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Colour in the Built Environment

Exploring Colour as a Structural System in Architecture

Workshop

The workshop examined colour as a structural device within architecture, a system for organising hierarchy, perception, and material relationships. Participants explored hue, value, and chroma to understand how colour can clarify spatial logic and strengthen architectural coherence.

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Architectural Association, Intermediate Unit 12 (2014–2015)

Research and Teaching

Love Will Tear Us Apart examined how small moments can generate systemic change. Through research and design in Mexico City, the unit explored architecture as a framework where temporary acts produce lasting cultural and spatial transformation.

Design Matters Conference, Chicago

Annual Conference of the Association of Architecture Organizations (AAO)

Conference / Talk

The AAO’s Design Matters Conference in Chicago gathered institutions and studios to examine public engagement in architecture, where the studio contributed a perspective on authorship, collaboration, and evolving models of practice.

From Print to Built

Reflections on Practice, Pedagogy and the Formation of the Studio

Lecture

This 2016 lecture at the AA explores the transition from large-scale practice to independent authorship, tracing how teaching, mixed-media enquiry, and process-driven design shaped a studio grounded in clarity, intent, and architectural precision.

Happening Architecture

Architectural Association, Intermediate Unit 12 (2013–2014)

Research and Teaching

Developed within Intermediate Unit 12 at the Architectural Association, Happening Architecture examined architecture as a temporal framework. The brief explored how events, participation, and performance could shape spatial systems and define lasting cultural and urban legacies.

STUFF

Too Much Is Never Enough

Publication

Amid the saturation of digital culture, this essay examines how architects can filter, compose, and give form to the world’s visual overflow, treating “stuff” as both material and medium. Originally published in AArchitecture 19 (Architectural Association, 2013).

Design-led architecture for cities, systems, and people.

Form. Clarity. Direction.

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