MORE2018

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2018

MORE 2018

ISBN: 978-0-9955893-5-3 Cover image Hiba Alsafi Designed & produced Clare Hamman First published September 2018 Printed London Š University of Westminster

Contents

Introduction

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MA Architecture Introduction Theses

Introduction

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MA Interior Design Introduction Theses

Theses

Theses

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Introduction Theses

MA Tourism Introduction Theses

Fabrication Laboratory

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Introduction

Research Examples Architecutral Research Forum PhD

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Department of Architecture Staff Practice Links 2018 Sponsors

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Research

Books & Articles

MSc Air Transport Planning & Management Introduction

Latitudes

Architecture, Planning and Tourism Research groups

MA International Planning & Sustainable Development

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Beyond the Studio

Ambika P3

MA Urban Design Introduction

Theses

RIBA Part 3

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MSc Transport Planning & Management Introduction

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MSc Architecture & Environmental Design Introduction

MSc Logistics & Supply Chain Management

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MORE2018 IS THE first exhibition of the new Westminster School of Architecture + Cities.

Building on the legacies of the Department of Architecture and the Department of Planning & Transport, the School looks to create a future in which our designed environment is seamless with our natural environment – and as inventive, resilient, and beautiful.

This is an appropriate time to create a crossdisciplinary School. This year’s undergraduate intake to the School will largely have been born in 2000, and will be genuinely 21st century citizens, with no time for the beguiling ‘certainties’ that constrained and damaged so much 20th century thinking and professional practice.

The School’s academic endeavour is framed by a distinctive triangulation of teaching, research and practice that enables working creatively with the ambiguities and complexities of the world. Within this, the School has five binding themes that position it as pathfinder for best – sustainable – practice: Strategic Design; Place-making; Mobilities; Making & Fabrication; and Professional Engagement.

Working at scales from individual interiors to entire territories, the School is dedicated to encouraging synergies between different disciplines through collaborative projects, and brings together some

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1,100-students, and 110 full- and part-time staff (with another 120 part-time Visiting Lecturers from practice – the lifeblood of our pedagogy). Our facilities support our ambitions, with great galleried, day-lit, studios situated on the roof of the Marylebone Campus and the £6-million Westminster Fabrication Laboratory which enables advanced fabrication and prototyping, as well as immersive environmentaltesting.

MORE2018 presents the emerging research work of the School, of which our post-graduate courses, students, and staff form a key part. It complements our OPEN exhibition, which showcases the work of our design courses. MORE reflects the variety of our students and staff who are drawn from diverse backgrounds from across the world. The various research centres shown here focus and support the ongoing endeavours of our staff, while our postgraduate courses offer students an opportunity to develop specialist projects of their own. Mentored by expert staff, and wonderfully supportive peer groups, the students’ work is here to see. I trust you will enjoy it.

Please enjoy the show .

Harry Charrington School of Architecture + Cities

Welcome to MORE 2018

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MASTERS

Masters | MA Architecture

Davide Deriu, Richard Difford ,Nasser Golzari, Jon Goodbun, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Dirk Lellau, Samir Pandya, Yara Sharif, Douglas Spencer, Filip Visnjic Nasser Golzari is a senior lecturer and senior partner of Golzari (NG) Architects. His research and build projects have won a number of awards including RIBA Award for Research 2016, 2014 Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction and Agha Khan Award in 2013. His research and work have been widely published including Architecture & Globlisation in the Persian Gulf.

Filip Visnjic is an architect, curator and a media technologist working at the intersections of art, media and technology. He is an editor-in-chief at CreativeApplications.Net, director at HOLO Magazine and FRAMED*. For the last decade, his central objective has been to facilitate productive conversations that nurture creative intersections and exchanges between practitioners in art, media, design and technology.

Krystallia Kamvasinou is a Senior Lecturer, an architect and a landscape architect and recently completed a Leverhulme Fellowship on ‘Interim Spaces and Creative Use’. She has published widely in academic journals and books on the topic, while the research is documented on a website (interimspacescreativeuse.wordpress.com) and through a short film.

MA Architecture THE ARCHITECTURE MA course offers a unique opportunity to pursue advanced postgraduate study combining a high-level of theoretical investigation combined with innovative design representational methods with critical approaches to contemporary discourses in subjects of design and theory. The programme is both wide ranging and flexible, facilitating alternative modes of study and creative methods in design, research and representations, going beyond the conventions.

through its three designated pathways: Cultural Identity and Globalisation; Digital Media; and History and Theory.

Alternatively, students can also create their own pathway by selecting and combining relevant modules that meet their individual requirements. The range of optional and specialist modules offered allows students to develop their individual learning trajectories through the in-depth study of specific subject areas, involving theoretical components as well as practical applications.

The course team encourages originality, offering a range of options, including the choice of either a written or design-based thesis. The course allows for specialism

Guest Critics: Alessandro Ayuso, Amy Butt, Brad Carroll, Beth Cullen, Dusan Decermic, Mahsa Alami Fariman, François Girardin, Jon Goodbun, Reza Hakiminejad, Maja Jovic, Will McLean, Evangelia Magnisali, Sarah Milne, Mark Parsons, 6

Mirna Pedalo, Angeliki Sakellariou, Shahed Saleem, Yara Sharif, Matthew Stewart, Yuri Suzuki, Heather Topel, Biky Wan, Santiago Rizo Zambrano

MA Architecture | Masters

Hiba AlSafi   City as a Memorial

THIS THESIS AIMS to redefine memorial in the context of Baghdad. The memorial is contrived to commemorate the city along time, not particular to a single event or a historical chapter but tailored around the uniqueness of the city. As Baghdad’s form followed political power systems, its identity became fluid; standing between a highly realistic realm on the ground and a nostalgic mythical one hovering above the roofs of the city, inspired by the Islamic golden age and Arabian nights. In order to capture that fluidity in an adaptive manner, the memorial acts as a tool of continuous documentation of the present, shielding the city from further loss.

The memorial aims to create a balance between a specificallydesigned collective approach and a detailed method; which

celebrates individuality and the input of accident. A selective response, that does not allow for flexibility, can potentially trigger additional trouble in a sectarian vulnerable context.

The memorial is a journey connecting a few anchoring points which capture a sense of fluidity and layered history of Baghdad. On these specific locations, the memorial intervenes allowing users to interact by socialising, reflecting, reading, learning, meeting, etc, on a flexible level responsive to their own positions in the grieving process. On the other hand, the connectors between the main points have a minimal intervention in which users can observe, reflect and mould into the everyday life of Baghdad.

Masters | MA Architecture

Katerina Pavlatova Sensing Light

THIS THESIS EXPLORES light and its physicality with the aim to understand and experience it as a tangible phenomena. Firstly, this research draws from the history of understanding light spiritually, as esoteric practice – where the perception of light is often associated with emotions and abstraction. Second, the thesis focuses on light and its physicality, attempting not only to see the light, but feel it using other senses, as an ephemeral object that can be touched and shaped.

Through the use of 3d modelling, light simulations and computational design, the research relies on both theoretical and practical experiments of touch and vision, natural and artificial light, monitoring and quantification. Four experiments were developed that present a hypothesis that

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light and its qualities can be sensed not only by our sight, but also by touch.

The experiments lead to a final proposal: a space where light can be perceived and captured physically. The key element is natural light, sun light, that is tracked and measured by (1) a grid widespread through the whole layout and (2) light dependant sensors. Sun rays, mapped by LDR sensors and the grid, create an always-changing pattern. This pattern is ‘played’ at night in reverse order, waiting for the sun to rise again and start a new one. Small monitoring devices, scattered through the net, will use air movement connected with the amount of light to bond light patterns with our touch. The final result is a system which acts alone, like an organism with its own circadian rhythms.

MA Architecture | Masters

Nafeesa Shaukath   Conservation of Temple Tanks, Chennai, India

CONSERVATION IS CONCERNED with abandoned buildings or infrastructure known for their heritage, religious and cultural values. The approach to abandoned infrastructure, be it a Victorian bath in the UK or Temple tanks in India, has usually been to either preserve them as they are or restore them back to a particular moment in time without considering other agents of time, use and people.

The dissertation discusses a particular category of infrastructure, the Temple tanks in Chennai, which were once the nucleus of early settlements in South India. The stepped water tank in the temple complex was the centre for religious, cultural and social activities. Water and culture were interrelated as the tanks played an integral part by recharging the ground water and helped in the irrigation of agricultural lands around it.

The impact of modernity, which celebrated the hidden infrastructure of water that flows through the city, also

impaired the physical relationship of people, water and culture. The rapid industrialisation of cities led to the continuously changing urban fabric which in turn led to abandonment of temple tanks in Chennai. Hence the strategy currently proposed by the Government is to restore all the temple tanks with water.

The dissertation poses the argument that a universal approach of restoration cannot be the solution to integrating the decaying pockets into the city. The fast-changing fabric of the city influences the temple tanks, the needs for open spaces are different and require different solutions rather than a similar approach to all Temple tanks. The thesis helps to formulate proposals by using the methodology of ‘types’ to provide a better and more pluralistic approach to conservation.

Masters | MA Architecture

MA Architecture theses 2018

Aliye Sen

Sankalp Bilaskar

Grozdanka Nadjinska

This thesis explores the idea of an energy equilibrium between body, space and environment using sophisticated computational systems that quantify the relationship of energy between the people who use the environment and the environment itself.

Contented Studyo encourages its participants to perform better by providing a relaxed environment derived from analysis of mental and physical elements of comfort, spatial analysis and the requirements of architecture students.

The thesis aims to construct new situations along the river Vardar, Macedonia, through ‘flooding the city’, making fertile soil for a new city fabric and re-programming the main ‘occupied’ buildings to re-join the fragmented parts of the city and re-construct communities again, irrespective of their culture or religion.

Caroline Pembroke

Behshid Noferesti

Zara Khan

This thesis explores the role artistic activities play in major urban cities such as London, and how we can continue to safeguard these today. The study poses the question: What would London feel and look like without the thousands of artists who produce the art we all love to see and consume?

This thesis speculates on how we can design environments that can possess cognitive awareness of its inhabitants and, using surveillance as a design methodology, gives a new sense to artificial entities.

This thesis investigates how the design of a regenerated council estate affects the relationship of different socioeconomic tenants. It focuses on public spaces as a design intervention to bring about an integrated social setup within the regenerated neighbourhood.

Oluwadamilola Odiahi

Jake Boyes

E nergy, Body and Environment – Quantifying and Unifying

upporting a Future for London’s Fine Artist S Population

Wearables for Body/Space/Environment – Technology as a ‘New’ Sense

ontented Studyo – New Definition of C Architecture Studio Spaces

Surveillance as a Design Methodology for Smart Environments

E -Participation and Citizen Empowerment in the UK Built Environment

This thesis explores the notion of ‘super-human’ The ubiquity of internet and smartphone technologies when applied to both body and environment and has led us from being passive recipients of information how prosthetic extensions can create and amplify a to active contributors through platforms such as social media and wikis. This thesis aims to explore connection between body and space. the implications of similar emerging e-participatory platforms for architecture and planning in the UK.

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Flood and Reconstruct

ocusing on the ‘Social’ in the Regeneration of F Social Housing Estates

Sirinuanprae Vachanaratna

The Experimental Design of Meditation Space in the Public Realm

This thesis aims to explore the design of meditation in the public realm, inserting meditation space within a pedestrian street near one of London’s busiest central spaces, Oxford Street. By reworking people’s access, material changes and green spaces, the project introduces a small sitting and walking meditation space.

MA Architecture | Masters

Masters | MA Interior Design

Dusan Decermic, Lara Rettondini (Course Leaders) Matt Haycocks, Joe King, Debby Kuypers, Tania Lopez-Winkler, Filip Visnjic

MA Interior Design Full-time Students: Badamkhand Bayar, Chi Lam, Emeli Yakimova, Nadin Fayyad, Oliver Schaller, Prabhuram Rnpuram Venketaraman Sundaravadivelu, Ramy Al Muraiqeb, Rana Khattab, Veronica Perez Farias, Wing Lai, Athina Metridou, Ayca Ozturk, Chansreineang Rong, Emily Eby, Jimena Cieza De Leon Del Aguila, Lara Salous, Sophie Salomone, Tong Wu, Akshata Oswal, Atil Yadav, Kaversina Daria, Magdalena Iwanska, Seyma-Nur Ermis, Alyssa Moseley, Isabel Blanco Ruiz, Victoria Ginoski, Zumi Vora

Part-time Yr 2: Anna-Kaisa Brenig Jones, Ella Godsell

THE MA INTERIOR DESIGN promotes a conceptual and speculative approach to the design of interior environments. In doing so, it places an emphasis on research that seeks to expand the boundaries of the discipline as well as challenge standardised processes and traditional methodologies. The programme affords multiple avenues of creative engagement giving students the opportunity to pursue their particular issues of interest in interior design, or specialist areas of three-dimensional design, through in-depth and focused studies, under the guidance of research-active and industry-experienced staff. Over the years, the course has continued to grow and is now an internationally sought after Masters programme that sits within the new School of Architecture + Cities, based at our well-equipped central London campus.

understanding space as a dynamic field as well as expand the students’ skill set. With a critical pedagogical agenda we challenge students to strive for a rich, mature synthesis of their learning from these modules, a process aimed to prepare them towards the challenges and opportunities of the complex professional world.

Our course covers a range of specialist areas, both theoretical and practical. The curriculum is delivered through a diverse set of taught core modules including the vocational Retail Design, the theory-based Decoding the Interior, and the student led Thesis Development and Major Thesis Project. We also deliver specialist modules such as Interior Design Case Study and Introduction to Design Computing, both of which support the use of film and digital animation to unlock new dimensions in Guest Critics: Lara Belkind, Nerma Cridge, Ursula Dimitriou (Studio SYN), Tomasz Fiszer (MJP Architects), Kevin Haley (Aberrant Architecture), 12

Part-time Yr1: Jeanne Altermath, Huseyin Bicak, April De Alwis, Elaine Halford, Masuda Karim, Raimondo Pistis, Raafat Raafat, Kalina Vladimirova, Priya Yadev

This year we have introduced three distinct theory and practice research areas in Domestic, Urban and Expanded Interiors as starting points for further development of students’ thesis topics. By embracing the intellectual, spatial, and material, and complexities inherent in the subject of interior, students have engaged with the three research areas, both working in collaborative groups and individually. The following pages document the results of a wide range of thesis projects that our students have developed following a process involving meticulous investigation and detailed design resolution. Some have uncovered traces of history by carefully repurposing abandoned buildings and places; others have dealt with social, cultural and political issues through critical spatial proposals. The work produced is rigorous and ambitious; a reflection of the evolved quality of our programme and an indication of the exciting direction ahead.

Bruno Mingoia (RFK Architects), Claire McDonald (Creativemass), Sue Phillips, Sabrina Puddu, Virginia Rammou, Claire Richmond, Eva Sopeoglou, Paolo Zaide

Jimena Cieza De Leon: Altered (e)State: Future Dimensions Lab in Caroline Gardens

MA Interior Design | Masters

Dusan Decermic is an architect who engages with both theoretical and design practices in architecture and interior design. He set up his own practice, arclab, in 1999 and in his professional career he has worked with numerous clients, including the Royal Theatre and fashion designer Issey Miyake.

Lara Rettondini is a Senior Lecturer, architect, and co-director Studio X Design Group, a London based architecture and interior design practice. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the recipient of the Westminster Teaching Excellence Award 2017.

Masters | MA Interior Design

(top left) Rana Khattab: Absence of Vision.

Microclimates for the Visually Impaired (top centre) Zumi Vora: Parasite Sleep. A Transitional Shelter for Rough Sleepers (top right) Badamkhand Bayar: Interior Landscapes. An Investigation into the Concept of Solitude (centre) Athina Metridou: Athenian Opsis.

Revitalising Stadiou Street (bottom) Oliver Schaller: Stranded. A Spatial Journey through Music Genres and their Implied Narratives 14

MA Interior Design | Masters

(top left) Lara Salous: Resistance in Socio-Political Space.

Interior Oases in Abu Dis (top right) Anna-Kaisa Brenig Jones: Decoding India.

Revolutionising the Handicraft Industry (centre) Atil Yadav: Planting Creativity.

The Learning Environment of a Primary School (bottom) Emily Eby: Haptic + Synaptic.

Independent Interiors for Adults with Autism

Masters | MA Interior Design

(top left) Daria Kaverzina: Centre for Extreme Rest.

Modular Shelters for Siberian Tourism (top right) Isabel Blanco Ruiz: Power and Gaze Manipulation. A Fashion Show in the Familistère (centre right) Ella Godsell: Sanctuary at Sea. Rethinking the Offshore Environment (centre) Ramy Al Muraiqeb: Riyadh’s Archipelago.

Re-thinking King Fahad District Urban Territory (bottom) Seyma-Nur Ermis: Where Industry meets the Domestic. A Walkthrough the Forgotten Memories of Turkish Settlement in Germany 16

MA Interior Design | Masters

(top left) Alyssa Moseley: The New Theatre.

Going Beyond Traditions (top centre) Prabhuram Rnpuram Venketaraman Sundaravadivelu: Epilogue: An Atheist’s Adieu (top right) Sophie Salomone: Serving the Local. An Adapted Community Centre in Stratford (bottom) Chi Lam: Co-working / Co-living.

Revitalising the Mawan Old Village in Hong Kong

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

Rosa Schiano-Phan (course leader), Benson Lau, Mehrdad Borna, Nasser Golzari, Jon Goodbun, Juan Vallejo

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design Full-time Students: Sana Aleem, Salome Berechikidze, Simona Bukowska, Samy Firad, Giulia Koeler, Gabriela Machado Krebs Cipriani, Sana Munir, Felisa Padilla Lopez, Giuliana Pappalardo, Minh Van

Part-time Yr1: Noemi Futas, Hrabrina Nikolova

IN 2017/18, THE Architecture and Environmental Design MSc consolidated the two-year parallel studio on the ‘Environmental Performance of Modernist Architecture in Britain and Brazil: London/Sao Paulo’. The brief was developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo (FAUUSP) and was part of the Latitudes Global Studio project, supported by the Latitudes Network. The studio entailed in semester 1 the fieldwork study and environmental evaluation of modernist buildings in London (Lat. 52ºN) and Sao Paulo (Lat. 23ºS) respectively. This comparison enabled the appreciation of the strong climatic responsiveness of the national manifestations of the modernist movement at a pivotal moment in the history of fossil fuel dependency in architecture. Amongst the Modernist examples examined in London, Golden Lane Estate and the Marylebone Campus were thoroughly investigated from semester 1 through to the thesis stage.

warm climate and the high density urban fabric of the city centre, as well as the iconic examples of tropical modernism nearby (Edificio Copan by Oscar Niemeyer, Edificio Italia by Franz Heep, Conjunto National by David Libeskind), created a fertile creative ground for the students to test and apply the environmental principles – learned and observed in the evaluation studies and fieldtrip site analysis – to the evidence-based design of indoor and outdoor spaces, which combine architectural quality, comfort and low energy demand.

This study was brought forward in semester 2 as the background reference to the design brief for residential medium-rise buildings on three sites in central Sao Paulo.

The environmental challenges brought by the tropical

Guest Critics: Joana Goncalves, Leonardo Monterio, Roberta Kronka-Mulfarth, Eduardo Pizzarro, Marcello Mello, (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Fred Scott, Francesco Anselmo, Josh Sykes (Arup), Kartikeya Rajput (Chapman+BDSP), Mariam Kapsali (Architype), Bea Sennewald, Vaishali Enos, Abul Mahdi (Article 25) 18

This year’s Thesis Projects confirm the international breadth and timely topics within the global environmental debate. The course has expanded the portfolio of practices and consultancies taking part to the Collaborative Thesis Project initiative, to Article 25 and Chapman BDSP, joining Arup, WSP and Architype in a series of award-winning projects. The initiative, piloted last year for the first time, has been very successful and has allowed our students to develop their thesis on a topic of mutual interest for the course and the industry partner.

Special Thanks: Francesco Anselmo (Arup), Kevin Burchell (PSI), Meital Ben Dayan (Architype), Camilo Diaz (WSP), Christian Dimbleby (Architype), Vaishali Enos (Article 25), Joana Goncalves (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Catherine Harrington (Architype), Tony Lloyd-Jones, Phil McIlwain (Westminster Council), Fergus Nicol (Oxford Brookes), Kartikeya Rajput (Chapman+BDSP), Zoe Shattock (Waverley Borough Council), Ben Shaw (PSI)

Salome Berechikidze: Adaptive Thermal Comfort Mapping of the Marylebone Studio: 1 March 2018, 09:00 – 31 May 2018, 19:00

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Rosa Schiano-Phan is an architect, consultant and academic who has worked in environmental design consultancy and research for the past 19 years. Rosa taught at the Architectural Association and coordinated numerous interdisciplinary EU-funded research projects at Nottingham University and WSP. Benson Lau is an architect, built environment practitioner and academic with expertise in Evidence-Informed Design in architecture, sustainable building construction, advanced building materials and assemblies in new build and retrofit. He has engaged in practice, research and teaching globally since 1996.

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

Sana Aleem   Traditional Courtyard Houses of Lahore, Pakistan

LAHORE, A METROPOLIS city of Pakistan, is facing increasing temperatures in the city centre. This is due to the densification of urban land, Urban Heat Island effect and the global climate change. The design of the urban environment plays a vital role in mitigating the adverse thermal conditions in densely populated areas and, through improving and enhancing the urban micro-climate, the quality of life experienced and the levels of indoor and outdoor comfort can also be improved. However, the current design of the city shows inadequate respect to the regional vernacular architecture. The old Lahore, a walled city, is home to different dynasties and cultures, woven together through a long course of history. The people living in this neighbourhood have continued to use outdoor courtyards for their socio-communal gatherings.

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This research investigates a traditional multiple courtyard house, ’Barood Khana Haveli’ in Lahore, by exploring the spatial quality and characteristics of the courtyards in a traditional Muslim house, and the significance of their original architectural morphology in contributing to the outdoor thermal comfort in a semi-arid climate. The research methodology adopted includes a comprehensive literature review, fieldwork and digital performative analysis. The research findings reveal that the temperature differences created by the different localised microclimates in the courtyards effectively induce natural air movement from higher to lower pressure zones. Based on these findings, appropriate orientation, geometries of the courtyards, and selective use of flora-fauna are proposed for the development of desirable microclimates for outdoor comfort in the contemporary courtyard house in Lahore.

Solar ingress in the courtyards at 3pm for summer solstice, winter solstice and equinox

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Minh Van Understanding Indoor Pollutants in Mixed-Mode Spaces through Sensing and Experimentation

IN THE CONTEXT of the recent debate on air quality in the UK and the influence that outdoor pollutants might have on indoor air quality in dense city centres, this thesis explored a methodology to capture the complexity of indoor air quality and enhance building occupants’ understanding of their immediate environment. Through monitoring and observation, the presence and behaviour of various pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds and carbon dioxide, was characterised in relation to occupancy patterns and filtration treatments, including the use of indoor vegetation.

One of the most challenging barriers to the project was the availability and limitation of monitoring tools and sensors.

From utilising existing sensor devices such as Aeroqual Series 200, Tinytag CO2, Dyson Purifier’s sensors/interface and Arup’s IoT desk/interface, the project developed a set of sensors and software interfaces to reach a better understanding of the behaviour of pollutants. Inspired and informed by both the ‘Maker Movement’ and the collaboration with Arup, the thesis focuses on the investigation of effective data visualisation, the development of a manual for sensor making, a mobile application and an air quality test. The final outcome includes the above methodology as well as evidence of the positive impact of vegetation on indoor air quality.

Comparative measurements of NO2 levels in Marylebone Campus with diagram showing pollutants’ likely flow path

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design theses 2018

Giulia Koeler

Simona Bukowska

E arth And Light Learning Centre for Special Educational Needs

An earth sheltered school that enhances students’ performance by bringing them closer to nature. The proposal suggests recycled and natural materials, passive strategies, and takes advantage of unrestricted green views to achieve environmental comfort and energy efficiency.

Salome Berechikidze

Thermal Comfort Maps as a Design Tool

Comfort maps introduce a strong visual language that fills a gap between comfort graphs and detailed mapping of space performance. This aids decisionmaking amongst architects and occupants. Working with Chapman BSDP, understanding spaces means, ultimately, better informed inhabitants can become more environmentally-conscious citizens.

The investigation of the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in shaping the spatial formation and enhancing thermal comfort in the courtyards for a semi-arid climate.

The project responds to Paris’ housing shortage by providing a model for adaptable housing and fast assembly, considering occupants’ thermal comfort and passive strategies for heating and cooling, keeping within the Parisian energy benchmark of 50 kWh/m2.yr.

Gabriela Krebs

Eco-Lego Low Energy Affordable Housing

Sana Aleem

T raditional Courtyard Houses of Lahore, Pakistan

itigating Parisian Housing Crisis: M Fast Assembly and Thermal Comfort Through Adaptability

Minh Van

nderstanding Indoor Pollutants in U Mixed-Mode Spaces through Sensing and Experimentation

This study explores the architectural potential of recycled shipping containers as a temporary housing solution for displaced families, improving human comfort with tested passive environmental design strategies.

This thesis, in collaboration with Arup, investigates a Giuliana Pappalardo methodology to capture the complexity of indoor air Outdoor Spaces in Extra-Care Developments quality and enhance building occupants’ understanding in the UK of their immediate environment.

The project carried out with Architype focused on the Felisa Padilla environmental comfort and social requirements of Environmental Strategies for Improving elderly people to improve the outdoor spaces of an Learning Environments in Mbeya, Tanzania extra-care scheme in England. The design aims at This thesis, in collaboration with Article 25, explores creating different microclimatic conditions that can be different design options for learning environments Samy Firad beneficial to third-age outdoor occupancy. that respond to climate conditions. It highlights Study and Adaptive Retrofit of Protected that improvements can keep occupants thermally Buildings in the Kasbah of Algiers comfortable throughout the year by implementing This retrofit project wiht Chapman BDSP adapts the Sana Munir design strategies that respond to their needs. kasbah buildings to the needs and changes of our time, R evival of Theatre Ambience through Natural

finding a balance between tradition and innovation Ventilation in the face of the environmental, social and climatic This thesis investigates the contribution that natural ventilation has on improved thermal performance of changes ahead. theatres and on occupants’ comfort, in the context of historical studies, post-occupancy evaluation and performance analysis of a case study building in the UK, carried out with Natural Cooling.

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MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Masters | MA Urban Design

Bill Erickson (Course Leader), Krystallia Kamvasinou, David Mathewson, Michael Neuman, Marion Roberts, David Seex, Louise Thomas Bill Erickson is a Principal Lecturer and architect with extensive experience in urban design. He has practiced in Australia, Italy and the UK and leads the MA Urban Design.

David Mathewson is a Lecturer and architect with MAs in Housing and Urbanism (AA) and IPSD (Westminster). He has thirteen years experience in urban design and international planning consultancy.

MA Urban Design Students: Shamim Akhter, Margarita Andreeva, Oriana Fernandez, Olga Ivanova, Komal Hassan Moiz, Huynh Nguyen, Seema Oklah, Vanya Pandey, Amruta D. Sawant, Sam Williams, Silas Willoughby

THE URBAN DESIGN course at Westminster provides a coherent approach to issues that face our cities, combining structured academic study with live design projects, allowing students to develop practical skills, a theoretical understanding and an informed approach to sustainable urban development. It overlaps and incorporates elements of town planning, architecture, landscape design, urban regeneration, transportation and infrastructure planning, drawing students from all these backgrounds.

Cities are essential to modern life, they are the place where most people make their homes, but they are also the sites where our economic and social life evolve and where most resources are consumed. They evolve over time becoming a cultural asset reflecting values of the people who inhabit them, around which shared experiences revolve and daily life is shaped. This process is well understood in the European context, however in the global context the pace of change is both dramatic and accelerating, creating new challenges for city design and management.

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Drawing on the cultural and economic forces acting in the city, the course focuses on understanding and shaping the physical setting in which they take place. It considers how buildings, streets and urban spaces are combined to create vivid environments that can nurture daily life; provide efficient urban systems; and make memorable places we value.

The work presented here is based on students dissertations. Most opt to prepare a written dissertation, in which they identify particular impacts on the design of cities and how, in the light of these, urban form can best be adapted to our current and future needs. The practice of urban design is emerging as a distinct profession and is underpinned by a growing knowledge base informed by research. These studies represent a critique of and contribution to that knowledge.

MA Urban Design | Masters

 

Seema Oklah 

Sewing Division: Towards Cultural Reconciliation in Divided Cities through Physical Design and Social Interaction in Urban Public Spaces

CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT are due and reconciliation is needed in post-conflict cites. The design of urban public spaces will have a great role and potential in reconciling, redefining and reshaping human relationships with each other and with the city. Urban public spaces are seen as a catalyst that breathes life into the city where the way in which they are developed stems from the combined action of spatial design and social interaction.

Although there are different urban design strategies that can help heal such divide, the focus of this dissertation is on urban public spaces as a principal urban design component to heal the divide and related issues. The design of urban public spaces is an adequate urban design strategy to dilute

division and trigger cohesion in future cities that are yet to be reconstructed post their conflict. Urban public space will be seen as a vessel for peaceful cultural reconciliation and a ground for social interaction and cohesion.

Furthermore, the potential of urban public spaces will be examined through literature review and Beirut and Belfast case studies. Also, a critique of limitations, challenges and lessons learnt will be formulated as a recommendation and guidance for stakeholders involved in conflict cities reconstruction in the near future. Finally, an unsuccessful site of choice within a post-conflict city will be used to illustrate how this guidance could be applied for a reconciled public space.

Masters | MA Urban Design

Olga Ivanova Integration of Elevated Highways into Urban Fabric and Regeneration of the Neighbourhoods they Cross

ELEVATED HIGHWAYS IN cities emerged as a product of the 20th century functionalist approach to city planning.

The discourse that led to this thinking was based around the ‘traffic architecture’, and in many cases led to the neglect of pedestrians’ needs. Connecting distant areas, elevated highways simultaneously divided neighbourhoods and caused social and physical separation, as well as noise and air pollution. Apart from this, the areas underneath and adjacent to elevated highways have often become the ‘lost spaces’, dark, underutilised, and associated with unsafety.

Altogether, these factors have always caused a great amount of criticism directed towards elevated highways, which has only increased during the last decades. At the same time, some cities are still aiming to solve the problems related to transport congestions building the new elevated highways, and among them is Moscow (Russia).

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In this dissertation, the cases of the integration of elevated infrastructure in London, Paris and New York, are analysed.

All these case studies show the solutions for redevelopment of underutilised areas underneath and adjacent to elevated infrastructure, and revitalisation of neighbourhoods they cross. The study looks at the management of the redevelopment in terms of jurisdiction and organisations that establish the new vision; the land use of the areas; the community benefits from the redevelopment; and compares the spatial forms as a juxtaposition of the elevated highway to the developed areas underneath and around them. The conclusions are used to develop the guidelines and schematic proposals for the integration of the elevated section of highway in Moscow into urban fabric and functioning of the surrounding neighbourhoods.

MA Urban Design | Masters

MA Urban Design theses 2018

Shamim Akhter

Shaping Local Neighbourhoods: The Use of Neighbourhood Plans in Urban Design

Oriana Fernandez

Urban Form and Character Considerations can Contribute to Physical Changes when Proposing New Urban Projects in London

Margarita Andreeva

ugmented Reality as a Tool for Collaborative Practice A in Urban Design

Olga Ivanova

I ntegration of Elevated Highways into Urban Fabric and Regeneration of the Neighbourhoods they Cross

Komal Hassan Moiz Seema Oklah

Sewing Division: Towards Cultural Reconciliation in Divided Cities through Spatial Design and Social Interaction in Urban Public Spaces

Defining Multiculturalism and Multi-ethnic Spaces: Communities in Dialogue in Harrow

Vanya Pandey

Urban Sprawl: Socio–Cultural Interaction

Huynh Nguyen

he Importance of Public Space in Upgrading Informal T Settlements in Jakarta

Sam Williams

Blue-Green Space Networks and Public Space in the City

Sam Williams [photo Š Matt Brown]; Shamim Akhter; Margarita Andreeva

Amruta D. Sawant

Urban Design and Mental Health

Silas Willoughby

ost in Space: How People can Identify Find Meaning in L Spaces

Masters | MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

Tony Lloyd-Jones (Course Leader), Roudaina Al-Khani, Robin Crompton, Bill Erickson, Ripin Kalra, Krystallia Kamvasinou, David Mathewson, David Seex, Johan Woltjer Tony Lloyd-Jones is an architect, urban designer and planner involved in international development research and practice. He is a Reader in International Planning and Sustainable Development and Director of Research and Consultancy at the Max Lock Centre.

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development Students: Tessa Alcorn, Gabriela Destephen, Nandini Dutta, Laurence Evans, Matan Golan, Zarreen Hadadi, Marina Natalishvili, Azizur Rahman,

Alessandra Maria de Albuquerque Reis, Sabrina Raja Safdar, Ingrid Beatriz Siqueira Sousa, Eleonora Tafuro, Hajar Taha, Farah Tekbali, Alexander Tully

THIS COURSE EXPLORES contemporary theories, policy and practice in planning and urban design for sustainable and resilient development in cities, regions and communities in a rapidly urbanising world. It spans both developed and developing world contexts, in locations facing a wide range of growing environmental, economic and social pressures and risks, reflected in the student project work noted here.

The MAIPSD is aimed at those with a relevant background who wish to gain an in-depth understanding of planning and sustainable development, whether to improve career prospects in their country or enter international practice.

It is aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda and we are a Habitat Partner University, with several students that have worked as interns with UN-HABITAT. The curriculum draws on the hands-on experience of the Max Lock Centre, an international development unit that has been actively involved in action- and policy-focused research across the developing world since 1995.

The course is grounded in three core modules: Planning in a Globalising World; International Spatial Planning Practice; and Sustainable Neighbourhood. Selecting an option module from a wide-ranging menu that includes urban design, environmental policy and climate change, transportation and housing and regeneration enables students to develop a specialist area of interest prior to focusing on a written dissertation or major final project.

The course is structured around written assignments and studio-based projects undertaken in group workshops and supported by seminars, tutorials and site visits.

Recent international field trips included visits to Brazil and Indonesia.

The MAIPSD is aimed at full-time international, UK and EU students, but it is also open to part-time UKbased students who want to explore an international development planning career pathway. The MA course is fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as a ‘combined planning programme’.

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Special Thanks: Dr Judith Allen, Professor Nick Bailey, Dr Camillo Boano, Duncan Bowie, Dr Isis Nunez Ferrara, Sara Hafeez, Dr Tony Manzi, Dr Phu Phong, Professor Marion Roberts, Professor Fred Steward, Professor Pat Wakely, Professor Ya Ping Wang

Ingrid Beatriz Siqueira Sousa: Social impact of Olympics on Rio de Janeiro’s favelas [photo © Fernando Menezes Jr]

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development | Masters

Masters | MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

 

Sabrina Raja Safdar  

iving Culture and DIY Urbanism: A Democratic Approach to Planning Cities – a Study of the Walled L City of Lahore

A SPACE IS connected through a synthesis of individuals and countless forms of associations, forming the social abstract.

In an historic environment, intangible culture heritage manifests immaterial expressions providing society with a sense of identity and continuity. Its creators and bearers constantly recreate these expressions in response to the historical, spatial and social evolution, modifying the term to living culture. Through its expression by the community, it embodies a component of democratic spaces and civic rights.

These rights are constantly negotiated in everyday spaces resulting in spontaneous and versatile acts. The acts,

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referred to as Do-It-Yourself Urbanism can be understood as a strategic response, coping mechanism and resistance against control, resulting in creative research. This course of humanising urbanism connects behavioural patterns and the spatial realm, a key element of this dissertation. The dissertation refers to the safeguarding of living culture, spaces that mirror it and communities taking the lead role in distinguishing components of their cultural heritage. By examining the everyday life in the Walled City of Lahore, the dissertation evaluates examples of DIY Urbanism found in public spaces with an emphasis on its intrinsic value.

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development | Masters

Ingrid Beatriz Siqueira Sousa

ocial Impact Assessment Applied to Urban Regeneration Projects: S The case of Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro

THE AIM OF this dissertation is to examine the effectiveness of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) as a planning tool used to guarantee society’s sustainable development. The principal focus is upon urban regeneration projects and how impacts resulted by them are analysed, monitored and managed through SIA. According to the International Principles for SIA, this assessment can be used to evaluate any issues that affect people and should accompany the project before, during and after its implementation. Furthermore, community participation should be at the core of the assessment. In the context of Brazil, SIA is advocated in the national regulation,

Museu do Amanhã [photo © Bruno Bartholini]

in which a minimum content is established. community participation is less encouraged.

However,

The Porto Maravilha case study in the city of Rio de Janeiro was analysed against the established international and national principles. Developing a SIA for this project was essential in order to guarantee minimum social benefit.

However, the assessment examined in this case study was not an effective tool as it depends upon other contextual factors such as the existing regulatory framework, political context and its relationship to the design phase of the project.

Masters | MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development Theses 2018

Tessa Alcorn

R ethinking Women’s Safety Audits: Assessing the Tools that Create Safer Spaces for Women

Women’s safety audits emerged as a tool to understand women’s concerns as users of public space. Innovations such as mobile safety applications offer inventive approaches to improve this tool. Using London as a case study, this project explores how women’s safety audits could be improved and better implemented.

Nandini Dutta

C all When You Reach: Women and Gendered Mobility in Indian Cities

Harassment and violence towards women in public spaces and public transport of Indian cities is a widespread and critical problem. This work argues that planning can support sustained change in these conditions using the idea of ‘transformative space’ within everyday sites.

Matan Golan

T he Spatial Evolution of the Border Concept as Perceived and Practiced within Area 16-22 of the Palestine British Mandate

This thesis investigates structural, social and other added meanings of the border concept as changed over time. It aims to expose the duality of the concept, of rigidity and penetrability, of defined and diffused.

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Gabriela Destephen

Sustainable Water Management in the MDC, Honduras This dissertation examines the current issues in water management in the Municipality of the Central District, Honduras, and discusses the relevant institutional and legal frameworks and the need for reform, in order to contribute to the area’s sustainable water management.

Laurence Evans

Social Inclusion in Temporary Pop-Ups During the 2007-8 financial crash, temporary pop-ups became a success, revitalising abandoned town centres. However, larger companies have taken advantage of these opportunities, often excluding local communities. In this research, a purposed method for social inclusion will be offered to eradicate this problem.

Zarreen Hadadi

Exploring the Role of Muslim Festivals in the Public Realm Towards Social Integration in London This research explores the role of celebrating religious Muslim festivals in the public realm towards social integration in London and suggests policy recommendations. It does so through two case studies: Ramadan Tent Project’s (RTP’s) Open Iftar and Eid in Trafalgar Square.

(left)Alessandra de Albuquerque Reis ; (centre) Gabriela Destephen ; (right) Laurence Evans :

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MA International Planning and Sustainable Development | Masters

Marina Natalishvili

Implementation of Environmental Policies in UK Overseas Caribbean Territories

Through case studies, this research shows the dynamics, environmental issues and future development perspectives of Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands, to identify the importance of policy coherence for development within the framework of operating environmental policies.

Azizur Rahman

reventing Crime and Improving Public Safety With Good P Design

This thesis is conducted to assess the contribution design has as a tool to reducing crime and fear of crime and improving the safety of the public in housing estates in the United Kingdom.

Alessandra de Albuquerque Reis  

Smart Cities and Technological Clusters: Concepts, Benefits and the Lessons from Barcelona and Curitiba

Smart cities and the use of technologies in planning are an urban trend since the 2000s, aiming to tackle the problem of rapid urbanisation.

The objective of the dissertation is to discuss the overall patterns and implications in practice of the Smart Cities idea.

Hajar Taha

Shaping Post-industrial Civic Spaces for Recreational Uses

This thesis discusses civic spaces in light of quality of life and wellbeing for urban residents. It explores the socio-economic, spatial and planning dimensions of large post-industrial spaces, using the Queen Elizabeth Park in London and Parque das Naçþes in Lisbon as case studies.

(left)Matan Golan ; (centre) Alexander Tully ; (right) Tessa Alcorn :

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Eleonora Tafuro

isaster Risk Reduction: The Response of Amatrice D Earthquake in Italy

The study investigates the local response of Amatrice, Italy in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake and the social impact on the affected community, attempting to understand whether the recovery and reconstruction process can build back better, contributing to the re-establishment of the social identity and the repopulation of the area.

Farah Tekbali

rban Morphology of Historic Islamic Medinas and the U Importance of Preservation

This dissertation explores the urban morphology within human settlements of the old quarters of Islamic cities. The research attempts to recognise the importance of preserving these traditional towns as integrated parts of the city.

Alexander Tully

rban Planning Factors which can have a Positive Impact U upon Mental Health and Well-being

The study aims to reconnect urban planning with the public health agenda. It found natural diversity, urban ecosystem services and the effects of these upon perception, control, social interaction, education, stress-coping and the development of mental capital, were the main factors benefitting mental health.

Masters | MA Tourism & Events

Chantal Laws (Course Leader), Simon Curtis, Claudia Dolezal, Helen Farrell, Anne Graham, Lindsey Hanford, Claire Humphreys, Clare Inkson, James Morgan, Chiara Orefice, Ilaria Pappalepore, Andrew Smith, Nancy Stevenson

MA Events and Conference Management MA Tourism Management Students (MAECM): Deema Al-Nowaiser, Agata Blas, Alexander Bickert, Daiane Cazuza, Chrysi Dimitrou, Carina Goerlach, Maritsa Gounari, Lauren Gudovitz, Anum Khan, Magdalena Kludajova, Kristiana Kovacheva, Elizabeth Lloyd-Braiden, Boryana Mihaylova, Lisa-Maria Muller, Gabriella Nazareth, Aikaterini-Eirini Panagiotopoulou, Debora Parlascino La Monica, Veronica Perazzolo Diana Puzanova, Anna Ruzina, Pietro Arcelloni Sushmi

Shah, Carolina Silveira, Alba Soriano, Anna Stepanova, Amanda Thornton, Mercedes Vazquez Bello, Students (MATM): Gaetano Albino, Ernestina Busmic, Giulia Casarano, Carmen D’Andrea, Maeva Drumeaux, Clelia Cruz Cenit, Martina Ferla, Stanislava Nikolova, Simona Orsi, Sanaz Haji Rafiei, Roberta Tomasini, Emma West, Sevil Yozgyur

THE MA COURSES in Events and Conference Management and Tourism Management are strongly allied and delivered by a close-knit team who combine established academics, early career researchers and a range of professional experience in tourism and events.

These are taught master’s courses that combine smallgroup classes, some studio work, experiential learning and independent study. We are fortunate to draw on excellent industry links to provide a range of guest speakers, visiting lecturers and field trips.

Our sister courses hold a unique position with the UK higher education sector due to their situation within an architectural school. We take a distinctive position on the spaces and places for tourism and events with a focus on destinations and the urban environment, drawing on our own research and links with industry in London and further afield.

The courses provide students with the opportunity to focus their studies through a range of optional modules.

These reflect the research interests of the staff team including creative experience design, global festivals and events, the inter-relationships between tourism, culture and society, airport and airline management and tourism entrepreneurship.

A growing area of specialism is the field of experience design. Our events course has recently been reconfigured to focus explicitly on this area and will relaunch as an MA in Event Design and Management from September 2018, further embedding a creative approach.

In the final phase of their studies students produce a thesis using original primary research. There is always a great variety of topics which often incorporate novel approaches to established research themes or focus on new and emergent areas for research.

We attract a diverse and highly international community of students who come to the courses with a range of education and prior experience. All of this makes for a dynamic and rich study environment for students and staff alike, and well reflects the global nature of professional work in tourism and events.

Each year we hold a showcase exhibition of student dissertations on campus which the students help to organise, and they have been active members of our student Tourism Society, helping to organise a range of events during the annual English Tourism Week festival in March.

Guest Speakers: Dr Katie Deverell (Ceremony Designer and Celebrant), Liz Vater (Founder and Director, Stoke Newington Literary Festival), Rachel Ley (RLC Consultancy), Robert Dunsmore (Freelance Creative Director and Design Consultant), Sasha Frieze (The Business Narrative), Theme Traders (Creative Event Production) 34

Special Thanks: To all our visiting lecturers, guest speakers, event participants and field trip contributors.

To the University of Westminster Archive for sharing their resources on the Olympic Games.

MA Tourism & Events | Masters

Chantal Laws is a Senior Lecturer in Events with research interests in consumer culture, creativity, experience design and symbolic interactionism. She is currently completing a doctoral thesis on the serious leisure experiencescape of horticultural events and attractions.

Anne Graham is Professor of Air Transport and Tourism Management and an internationally-recognised expert in air transport, airline and airport management. Anne has published extensively in her field across a range of books and journals and is editor-in-chief for the Journal of Air Transport Management. Anne’s latest publication in 2018 is the Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management.

Dr Andrew Smith is a Reader in Tourism and Events. He has published widely on events and tourism within the urban environment and is currently focused on issues surrounding events in public parks. Andrew sits on the editorial board for several academic journals and was recently awarded the W. James Whyte Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Queensland, Australia.

CARMEN D’ANDREA

AMERICAN DREAM? “Get your kick on Route 66” Supervisor: Simon Curtis Aim and Objectives o Explore the Origin and the evolution of Highway 66 in the USA as a tourist experience. o Investigate the extent to which Route, Roads and Journeys have become tourist experiences in their own right. o Critically analyze the current motivations and market sectors of tourists who seek to experience a journey along the Route 66. o Investigate the Management of the Route 66 as a Tourists experience and suggest recommendations for future improvement.

Methodology The primary research will be based on “qualitative methods” which rely on people who normally explain their experiences and feeling about a place which are involved. The term qualitative is used to

Topic US Route 66 known also as the Main Street of America or Mother Road, was established in 1926 and it became a metaphor for freedom and promoted the belief that everything was possible beyond the horizon (Wallis,1990). The Route provided an economic and social link between the west and the East, giving chance to people to change their lives. In 1956 the route started declining due to constant change; afterwards the route was officially removed from the United State Highway System in June 1985.

The Route 66 revived, and was recognized as a symbol of the American people heritage of travel (Krim, 2005).

Route, Landscapes, Heritage, Symbolism and Iconography of the Route 66.

Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel as they set the basic of the mobility pattern of the past and present. Over the

Masters | MA Tourism & Events

ALEXANDER BICKERT

De-constructing the Festival Experience Producing socio-cultural meaning or just “a playground for adults”?

Supervisor: Simon Curtis Aim

Objectives

To investigate if and to which extent greenfield music festivals are involved in the creation of socio-cultural capital, considering a variety of elements affecting the individual and collective festival experience.

• Explore the range of possible outcomes of the music festival experience among the audience.

• Compare and contrast them with the ‘mission’ of the given festival.

• Examine how different variables like size, period, headliner bands and attendants may affect those outcomes.

• Explore in detail how the volunteering experience may be a new way to give a further meaning to the whole experience.

Variables affecting the experience Weather conditions

Music

Volunteering

Literature Review “Music is the most ‘spiritual’ of the arts of the spirit and a love of music is a guarantee of ‘spirituality’. […] Music is the ‘pure’ art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say”

Bourdieu, 1989: 18-19

The festive process is widely referred in literature as a cultural phenomena (Smith, 2016) which produces an emotional community (Maffesoli, 1996), a joyful play between paidia – spontaneous play – and ludus – entertainment more bond to rules – (Caillois, 2001). On the other hand, some authors (Hartog, 2003; Cudny, 2016) refer to cultural consumption as ephemeral, affected by the speed of contemporary life. This research aims to explore and try to unravel this theoretical dichotomy.

Music festival Experience

People

Size Camping

Methodology An empirical and interpretative approach is suitable to the nature of the leisure phenomena (Veal, 2018); an ethnographic qualitative research seems the most adequate approach to deeply 36explore the engagement and meaning of music festivals, given the subjectivity of the outcome.

Extra activities

Limitations

• The presence of the researcher may generate validity issues and distort behaviour of the observed participants.

Weather conditions

MusicMA Tourism & Events | Masters

Volunteering

ALEXANDER BICKERT Literature Review “Music is the most ‘spiritual’ of the arts of the spirit and a love of De-constructing the Festival Experience music is a guarantee of ‘spirituality’. […] Music is the ‘pure’ art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say”

Music festival Experience

Bourdieu, 1989: 18-19 Producing socio-cultural meaning or just “a playground for adults”?

People

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Size

joyful Aimplay between paidia – spontaneous play – and ludus – entertainment ObjectivesCamping more bond to rules – (Caillois, 2001). On the other hand, some authors To investigate if and 2016) to which greenfield music as festivals are • Explore the range of possible outcomes of the music festival (Hartog, 2003; Cudny, refer extent to cultural consumption ephemeral, experience among the audience. involved by in the the speed creation of socio-cultural considering variety of Extra affected of contemporary life.capital, This research aimsa to explore • Compare and contrast them withactivities the ‘mission’ of the given elements affecting the individual and collective festival experience. and try to unravel this theoretical dichotomy. festival.

• Examine how different variables like size, period, headliner Methodology Limitations bands and attendants may affect those outcomes.

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Variables affecting the experience ➢ Primary qualitative data will be gathered through • The objectivity of the • direct observation by the disclosed (non-incognito) and of participatory nature researcher in the ‘othering’ researcher, to be annotated in form of diary or voice recordings. process can be questioned.

Music • in-depth interviews with participants and volunteers during and after the event, to Weather provide multiple point of view; emotive, sensorial and non-verbal responses, as well as the But conditions social background of the interviewee (Whyte, 1982; Patton, 2002). “giving voice to other is never Volunteering ➢ Secondary qualitative data will be collected from the festivals’ websites, to evaluate if the neutral and works itself through promised festival experience corresponds to the one effectively lived by the attendants. power structures”

Literature Review

Phillimore & Goodson, 2004; 150

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Bourdieu, 1989: 18-19

Wilderness Festival People

Large Scale  Medium Scale The festive process is widelyheadliners, referred in literature as a cultural phenomena  Famous  Celebrates all Arts, (Smith, 2016) whichmusic-driven produces anfestival emotional community (Maffesoli, 1996), features a some famous joyful play between paidia friendly – spontaneous play – and ludus – entertainmentartists  Family Camping more bond to rules – (Caillois, 2001). On the other hand, some authors  Traditional tone  Family friendly (Hartog, 2003; Cudny, 2016) refer to cultural consumption as ephemeral,  Volunteering experience  Nature bond affected by the speed of contemporary life. This research aims to explore “Real is our heritage and we’re dichotomy.

“We exist to inspire, challenge and and trymusic to unravel this theoretical 

constantly building on”

enrich your lives”

Methodology An empirical and interpretative approach is suitable to the nature of the leisure phenomena (Veal, 2018); an ethnographic qualitative research seems the most adequate approach to deeply explore the engagement and meaning of music festivals, given the subjectivity of the outcome.

Music festival Experience HogSozzle Music Festival     

Small Scale No famous artists Size Over-18 only Extravagant tone Volunteering experience

Extra activities experiences “No two HogSozzle are the same”

Limitations

• The presence of the researcher may generate validity issues and distort behaviour of the observed participants.

Masters | MA Tourism & Events

MA Events and Conference Management Theses 2018

Deema Al-Nowaiser

Magdalena Kludajova

Pietro Arcelloni

Elizabeth Lloyd-Braiden

Agata Blas

Boryana Mihaylova

Alexander Bickert

Lisa-Maria Muller

Daiane Cazuza

Gabriella Nazareth

I mpact of digital marketing on buying decision process at high-end fashion shows he magic of the unexpected: forces that drive liberation T in leisure experiences

he private events sector: Is it an overlooked part of the T events industry?

e-constructing the festival experience: producing socioD cultural meaning or just a ‘playground for adults’?

T he use of engagement technology for conferences: a comparative study of the United Kingdom and Brazil

Chrysi Dimitrou

T he impact of visual merchandise display on consumer purchase of luxury products at B2C exhibitions

Maritsa Gounari

T he event experience: the transformative power of immersive attractions and events

Anum Khan

T he synergistic relationship between academic conferences and exhibitions

Kristiana Kovacheva

he influence of location, catering and decoration in the T success of a corporate event

Carina Goerlach

I s virtual reality a tool that can create behaviour change at live events?

Lauren Gudovitz

uman instinct over the human planner: an exploration H of crowd control in large outdoor events

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Olympic opening ceremonies: recent trends and future prospects I s that Instagram-able? Exploring the relationship of popup events and Instagram

The long-term effect of events on crime rates: a case study of Varna, Bulgaria xperience design methods within UK professional E wrestling events

Business events: an economic powerhouse?

Aikaterini-Eirini Panagiotopoulou

edding in Greece: a traditional ceremony or an W experiential one-time performance?

Debora Parlascino La Monica

vents and placemaking: Festivals as drivers for urban E development

Veronica Perazzolo

he tangible manifestation of the symbolic: festivals as T social containers of ritual elements

Diana Puzanova

n analysis of the role of fashion shows as a platform for A contemporary industry debate

Anna Ruzina

astles of Scotland as venues: guidance for event C organisers

MA Tourism & Events | Masters

MA Events and Conference Management Theses 2018

Sushmi Shah

Events and urban regeneration: the housing legacy of the London 2012 Olympics

Carolina Silveira

R oyal wedding traditions: the making of real life fairytales

Alba Soriano

Motivations to experience fear: survival events

Anna Stephens

How do venues compete to attract music audiences?

Amanda Thornton

Food Truck events: a comparison of the US and UK

Mercedes Vazquez Bello

o what extent can gamification be an effective tool to T achieve the goals of trade shows?

MA Tourism Management Theses 2018 Gaetano Albino

Stanislava Nikolova

Ernestina Busmic

Simona Orsi

Giulia Casarano

Sanaz Haji Rafiei

ustainable tourism in the rural habitats of cultural S Mediterranean destinations Towards sustainability: waste management approaches used by UK airports in achieving sustainable developments I ndigenous culture and tourism: differentiation in the Australian tourism industry

Clelia Cruz Cenit

Hotel industry versus the accommodation sharing economy

ricing strategy of low cost airlines and the future of lowP cost fares in Europe

xploring the resilience of Neapolitan culture in the face E of tourism

Discovering England: the potential for heritage tourism

Roberta Tomasini

ine and Tourism: analysis of innovative practices in W North-East Italy

Carmen D’Andrea

Emma West

Maeva Drumeaux

Sevil Yozgyur

American Dream? Get your kick on Route 66 Creative Caribbean: case study of the Carifesta Festival

Martina Ferla

Women taking off: an investigation on women fighting under-representation, occupational segregation and perception issues in the commercial aviation industry

eveloping synergy within local government tourism: D expanding Sevenoaks’ visitor economy into West Kent

esidents’ perceptions of tourism carrying capacity in R London

Masters | MSc Air Transport Planning and Management

Dr Nigel Dennis (Course Leader), Prof Anne Graham, Dr Andrew Cook, Frances Kremarik Dr Nigel Dennis is the course leader and a specialist in airline economics, forecasting, scheduling and marketing; he has served on international committees including those of the Transportation Research Board in the US and the Association for European Transport.

Prof Anne Graham is a specialist in airport economics, finance, management and aviation issues related to tourism; author of the book Managing Airports published by Butterworth-Heinemann.

Dr Andrew Cook leads the department’s air traffic management research and sits on national and international ATM committees; also lectures on air transport market research and data analysis.

Frances Kremarik assists with the day to day running of the course and specialises in airline networks and the North Atlantic market as well as air travel statistics and surveys.

MSc Air Transport Planning and Management

THE MSC AIR Transport Planning and Management is a very practical course that brings together academic content with a large number of specialist contributors from the aviation industry. It is uniquely taught in block mode where students attend for modules of five days’ duration, making it very accessible to part-time students working in the aviation industry both in the UK and internationally. Additional activities are arranged for fulltime students in-between the module blocks including tutorial and discussion sessions, guest lectures and visits to airport facilities and outside events.

Students come from a range of disciplines (first degrees have included Economics, Geography, Engineering, Languages and Music). No prior knowledge of the air transport industry is assumed but a passion for aviation is one of the best qualifications taken in conjunction with a formal academic background or equivalent appropriate work experience.

Students take three taught core modules: Air Transport Economics; Air Transport Management and Operations; Air Transport Forecasting and Market Research; and

three taught option modules, currently from a choice of four: Airport Finance and Strategy; Air Transport Policy and Planning; Airline Marketing and Business Models; Air Traffic Management, Scheduling and Network Planning.

Students also have the possibility of a free choice module from another suitable programme in place of one of the three options. Most modules include a group workshop or business game in which students apply their knowledge to work as a team in a competitive environment.

The Research Dissertation is also a core module undertaken in the second half of the study period. A wide range of aspects of the aviation business can be studied and previous dissertations have covered subjects as specialised as the future of airline catering, demand for commercial space travel, flight booking and payment systems and the potential for a new supersonic aircraft as well as more mainstream topics such as a business plan for a new start up airline, choice of a new hub for a cargo operator, scope for night time flights on short-haul routes, evaluation of rival commercial aircraft and environmental implications of airport development.

Guest Speakers: Carole Blackshaw (Aviation Lawyer), Maarten ter Bogt (Singapore Airlines), David Bowen (SESAR Joint Undertaking), Guillaume Burghouwt (Schiphol Group), Beth Corbould (Civil Aviation Authority), Nick Fadugba (African Airlines Association), Jerry Foran (British Airways), Laura Faucon (Virgin Atlantic), Kelly Ison (Pilot Integration Committee, American Airlines), John Twigg (Manchester Airports Group) 40

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management | Masters

Marzena Piotrowska (Course Leader), Dr Maja Piecyk, Dr Allan Woodburn, Julian Allen, Dr Jacques Leonardi Marzena Piotrowska is a Research Associate whose primary research interests focus on city logistics, urban freight consolidation and transport policy. Her current research work centres on the role of urban freight consolidation facilities in supporting sustainable city logistics.

Dr Maja Piecyk is a Reader in Logistics at University of Westminster. Her research interests focus on the optimisation of supply chain networks, GHG auditing of businesses and the sustainability of freight transport operations. Maja is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Allan Woodburn is a Principal Lecturer in Freight Transport and Logistics, with 25 years’ experience. His research focuses mainly on different aspects of rail freight including policy, operations, sustainability and efficiency.

Julian Allen is a Senior Research Fellow. His research interests include, the role of transport policy in reducing the negative impacts of logistics operations, developments in retailing and their relationship with logistics and transportation systems, and the history of freight transport.

Dr Jacques Leonardi is a Senior Research Fellow with 19 years’ experience in developing, testing and evaluating solutions for sustainable logistics. His research is focused on supply chain energy and global logistics, applying survey methods to test new technologies, and evaluate policy impacts.

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management THE MSC LOGISTICS and Supply Chain Management was introduced in 1998 and is one of the longest established logistics postgraduate courses in the United Kingdom. The course has been designed to combine logistics concepts and principles with ‘real world’ experience, with a particular emphasis on issues relating to freight transport (i.e. product flow) within the supply chain. The course delivery encourages reflective and critical thinking in helping students to extend existing skills and competencies. In particular, students are given guidance on developing their skills for undertaking personal research, and a considerable amount of time is spent by the student on personal study for the Research Dissertation.

Each taught module occupies a three hour slot per week.

Modules use a variety of teaching and learning methods including academic lectures, seminars, tutorials, case studies, guest speakers, site visits, small group exercises, and group and individual presentations.

The course attracts a diverse, international group of students, which is of a particular benefit to a programme that focuses strongly on international logistics and supply

chains. Over the years, students on the course have come from all parts of the world and have brought a huge variety of educational and professional experience.

The course team is highly active in freight-related research and consultancy projects, with a particular focus on freight transport efficiency and sustainability. The curriculum is updated regularly based upon our research which ensures that the course content and overall strategy reflect current issues in logistics practice, preparing students for careers in this area. We work closely with clients and project partners in both the private and public sectors.

The course has a strong graduate employment record and we are very proud of our diverse course alumni who work in logistics-related positions around the world. Examples of companies that have recruited our graduates in recent years are: Honda, DHL, Procter and Gamble, Maersk Logistics, Glaxo Smith Klein, Volvo Logistics, Kuehne + Nagel, Norbert Dentressangle and IKEA.

Masters | MSc Transport Planning and Management

Dr Enrica Papa (Course leader), Dr Rachel Aldred, Beatriz Mella Lira, Mengqiu Cao Dr Enrica Papa a Senior Lecturer in Transport and course leader of the MSc Transport Planning and Management. Her research is positioned at the intersection of urban, transport and economic geography. She is a board member of the AET (Association for European Transportat) and leads the AESOP (Association of European School of Planning) transport planning research group.

Dr Rachel Aldred is a Reader in Transport having joined Westminster in September 2012. Her research interest is in cycling and her research has been funded by ESRC, AHRC, Blaze, TfL, DfT, British Cycling, CILT and others.

Beatriz Mella Lira is an Architect whose research interests are transport and urban planning, wellbeing, social equity. Beatriz has worked in the UK as a Visiting Lecturer at University of Westminster, and as Researcher at UCL. She has worked in private consultancy for the OECD (2017) and as project manager of a private consultancy (2011-2014).

Mengqiu (Matthew) Cao is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster and a Research Assistant at Birkbeck, University of London. He has worked in academia and industry in an interdisciplinary research field focusing on transport analysis and urban planning.

MSc Transport Planning and Management THE MSC TRANSPORT Planning and Management course aims to develop the students’ abilities to initiate and undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis and research in the areas of transport policy, planning and operational management. In addition, all three awards seek to enable students to develop a thorough, critical awareness of current transport policies and practices.

The course intake is diverse in terms of background and sector experience. Students without experience in the sector are enabled to equip themselves with knowledge, techniques and methodologies required to take policy decisions or to provide the necessary information/ knowledge for others to take such decisions. They benefit from learning from the experiences and knowledge of part-time professional students, who in turn benefit from the opportunity to critically reflect on their own practice, and examine transport, policy and planning issues from a wider perspective than their present employment.

The overall objectives are to provide all students with a stimulating academic environment within which to study transport issues, to ensure students are aware of current transport policy and planning issues and to prepare them for a wide range of potential employment within the transport sector by developing relevant transferable skills.

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Students following this course develop a critical, in-depth understanding of key transport issues and, alongside this, skills that will help them progress careers within the sector.

Many of our graduates have progressed to senior levels in management and policy-making, within transport operators, public bodies, consultancy companies and nongovernmental organisations. Some regularly return to the University, to give guest lectures and/or to attend our Alumni events.

The teaching and learning strategy aims to develop students’ intellectual powers; their understanding and judgment; their problem-solving skills; their powers of critical analysis; their ability to communicate ideas effectively and their ability to work effectively in groups.

A varied pattern of teaching and learning methods are used in the course. These include lectures, seminars, casestudy exercises, group workshops, simulated business management games, data collection analyses and study visits. Visiting practitioners from transport organisations make an important contribution to the teaching programme. There is a focus on problem-solving in group workshop case-studies, exercises, and discussions. The mix of delivery methods will vary between the modules.

MSc Transport Planning and Management | Masters

MSc Transport Planning and Management Theses 2018

Zachary Agush

Senthil Mariappan

Hannah Atkins

Jack Mayhew

Laurie Carrigan

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Using East West Rail as a Case Study, how can Transport Planners Ensure that First Mile Last Mile Journeys are Increasingly Sustainable when Major Infrastructure Projects are Delivered?

Aji Jagne

The Effect of Policies on Reducing Congestion by Encouraging Modal Shift from Private Vehicles to Public Transport in Urban Gambia

Cecilia Karlsson

Multi-Method Microscale Assessment of Walkability in A the London Borough of Ealing

Rajesh Kungur

Electric Vehicles: The Disparity of Uptake of Electric Vehicles in Urban and Rural Areas

Ryan Lee

Implications for Freight on Surface Access Modes at an Expanded Heathrow Airport

Oszkar Lovas

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The Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) and Gentrification in Bermondsey,South-East London razil Multi-Modal Traffic Investigation in Light of B High Speedtrain (Trem De Alta Velocidade)

Shevaughn Phillips

An Examination of Perceived and Actual Safety Risks Experience by Front-Line Station Staff at Night

Werner Pretorius

Decision-Support Tool for Station Area Planning in A The London Commuter Belt

Jamie Reed

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Asif Shaikh

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School of Architecture & Cities | RIBA Part 3

RIBA Part 3 Wilfred Achille, Alastair Blyth, Stephen Brookhouse, Samir Pandya

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER runs the largest Part 3 course in the UK with over 400 students this year working in a broad range of architectural practices – more than 230 practices based in London and the south-east.

The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds including overseas schools of architecture.

Often architects who are registered but trained outside the UK attend the course to gain an in-depth understanding of the complexities of UK practice.

The course follows the requirements of the ARB/RIBA Professional Criteria and is structured as a series of building blocks with clear assessment points throughout the year.

The lecture courses are repeated twice a week to allow students to balance attendance with work commitments.

Lectures are delivered by industry experts – including former students – and are recorded for easy future access.

Students’ professional development in the workplace is supported by a team of 32 professional tutors – all architects in practice – who provide one-to-one tutorial guidance on project-based coursework. Professional examiners consistently comment on the high, critical standard of the coursework which we attribute to the structured tutoring system where students are challenged to think about practice differently.

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The different student backgrounds, as well as the types and number of practices represented on the course, combined with the tutors and examiners gives an unprecedented reach into the architectural profession. This enables the course to both draw from the breadth of practice experience as well as contribute to it.

One of our students, Patrick McEvoy, was one of five winning entrants to the London Festival of Architecture City Benches competition – a design competition for a series of one-off benches that will be installed in the City in June 2018 as London’s financial district becomes a focus area for this year’s London Festival of Architecture The course was validated by the RIBA for a further five years in November 2017 and the Visiting Board gave it a Commendation citing its scope and delivery, dedicated Chair of Professional practice, and dedicated administrative support.

This year, as in previous years, the course reached its target number of students in early May, an indication of the value that architectural practice attribute to it.

Alastair Blyth

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Wilfred Achille Module Leader for the Professional Development and Experience, Wilfred completed a major study on Broadwater Farm, Tottenham after the eighties riots. Founder of Mode 1 Architects specialising in estate remodelling projects and urban regeneration, he is developing new Turn-key solutions business model for architectural practice.

Alastair Blyth joined the Department of Architecture in 2016 following ten years in the Directorate for Education and Skills at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development developing a research programme on learning environments. He collaborates with architectural practices in Sydney and Mexico on school building projects; consultant with the OECD, World Bank and Council of Europe Development Bank.

Stephen Brookhouse is on the ARB professional conduct committee, and has written books on architectural professional practice and the Part 3 Handbook.

Samir Pandya is a regular visiting critic and examiner at architecture schools, both in the UK and internationally. Following a career in architectural practice, his involvement in profession-related research has included projects for the RIBA, CABE, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the UK Government Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills.

Professional Development and Experience

Oral Examinations

This work-based module tracks and supports the student’s professional development in the workplace. Student’s professional development is discussed with their Professional Tutor who provides guidance on the professional Curriculum Vitae and the Career Evaluation as well as guidance on preparing for the oral examination. Coursework, comprising the CV, Career Evaluation and PEDR sheets, is submitted in June and assessed in July. Students are required to complete PEDRs for the duration of the course and the PEDR sheets are reviewed on a quarterly basis.

Oral examinations for both modules take place in early September, with interviews generally lasting 45 minutes.

Professional Examiners are paired and will see six students over a day. Their role is to assess the candidate’s performance at oral only and the interviews are based on the Professional Case Study and the Professional Development coursework submitted. The written coursework will have been marked already and the examiners will see the feedback given to students.

Rachel Baldwin: Groundworks completion

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RIBA Part 3 Lecture-based Modules These are delivered during the first semester. The lecture programmes are delivered by differing industry experts, including construction lawyers, construction managers, architects and surveyors, and are repeated to allow

students to balance attendance with work commitments.

Lectures are video recorded for easy future access. Each series concludes with an open book written exam.

Architectural Practice Management

English Law, Regulations, Construction Procurement and Contracts

This module is delivered as an intensive short course in January with a written examination held in May. The 12 lectures cover general management, marketing, and practice management as well as managing health and safety, different forms of architectural practice and the role of the professional and regulatory bodies.

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This module is delivered as a programme of evening lectures from September to December with a written examination held in January. The module starts with an overview of the English legal system, the regulatory framework that architectural practitioners work with, the procurement of construction projects, the range of contracts used in practice and dispute resolution. Throughout the course students are encouraged to place the issues covered in the context of their practice as well as other experience they will have had.

Rachel Baldwin: Framework Process Chart

RIBA Part 3 | School of Architecture & Cities

RIBA Part 3 Work-based Modules These are supported by a team of 32 professional tutors – all architects in practice – who provide one-to-one tutorial guidance and act as the students’ professional studies advisors for the year. Tutors arrange a mix of group and individual tutorials as well as provide individual advice by email where needed. The work-based modules are

also supported by a lecture programme. Students may defer submission of the coursework for the work-based modules for either six or twelve months to enable them to respond to their workplace context.

The Professional Case Study The aim of the module is to bring together student’s knowledge of practice including management, legal frameworks, procurement and critically analyse this in the context of a construction project drawing substantially on their own experience. It aims to build on the theory studied in the lecture-based modules, and provide an opportunity to make professional judgements. The case study covers the practice, the design team, appointment, regulatory framework, procurement, and the construction stage. Students are asked

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to analyse their project against best practice, and make recommendations for future practice based on their analysis.

Students submit a draft case study in March and receive formative assessment and feedback in April. The final coursework is submitted in June and assessed in July. Guidance is given on preparing for the oral examination which takes place in September.

School of Architecture & Cities | Latitudes

Latitudes

LATITUDES IS A global educational network that engages future generations with the challenges of designing for climate change.

The agenda is simply that environmental change is best experienced if it is to be understood. The Latitudes network offers an opportunity to open doors into diverse climates, both real and virtual, for students and staff to engage in inter-disciplinary design research and learning by working across different latitudes and climatic regions. In this way our changing climate will become more tangible.

Students and researchers have the opportunity to think across boundaries, to create new ideas for living and working in an age of unpredictable climate. The Latitudes programme creates memories about how important our climate is to the places we build and inhabit.

During the last academic year, the Latitudes Global Studio supported by the Quintin Hogg Trust has led itinerant learning collaborations that engaged students from undergraduate and postgraduate Architecture, Environmental Design and International Planning courses in a comparative exploration of design and climate change in different geographical contexts, in collaboration with universities in Ahmedabad, India, Jakarta, Indonesia, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Tromsø and the Arctic region. Students attended a winter workshop in the partner countries, a

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series of virtual crits and lectures from Guest Speakers.

This culminated in the inaugural Latitudes Student Summit in India entitled Rethinking Ahmedabad and included a design workshop, lectures and roundtables with invited Professionals and Academics from around the world. The Latitudes Network Exhibition was then simultaneously launched in partner universities as a digital display to unveil and celebrate the project’s achievements over its four years of existence. Latitudes’ partners were invited to send their contributions, which were assessed by an invited jury and recognised in an awards ceremony.

In 2018 the Latitudes Network facilitated the learning exchange and synergistic teaching between 110 students, 8 staff members of University of Westminster and 60 international students and 6 teaching staff from leading partner universities.

Our network comprises universities in Turkey, India, China, Italy, Norway, Finland, Maldives, Malaysia, Brazil, Colombia and Taiwan. Our teaching and research interest and current work spans across four thematic areas related to design for environmental sustainability and climate change: Adaptation Design, Green Design, Resilience Design and Arctic Design.

Lucy Anne McWeeney Project Manager

(top left and centre) Tromsø, Norway; (top right and bottom) Ahmedabad, India

Latitudes | School of Architecture & Cities

School of Architecture & Cities | Fabrication Lab

Fabrication Lab

THE FABRICATION LAB has had another exciting year and made a huge advance with the refurbishment of our old wood and metal workshops, and the creation of new Light and Materials Labs. The project has brought the whole of the Fabrication Lab up to the cutting-edge standard of our digital fabrication spaces, transforming our working environment and multiplying the opportunities available to students and staff for both teaching and research.

In the latest phase of work, we’ve introduced a new Project Space offering a quieter, brighter and inspiring space to explore ideas and assemble projects, as well as upgrading the facilities available for working with wood, metals and plastics. The new Materials Lab has also been brought up to date with precision tools for testing structures and exploring the properties of innovative new materials. It was a major piece of work to construct the new Lab and we’d like to thank Overbury, our main contractor, their excellent sub-contractors and the design team for all their hard work creating such great spaces for us to enjoy.

For the third successive year, the Fabrication Lab has hosted FAB FEST, the International Fabrication Competition and Festival. It was bigger than ever this year, growing in both the scope and range of activities as well as in its International reputation and participation.

This year included teams from 15 different countries around the world and 250 participants. FAB FEST has become a melting pot for design ideas from across the globe as well as an action research project exploring the potential of design for manufacturing and assembly, with

diverse international collaborators working together on a single collective event, digitally fabricated by us in the Lab and realised in Ambika P3. We hope to develop this innovative dimension of the project in future projects.

The research programme for the Lab also continues to grow, with new workshops and prototypes coming out of the Architectural Robotics Theatre, including a carbon fibre pavilion designed and built in collaboration with Affan Innovative Structures, and exhibited at the IUA World Architects Congress in Seoul, Korea. This year we look forward to launching three new areas of research: Virtual and Augmented Reality, in a collaboration with School of Computer Science and Engineering; a partnership with Estates & Facilities and our Environmental Design team from the School of Architecture + Cities investigating energy use, displaying live information from our own campus on our media wall in the Lab and elsewhere in the University; and a project establishing a new materials research centre, building a library of material samples for students and staff to refer to, as well as a series of scale and 1-1 models of new building systems. We are expecting a busy and very productive year ahead for both postgraduate teaching and research!

We want particularly to thank again the Quintin Hogg Trust and DS Smith for their continuing, generous support for the Lab providing funding and materials for FAB FEST, A.R.T. and the three new projects starting next year, as well as our new Lab partners: AKT II, Elliott Wood, Arnold Laver, Weber Industries, and 3A Composites.

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WITHIN THE SCHOOL of Architecture & Cities, we foster a research environment in which analytical and creative energies are channelled towards the production of new knowledge, fostering a diverse approach to teaching, research and practice in which these core activities inform one another. At each level of education, teaching activities are informed by the current research conducted by staff.

Research activity in the School of Architecture & Cities is based on work and collaboration in two subject-based centres and a series of research groups. The established centres and research groups combine disciplines needed for the design of environmentally- and socially-sustainable cities of the future: adapting to climate change; offering choice; access and securing social cohesion; and connecting a global community. The School offers strong and diverse research and scholarship through teaching and practice.

The focus is to be at the forefront of urban issues related to strategic design, place, mobilities, and making. The aim is also to encourage innovation and cross-fertilisation of ideas on wellbeing in cities, and the role of strategic design, architecture, transport, infrastructure, tourism and planning. Research activities are often London-based, and include professional engagement.

The School has an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research, for attracting award-winning staff and students, and for a wide range of scholarly activities. In the submission to the 2014 Research

Excellence Framework (REF), our research was placed in the top 50% of the 45 submissions in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning. 20% of our publications and research outputs were deemed to be ‘world leading’ (4*) and 45% ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). The four case studies of our research impact also scored very highly.

This significant endorsement of our research capability has provided the foundation for expanding and enhancing our UK and international role since.

Our lecturers and students meet on a regular basis, for example at the Architecture Research Forum, where invited speakers present work-in-progress for discussion.

In addition, external speakers are also regularly invited to provide research-informed insights in various lecture programmes.

Within our School, research is organised around distinct thematic groups. These are loose alignments of staff, doctoral students, and relevant practitioners who share common interests. Their members undertake joint initiatives, develop projects, and organise public events such as workshops, symposia, and book launches.

For further details about our research groups, visit: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research

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Research | Groups

PLANNING RESEARCH GROUPS

Air Transport & Air Traffic Management Group

Urban Studies

The Air Transport Management team leads the European Knowledge Transfer Network for ATM (‘Engage’), with a host of teaching and research initiatives, and over fifty industry partners. The team is working on numerous applied research projects to support the significant growth of capacity required in the European skies and has €8m of major research in its current portfolio.

Recent Urban Studies projects and work at the Max Lock Centre in the school include ‘Smart Urban Development India’ (with Tony Lloyd-Jones, Ripin Kalra, Johan Woltjer, funding: DFID), and projects in collaboration with partners in China (Universities of Peking & Shanghai) and Indonesia. Project examples include ‘Culture and Urban-Rural Linkages’ (Giulio Verdini, funding: UNESCO), ‘Developing Urban Space for Wellbeing and Sustainability’ (Johan Woltjer, funding: British Council).

Freight and Logistics Group Research in Freight and Logistics features work for a large variety of partners from distribution and logistics firms and industry. Recent projects include the ‘Parcel porters’ delivery project (Maja Piecyk, Julian Allen et al., funding: Transport for London & EPSRC), ‘Urban Consolidation Centre Feasibility’ (Jacques Leonardi, funding: Luxembourg government), CITYLAB, and work on sustainable logistics practices (Jacques Leonardi, funding: EC H2020).

Sustainable Urbanism The Sustainable Urbanism Group focuses on issues of strategic urban design. Recent work includes project workshops (Michael Neuman on Florence, funding: Quintin Hogg Trust); projects on benefits of resident involvement (Nick Bailey, Tony Manzi, funding: DCLG), ‘Interim space and creative use’ (Krystallia Kamvasinou, funding: Leverhulme Trust) and flood resilient cities (Johan Woltjer, funding: NWO).

Sustainable Mobility and Cycling Sustainable mobility research is supported by funders including DfT, TfL, AHRC, ESRC, and CILT. Rachel Aldred’s influential studies won the 2016 ESRC Impact Prize. These cover topics including pedestrian and cyclist injury risk, near misses, cycling equity, and impacts of interventions on active travel.

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Tourism and Events Group The Tourism and Events research group has a strong track record in city tourism, mega-events, sport events and air transport research, as well as interests in experience design and sustainable tourism. Recent projects include: ‘Air Transport and Regional Development’ (e.g., Anne Graham, funding: EU); sustainable tourism and work on Destination London, and a range of professional organisations in tourism and events (Andrew Smith and others).

Ecocities Initiative Eco-Cities Initiative is a cross-university initiative seeking to establish innovative concepts and applications to address the challenges of global urbanisation and improve sustainable development. It contributes to these efforts with world-leading research, consultancy and teaching.

Recent projects centres upon how governance processes can facilitate urban innovation through knowledge coordination, policy design and community engagement.

Groups | Research

ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH GROUPS

Architectural History and Theory

Experimental Practice (EXP)

The group explores the ‘what, why, how and for whom?’ of architectural and building custom and practice, and the various changing meanings and interpretations which have been placed upon them both in the past and in contemporary culture. Members of the group are engaged in a wide range of research into architectural history and theory, cultural studies, urbanism and heritage.

The group supports and promotes research in innovative and experimental architecture. It explores the experimental projects – buildings, books, artworks, imaginary, ‘paper’ and teaching projects – which act as a laboratory for the architectural profession.

Human Architecture Group The group draws together closely related strands of research in the School of Architecture and Cities: environmental and ecological design, and practice driven research into the history and technological development of architecture. Specific areas of interest include novel construction technologies, innovative and efficient material use, systems building design, day-lighting, acoustics and airquality all in relation to human perception, wellbeing and comfort.

Expanded Territories The group is an umbrella for researchers, scholars and designers working in and around architecture, such as global mobilities, rural landscapes, resource extraction sites, and the atmosphere. Framed by an awareness of the planetary scale of urbanisation, the discovery of the anthropocene, and the ethical imperative to work with the agency and rights of human and non-human actants in the shaping of built environments, it evokes an innovative cultural project rather than merely a research field.

Representation, Fabrication and Computing In an age in which digital technology has facilitated a wealth of new opportunities for creative practice, it has never been more important to question the role of architectural representation. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, scholars, teachers and designers explore the nature of drawing and making in their broadest sense, encompassing a range of activities from historical analysis and the science of visual perception, to design-based research and the exploration of innovative new fabrication technologies.

Production of the Built Environment (ProBE) ProBE is a joint initiative between the Westminster Business School and the School of Architecture and Cities.

The Centre has a rich programme of activities, including research projects, oral history, film, exhibitions, seminars and other events. It provides a focus for interdisciplinary and international activity related to the production of the built environment as a social process. Through a distinctive multi-disciplinary approach of using oral histories together with documentary and visual research, it reveals ‘hidden histories’ of the built environment. Recent research has continued a focus on housing activism of the 1970s and how urban squatting shaped second-wave feminist architectural practice.

Research | Publications

Selected Staff Publications and Research Awards 2017/18 P., and Pickard, R. (eds.), Authentic Reconstruction: Bottazzi, R. (2018). Digital Architecture Beyond Authenticity, Architecture and the Built Heritage London: Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Bloomsbury Academic: 1-25; 307-19.

Computational Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Bold, J. (2018). ‘Technical Co-operation and Bowie, D. (2017). Radical Solutions to the Housing Consultancy Programme – Introduction to the Analysis.’ ‘Technical Co-operation and Consultancy Supply Crisis. Bristol: UK Policy Press.

Programme: Conclusions and Future Perspectives.’ In: Goodbun, J., Rumpfhuber, A., Till, J., and Klein, M. Bold, J.A., and Pickard, R., (eds.), An Integrated Approach (2018). Das Design der Knappheit: Studienhefte to Cultural Heritage. The Council of Europe’s Technical Problemorientiertes Design Heft 7. Hamburg: Adocs.

Co-operation and Consultancy ProgrammeStrasbourg: Graham, A. (2018). Managing Airports: An International Council of Europe Publishing: 13-21; 87-92.

Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Bottazzi, R. (2017). ‘Gravesend-Broadness Weather

Authored Books:

Golzari, N. (2017). ‘Variety, Locality and Western Influence in Iran.’ In: Piesik, S., (ed.), Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet London: Thames and Hudson: 274.

Golzari, N. and Sharif, Y. (2017). ‘Cultivating Spatial Possibilities in Palestine: Searching for Sub/Urban Bridges in Beit Iksa, Jerusalem.’ In: Petrescu, D., and Trogal, K., (eds.), The Social (re) Production of Architecture: Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice London: Routledge: 311-318.

Goodbun, J. (2018). ‘The Cell, The Field and The Tower: The Spaces of Ecological Cybernetics.’ In: Graham, A. and Halpern, N. (ed.) (2018). The Station.’ In: Bler-Carruthers, A., Joseph-Lester, J., Rumpfhuber, A., (ed.), Into the Great Wide Open.

Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management. King, S., and Bottazzi, R., Walking Cities: London London: Barcelona: DPR Barcelona: 77-101.

Camberwell Press: 67-80.

Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Graham, A. (2018). ‘Airport Economics and Finance.’

Herrschel, T. and Newman, P. (2017). Cities as International Actors: Urban and Regional Governance Beyond the Nation State. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Charrington, H. (2018). ‘A Slap on the Ear.’ In: de Vocht, in: Graham, A. and Halpern, N. (eds) The Routledge S., (ed.), From Donuts to Muffins – 30 + 30 years of Companion to Air Transport Management. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge: 189-205.

Urban Planning. Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society.

Charrington, H. (2018). ‘The Aalto atelier, Tiilimäki.’ In: Inkson, C. and Minnaert, L. (2018). Tourism Hipeli, M. (ed.), Studio Aalto and Experimental House.

Management - An Introduction (2nd edition). London: Helsinki: Rakennustieto.

Sage.

Curtis, S. (2018). ‘Reaching Out – Engagement Rattenbury, K. (2018). The Wessex Project: Thomas through Events and Festivals – the Cathedrals of England.’ in: Butler, R. and Suntikul, W. (ed.) Tourism Hardy, Architect. London: Lund Humphries. and Religion: Issues and Implications. Bristol: Channel Saleem, S. (2018). The British Mosque: An Architectural View Publications. and Social History. London: Historic England.

Dolezal, C. (2018).‘Being in the field in Bali: A reflection Sanchez de Madariaga, I. and Neuman, M. (ed.) (2018). on fieldwork relations in community-based tourism Engendering Cities: Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces research.’ in: Andrews, H., Jimura, T. and Dixon, L. (ed.) for All. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Tourism Ethnographies: Ethics, Methods, Application and Sharif, Y. (2017). Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Reflexivity. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Dolezal, C. (2018). ‘London’s “Unseen Tours”: Conflict. London: Routledge.

Slumming or societal change in the city?’ in: Graham, A. and Smith, A. (eds.) Destination London: The territorial Chapters in Books: expansion of the visitor economy. London: University of Bailey, N. (2017). ‘The contribution of community Westminster Press. enterprise to British urban regeneration in a Graham, A. (2017). ‘Airport Management and period of state retrenchment.’ in: van Ham, M., Performance.’ in: Budd, L. and Ison, S. (eds.) Air Reuschke, D., Kleinhans, R., Mason, C. and Syrett, S. Transport Management: An International Perspective (ed.) Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods: Towards an London: Routledge.

Understanding of the Economies of Neighbourhoods Graham, A. and Zheng, X. (2018). ‘Patterns and and Communities. London: Edward Elgar: 229-248.

Drivers of Demand for Air Transport.’ in: Graham, A. Bold, J. (2018). ‘Introduction – Reconstruction: The and Halpern, N. (eds.) The Routledge Companion of Air Built Heritage following war and natural disaster.’ Transport Management. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge: (With P. Larkham and R. Pickard); ‘Conclusions, 313-330.

Guidelines and Looking Forward.’ In: Bold, J., Larkham, 62

Griffiths, S. (2017). ‘The Politics of Post Modern Architecture.’ In: Gura, J., (ed.), Post Modernism Complete. London: Thames and Hudson.

Hagan, S. (2018). ‘Metabolic Suburbs, or the Virtue of Low Densities.’ In: Berger,A., and Kotkin, J., MIT Centre for Advanced Urbanism (eds.), Infinite Suburbia. New York: Princeton Architectural Press: 468-478.

Humphreys, C. (2018). ‘Sports Tourism: Golf.’ in: Agarwal, S., Busby, G. and Huang, R. (eds.) Special Interest Tourism: Concepts, Contexts and Cases.

Wallingford: CABI: 112-122.

Jordan, K. (2018). ‘The Building Sisters of Presteigne: Gender, Innovation and Tradition in Modern-era Roman Catholic Architecture.’ In: Jordan, K., and Lepine, A., (eds.), Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom.

London: Routledge: 123-138.

Kamvasinou, K. (2017). ‘Short Term Projects, Long Term Ambitions: Facets of Transience in Two London Development Sites.’ in: Henneberry, J. (ed.) Transience and Permanence in Urban Development. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell: 65-84.

Kamvasinou, K. and Milne, S. (2018). ‘Surveying the Creative Use of Vacant Space in London, c.19451995.’ in: Campbell, C.J., Giovine, A. and Keating, J. (eds.) Empty Spaces: Confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history. London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

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Leonardi, J. and Yamada, T. (2018). ‘Can Routing Systems Surpass the Routing Knowledge of an Experienced Driver in Urban Deliveries?’ in Taniguchi, E. and Thompson, R.G. (ed.) City Logistics 1: New Opportunities and Challenges. London: Wiley: 381-400.

Peckham, A. (2018). ‘The Afterlife of the Architecture Journal.’ In: Schmiedeknecht,T., and Peckham, A., (eds.), Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal – Reporting, editing and reconstructing in postwar Europe.

Abingdon / New York: Routledge 197–211.

Woodburn, A.G. (2017). ‘Rail operations.’ in: Monios, J. and Bergqvist, C. (eds.) Intermodal Freight Transport Spankie, R. (2018). ‘Lines of Enquiry: Drawing Out and Logistics. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press, Taylor & Sigmund Freud’s Study and Consulting Room.’ In: Francis.

Marinic, G., (ed.), The Interior Architecture Theory Reader. London: Routledge: 178-185.

Edited Books:

Neuman, M. (2018).

‘The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Studio.’ in: Frank, A. and Silver, C. (ed.) Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects. New York, USA: Springer: 269-292.

Verdini, G. and Yang, X. (2018). ‘Voices for alternative Neuman, M. and Nur, N. (2018). ‘Simplexity, urban regeneration practices in China: the case of Complicity, and Emergent Collectivities: Informal the historic district of Taohuawu.’ in: Zhou, J. and Urbanism in Rome.’ in: Haas, T. and Westlund, H. (ed.) van Oers, R. (ed.) Operationalising the Historic Urban In the Post-Urban World: Emergent Transformations of Landscape – A practitioner’s view. Shanghai: Tongji Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy. University Press: 189-211.

Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge: 292-303.

Wall, C. (2017). ‘Constructing Brutalism: in situ

Neuman, M. (2018). ‘Planning and Leadership.’ in: Stiftel, B., Green Leigh, N., French, S. and Guhathakurta, S. (eds.) International Handbook of Planning Education.

Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Papa, E. (2017). ‘Transit-Oriented Development scenario for the Metropolitan City of Naples, Salerno and Caserta.’ in: Moccia, F.D. (ed.) Metropoli senz’auto: scenari territoriali e trasformazioni delle aree di stazione nell’area metropolitana di Napoli, Salerno e Caserta.

INU Edizioni: 68-83.

Papa, E., Carpentieri, G. and Angiello, G. (2018). ‘A TOD Classification of Metro Stations: An Application in Naples.’ in: Papa R., Fistola R. and Gargiulo C. (eds.)

Smart Planning: Sustainability and Mobility in the Age of Change. Springer.

Papa, E. (2018). ‘Il coinvolgimento alla base della mobilità sostenibile.’ in: Mella, G. and Pentucci, P.P. (eds.) Mobilità urbana sostenibile: verso un nuovo paradigma. Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina: 62-87.

The British Mosque An architectural and social history Shahed Saleem

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Bold, J.A., Larkham, P. and Pickard, R. (eds.) (2018).

Authentic Reconstruction. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Bold, J.A. and Pickard, R. (eds.) (2018). An Integrated Approach to Cultural Heritage. The Council of Europe’s Technical Co-operation and Consultancy Programme.

Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.

knowledge and skill in post-war Britain.’ In: Heine, E-C., Bremner, L. and Trower, G. (eds.) (2017). Monsoon and Rauhut, C., (eds.), Producing Non-Simultaneity: [+ Other] Airs. London: Monsoon Assemblages Construction Sites as Places of Progressiveness and Publications, University of Westminster.

Continuity. Farnham: Ashgate: 95-109.

Jordan, K. and Lepine, A. (eds.) (2018). Modern Watson, V. (2017). ‘The Earth is Flat and Square: Yves Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Klein’s Paintings of Thunderclouds’. In: Bremner, L., Building the Kingdom. London: Routledge. and Trower, G., (eds) Monsoon [+ Other] Airs. London: Monsoon Assemblages Publications, University of Peckham, A. and Decermic, D. (eds.) (2018). The Intrinsic and Extrinsic City. (Studio as Book series).

Westminster: 27-34.

London: Department of Architecture, University of Woltjer, J. and Hudalah, D. (2017). ‘Gentrifying the Westminster.

Peri-Urban.’ in: Silver, C., Freestone, R. and Demaziere, C. (eds.) Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning. Schmiedeknecht, T. and Peckham, A. (eds.) (2018).

Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal: New York & Abingdon: Routledge: 134-153.

Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Postwar Europe.

Woltjer: Forrest, S., Trell, E.M. and Woltjer, J. (2017).

Abingdon / New York: Routledge.

‘Flood Groups in England: Flood Groups in England: Governance arrangements and contribution to flood Stringer, B. (ed.). (2018). Rurality Reimagined. San resilience.’ in: Trell, E.M., Restemeyer, B., Bakema, M. Francisco, CA: AR+D Publishing. and Van Hoven, B. (ed.) Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge: 92115.

Architecture of Resistance

Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

Woodburn, A.G. (2017). ‘Rail freight.’ in: Cowie, J. and Ison, S. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics. London: Routledge: 368-383.

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The British Mosque An architectural and social history Shahed Saleem

The British Mosque An architectural and social history Shahed Saleem

This book presents the first overview of Muslim architecture in Britain, from the earliest examples in the late 19th century to the mosques being built today.

Key architectural stages are identified and explained alongside the social history of Muslim settlement and growth. The analysis focuses on the way in which the mosque as a new cultural and architectural form has adapted into the existing urban fabric of Britain’s towns and cities, and how this new building type has then impacted its urban landscape, socially, culturally and architecturally.

The British Mosque is an architectural as well as a social history, and describes the evolution of Britain’s Muslim communities through the buildings they have built. By presenting this architectural narrative for the first time, the book opens up a new field of British Islamic architecture. The architectural story charts a course from the earliest mosques formed from the conversion of houses, to other large-scale conversions through to purpose-built mosques, and with these the emergence of an Islamic architectural expression in Britain.

The mosque is not solely considered in terms of its architectural style, but also from its social history and cultural meaning. The book therefore provides an observation into the character of British Muslim life and practice and how these have been embodied through its buildings. The future of Islamic architecture in Britain is also considered, and how this will be affected by the growing cultural and social diversification of Britain’s Muslim communities.

Shahed Saleem is an architect, researcher and lecturer at the University of Westminster, London.

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Selected Staff Publications and Research Awards 2017/18 Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: Aldred, R. (2018). ‘Inequalities in self-report road injury risk in Britain: A new analysis of National Travel Survey data, focusing on pedestrian injuries.’ Journal of Transport and Health. 9: 96-104.

Delgado, L. Montlaur, A. and (2017). ‘Flight and passenger delay assignment optimization strategies.’

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

81: 99-117.

Dennis, N. and Pitfield, D.E. (2018). ‘A tale of two Aldred, R. (2018). ‘Motor traffic on urban minor cities:The impact of airline mergers and consolidation and major roads: impacts on pedestrian and cyclist at London and New York.’ Transportation Research injuries.’ Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Record.

Deriu, D. (2018). ‘Skywalking in the City.’ Emotion, - Municipal Engineer.

Aldred, R. and Goodman, A. (2018). ‘Predictors of the Space and Society, published online: 27 Apr 2018.

Novy, J. (2018). ‘Urban tourism as a bone of contention. Four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat.’ International Journal of Tourism Cities.

Orefice, C. (2018). ‘Designing for events - a new perspective on event design.’ International Journal of Event and Festival Management. 9 (1): 20-33.

Papa, E. and Ferreira, A. (2018). ‘Sustainable Accessibility and the Implementation of Automated Vehicles: Identifying Critical Decisions.’ Urban Science.

2 (1): 1-14.

Pappalepore, I. and Farrell, H.C. (2017). ‘Redressing the balance: inverted hierarchies in the tourism classroom.’ Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education. 21 (Part B): 144-153.

frequency and subjective experience of cycling near misses: Findings from the first two years of the UK Near Miss Project.’ Accident Analysis & Prevention. 110: 161-170.

Difford, R. (2017). ‘Infinite Horizons: Le Corbusier, the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau Dioramas and the Science of Visual Distance.’ The Journal of Architecture 22(5): 825-853.

Aldred, R., Best, L. and Jones, P. (2017). ‘Cyclists in shared bus lanes: could there be unrecognised impacts on bus journey times?’ Proceedings of the ICE - Transport.

Graham, A. and Metz, D. (2017). Limits to air travel Rettondini, L. and Brito, O. (2018). ‘Tectonic of growth: the case of infrequent flyers. Journal of Air Proximity: Notes on the Work of Stanton Williams.’

EN BLANCO. Revista de Arquitectura, 10(24): 5-7.

Transport Management. 62: 109-120.

Gurtner, G. and Lillo, F. (2017). ‘Strategic allocation of Rettondini, L. and Brito, O. (2018). ‘Interview with Allen, J. and Piecyk, M. (2017). ‘Land availability in flight plans in air traffic management: an evolutionary Directors of Stanton Williams: Alan Stanton, Paul Williams, Gavin Henderson and Patrick Richard.’ EN point of view.’ Dynamic Games and Applications.

London.’ Logistics and Transport Focus. 2017: 38-40.

BLANCO. Revista de Arquitectura, 10(24): 8-13.

Allen, J., Bektas, T., Cherrett, T., Bates, O., Friday, A., Hossain, M., Lau, B., Robin, W., Ford, B. (2017). ‘Effect Roberts, M. (2017). ‘Urban design, central London of changing window type and ventilation strategy McLeod, F., Piecyk, M., Piotrowska, M. and Wise, S. (2018). ‘The scope for pavement porters: addressing on indoor thermal environment of existing garment and the ‘crisis’ 2007-2013: business as usual?’ Journal the challenges of last-mile parcel delivery in London.’ factories in Bangladesh.’ Architectural Science Review of Urban Design. 22 (2): 150-166.

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the 60(4).

Smith, A. (2018). ‘Justifying and resisting public park Transportation Research Board.

Humphreys, C. (2017). ‘Travelling with golf clubs: the commercialisation: The battle for Battersea Park.’ influence of baggage on the trip decision-making European Urban and Regional Studies. process.’ Journal of Sport & Tourism. 21 (1): 49-63.

Smith, A. (2018). ‘Paying for parks. Ticketed events Kacel, S. and Lau, B. (2017). ‘Louis I. Kahn and Richard and the commercialisation of public space’. Leisure Kelly: collaborative design in creation of the luminous Studies.

Bailey, N. (2017). ‘Housing at the neighbourhood level: environment.’ Architectural Engineering and Design Smith, A. (2017). ‘Animation or denigration? a review of the initial approaches to neighbourhood Management Journal, published online: 11 Nov 2017. Using urban public spaces as event venues.’ Event development plans under the Localism Act 2011 in Kamvasinou, K. (2017). ‘Temporary Intervention Management.

England.’ Journal of Urbanism: International Research on and Long Term Legacy: Lessons from London Case Stevenson, N. and Farrell, H.C. (2018). ‘Taking a hike: Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 10 (1): 1-14.

Studies.’ Journal of Urban Design. 22 (2): 187-207.

Exploring leisure walkers embodied experiences.’

Boys, J. and Dwyer, J. (2017). ‘Revealing Work. Manzi,T. and Morrison, N. (2018).‘Risk, Commercialism Social and Cultural Geography. 19 (4): 429-447.

Interrogating Artifacts to (Re)View Histories of and Social Purpose: Repositioning the English Housing Feminist Architectural Practice.’ Architecture and Association sector. Urban Studies.’ 55 (9): 1924-1942. Verdini, G. (2017). ‘Planetary Urbanisation and the Built Heritage from a Non-Western Perspective: The Culture 5(3): 487-504.

Morgan & Laws: Jackson, C., Morgan, J. and Question of “How” We Should Protect the Past.’ Built Cook, A.J., Belkoura, S. and Zanin, M. (2017). ‘ATM Laws, C. (2018). ‘Creativity in Events: the untold Heritage. 1 (3): 73-82. performance measurement in Europe, the US and story. International Journal of Events and Festival Verdini, G. and Huang, F. (2017). ‘La maniera di Suzhou: China.’ Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 30 (2): 479-490. Management.’ 9 (1): 2-19. innovazione urbana e continuità urbano-rurale.’

Dean, C. (2018). ‘Collapsing the City:The Kochi Muziris Neuman, M. and Zonneveld, W. (2018). ‘The Urbanistica Informazioni. XXXXIV (272): 67-75.

Biennale.’ TRANSLOCAL: Culturas Contemporaneas Resurgence of Regional Design.’ European Planning Locais e Urbanas 1(1).

Studies. 26 (7): 1297-1311.

Aparicio-Ruiz, P., Schiano-Phan, R. and Salmeron-Lissen, J.M. (2018). ‘Climatic applicability of downdraught evaporative cooling in the United States of America.’

Building and Environment (136): 162-176.

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Verdini, G., Frassoldati, F. and Nolf, C, 2017. ‘Reframing China’s heritage conservation discourse. Learning by testing civic engagement tools in a historic rural village.’ International Journal of Heritage Studies. 23 (4),: 317-334.

Stringer, B. (ed.) (2017). Villages and Globalization.

Bailey, N., Reviews editor, Journal of Urban Regeneration Architecture and Culture 5(1).

Wall, C., Perks, R., et.al. (ed.) (2017). Oral History and Renewal.

Deriu, D. and Kane, J. (eds.) (2018). Special Issue on Journal Autumn 45(2).

Editorships of Peer Reviewed Journals:

Vertigo in the City. Emotion, Space and Society (28).

Wall, C. (2017). ‘Sisterhood and squatting in the 1970s: feminism, housing and urban change in Deriu, D., Piccoli, E., and Turan Özkaya, B. (eds.) (20162018). Special Collection on Travel, Architectural Hackney.’ History Workshop Journal 82(1): 79-87.

Histories: The Open Access Journal of the EAHN 4(1).

Wall, C. (2017). ‘“We don’t have leaders! We’re doing it ourselves!”: squatting, feminism and built Dolezal, C., Special issue editor, Austrian Journal of environment activism in 1970s London.’ Field: a free South-East Asian Studies. journal for architecture, 7(1): 129-141.

Farrell, H., Editorial Board, Tourism Policy and Planning.

Woltjer: Restemeyer, B., van den Brink, M. and Woltjer, J. (2018). ‘Resilience unpacked: Framing of “uncertainty” and “adaptability” in long-term flood risk management strategies in the regions of London and Rotterdam.’ European Planning Studies. 36 (8): 1559-1579.

Woltjer: Willems, J., Busscher, T., Woltjer, J. and Arts, J. (2018). ‘Co-creating value through renewing waterway networks: a transaction-cost perspective.’

Journal of Transport Geography. 69: 26-35.

Woodburn, A.G. (2017). ‘An analysis of rail freight operational efficiency and mode share in the British port-hinterland container market.’ Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 51: 190202.

Wall, C., Perks, R., et.al. (ed.) (2018). Oral History Journal Spring 46(1).

White, P., Editorial Board, Transport Reviews and Transportation.

Woltjer, J., Editor of Cities, The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning.

Non Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

Graham, A., Editorial Board, Research in Transportation Deriu, D. (2018). ‘Architetture della vertigine.’ Il Business and Management. giornale dell’architettura, 24 April 2018.

Lewi, H. and Peckham, A. (eds.) (2016-2018). The final Goodbun, J. (2017). ‘The Labyrinth of the Immaterials.’ two of six Anthology Issues selected from the last ten e-flux. years of The Journal of Architecture.

Griffiths, S. (2017). ‘Now is not the time to be McLean, W., Schlimme, H., and Wall, C. (eds.) (2017). indulging in postmodern revivalism.’ Dezeen, 30 Construction History: International Journal of the October 2017.

Construction History Society 32(2).

Griffiths, S. (2017). ‘In the name of place-making, McLean, W., Schlimme, H. and Wall, C. (eds) (2018). architects are often complicit in social cleansing.’

Construction History: International Journal of the Dezeen, 25 January 2017.

Construction History Society 33(1).

Jordan, K. (2018). ‘Unfair Dismissal: the Legacy of Neuman, M., Editorial Board, Urban Design Women Architects working for London Councils.’

International.

Architectural Review, 12 March 2018.

Rettondini, L. and Brito, O. (eds.) (2018). ‘Stanton Peckham, A. (2018). ‘Review: Franklin, Geraint, Howell Williams. Arquitectura 2010-2017.’ EN BLANCO. Killick Partridge & Amis, Swindon: Historic England Revista de Arquitectura 10(24).

(2017).’ Transactions: Ancient Monuments Society 62:145-147.

Research | Expanded Territories

Rurality Re-Imagined

Ben Stringer

Stringer, B. (ed.) Rurality Re-imagined. (2018) San Francisco, CA: AR+D Publishing.

AGAINST DOMINANT NARRATIVES of global urbanisation, this book asks: what social, cultural, and philosophical values are being lost and gained through rurality’s social and territorial transformations today?

How are its new complexities and tensions being represented and conceptualised? Rurality Re-imagined is an interdisciplinary assemblage of texts and artworks by current European and UK scholars, artists, and architects whose work is concerned with portrayals of contemporary rural culture and experience, and their theoretical complexities. These practitioners and academics come from a wide range of disciplines including: art, architecture, geography, anthropology, media studies, sociology, archaeology, and visual studies. The majority of them contributed to an exhibition and conference held in late February/early March 2015 here at the University of Westminster. While there is growing international interest in re-thinking rurality as a cultural category, much of this has emerged through academic and artistic activity that is sometimes quite isolated by both geographic and disciplinary boundaries. The exhibition, conference, and this new publication, therefore, is an effort to raise awareness of this exciting work and to create and galvanise connections across those boundaries.

typically mapped for industrial purposes. Likewise, to look closely at how things are made in rural terrains, the history of their production, and their journeys to ordinary markets and kitchens, is to reveal complex social tissues that are of a greater cultural complexity than basic urbanrural dualisms would normally acknowledge or imply.

Moreover, they exceed the kind of economic or pictorial values that narratives of urbanisation typically apportion to rural space and society. It is to open up these kinds of issues, and thereby to challenge convention, that this book seeks to achieve through the diversity of scholars and practitioners it includes and the distinct subtleties and nuances that they see within rurality’s myriad of particular cultures and contested locations.

One of the issues addressed by the book, is rurality’s sheer diversity: its multitudinous particularities and differences. The problem is that these tend to become absorbed, and obscured, within wider discussions of globalisation, urbanisation and urban-rural dichotomies.

This book therefore takes the position that studying rural places, people, and other species closer up, at their particular levels, can critically challenge the conceptual frameworks that hold sway in space planning disciplines.

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Monsoon Assemblages Principal Investigator: Professor Lindsay Bremner Research Fellows: D r Beth Cullen (anthropologist), Christina Leigh Geros (architect, landscape architect and urban designer) Research Associate (2018-19): John Cook (architect) PhD: Harshavardhan Bhat (political scientist) and Anthony Powis (architect) MArch Studio DS18: Aligned with the project 2016-2019

MONSOON ASSEMBLAGES is a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council (20162021). It is undertaking interdisciplinary, design-driven inquiry into changing monsoon climates in three of South Asia’s rapidly growing cities around the Bay of Bengal – Chennai, Dhaka and Yangon, with a smaller focus on Delhi.

The aim of the project is to undertake research into the monsoon as a global climatic system in which life in each city is lived, and to propose models for intervening in them through design to better align urban life with the monsoon and its ways. This is undertaken at a time when the pace of urban development and the neo-liberal development formulae being used in these cities have resulted in increasingly misaligned arrangements between urban life and the monsoon such that flooding, water pollution, water scarcity, heat island effects and so on result. The project aims to address these conditions through drawn compositions that bring together the atmospheric, oceanic, topographic, subterranean, climatic and lived dimensions of the cities and the monsoon in new ways.

(left to right):Dhaka, Chennai, Yangon

Lindsay Bremner Monsoon Assemblages is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement no. 679873).

The project is led by Professor Lindsay Bremner, assisted by anthropologist Beth Cullen and landscape architect and urban designer, Christina Leigh Geros. In 2018/19, the project team will be joined by John Cook, architect, and graduate of the University of Westminster. Two fully funded PhD students, Harshavardhan Bhat and Anthony Powis, and one partially funded, Tumpa Yasmin Fellows, complete the team. In addition to this, the agenda of Design Studio DS18 is aligned with the project for three years. In 2016/17, the studio was set in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in 2017/18 in Dhaka, Bangladesh and in 2018/19, it will be set in Yangon in Myanmar. The work of the studio is to test representational techniques and to develop urban and architectural prototypes in response to monsoon related challenges in each city. The best of this work will be exhibited in the final Monsoon Assemblages exhibition in 2021, and published in its book.

For further information, visit the project’s website: www.monass.org

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Dazzle Camouflage: War and Space Camilla Wilkinson has been researching the maritime artist Norman Wilkinson’s Dazzle patterns and geometries for merchant and naval ship camouflage. Covering origin, development and interpretation, including

Camilla Wilkinson testing, re-drawing and reconstructing the processes used, this view into the Dazzle collections has resulted in the production of an animation showing the transformation from inspiration to concept. https://vimeo.com/287048415

DAZZLE PAINTING WAS a camouflage system developed in the 14-18 War designed to protect Allied merchant shipping from Unrestricted Submarine Warfare waged by the Central Powers. In order to sink an enemy vessel, the U-boat commander had to calculate the ship’s course and speed in order to manoeuvre into position, launch torpedoes and submerge.

Dazzle Painting was a radical proposal. The aim was to distort perception of a ship’s hull and superstructure from the U-boat commander’s perspective through a monocular periscope. Visual devices painted on to the surfaces of a ship were designed to deceive the enemy as to the course a ship was taking. Photographs, drawings, paintings, letters and reports survive in static format.

Moving images were filmed from the deck of craft elevated well above the water line and in calm conditions.

As well as an extensive study of archive material, practicebased research in the form of a drawn animation has been used to test, verify and communicate the Dazzle concept through short narrative films. The Dazzle concept animation describes the imagined transformation of the inspiration for the scheme into the concept sketch for the first Dazzled ship SS Industry, and the design she wore from June 1917 to the Armistice. The charcoal drawing technique is used to convey an interpretation of movement and atmospheric space at sea and the process of transformation.

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Dazzle Camouflage: War and Space, 14-18 NOW panel presentation ‘Dazzle, Doughboys and Daring’, Royal Society, November 2017.

‘Dazzle Camouflage: War and Space (The Dazzle Camouflage Concept) animation’, presented at Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art exhibition, 16 June – 23 September 2018, St Barbe’s Museum and Art Gallery.

‘Dazzle Camouflage: Origin and Development of Visual Distortion and Devices’ Keynote speaker, Study Day Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art for Great War, Unknown War, University of Southampton, 31 June 2018.

(top) SS Mahomet with dazzle camouflage; (bottom) Still frames from Dazzle animation

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The Wessex Project

Kester Rattenbury

Rattenbury, K. (2018) The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect; London: Lund Humphries

THOMAS HARDY HAS never been considered much of an architect. His best known building is Max Gate, the suburban house which he designed and built for himself and his first wife Emma on the outskirts of Dorchester, long after he had become a famous novelist and given up working as an architect. It was described, for almost a century, with derision or dark, psychic suspicion. But with the benefit of a peculiar kind of hindsight, this view is a mistake. Despite the normality of the few buildings he actually built, there is a good case for listing Hardy amongst the greatest of all conceptual architects – the prophet, well before the fact, of a particular type of speculative, imaginary architectural project which would boom a century later.

The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect by Kester Rattenbury (Lund Humphries, 2018) is the first in-depth study of Hardy’s work by an architectural critic, and it opens a startling new perspective on this world-famous author. Through it, we begin to see Hardy as someone who never gave up architecture: not just as a highly architectural writer, but as someone experimenting in all kinds of representation, including drawing, mapping, photography, stage design and writing; not just as a seminal English storyteller, but as England’s most influential conservation campaigner too; not just as a leading voice in literature, but as the creator of one of the greatest ever conceptual architectural projects.

This book offers both a new way of looking at Hardy’s great works and an exploration of the how architects see, imagine, and work.

Research | Architectural History & Theory

The British Mosque, an architectural and social history

Shahed Saleem

Saleem, S. (2018) The British Mosque: An architectural and social history.

London: Historic England

MY INTEREST IN Muslim architecture started when I was asked to design a new mosque in East London soon after I had set up my architectural practice there. Through discussions with the mosque community, and by trying out a range of design approaches, I soon realised that this was a building of real cultural significance, and one that represented the identity and aspirations of the Muslim community who were commissioning and using it.

Quite quickly I was working on a number of mosque projects, from conversions and extensions, to new builds.

I was working with Muslim communities from different backgrounds, and learning about their requirements and expectations. To better understand these projects I was researching the history of the mosque and looking at other examples in Britain and around the world. I became fascinated by the phenomenon of the mosque in this country, and how this really quite unusual building type had established itself here.

adapted as the congregation grew. New build mosques then followed as communities needed larger sites, and could raise more funds with larger numbers of worshippers.

These larger conversions and new build mosques gave Muslim communities the opportunity to represent their cultural identities through their architecture, and negotiate their histories in a new context. My research identified key stages in the evolution of mosque style in Britain, showing how different and diverse communities drew on Islamic histories and combined these to create new forms of architecture.

The story of the mosque is a fascinating and integral part of Britain’s 20th century, encompassing diverse communities and resulting in buildings of local and national significance that we can now begin to recognise and understand.

As I gathered my own personal research into the mosque and particularly its presence in Britain, the opportunity arose to present my work at seminars, and through this and conversations with English Heritage (as it was then), the idea for a book on the mosque in Britain came about as the logical next step.

I was commissioned by English Heritage to undertake this major research project, and so began a journey across the country visiting mosques and Muslim communities, searching through planning records and local archives, and piecing together a social and architectural history of the mosque in Britain. My research also charted the social history of Muslims in Britain, showing them to be hugely diverse, representing many ethnicities and denominations.

I found that most mosques started as conversions of existing buildings, often houses, which were extended and 70

Shahed Saleem: Brick Lane Mosque, London

Architectural History & Theory | Research

Histories of Whitechapel

THE SURVEY OF LONDON was founded in 1894 by the Arts and Crafts architect C. R. Ashbee. It is the leading reference work on the history of London and its buildings, internationally acknowledged for its authority and accessibility.

In September 2016, the Survey launched an innovative, interactive new website entitled Histories of Whitechapel and invited anyone with an interest in or experiences of Whitechapel’s long and rich history to contribute. The map-based website, designed with The Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), is a collaborative and experimental resource, collecting memories, photographs, drawings and film together with

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the Survey’s own historical research on the area. By sharing their knowledge and experiences, participants have been helping the Survey of London bring together diverse and personal histories of the buildings, streets and neighbourhoods. This methodological experiment is particularly appropriate for an area like Whitechapel, which has historically been a place of arrival for waves of immigrants, and it is now in the midst of rapid economic, demographic and urban change.

Both Sarah Milne and Shahed Saleem of the University of Westminster have made significant contributions to the project; Sarah as Historian and Website Editor, and Saleem as Public Participation Officer. The use of a purposedesigned online platform enables the Survey to explore the implications of co-creating history in the digital age.

Alongside others, Milne and Saleem have been particularly active in engaging new audiences in the project website, negotiating the role of the urban historian in the context of a gentrifying and tension-filled built environment, whilst also navigating the potential presented by Web 2.0. To date there have been over 400 submissions from the public and over 29,000 visitors to the site, 70% of whom are based in London – though the site has also had a global reach. ‘Histories of Whitechapel’ has been an active, evolving project that will continue up to 2019, after which the findings will be published as volumes 54 and 55 in the Survey’s series of detailed studies of London.

Visit the Histories of Whitechapel website: https://surveyoflondon.org/

:Aldgate Place under construction, August 2017 [image © Derek Kendell]

Research | Architectural History & Theory

Vertigo in the City

Davide Deriu

Deriu, D. (2018). ‘Skywalking in the City.’ Emotion, Space and Society (28): 94-103

THE TERM VERTIGO was often used, figuratively, to describe the maelstrom of the modern metropolis. Today, it has taken up new meanings prompted by the ongoing explosion of vertical cities around the world. How can this concept help us to interpret the contemporary urban experience? How does its inherent tension between thrill/pleasure and fear/anxiety relate to the perception of vertical space? These questions underlie the Vertigo in the City initiative led by Dr Davide Deriu, who has done extensive research on issues of urban perception and representation in relation to the 20th and 21st centuries.

A Wellcome Trust small grant in the Medical Humanities allowed him, in collaboration with Dr Josephine Kane (Royal College of Art, London), to organise a series of meetings, field trips, and presentations by working with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers which included Professor John Golding (Department of Psychology, University of Westminster) and Professor Brendan Walker (‘Thrill Engineer’ based at the University of Nottingham’s Horizon Centre for Digital Economy Research).

and Kane lay the groundwork for an interdisciplinary and more holistic understanding of the subject, which bears social as well as psychological implications for the wellbeing of city dwellers. Deriu, who also published ‘A Short History of Rooftopping Photography’, is currently working on a book and exhibition based on his research.

This ongoing project has been presented at several international venues, including the IUAV University of Venice, Istanbul Technical University, and Kunsthaus Graz where Deriu was invited to address the ‘Agents of Confusion!’ symposium in 2017. The latter was part of the Dizziness – A Resource project (led by Austrian artists-researchers Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond), which has prompted productive exchanges and collaborations with Vertigo in the City.

This exploratory phase culminated in a two-day symposium that brought together at the University of Westminster, in May 2015, a number of scholars and practitioners from different disciplines to discuss how sensations of dizziness and disorientation are variously analysed, treated, evoked, induced, and represented. This knowledge-sharing event, which incuded a public lecture

by Turner prize-nominated artist Catherine Yass, was the first-ever recorded attempt to discuss the issue of vertigo in the city across the sciences, arts and humanities.

A selection of papers from the symposium has been published in a special issue of the Emotion, Space and Society journal (August 2018). In their guest editors’ introduction, ‘Towards a Vertigology of Contemporary Cities’, Deriu 72

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Expanded Territories | Research

Architecture of Resistance

Yara Sharif

I became no longer able to live with the subtle acceptance of the ‘norm’ that existed. I needed to zoom out in search for a breathing space beyond the constraints of the Israeli occupation. I needed to search for a broader narrative where everyday life would be bigger

than the city of Ramallah, where adventures might involve more than journeys across checkpoints, and where dreams could go beyond merely those of sneaking into Jerusalem (which, after all, is only 15 minutes away from my family home).

ARCHITECTURE OF RESISTANCE marks the start of my journey as a Palestinian female architect trying to define her role and shape her identity and self. It is a collection of the different thoughts and ideas provoked by my own journeys when I used to live and work in Palestine, and which were later transformed into projects that I realised while doing my PhD by Design.

the land from a new perspective by stripping it of the dominant power of lines – including any imagined ones – to expose the hidden dynamic topography born from social conditions. Believing in nourishing not only the physical space but also the space of imagination, my work is a combination of live and speculative ideas. Both are seen as a necessary part of a whole.

The absence of the Palestinian narrative in its social and spatial sense have always been disturbing to me, especially when the representation is always done by the ‘other’; the ‘powerful’. The book therefore tries to offer an insight into the Palestinian context by viewing it explicitly from within.

The work is ongoing hoping to provoke a deeper and more critical kind of architectural thinking that is explicit in its engagement with political and social realities.

This need for an alternative discourse, amidst the unbalanced economic and political status, has been the focus of my work ever since. It has very much informed my approach as an architect, where I try to re-read

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As a means to reconstruct an alternative Palestinian map – one that can nourish, heal and empower – it has become a crucial part of the process of research by design to engage in conceptual discussions by using different mediums like drawings and images to hint at spatial possibilities – ones which can offer a critical view and leave a space for the reader to imagine and question. Speculation might not offer the answers or the solution, however it can hint at possible scenarios that can stretch the space of imagination.

This I believe is as crucial, if not more, as stretching the physical space.

I have tried to capture and represent the sense of daily life as it is experienced by Palestinians, specifically by unfolding the relationship between time and space. Narrative and subjective experience has become a visible, and indeed essential, component when exploring design possibilities, and became both a spatial condition and a conscious strategy to examine relationships between identity, place, the personal and the political, all of which surface strongly in the book and in my work as a whole.

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Research | Human Architecture Group

Building with Air Research Project

BUILDING WITH AIR is a research project led by Dr Will McLean, which explores air as a construction material and means of enclosure. McLean has authored and edited Air Structures (London: Laurence King, 2015) and Building with Air (London: Bibliotheque McLean, 2015), and his ongoing research covers both the recent history and the current technologies of air-filled and air-supported structures.

In March 2018, McLean exhibited a specially commissioned air structure at Univesita della Svizzera Italiano in Mendrisio, Switzerland to coincide with a symposium about the work of Italian architect Dante Bini. The symposium celebrated the extraordinary Villa Antonioni designed

by Bini for the film director Michelangelo Antonioni and the actor Monica Vitti, completed in Sardinia in 1970.

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The house was a unique adaptation of the Binishell – a type of thin-shell concrete dome construction formed and erected with an inflatable membrane. Most recently, McLean presented a paper entitled, ‘Frederick Lanchester and the Invention of the Air-Supported Roof ’ at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History: Building Knowledge and Constructing Histories in Brussels, July 2018. A new and expanded edition of Building with Air will be published in 2019 and will include recently discovered archive materials produced by Dante Bini in the 1960s, as well as a personal account of the conception and construction of the Villa Antonioni. This research has been supported by the University of Westminster, and the Dante Bini Archive.

PRoBE | Research

Constructing Post-War Britain

ON 10TH OCTOBER 2018 Bishopsgate Institute Library will make publically accessible the complete project archive of Constructing Post-War Britain: building workers stories 1950-70. The project, led by Christine Wall and Linda Clarke with researchers Charlie McGuire and Olivia Muñoz Rojas, recorded oral histories of men who worked on Britain’s post-war building sites. The archive includes recordings and transcripts of construction workers who were employed on five high profile sites and developments of that era: Barbican development, City of London: a major construction project commenced in 1965, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, built across 40 acres in the heart of the City of London, and embodying new ideas about living and working. Over a thousand workers were employed in constructing this celebrated modernist complex, but often working in the most backward and dangerous of conditions.

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M1 motorway: one of the largest civil engineering operations in Britain since the railways. It attracted workers from across Britain, Ireland, and recently arrived immigrant workers. This was a largely itinerant workforce, but one whose work was no longer just ‘manual’ but transformed through mechanisation.

Sizewell A nuclear power station: A small fishing village on the Suffolk coast where, in April 1961, work began on the construction of Sizewell A nuclear power station, a vast undertaking which lasted five years. Designed by Fredrick Gibberd it pioneered new approaches to civil engineering. At its peak, there were over 2000 workers on site working in compressed air in underwater tunnels, at great heights, in the freezing cold mud and in the extreme heat. Together, they helped bring to life one of the biggest and most expensive construction projects of the 1960s.

South Bank Arts Centre: constructed by Higgs and Hill, a traditional firm with a directly employed workforce, renowned for high quality work. The men who worked on the site all highlight the rigorousness, precision, discipline and coordination that went into building the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Hayward Gallery. It remains a matter of pride for those involved that when the complex opened; ‘architects and engineers were brought in from all over the country to see the concrete that was being produced, and they really couldn’t believe the quality of it’.

Stevenage New Town: Proposed in the Abercrombie Report of 1944, this was the first of Britain’s new towns, and planned and constructed as radical solutions to the overcrowding and sprawl of London’s population. The building workers of Stevenage settled in large numbers as a result of Stevenage District Council’s policy allocating them a house after six months continuous work on site.

Many went on to play leadership roles in key aspects of Stevenage District Council’s town’s civic and political life.

Research | Sustainable Mobility

The People and Places Study

Rachel Aldred

Aldred, R., Croft, J. and Goodman, A. 2018. ‘Impacts of an active travel intervention with a cycling focus in a suburban context: One-year findings from an evaluation of London’s in-progress mini-Hollands programme.’

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

DR. ALDRED LEADS this Transport for London-funded online longitudinal study, which examines the impact of ‘mini-Holland’ interventions on travel behaviour and attitudes among 1712 Outer Londoners (at Wave 1).

‘Mini-Holland’ interventions are mostly infrastructure schemes aimed at increasing cycling and walking, including for example pedestrianisation, closing roads to through motor traffic, and cycle tracks. The three ‘mini-Holland’ boroughs are Enfield, Kingston, and Waltham Forest.

The innovative study design uses a ‘natural experiment’ approach, comparing changes among an ‘intervention group’ living close to mini-Holland schemes to changes among a ‘control group’ of people living in other parts of Outer London. This means we can separate the impact of the interventions from other changes affecting Outer Londoners, for instance fluctuations in weather year-onyear, which can affect levels of walking and cycling.

The study has already led to one paper, in Transportation Research Part A. This found that after only one year (20162017) the interventions had a measurable impact on travel behaviour and attitudes to the local area. This was impressive given other studies have found that it takes two years to see changes in behaviour when schemes are introduced (if at all). The research found that changes were most marked in a ‘high-dose’ area where specific changes had been made, whereas lower or no evidence

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of change was found in ‘low-dose’ areas (parts of the three boroughs where no changes had been made by May 2017).

People in high-dose areas were 24% more likely to have done any past-week cycling after one year, compared to those living in non mini-Holland areas. There was an increase in active travel (walking plus cycling) time for the same group of 41 minutes. This was made up of an extra 33 minutes of walking, and 9 minutes of cycling. And people living near mini-Holland schemes were more likely to say their local environment had become better for cycling, leading to an overall improvement in perceptions of the local area.

The study is important as we lack robust evidence on the impacts of active travel interventions. Other high-quality UK evidence comes from Cambridge, which is atypical with very high cycling levels. This study covers suburban Outer London, more typical of UK urban areas. The growth in walking is interesting, as mini-Holland schemes tend to be associated more with cycling.

The study continues. Other papers will cover follow-up in 2018 and subsequent years, and qualitative survey data, which has rich insights on perceptions of different travel types and different road users.

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Freight & Logistics | Research

Sustainable Urban Logistics Solutions

Julian Allen

Allen, J., Piecyk, M., Piotrowska, M., McLeod, F., Cherrett, T., Ghali, K., Nguyen, T., Bektas, T., Bates, O., Friday, A., Wise, S. and Austwick, M. (2017) ‘Understanding the Impact of E-commerce on Last-Mile Light Goods Vehicle Activity in Urban Areas: The Case of London’; Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

GROWTH IN E-COMMERCE has led to increasing use of light goods vehicles for parcel deliveries in urban areas.

This paper provides an insight into the reasons behind this growth and the resulting effort required to meet the exacting delivery services offered by e-retailers which often lead to poor vehicle utilisation in the last-mile operation, as well as the duplication of delivery services in urban centres as competitors vie for business.

A case study investigating current parcel delivery operations in central London identified the scale of the challenge facing the last-mile parcel delivery driver, highlighting the importance of walking which can account for 62% of the total vehicle round time and 40% of the total round distance in the operations studied. The

characteristics of these operations are in direct conflict with the urban infrastructure which is being increasingly redesigned in favour of walking, cycling and public transport, reducing the kerbside accessibility for last-mile operations. The paper highlights other pressures on lastmile operators associated with managing seasonal peaks in demand; reduced lead times between customers placing orders and deliveries being made; meeting delivery time windows; first-time delivery failure rates and the need to manage high levels of product returns. It concludes by describing a range of initiatives that retailers and parcel carriers, sometimes in conjunction with city authorities, can implement to reduce the costs associated with lastmile delivery, without negatively impacting on customer service levels.

Research | Air Transport & Air Traffic Management

Air Transport and Regional Development

THE AIR TRANSPORT sector is a major contributor to the globalisation of the economy. Its growth has been accompanied, and to a certain extent, caused by liberalisation. The growth in traffic levels has led to congestion, at both major airports and in the airspace, and to a lack of services on thin routes, thus affecting both core and remote regions.

A four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) funded Action was established in 2015 called Air Transport and Regional Development (ATARD). This aims to promote a better understanding of how the air transport related problems of core regions and remote regions should be addressed in order to enhance both economic competitiveness and social cohesion in Europe. It has five objectives (i) Summarising the existing knowledge about air transport and regional development focusing, on the one hand, on major airports in core regions (not only at the European level but also per country) and economic competitiveness and, on the other hand, on remote regions with low-demand routes and social cohesion; (ii) Designing a methodological approach for assessing the regional development impacts; (iii) Improving the existing knowledge base through case studies carried out in the countries involved in the action; (iv) Developing policy recommendations with respect to air transport related measures and actions needed to promote regional development particularly in core regions and remote regions; (v) Identifying major areas for future research on the subject of air transport and regional development.

The benefits that can be derived from this Action are both scientific and societal in nature. On the scientific

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side, it is expected that the role played by air transport with respect to regional development becomes better understood, particularly in relation to four crucial aspects: 1.

The nature and impact of the different measures that can be taken to enhance the performance of the major airports.

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The importance and impact of regional airports to their surroundings and their contribution to attenuate congestion in major airports and along major routes.

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The role and impact of air transport in relation to the social welfare of remote regions.

4. The type and impact of the different air transport subsidisation schemes that are implemented to support the development of remote regions.

On the societal side, the recommendations that are expected to come out of the Action will respond to two of the main concerns of the European Union and advanced democracies in general, namely economic competitiveness and social cohesion.

The Action has the involvement of members with a wide variety of backgrounds from 31 countries. Prof Anne Graham (co-leader of the Tourism and Events Research Group and also researcher in Air Transport) is a member of the eight person Core Committee and has direct responsibility for the publications associated with the Action. Two air transport PhD students at Westminster are also participating in the activities of the Action.

Air Transport & Air Traffic Management | Research

Air Traffic Management

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Andrew Cook

Cook, A., D. Rivas (eds), 2016. Complexity Science in Air Traffic Management; Routledge

Gurtner, G., Cook, A.J., Graham, A. and Cristobal, S., 2018. ‘The economic value of additional airport departure capacity.’ Journal of Air Transport Management. 69, pp. 1-14.

AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (ATM) comprises a highly complex socio-technical system that keeps air traffic flowing safely and efficiently, worldwide, every minute of the year. Over the last few decades, several ambitious ATM performance improvement programmes have been undertaken. Such programmes have mostly delivered local technological solutions, whilst corresponding ATM performance improvements have fallen short of stakeholder expectations. In hindsight, this can be substantially explained from a complexity science perspective: ATM is simply too complex to address through classical approaches such as system engineering and human factors. In order to change this, complexity science has to be embraced as ATM’s ‘best friend’. The applicability of complexity science paradigms to the analysis and modelling of future operations is driven by the need to accommodate long-term air traffic growth within an already-saturated ATM infrastructure.

This article presents a model for the economic value of extra capacity at an airport. The model is based on a series of functional relationships linking the benefits of extra capacity and the associated costs. It takes into account the cost of delay for airlines and its indirect consequences on the airport, through the loss or gain of aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenues. The model is highly data-driven and to this end a number of data sources have been used. In particular, special care has been used to take into account the full distribution of delay at the airports rather than its average only. The results with the simple version of the model show the existence of a unique maximum for the operating profit of the airport in terms of capacity. The position of this maximum is clearly dependent on the airport and also has an interesting behaviour with the average number of passenger per aircraft at the airport and the predictability of the flight departure times. In addition, we also show that there exists an important trade-off between an increased predictability and the punctuality at the airport.

Finally, it is shown that a more complex behavioural model for passengers can introduce several local maxima in the airport profit and thus drive the airport towards suboptimal decisions.

Complexity Science in Air Traffic Management Edited by Andrew Cook and Damián Rivas

(left) Complexity Science in Air Traffic Management;(right) Modelling Airport Economic Value Andre Dam

Research | Sustainable Urbanism

EARLYWARN: The EAst West Arc Research and Development Network

EARLYWARN is designed to provide analytical tools needed to assess the beneficial and harmful impacts of the explosive growth occurring and projected to continue to occur over the next thirty years in the Oxford Cambridge Corridor, denominated the East West Arc by the National Infrastructure Commission. These impacts include soaring job and economic growth, housing costs, environmental pollution, traffic congestion, and acute and chronic infrastructure stressing. Combined with scenario development and assessment, EARLYWARN research will develop and apply advanced, integrated analytics to determine the most suitable places to develop in the future, including infrastructure.

Michael Neuman

Cambridge growth region. This region of 30 local councils across 11 shires is projected to grow by one to two million persons and one million jobs by 2050. This research network is comprised of leading universities, local authorities, professional and industry members collaborating across sectors, disciplines, and scales.

This research and development network is to provide a forum to conduct research, policy development and analysis that provide sound evidence for dialogue, debate and decisions about the future of the greater Oxford-

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East West Arc Symposium at Westminster – the basis for EARLYWARN [Š Margarita Andreeva]

Sustainable Urbanism | Research

Gentrifying the Peri-Urban

Johan Woltjer

Hudalah, D., H. Winarso, J. Woltjer (2017) ‘Gentrifying the Peri-Urban’; in: Silver, C., Freestone, R. and Demaziere, C. (eds.) Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning. Routledge: New York & Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 134-153.

[GPEAN award-winning paper, originally published as journal article in Urban Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0042098014557208]

THIS RESEARCH SPECIFIES the meaning of gentrification in rapidly peri-urbanising metropolitan regions in the context of Indonesia’s rapid transition to decentralisation and democracy. It discusses a case study of conflict over an environmental revitalisation project in a peri-urban area of Bandung City. The analysis focuses on the political processes, tactics and strategies supporting and opposing peri-urban gentrification and their consequences. The analysis illustrates how these political dynamics mediate the interaction between the movement of capital and the spatial reorganisation of social classes. It is argued that in the context of a peri-urbanising metropolis, gentrification needs to be narrated less in terms of classbased neighbourhood succession and more in terms of competing cross-class coalitions emerging at local and regional levels.

The article establishes an innovative focus on gentrification in the context of cities in the global south. It was selected

(left) Map of Punclut Study AreaBandung , Indonesia; (centre and right) Scattered Peri-Urban Development

by the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) as part of a global collection of ‘best urban planning scholarship’.

The underpinning research was funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been part of a much broader research program led by Johan Woltjer and Delik Hudalah to clarify strategic responses to growth pressures in very large and medium-sized cities in Indonesia. This specific prize-winning paper is unique as it establishes a focus on developing-country cities, and beyond core urban areas alone. The study involved activities of mapping urban development pressures related to gentrification and an analysis of policies and stakeholder views.

Research | Tourism

The Events Industry as a Creative Industry

Chantal Laws / James Morgan

Jackson, C., Laws, C., Morgan, J. (2018) ‘Creativity in events: the untold story’. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, Vol. 9 Issue: 1, pp.2-19,

THE CLASSIFICATION OF creative industries is limited to a measurement instrument derived from international standard occupation codes (SOC’s). The codes do not cover the breadth and depth of the job functions within the events industry. Therefore, the sector cannot be easily classified as a creative industry. The impact of this is that the sector is not recognised in policymaking and the financial and other advantages that are gifted by government to the creative sector. There is also a lack of understanding of ‘the creative’ in the discipline of events management.

The aim of the project is to look at all the occupations within the events sector and measure creative intensity of each occupation to arrive at a point where creativity can be determined in respect of the processes attached to

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those occupations. The project is a collaboration between academics at the University of Westminster (Chantal Laws and Dr James Morgan from the Tourism and Events Research Group) and Bournemouth University. The pilot stage of the research project focused on the outdoor events area. It was supported by the Events Industry Forum. It is hoped that the impact of the research will facilitate more influence on government policy in the cultural policy area. Sectors such as film and TV, music, advertising and marketing, museums, arts and crafts are represented in policy-making. Through disseminating the pilot results there is evidence that the Department of Digital, Culture Media and Sport are moderating their approach to what is a creative industry, with interest being shown in the findings of the pilot project.

) Latitudes Festival [photo © Eve Powell]

Tourism | Research

Using Public Spaces as Event Venues

Andrew Smith

Smith, A. (2016) Events in the City: Using Public Space as Event Venues.

London: Routledge

A RECENT RESEARCH project led by Dr Andrew Smith (co-leader of the Tourism and Events Research Group) examined the ways major events staged in a city’s streets, squares and parks (rather than purpose-built venues) affect those public spaces. Smith has researched projects in Greenwich Park, Battersea Park and several other prominent London parks (Hyde Park, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park).

This work was encapsulated in a monograph published in 2016, a volume that is now available in paperback after the success of the hardback edition. This timely research has begun to influence policy debates regarding the future and funding of public parks in a period of government austerity. Events are seen as one way of supplementing

) Battersea Park Formula-E [photo © Matt Buck]

the funds needed to maintain parks, but Smith’s work highlights the controversies surrounding park events – which fence off and introduce charges for spaces that are usually free and open. Following his work, Smith has been co-opted on to an Action Group on Major Events

by Parks for London. As a member of this group, he has formulated some draft recommendations for the effective management of park events and been involved in the production of a London-wide park events policy. At the national level he was invited to address the Future of Public Parks Conference at the British Academy in 2017; and his submission to the National Inquiry into Public Parks featured prominently when the Inquiry reported its findings in the autumn of 2017.

Research | Urban Studies

Culture and Urban-Rural Linkages

Giulio Verdini

Verdini, G., Frassoldati, F. & Nolf, C. (2017), ‘Reframing China’s heritage conservation discourse. Learning by testing civic engagement tools in a historic rural village.’ International Journal of Heritage Studies. 23 (4), pp.

317-334

URBAN HERITAGE CONSERVATION in China has been subject to severe criticism, although there is now a sense of paradigm shift. Charters, declarations and agendas had the merit of filtering down the international discourse on heritage, while more innovative approaches were arising. The UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape recommendation, offers a new angle from which to observe this process of change.

The underlying argument of this article is that HUL can provide a platform to achieve greater sustainability in transforming historic sites in China, particularly in rural areas, overcoming, at the same time, the easy shortcut of the East–West discourse of difference in respect to heritage conservation. This is primarily due to the shifting focus from the materiality of heritage to its role in sustainable development with increasing attention on the role played by local communities. By presenting the

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proposal for the protection of the historic rural village of Shuang Wan in the Jiangsu Province, this paper aims to reflect on this shift showing its advantages but also some of the risks. These are inherent in a discourse of heritage in danger of legitimising mere pro-growth development approaches, if not accompanied by participatory practices considerate of the specific social reality of China.

Urban Studies | Research

Urban Governance and Planning

Tony Lloyd-Jones

Lloyd-Jones, T. (ed.), et al. (2017) ‘Examining the Potential for Metropolitan Governance in Nigeria,’ Urbanisation Research Nigeria, ICF/DFID

THIS STUDY IS concerned with the relationships between the changing scales of urban challenges and the fit of scales of governance and planning in Nigeria, focusing in particular on the state capitals and other major cities. It explores the opportunities for transformational change in the metropolitan governance and management of development and service delivery in Nigeria’s cities, and the institutional challenges that need to be addressed to achieve this. The study examines the institutional framework for sub-national governance (state and local government level) and the political economy and urban planning context as this relates to urbanisation, administrative boundaries, infrastructure development and economic role of Nigeria’s system of cities.

(left):Kaduna; (right) Nigeria – main trade routes and urban clusters [©Max Lock Centre/Dominic Gusah]

I N A L R E P O R T

The study draws on a decade of urbanisation-related studies in Nigeria. A review of the original master plan for Kaduna, Nigeria’s sixth largest city (population of about 1.5 million) was carried out by a Nigerian and international consortium led by Tony Lloyd-Jones from 2008-2010. The team produced a green spatial development framework for this rapidly growing city. This policy-focused project with its extensive survey of 11,000 households, together with the evidence from the original master plan by Max Lock and Partners in 1967, created a unique time-series database. The DFID-funded URN academic research drew on this in examining Urban Change in a Northern Nigerian City – Kaduna 1965-2015, published for the centenary of the founding of the city as the northern capital by the then British governor, Lord Lugard, in 1915.

Research | Forum

Architectural Research Forum

THE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT holds a bi-weekly research forum. This is an opportunity for staff and visiting fellows to present their work-in-progress to stimulate discussion and critical debate about their research. Seminars are open to all staff and students. During 2017/18, the programme was:

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WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18 JON GOODBUN

Cells, Towers and Fields: Routes out of the archive of Gregory Bateson

LINDSAY BREMNER, BETH CULLEN AND CHRISTINA GEROS MONASS: Reporting from the Field

5 October 2017, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00 - 14.00

19 October 2017, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00

This seminar will start with excerpts from a new paper that narrates three architectural typologies — the bounded cell, the networked field, and the observatory tower.

These constitute a story about the nature of architecture and its relationship to other forms of technical and scientific knowledge, and to systems and ecological theory in general. The presentation closes with a quote from an unpublished paper found in the archive of anthropological ecologist Gregory Bateson, which will be unpacked further, together with some reflections upon research done in the Bateson archive.

Monsoon Assemblages is a five-year-long European Research Council funded research project investigating relations between rapid urbanisation and changing monsoon climates in South Asian cities. The MONASS team spent six weeks in Chennai over the summer conducting field work for the project. In this seminar, we will briefly sketch out the monsoon assemblage thesis and the questions that framed this field work. We will take you to a number of the sites we studied and discuss how our engagement with them has both challenged and extended our thesis and shaped future work.

Dr Jon Goodbun teaches at the University of Westminster, the Bartlett UCL, and the RCA. He runs Derailed Lab, a nomadic workshop that uses long-distance journeys as vectors for experimental interdisciplinary research projects.

Jon Goodbun Cells Towers and Fields: Routes out of the archive of Gregory Bateson

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WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18

The Architecture Research Forum is a monthly research seminar hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion.

Lindsay Bremner is a Professor and Beth Cullen and Christina Geros are Research Fellows at the University of Westminster The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen & MONASS: Reporting from the Field Christina Geros Douglas Spencer Still Dreaming? Space after spectacle and the indifference of architecture Shahed Saleem In what style should we build?

White Light and Black Shadow: The Benson Lau poetics of light in Le Corbusier’s sacred architecture Christine Wall

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18 2 November 2017, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00

Douglas Spencer teaches at the University of Westminster and the Architectural Association, and is the author of The Architecture of Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2016).

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18

Alessandro Ayuso Accounting for Alogon Pragma: Recent work in the studio and on site

CHRISTINE WALL Talking about building/s: oral history and modern architecture 1 February 2018, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00

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WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18 SHAHED SALEEM In What Style Should We Build?

23 November 2017, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00

Susan Buck-Morss, in her Dreamworld and Catastrophe, observed that the end of the Cold War was marked by the passing of the dream-forms of modernity — capitalist, socialist and fascist — as sustained through the experience of the built environment. If, following Walter Benjamin, we understand awakening from the dreamworld to be premised on the conscious realisation of its utopian fantasies, then what hope remained now, she asked, in the absence of any dreamworld?

This paper takes up this question through an analysis of the seemingly indifferent and post-spectacular spaces of contemporary architecture, offering, in response, an analysis that explores both its historical and its phenomenological implications.

Talking about Buildings: Oral history and modern architecture

Julian Williams On the Estate

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DOUGLAS SPENCER Still Dreaming? Space After Spectacle and the Indifference of Architecture

‘In what style should we build?’ This question, which has resonated throughout European architectural history for some 150 years, is revisited and reapplied in my talk to the predicament of mosque design in Britain today. Style became an existential battleground for the Victorians, representing contested notions of morality, identity, nostalgia and historicism in a period of self-doubt and reinvention. I argue that Muslim architecture in Britain, and in the West more broadly, where diverse Muslim communities are building as diasporic minority communities, is entwined in similar negotiations of identity and positioning. Drawing from my research into the architectural and social history of the British mosque, I will provide an historical overview of mosque architecture in Britain, and will set out what I see as its current predicaments. Alongside this, drawing from my own design practice and experiences of working with Muslim communities, I will also suggest my own responses to the questions raised.

Shahed Saleem teaches at the University of Westminster and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Bartlett, Survey of London, and a practicing architect. His forthcoming book ‘The British Mosque’ is published by Historic England.

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Christine Wall is Reader in Architectural and Construction History, Co-editor of The Construction History Journal, and an editor of The Oral History Journal.

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

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WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18 JULIAN WILLIAMS On the Estate

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7 December 2017, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00

This presentation will disseminate the research outcome of a RIBA Research Trust funded project that explored the interplay of space and light in Le Corbusier’s sacred buildings from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Measurable and unmeasurable aspects of these divine luminous environments were investigated through extensive field work, theoretical physical and digital modelling. The findings offer new insights into the unique lighting strategies adopted by Le Corbusier for the creation of sacred luminosity in his religious buildings.

A similar research methodology has now been employed for the investigation of light in Louis Kahn’s museums, and preliminary results of this research will also be presented.

Benson Lau is a Reader and Course Leader of the BSc (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design at the University of Westminster. He has practised as architect and environmental design consultant since 1996, and joined academia in 2005.

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

The place of oral history within the historiography of modern architecture is not yet fully accepted, understood or theorised. Faced with a wealth of tangible evidence found in photographs, plans, documents and models, architectural history rarely includes the voices of those involved in the construction of a building, and remains wary of diverse, unauthorised and unofficial histories. In this talk I explore instances where the use of oral history is integral to widening the perspective of traditional architectural history.

Here, oral testimony reveals a wide cast of co-producers involved in the making of modern architecture giving voice to marginalised groups with the potential to undermine overarching architectural narratives.

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18

BENSON LAU White Light and Black Shadow – The Poetics of Light in Le Corbusier’s Sacred Architecture

15 February 2018, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18 ALESSANDRO AYUSO Accounting for Alognon Pragma: Recent work in the Studio and On-site

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1 March 2018, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00

What makes an estate, and what does it mean to be part of one? What do estates embody and how do they act as vehicles for change, or resistance to change?

These questions form the research context for an emerging networking project which examines the concept of the estate as a model for developing and managing housing. The plan is to set up a network of academics, professionals and users with the aim of developing a deeper understanding of the estate from history and from current developments, and to then disseminate this knowledge and help shape more informed future practices in the field.

Julian Williams is an architect, Principal Lecturer and BA Architecture Course Leader at the University of Westminster.

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

My work explores the intersection of human bodies and architecture by envisioning non-ideal, deviant, playful, and personal images of embodied conditions. It is defined by artefacts generated in the pursuit of three interconnected strands. The first investigates the potential of representations of human figures, or Body Agents, to embed subject-positions in architectural design through their depiction in drawings, models, and ornament. The second, the Agent Bodies drawing series, envisions imagined body-like assemblages ‘from the inside-out,’ revealing a fictional spatiality of the posthuman body. The third strand, Leaky Embodiment Alter-ego Personas, are full-scale constructions of figures that I see as tragicomic actors with uncooperative bodies. They are provocations, presenting a monstrous, ridiculous subjectivity. These pieces are steeped in idiosyncrasies and intuition, and could be considered as alognon pragma, or ‘things without account’. Their discursive value is presented here through a framing and recounting of the underlying questions, processes, and precedents integral to their conception.

Alessandro Ayuso is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, where he teaches design and theory on the Interior Architecture and Architecture courses.

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

Yara Sharif & Subver-City: The green urban lab Nasser Golzari typology Roberto Bottazzi & Ecological Standardisation Harry Charrington

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18 YARA SHARIF & NASSER GOLZARI Subver-City: the Green Urban Lab typology

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15 March 2018, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00 After the devastating war on the Gaza Strip in 2008-09, which left most of it in ruins, we took up the challenge of trying to think how Gazans could manage to reconstruct their city under such conditions. The presentation discusses the development of a new typology we have called the Green Urban Lab. The Lab explores creative ways to stitch together the fragmented urban landscape using speculative and live projects. In what we call the ‘Absurd-City’ we take advantage of the blurred boundaries between the street, the block and the room to rethink the notion of home and domesticity. In our proposed intervention to create the ‘Subver-city’, we envisage the ‘Green Urban Lab’ acting as a threshold between private and public space: a means to offer alternative ways for Gaza residents to engage in ‘self-help’, hinting at possible alternative forms of reconstruction.

Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari are practising architects at NG Architects and Senior Lecturers at the University of Westminster. Their current research by design has won the 2017 RIBA’s President Award for research (commendation).

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2017/18 ROBERTO BOTTAZZI & HARRY CHARRINGTON

Ecological Standardisation

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5 April 2018, Erskine Room, 5th Floor, 13.00–14.00 In 1966, Aino and Alvar Aalto worked together with Leonardo Mosso on a prototypical project for a series of warehouses for the Ferrero Company. Though the project was shelved shortly before going onsite, their collaboration had produced an original outcome. A former intern in Aalto’s office, Mosso had – up to that moment – been Aalto’s local architect for his Italian commissions. Centred on a critical investigation of their Ferrero Warehouse and Office project (1966–67), our research explores the evolution of an ecologically-motivated concept of reflexive standardisation premised on repetitive components and bespoke, or flexible, joints that ‘bind the elements’. The forum will examine the impulses that informed the Aaltos’ realisations of an elastic standardisation in the 1930s and 1940s, and how Mosso, one of the pioneers of computation in architecture, interpreted and extended this method at the city-scale through computation.

Roberto Bottazzi is a Senior Tutor at the Department of Architecture. He is interested in the history and uses of computational tools in architecture and urbanism.

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

Harry Charrington is Head of the Department of Architecture. He worked for Elissa Aalto, and co-authored the oral history of the Aalto atelier Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand (2011).

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. ALL WELCOME

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PhD | Research

PhD Students THE SCHOOL ACCEPTS candidates who qualify for PhD research in fields in which its staff have expertise. For information of how to apply for a PhD at the University of Westminster, please visit: www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/phd-study

Current PhD students registered in the School of Architecture & Cities are:

Ameera Akl

Katja Kapanen

Anthony Powis

Abdullah Almuraiqeb

Anna Kaxira

Tim Reynolds

Majed Basha

Sharmeen Khan

Mai Sairafi

Mehrdad Borna

Kon Kim

Philippe Saleh

Denise Bowes

Frances Kremarik

Rick Schumaker

Abdulillah Bukhary

Haewen Lim

Izis Salvador-Pinto

Ana Sabine Cioboata

Phillip Luehl

Duarte Santo

Penny Clarke

David Mathewson

Harshavean Seetharam Bhat

Lida Evangelina Driva

Lilit Mnatsakanyan

Megan Sharkey

Saffa Gabber

Fatemeh Mohamadi

Emilia Siandou

Alec Gelgota

Chandkiran Nath

Peter Silver

Catherine Hammant

Mehmet Nenem

Robert Stewart

Gabrielle Higgs

Simona Palmieri

John Walter

Jeffrey Howard

Luis Pinto

Tim Waterman

Irena Itova

Marzena Piotrowska

Holly Weir

Maja Jovic

Jason Pomeroy

Mangran Zhu

Research | PhD

Mehrdad Borna Supervisors: Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan, Dr Krystallia Kamvasinou

Designing Healthy Cities: The Impact of Urban Microclimates on Human Health | Air Quality

IN 2010 THE World Health Organisation stated that urban air pollution was a critical public health problem. The same report accentuated that nearly 3.7 million deaths per year worldwide were caused by the effects of urban outdoor air pollutant. For instance, in a developed city like London, there were 9,416 early deaths in 2010 caused by the pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Particulate Matter (PM10, PM2.5) and Ozone (O3).

Considering the above, this study postulates that there is an association between urban form and urban air quality. Therefore, the core focus of this research is to highlight potential improvements that can be achieved through the manipulation of urban form which is thought to stimulate a more positive impact on the formation of urban microclimate which can encourage the dispersion of air pollution concentration in urban areas and respectively reduce its adverse impact on human health. In so doing, this research will pilot a study on one of the most polluted road in central London (Marylebone Road) to assess the combined influence of the urban from and microclimate on the concentration of key urban pollutants. Furthermore, most widely used urban morphological indicators which influence the wind and air circulation in the city will be measured and calculated for statistical analysis. Furthermore, these will also be complemented by accurate measurement of both pollutants and microclimatic parameters (mainly wind aspects) followed by microclimate computational simulation studies for calibration and prediction.

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The results of these studies will suggest the most favourable urban form capable of mitigating air pollution concentration in urban areas and further reduce its adverse impact on human health. Therefore, it will aid production of a more comprehensive urban design guidance capable of dispersing and reducing road traffic and non-road traffic pollutant concentration in the urban air. In this respect, the timing of this investigation is of particular importance, especially as a result of rapid urbanisation and construction of tall buildings in dense urban zones, the urban microclimate and concentration of air pollution crisis is likely to deepen.

Visible air pollution in London: 23 November 2016 (left) & 18 January 2017 (right)

PhD | Research

Megan Sharkey Supervisors: Dr. Michael Neuman

Transitions in Motion – Grassroots Movements, Infrastructure, and Institutional Barriers

HOW ARE GRASSROOTS community movements involved in socio-technical transitions and infrastructure changes?

Grassroots movements have many barriers to driving changes within institutions for sustainable infrastructure.

Many of these movements are trying to tackle wicked problems, but struggle to challenge transitional issues of power, politics, or institutions embracing dissent. Plus, planning and socio-technical transition actions in addressing wicked problems can further exacerbate inequalities of urbanisation, spatial justice, and climate change. My research examines grassroots movements, place and interactions in socio-technical transitions. In this case the transition to low-carbon vehicles, specifically bicycles. How do they lead these transitions; how do they drive institutions toward sustainable infrastructure changes in practice; and can we more easily identify barriers and tipping points for the movements goals? Thus, it evaluates the ways that grassroots movements can scale up its niche activities to create changes within institutions, landscape and regime.

London Cyclists [©Alex Ingram]

Socio-technical transition research is an evolving field, just as research and researchers’ interactions in the world are changing. Action research is a cyclical cycle of research and action with a particular group; it allows for observations, inputs of information to the research process, and reflections with the group to learn and improve. The researcher is an active participant. Performing action research with the London Cycling Campaign and three of London’s local borough groups over the next 18 months this research will test this underutilised methodology. The methodology engages with the immediate struggles of grassroots movements challenging institutions power and provides practice-based solutions to the grassroots movements participating in socio-technical transitions. It will highlight the institutions and movements relationship and look at tipping points within institutions. Plus, it actively explores how theory informs practice and practice can inform theory.

School of Architecture & Cities | Staff

Staff 2017-2018

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Wilfred Achille

Alan Brown

Simon Curtis

Panagiota Adilenidou

Terence Brown

Miriam Dall’Igna

Dimah Ajeeb

Christopher Bryant

Aurelie De Boissieu

Rachel Aldred

Toby Burgess

Corinna Dean

Roudaina Alkhani

Mengqiu Cao

Darren Deane

Julian Allen

Harry Charrington

Dusan Decermic

Judith Allen

Hayley Chivers

Luis Delgado Munoz

Alessandro Ayuso

Alessandra Cianchetta

Nigel Dennis

James Baldwin

Stanley Cohen

Davide Deriu

Peter Barber

Jim Coleman

Richard Difford

Scott Batty

Mark Coles

Orsalia Dimitriou

Alastair Blyth

Joseph Conteh

Christopher Dite

Stefania Boccaletti

Andrew Cook

Claudia Dolezal

Roberto Bottazzi

Brad Cooper

Izabela Dozic Frost

Anthony Boulanger

Matthew Cousins

Jeremy Dudley

George Bradley

Robin Crompton

Jane Duffield

Eva Branscome

Paul Crosby

Julia Dwyer

Lindsay Bremner

Ruth Cuenca Candel

Tim Edmundson

Stephen Brookhouse

Beth Cullen

John Edwards

Elisa Engel

Gerald Gurtner

Gabriel Kakanos

Anthony Engi Meacock

Michael Guy

Ripin Kalra

Bill Erickson

Mohamad Hafeda

Krystallia Kamvasinou

Elantha Evans

Lindsey Hanford

Neil Kiernan

Helen Farrell

Pat Hanlon

Shoko Kijima

Stefanie Fischer

Tabatha Harris-Mills

Joe King

Theeba Franklin

Stephen Harty

Maria Kramer

Isabel Frost

Matthew Haycocks

Frances Kremarik

Christina Geros

Catherine Hennessy

Debbie Kuypers

Anna Gillies

Andrew Hewanicki

Dionysia Kypraiou

Franรงois Girardin

Andrew Hofton

Gillian Lambert

Nasser Golzari

Adam Holloway

Karen Lansdown-Squire

Jon Goodbun

Edward Ihejirika

Benson Lau

Anne Graham

Clare Inkson

Constance Lau

Alisdair Gray

Bruce Irwin

Chantal Laws

Sean Griffiths

Platon Issaias

Laure Ledard

Alex Grinfeld

Alan Johnson

Dirk Lellau

Thomas Grove

Kate Jordan

Jacques Leonardi

Eric Guibert

Maja Jovic

Christopher Leung

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Gwyn Lloyd

Beatriz Mella Lira

Ilaria Pappalepore

Tony Lloyd-Jones

Sarah Milne

Mirna Pedalo

Sebastien Loew

Sadie Morgan

Ruby Penny

Tania Lopez Winkler

James Morgan

Emma Perkin

Harpreet Lota

Rebecca Mortimore

Callum Perry

Alison Low

Alessandra Mossa

Sue Phillips

Jane Madsen

Rachel Moulton

Catherine Phillips

Evangelia Magnisali

Richa Mukhia

Sue Phillips

Arthur Mamou-Mani

Rebecca Neil

Maja Piecyk

Tony Manzi

Michael Neumann

Stuart Piercy

Andrei Martin

Natalie Newey

Juan PiĂąol

Max Martin

Johannes Novy

Marzena Piotrowska

David Mathewson

John O’Shea

David Pitfield

Warren McFadden

Alice Odeke

Alicia Pivaro

Melanie McGlone

Matas Olendra

David Porter

William McLean

Chiara Orefice

Alan Powers

Alison McLellan

Samir Pandya

Anthony Powis

Michael McNamara

Enrica Papa

Kester Rattenbury

Clare Melhuish

Antonios Papanastasiou

Paul Reeves

Lara Rettondini

Ro Spankie

Richard Warwick

Amanda Reynolds

Afolabi Spence

Richard Watson

Paul Richens

Manos Stellakis

Victoria Watson

Michael Rose

Joanne Stevens

Zhenzhou Weng

Shahed Saleem

Kenneth Stevens

Andrew White

Izis Salvador Pinto

Rachel Stevenson

Andrew Whiting

Duarte Santo

Matthew Stewart

Camilla Wilkinson

Rosa Schiano-Phan

Bernard Stilwell

Elizabeth Wilks

David Scott

Ben Stringer

Julian Williams

Rob Scott

Allan Sylvester

Johan Woltjer

David Seex

Jane Tankard

Jonathan Wong

Yara Sharif

Graham Tanner

Nicholas Wood

Peter Sharratt

Louise Thomas

Allan Woodburn

Conor Sheehan

Adam Thwaites

Andrew Yau

Gordon Shrigley

Juan Vallejo

John Zhang

Peter Silver

Ewald Van Der Straeten

Fiona Zisch

Andrew Smith

Giulio Verdini

Krista Zvirgzda-Zvirgzdina

Giles Smith

Filip Visnjic

Tsz Wai So

Christine Wall

Department of Architecture | Architectural Practice Links

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de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects

HTA Design

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ech2o

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Edward Williams Architects

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AY Architects

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BDP

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Birds, Portsmouth Russum Architects

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KCAP Architects and Planners

Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects

Featherstone Young

Laing O’Rourke

Buro Happold

Fletcher Priest Architects

Levitt Bernstein

Casson Mann

Form_art Architects

Lyon & Co Architects

Clement Porter

Foster + Partners

Mai Studio

Collective Works

Front Inc

Make Architects

Conibere Phillips Architects

Gatti Routh Rhodes

make:good

Mamou-Mani Architects

Pilbrow and Partners

Stolon Studio

Marks Barfield

PLP Architecture

StructureMode

MATA Architecture

Polysemic

Studio Libeskind

Matthew Lloyd Architects

Price Parizi

Studio Octopi

Michael Wilford Architects

Price & Myers

Studio Weave

Minifie van Schaik Architects

Projet d’Architecture

The Klassnik Corporation

Mobile Studio

RALA

Tony Fretton Architects

Modern Architect

Richard Griffiths Architects

Vickers Architects

Morph Structures

Ruimte Design

VOLA

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ROK Architects

Waind Gohil Potter

Nissen Richards Studio

Roz Barr Architects

Wayward Architects

Ooma Design

RPP

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Wilkinson Eyre Architects

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