roberts Danielle Jeynes Visiting Critics Alastair Ogle Martin Ball Irena Dumitrascu Mark Hughes Maria Law Frazer Bufton William Beecham Joe Harris Guveer Bhachu Chris Marquis Phil Twiss Charlotte Lewis Joan Kerr Ollie Chapman Mike Duff Paul Humphries Peter Croft Matt Vaughn Nicholas Choy Darren Cobb Allan Haines Liz Turner Islah Ali-MacLachlan Hugh Moss James Thomson Nick Cramp

Anthony Chilton Sophie Hamer Ashley Carvalho Neil Rose Nic Howett Simon Pope Gavin Orton Phill Shepherd Rod Heyes Luke Nagle Rav Kumar Paul Graham Raven Tom Cotton Vivek Jnagal David Holland Holly Doron Ruppenthal Paj Valley Graham Woodward Robert Kitch Barry Moore Andy Williams Jeremy Peachey RIBA Part III Invited Speakers Ruth Reed Michael Dunn Keir Hurst John Jacobs Rob Annable Robin Nicholson Bob Pritchard Dan Gibson Basil Sawczuk Lorna Parsons Adrian Dobson Rachel Hobbis Tom Taylor Rob Kennedy Hans Haenlein Anthony Lavers RIBA Part III Professional Examiners Madeleine Dring

Conservation of the Historic Environment Lecturers/ Specialists

Alan Clawley Prof. Peter Robery Lesley Durbin Andy Fuller Terrence Lee Robert Demaus Corey Lane Treasures of Ludlow Duncan James Simon Harper Sarah Kay Catriona Hughes Dr Ian West Laura Stevens Andrew Bush Jane Bradney Ryan Taylor Joe Hawkins Work Placement Practices 3D Reid ADP AHR AJA Architects APEC ArchialNORR Associated Architects AT Architects Axis B+G Architects Baart Harries Newall Baily Garner BDP BM3 Birmingham City Council Broadway Malyan Brophy Riaz Bournville Architects Bryant Preist Newman Chartered Practice Architects Creative2 Architecture Croft Architecture D5 Architects Dalkin Scotton Daniel Hurd Associates

Digi-Lab Mentors Joseph Bowman Stefan Manteanu Nadia Ouhabi Jason Keyles Ellie Rowe Birmingham Student Architecture Society (BSAS) Joseph Bowman Jac Doody Sarah Ives Samantha Evans

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Nick Molyneux Mike Hodder Bruce Induni Victoria Bryant Joe Holyoak David Mahoney Simon Buteux Mary King Peter Frith Dan Roberts Tony Herbert Kathryn Sather Prof. Geddes Dr Jeremy Ashbee Shane Kelleher Tim Ratcliffe Simon Ayres Stuart Preece Alan Gardner Andrew Arroll Veronika Vklova Brad Steele Paul Belford Henrietta Billings Prof. David Chapman David Platts

FCB Studio Glancy Nicholls Architects Glazzards Glenn Howells Architects Hawkins Brown IBLA IDP Jacobs (WCC) Jessop & Cook Joe Holyoak K4 Architects Murphy Philips Pinegar Heywood PCPT Robothams Architects S&P AFL Architects Seymour Harris St Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Associates Studio Spicer Suzanne Barnes Design Partnership The Space* Studio Troyka Associates Tweedale Urban Synthesis Vagdia and Holmes Weedons West Hart

Birmingham Tutors / Critics Student / Speakers Architecture / Practices Society (BSAS)

Paul Mulligan Helen Wootton Mary Kelly Sue Spackman Amanda Harmer Martin Killick Amanda Jones Bob Ghosh Paul Hewes Phil Cole Sandy Greenhill Satwinder Samra John Norfolk Nicola Hopwood Kathy Gal

Acknowledgements

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Thank you to all the following for your contribution this year: Arup for your valuable input in technology; Spurgeon Smith, Rowan Green, Bonnie Hay and Miles Marshall for your help in the Parkside workshops; David Huggins, Michelle Bland and the rest of the Building Service team; Tony Davis and Darren Elliot for all the late night printing; Luke Millard, Elgan Hughes and Prof. Stuart Brand for your continued support at CELT; Jo Birch, Steve Harding, Nayan Patel and Charmaine Stint at EIBE; Allan Haines (Edicct); David and Martin at Ibstock Bricks; Chris Hufford, Nick Gibb and Gary Church at Willmott Dixon; Jayne Higgins at Nest Gallery; Hassan Hemida, Ian Jefferson, Mark Sterling, Rachel Fisher (University of Birmingham), John Nolan (Nolan Associates); Laura Kidd and Tomรกs Garcia (HS2); Gursharan Kaur and Matt Dobson at RIBA West Midlands; Steve Williamson and David Sadler from Ibstock for support of the New York trip; David Turnbull at Cooper Union and Mark Wagner at Brody Davis Bond, New York; WS Atkins, Arups, Capita Symonds, Pegasus Planning Group, Define, FIRA for their support with Landscape Architecture; Mike Duff at Birmingham Architectural Association; Barrie Hall, Frank Brophy and Gavin Orton at BFCAA for the Green Book Awards and Oscar Naddermier.