Contributors

Nishat Awan is co-author of the 2011 book Spatial Agency: Other ways of doing architecture. She is currently a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture.

Phil Ayres is an architect, researcher and educator. He joined the ranks at CITA (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) in 2009, after a decade of teaching and research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, in London, and completing his PhD in Denmark at the Aarhus School of Architecture. He has also been a partner of sixteen*(makers) since 1998. He is author of the 2012 book, Persistent Modelling: Extending the role of architectural representation.

Lucy Block completed her MA studies at the University of Sheffield in 2011 and was subsequently nominated for the President’s Medal Dissertation Award. She is currently practising with McDowell+Benedetti, an award winning architectural practice based in Central London.

Peter Blundell Jones is a British architect, historian, academic and critic; he holds the position of Professor at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture.

Kamni Gill is a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield Department of Landscape and a practising landscape architect, with numerous built designs for residential and public spaces in France, Switzerland and the United States. Before starting her own practice, she worked with Hargreaves Associates, Gregory Lombardi Design and the Bioengineering Group. Her design work has been published in Azure, Landscape Architecture and Landscape Australia.

Ann Griffin is a Director at Meadowcroft Griffin Architects in London, an award-winning architectural, urban and landscape design practice based in Kentish Town, London.

Ben Hamilton-Baillie is an architect, urban designer and movement specialist from Bristol, United Kingdom. He is the director of his own company, Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd, where he provides consultancy advice on traffic and urban renewal.

Bing Jiang has just completed her PhD on Chinese gates and doors at Sheffield supervised by Peter Blundell Jones.

Jian Kang is Director of the Acoustics Group and Professor at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He obtained his first degree and MSc from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Patrick Keiller is a British film-maker, writer and lecturer. His films include London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997) and Robinson in Ruins (2010).

Derong Kong is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture.

David Lea is Principal at David Lea Architects and winner of a RIBA award in 2011 for his Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE).

Alan Lewis is a Research Associate with the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester.

Mark Meagher is a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He completed his MArch at Harvard University and his PhD at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Doina Petrescu is a Professor at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture and a member and co-founder of the design cooperative aaa (atelier d’architecture autogéré). aaa’s work has recently been awarded the European Prize for Urban Public Space – Special Mention 2010 and the second place at the Prix Grand Public des Architectures contemporaines en Métropole Parisienne competition in 2010.

Flora Samuel is Professor at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. She is an internationally recognised expert on Le Corbusier and her previous books include Le Corbusier: Architect and feminist, Le Corbusier in Detail (nominated for the RIBA International Book of the Year award 2008), and Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade.

John Sergeant is an architect, former Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College.

Cornelia Tapparelli is a practising architect with the firm Kawamura Ganjavian and a research and teaching assistant at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She has worked as an architect and researcher with Herzog & de Meuron and the Swiss Architecture Museum.

Renata Tyszczuk is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Taught Masters Programmes at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. She has an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Architecture and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is a founding member of the Agency Research Centre at the School of Architecture and, together with Professor Doina Petrescu, is the founding editor of Field:, a journal of architecture.

Stephen Walker is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He trained as an architect and has worked for architectural and design practices in London and Madrid. He completed an MA in Architecture and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, and a PhD at the University of Sheffield.

Jianghua Wang is at Tianjin University in China and was a visiting fellow at Sheffield during 2012–13.

Peter Wilson is a Principal of the distinguished international practice Bolles+Wilson, based in Münster. In 2009, he received the President’s Prize from the Australian Institute of Architects.

Jan Woudstra is Reader and the principal historian at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield. He received his PhD from the Department of Geography of University College London.