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Architectural Design / Architectural & Urban History & Theory students

Ollie Palmer project 2013
Architectural Design and Architectural & Urban History & Theory are aimed at designers, historians and theorists of architecture. In practice, there is considerable overlap and engagement between the two programmes, both of which consist of a dynamic group of around 90 innovative doctoral students. 


These programmes have a diverse body of students, half of which are international. Many are funded by their home governments or by UCL, one of the UK research councils, or another funding body such as the Royal Institute of British Architects.


Current students 


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Image: The disorder of order - Omar Abolnaga (2022)

 

Omar Abolnaga

Demystifying ʿAshwaʾiyyat: A Critique of the Discourse around Cairene Urban Informality

 

 

Moscow skyline © Victor Chekmenev / Lori Photobank

 

Alena Agafonova

Post-soviet housing design in Russia: The conception of home defined by norms and regulations

 

 

Image from the Op.12 Experimental Performance. 2018. Source: Ava Aghakouchak

 

Ava Aghakouchak

Performing Spaces; An Attention Oriented Study of Human Perception

 

 

 

 

Atheer Al Mulla

 
Image: Golden Lane Estate, Fann St (Abdullah Aldabbous)


Abdullah Ahmed Aldabbous
The Case of Affordable Housing Provision in the Square Mile

 

 


Vasileios Aronidis
 

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Sequence 3 in colour


Paul Bavister

Evolutionary optimisation and the generation of emotional response to sound and space

 


Petri dish with coloured sand


Richard Beckett

Bioaugmented Design: Designing the Indoor Environment

 

 

“Purépecha altar for the Saint of the Miracles, Parícutin volcano, Mexico, 2018”.

 

Olivier Bellflamme

An Architect in the Footsteps of Ethnographer Carl Lumholtz

 

 

Image: Jhono Bennett

 

Jhono Bennett

Spatial Praxis in the Post-Post Apartheid City: A Southern Urbanist reflection on spatial design practice in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 

 


Matthew Butcher
 

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DIY skate spot, Jamaica Plains, Boston. Credit: Thom Callan-Riley


Thom Callan-Riley

“How beautiful it can be”: Exploring Collective Memory and Collective Imagination in Skateboarding

 

 

Renée Gailhoustet, Le Liégat, structure H, 1977 © Collection Frac Centre-Val de Loire


Paola Camasso
Everyday architectural logics: Female Brutalist architects and the project of logical architecture, 1953 – 1986. 

 

 

William Victor Camilleri, Object VI: The Gardener’s War and the Seed’s Renunciation of Nature. (Photograph by Frederik Petersen)

 

William Victor Camilleri

The Struggle for Existence

 


Niccolò Casas


Niccolò Casas

Digital Decadence - The aesthetics of Ugliness in the age of digital architecture

 


Image: Proceedings, Planning Man’s Physical Environment, Princeton University Bicentennial Conference (Series 2, Conference 5, 1947). Courtesy of Marquand Library of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, in Chin-Wei Chang's 2017 journal article.


Chin-wei Chang

Transnational Encounters: Huang Zuoshen, Liang Sicheng and the Role of Western Pedagogy in Formulating the Discourse of China’s Modern Architectural Education

 

 

Image: Chishan Sluice completed in 1936 in Jurong County, Jiangsu Province (photo by Yichuan Chen)


Yichuan Chen
Constructing Chinese Modernity: Concrete in China, 1880-1990

 

 


Mollie Claypool
 

 

 

On Leong Tong (perspective rendering) by Poy Gum Lee, 1948. Private collection, used with permission. © Estate of Poy Gum Lee.

 

Kerri Culhane

Building Identity: Transnational Architectural Exchange in New York City’s First Chinatown, 1870-2019

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Asha (Ting) Ding

Affective Computing Based On Gait Recognition and Artificial Neural Network in Architectural Built Environment

 

 


Killuan Doherty


Killian Doherty

Decolonizing architectural practice: exploring dwelling and distinction within the (development) landscapes of Rwanda

 

 

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Olivia Duncan
An Indigenous Model? Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive Participatory Practices in Urban Development in UAE

 

 

Image: Tom Dyckhoff

 

Tom Dyckhoff
Visions of Britain: Television, the city and its architecture

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Pol Esteve
 

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Image: Composition by Daniyal Farhani, The Changing Fragments, digital, 2022


Daniyal Farhani

Acupuncture for a Disciplined Urban Realm: The Case of Sanyuanli Urban Village, Guangzhou

 

 

Central Hill Development, Norwood, Architect’s model of the proposed development of the Central Hill area of Upper Norwood into high density housing, photograph by Eric de Mare, Ref. SP19/184/Cen.1, Date: c. 1970, Lambeth Archives: borough photographs.


Christiane Felber

Modern Arts and Crafts. Council Housing in Lambeth 1965-1980

 
Image: Mannan Foundation Trust & Our Building Design, Photo of a bamboo building workshop with the Rajapur community


Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows
Improvised architectural responses to the changing climate; making, sharing and communicating design processes

 


Drawings by Judit Ferencz: Cooking at Robin Hood Gardens


Judit Ferencz

The Graphic Novel as an Interdisciplinary Conservation Method in Architectural Heritage: A Book of Hours for Robin Hood Gardens

 

‘CLOTHO’ box with backstrap loom (wood and cotton, 2019). Designed and Photographed by: Fernando P. Ferreira


Fernando P. Ferreira
Factory of Stories: Weaving counter-narratives for Vale do Ave.

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Clemency Gibbs - scaffolding on building facade

 

Clemency Gibbs

Façadism in London: 1970- present

 

 

Naomi Gibson (2020) Scene of a meeting

 

Naomi Gibson

Speaking to Design: Verbal Interpretations and Architectural Invention

 

 

Image: Felix Graf

 

Felix Graf

Adaption of specific tree elements for furniture making: The role of embodied knowledge within the processes of design and manufacture

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Image: Xiang Peng 象棚 (A Contemporary Interpretation of the Song-dynasty Zaju). Venue: The Bauhaus Museum Dessau. Co-Directed by Zhenhang Hu, Photo by Zhenhang Hu


Zhenhang Hu

Reoccurring Communitas: Phoenix Hill Urban Theatre

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Speculative Siliceous Scaffolds, Photo Credit: Nina Jotanovic

 

Nina Jotanovic

Pearlescent Architecture: Augmenting Perceptual through Growth of Biomineralised Veneers

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Image: Knitted Anamnesis by Nikoletta Karastathi

 

Nikoletta Karastathi
Sympoietic Eco-Plexis: A Post-digital Approach Towards Ecologically-Crafted Textile Architectures

 

 

Image: Rían Kearney and Intervention Architecture, The Club’s Conception (or How the Egg Was Cracked). Installation shot at Recent Activity, 2019. Photo: John Fallon

 

Rían Kearney

Queer Space Archive: Tracing Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ Venues from Memory, 1966-1987

 

 

Public Road crossing the Irish Border, Cronolaghy, Co. Donegal, Ireland

 

Tom Keeley

Walking, Reading and Writing the Irish Border

 

 

 

There or Thereabouts, by Paul King


Paul King

Codifying and fabricating an invisible architecture

 

 

 


Dionysia Kypraiou
 

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Image: Micrograph of photosynthetic gametopgytes, Alexandra Lacatusu

Alexandra Lăcătușu

Design with Bryophytes: biotic exchanges and environmental benefits of moss growth on urban bioreceptive surfaces

 
Image: Yiming Liu


Yiming Liu
Not So Difficult, Not So (De)Colonial: Heritage Modernity and Postcoloniality in Shanghai (1949 to Now)

 

 

“Three Slideshows”, Rebecca Loewen, 2017


Rebecca Loewen

How to Isolate Inframince for Architectural Design

 

 

 

Attending Spaces, by Elin Eyborg Lund. A person in red construction gear, walking away from the camera, through a construction site.


Elin Eyborg Lund
Attending Spaces: Movement Performances as Activators in the Construction Process

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Image: Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Yoyogi Gymnasium by Tange Kenzo Collection of The Museum of Art, Kochi © Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center


Duy Mac

Writing the Liberal Script, Designing the International Society: Postwar Liberalism and Japanese Architecture, 1949-1995

 

 

Image: Bespoke Bricks by Mengdi Mao


Mengdi Mao
Limited Bespoke: The Architecture of Freeform Vaults with Interlocking Blocks

 

 

Construction 001 – Sketch for a Spatialised Score, by Emma-Kate Matthews

 

Emma-Kate Matthews

Spatiosonic Constructs: Exploring Reciprocities in Architecture and Music

 

 

Image: Photo by Ana Mayoral Moratilla

 

Ana Mayoral Moratilla

Power Construction and Architectural Reconstruction. The case of Madrid’s Ciudad Universitaria

 

 

Image by Carlo Menon. A collection of publications arranged overlapping each other.


Carlo Menon
Critical Editorial Devices in a Minor Mode: ‘Little’ Architecture Magazines of the Early Twenty-first Century

 

 

The Overgrown Stage by Hamish Muir (acrylic on paper, 2014) Copyright: Hamish Muir

 

Hamish Muir

Ecological Playwriting in the Theatre Industry

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Table with suspended objects and projection


Thi Phuong-Trâm Nguyen

Anamorphic images: an interval in the body

 

 

The 2017 draft London Plan (published by the Greater London Authority).

 

Chi Nguyen

Civic Publishing for Urban Change in Contemporary London: the role of publishing in public conversations about the city

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Archival photographs of La Vedette: photographs by Jean-Eugène Durand. ©Ministère de la Culture

 

Aisling O'Carroll
Reconstructing Reconstructions: A Stratigraphic Practice of Landscape and Historiography

 
Image: Daniel Ovalle Costal


Daniel Ovalle Costal
A Canon of Queer Domesticity: Design Speculations

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The HeartBit Walks, Flow Architecture, 2018


Annarita Papeschi

Transindividual Urbanism: Novel Territories of Participatory Practices

 

 

Image: A Collage on Lasem, by Feysa Poetry, 2023


Feysa Poetry
Mapping Postcolonial Identity: Displacement and Segregation in Java’s Chinatown

 

 

Nuclear Power Station, Berkeley. Mobile Canteen for service of tea. 8th January 1957. ©Historic England 2019 – The John Laing Collection No. 48730

 

Tony Presland

Picturing Construction, Constructing Identities: The Photographic Archive of John Laing & Son Ltd

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‘Testing a Lock’, Zoë Quick

 

Zoë Quick

Yn Adrodd Pumlumon Telling Plynlimon: Performing a Welsh Upland Landscape

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Image: A still from vignette two in the film “Stasis at 835 Kings Road,” (Riviere, 2023). © Sarah Riviere, 2023.


Sarah Rivière

The Stasis Arena: Re-Negotiating the Architecture of the Social Through Kindred Confrontation at 835 Kings Road

 

 

Image: Public domain / Brazilian National Archives Collection

 

Patricia Rodrigues Ferreira da Silva
After the Future: Architecture and the Military Regime in Brazil

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Institutional and international delegation walking on the new bed of the Arroyo Bruno, diverted by Cerrejón 2019. Photo by Diana Salazar.

 

Diana Paola Salazar Morales

Co-producing an environmental history of La Guajira: Building solidarity through decolonising narratives

 
Larkin Administration Building

 

Petra Seitz

Where Do You Cry in an Open Plan Office? Labour Process Theory and Commercial Office Interiors

 
Collective Intelligence in Strategic Health Planning

 

Alexandru Senciuc

A Simulation Framework to Form Collective Intelligence in Strategic Health Infrastructure Planning

 
Sympoietic Alliance by Ram Shergill

 

Ram Shergill

The Critical Posthuman Carapace: Constructing Exoskeletal Hybrid Living Systems (EHLS)

 

Climactic Landscape Detail, Rocco Pisana


Wiltrud Simbürger

An Enquiry into Climate and Atmosphere in the Architecture of the Late Renaissance

 

 

Image: Unsurfacing the Strata of Ikeda (detail), Sayan Skandarajah


Sayan Skandarajah
Parallel Projection and the Political Gaze in Early Modern Kyoto

 
Image: Elin Söderberg, 2022


Elin Söderberg
A Tree is Not a Forest - A Proposal for a Reforestation of the Contemporary Architectural Imagination

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Image courtesy of Claire Tunnacliffe.


Claire Malaika Tunnacliffe

Queer Practices of Place Making: Exploring how LGBTQI+ activists in London make place 

 

 

[Arthur Laskus, Ulrike Pampe and Jürgen Sawade], Berliner Brandwände

 

Alessandro Toti

From O. M. Ungers’ to the radical students’ architectural and urban production at the Technische Universität Berlin (1963-1977)

 

 

“Sounding Bodies”, by Jonathan Tyrrell, 2019


Jonathan Tyrrell

Architecture’s Acoustic Shadow: Non-normative Approaches to Sound, Matter, and Space

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PhD Research Conversations: Freya Wigzell & Samar Maqusi


Cindy Walters

Rethinking the Pavilion

 
Patient Drawers, film still © Anna Wild

Anna Wild

The Way of All Built Flesh: Translations on a Workspace

 

 


Henrietta Williams
 

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Image: Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany: Elevation (1977-1984), James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture

 

Katerina Zacharopoulou

Designing for Amusement: From the Intention to the Interpretation of Architectural Humour in Post-Modern Britain


Past students


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  • Susan Fitzgerald
  • Stella Flatten
    Urban Blind Spots: an image-discursive analysis of post-socialist artefacts in contemporary Berlin
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  • Popi Iacovou

    On Movement as a Principle for Spatial Construction
  • Ersi Ioannidou

    The (Existenz-) Minimum Dwelling 
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  • Huda Tayob
    Hidden histories and Invisible Spaces: Migrant trading places in Cape Town
  • Amy Thomas
    
The Square Mile: Spatially redefining the City of London in the context of global financial networks 
  • Mette Ramsgard Thomsen

    Discovering Mixed Realities: An Exploration of Digital Interfaces as a Site for a Space of the Event
  • William Tozer

    A Theory of Making: Architecture and Art in the Practice of Adolf Loos
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  • Alex Zambelli
    Scandelous Artefacts
  • Fiona Zisch