Design Yearbook 2019

2019 

School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape 

Newcastle University

Contents 

Welcome 

Charrette 

BA (Hons) Architecture 

Stage 1 

Stage 2 

Stage 3 

Fieldwork and Site Visits 

BA (Hons) Architecture & Urban Planning (AUP) 

Stage 1 

Stage 2 

Stage 3 

Thinking-Through-Making Week 

MArch 

Stage 5 

Stage 6 

Fieldwork and Site Visits 

Research in Architecture 

BA Dissertation 

MArch Dissertation 

Linked Research 

Taught Masters Programmes 

PhD / PhD by Creative Practice 

Architecture Research Collaborative 

Contributors 

Student Initiative 

NUAS / Signal 

Praxis 

Fold 

Sponsors 

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Welcome 

Graham Farmer – Director of Architecture 

Welcome to the 2019 edition of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape’s 

Design Yearbook. This annual publication showcases the achievements of both students 

and staff after another successful year. Our programmes continue to evolve and during 

the course of this academic session we have successfully launched a new integrated 

postgraduate programme in Advanced Architectural Design which has introduced a 

number of research-led specialist pathways, and we have also introduced a wide range 

of new design projects and studios across both our undergraduate and postgraduate 

programmes. The work contained on the following pages gives a small glimpse of the 

diversity, sense of invention, experimentation, enthusiasm and relevance that continue 

to characterise and define the design outputs from our studios and programmes. 

What is not always obvious from the content of this Yearbook is the wider infrastructure 

and environment that supports this excellence; this includes the continued 

development of a well-integrated curriculum with well-designed modules and highquality 

teaching delivered by our committed staff team. The continued investment 

in our facilities and the exceptional support staff in the School all contribute to the 

student and staff outputs that feature on the following pages. Special mention here 

should go to Sean Mallen who this year won the ‘Professional Services Staff Member 

of the Year’ award for providing outstanding teaching and support at the University’s 

Education Awards 2019. 

We should also not underestimate the role that our students play in creating the 

right environment and sense of community that allows us all to thrive. This year saw 

NUAS, the Newcastle University Architecture Society, finish runners up in both the 

Best Departmental Society and Most Improved Society at the Newcastle University 

Student Union awards. NUAS has broadened its extra-curricular activities to include a 

new group, “Signal” who have organised cross programme and interdisciplinary social 

events, engaged external speakers as part of their Small Talk series, run a series of 

student debates called Sound Room shared with architecture students at Northumbria 

University, and arranged student-led skills sharing workshops. Other new student 

groups include PRAXIS who are developing opportunities for hands-on design-build 

experience and FOLD, a student-run zine. I would like to take the opportunity to thank 

all the students who have involved themselves in these voluntary activities because 

they do make an invaluable contribution to the wider life of the School and help to 

build and sustain the sense of identity and community that characterises our School. 

A notable development within the School this year includes a generous donation of £1 

million from alumnus Sir Terry Farrell, along with his archive. The archive consists of an 

extensive collection of thousands of items that span six decades of his career, and includes 

models, drawings, papers and diaries referencing iconic and award-winning design such 

as the MI6 Building in London, a project which has famously appeared in James Bond 

films, Beijing South Station in China and the Embankment Place development above 

and around Charing Cross station. It also includes pieces from his schooldays growing 

up in Newcastle and from his five years as a student studying architecture at Newcastle 

University between 1956 and 1961. Sir Terry, who is originally from Newcastle, was 

made a Visiting Professor in the School in 2016. He has played a large part in shaping 

the way his home city looks, including developing the Newcastle Quayside masterplan, 

designing the International Centre for Life, and refurbishing and extending the Great 

North Museum - Hancock. Sir Terry’s donation will contribute to the renovation of 

the Claremont Building in the form of the “Farrell Centre” which will house a major 

new architectural exhibition space, an urban room where anyone can come to learn and 

discuss the city of Newcastle, its past as well as proposals for its future, and a start-up 

space for recent graduates. 

The Farrell Centre will help us to continue to develop our reputation as one of the 

leading Schools in the UK. As a member of the UK’s Russell Group of leading research 

intensive Universities, we engage in research-led education. We want to equip our 

students not just for their first day in work but to lead in the professions they will 

retire from. We believe knowledge to be a collective cultural endeavour which is best 

realised through a dynamic approach to research and education, developed through 

an ongoing process of research-driven inquiry in which staff and students are both 

participants. We aim to deeply engage students in their education as critical and 

creative thinkers, rigorously challenging and empowering them, supporting them 

to stay ahead of a changing world. This book features work borne from this creative 

environment, enabling students to take a collaborative and dynamic approach to their 

learning. 

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Charrette 

Charrette week starts the academic year, bringing a host of alumni, artists, architects, engineers designers and thinkers to the university 

to run a one-week high energy project. Students from all years are mixed into Charrette ‘studios’ for the week, to encourage cross year 

learning and to break down social barriers within the school. Each Charrette studio will typically involve 45 people, with students from 

the upper years expected to exercise team and time management skills learnt in practice to ensure the projects are delivered on time and 

on budget. 

Each year Charrette leaders are given three thematic words to respond to – this year’s being: SPECTACULAR / FAILURE / HELP 

Highlights included; ethereal projections, survival camps and terrazzo experiments. 

Next year we are planning something special to celebrate the 10th year of whole school Charrettes! 

Charrette 01: Other Ways of Working 

Corina Tuna 

Charrette 02: Spectacular Terrazzo 

Albane Duvillier and Elliot Rogosin 

Charrette 03: People Watching, Professionally 

Amy Linford 

Charrette 04: Architects of Self-Destruction 

Andrew Walker 

Charrette 05: Apocalypse Now 

Lyn Hagan 

Charrette 06: Making Spectacular 

22 Sheds 

Charrette 07: Help! A Spectacular Strategy 

Gareth Hudson and Phil Begg 

Charrette 08: Re-Use Is In the Air 

Tibo Labat, Armelle Tardiveau, Daniel Mallo and Ben Bridgens 

Charrette 09: Tipping Point 

Michael Simpson and Anna Cumberland 

Charrette 10: White Space 

Cynthia Mak and Karl Wong 

Charrette 11: Spectacle 

Hazel McGregor 

Charrette 12: Curating APL 

Kieran Connolly 

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Text by Matthew Margetts

6 Top Left - Other Ways of Working Top Right and Bottom - Tipping Point

Top - Spectacle 

Bottom - Spectacular Terrazzo 

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BA (Hons) Architecture 

Samuel Austin – Degree Programme Director 

Newcastle’s RIBA Part I accredited BA programme fosters an inclusive, research-led 

approach to architecture. Alongside a thorough grounding in all the skills required to 

become an imaginative, culturally informed, socially aware and technically competent 

design professional, it offers opportunities to engage in developments at the forefront 

of current research, from computation and material science to architectural history and 

theory. Emphasising collaboration as well as independent critical enquiry, we encourage 

students to draw on diverse methods and fields of knowledge, to follow their own 

interests and to develop their own design approach. 

We believe that to produce good architecture requires more than rounded abilities 

and knowledge; it requires judgements about what we value in the buildings and 

cities we inhabit, what to prioritise in the spaces and structures we propose and 

what contribution architecture can make. The course doesn’t claim to offer simple 

– or correct – responses to these challenges. Our diverse community of researchers 

and practitioners, each with their own interests and expertise, introduce students 

to a range of issues, ideas, traditions and techniques in architectural design and 

scholarship. We help students develop fine-grained skills in interpreting spaces 

and texts, critical thinking to understand the implications of design decisions, and 

spatial and material imagination to stretch the boundaries of what architecture can 

achieve. Rather than teach a single way of working, we give students the tools to 

discover what kind of architect they want to be. 

A lively design studio is central to this learning process and to the life of the School. 

Design projects, taught by a mix of in-house tutors and practitioners from across the 

UK, account for half of all module credits. We promote design as thinking-throughmaking, 

an integrated process of researching and testing ideas in sketchbook, computer, 

workshop and on site, of responding to diverse issues and requirements all at once 

– spatial, material, functional, social, economic etc. This approach is reinforced by 

collaborative projects involving artists and engineers, and at the beginning of each year 

by week-long design charrettes where students from all stages of all design programmes 

work together to respond to diverse design challenges, through installations around the 

School and beyond. Lectures, seminars and assignments in other modules examine the 

theoretical, historical, cultural, practical and professional dimensions of architecture, 

and support students to embed these concerns in studio work. 

Stages 1 and 2 are structured to guide students through increasingly challenging scales, 

types and contexts of design projects, alongside a breadth of related constructional 

and environmental principles and varied themes in architectural history and theory. 

Briefs invite experimentation with different architectural ideas and representational 

skills, first through projects set in Newcastle, then incorporating study trips to regional 

towns and cities. As work increases in depth and complexity – from room to house, 

community to city, simple enclosure to multi-storey building – students have more 

opportunities to develop and focus their own interests. A dissertation – an in-depth 

original study into any architecturally related topic – sets the scene for a year-long Stage 

3 final design project. With a choice of diverse thematic studios, each with its own 

expert contributors and international study trip, students acquire specialist skills and 

knowledge, allowing them to craft their own distinctive portfolio. 

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Stage 1 

It is tempting to give the impression that everything in Stage 1 has changed this year but, whilst things might outwardly 

look and feel quite different, the extensive restructuring has taken care to build from the same foundational principles that 

have supported Stage 1 teaching at Newcastle for many years. 

The most obvious changes have occurred in the Semester 1 design module. The students now decant from their 

studios each week to undertake a series of city walks, each with a different tutor and guide, and with a particular 

Architectural Design skill or theoretical idea as a focus. Additionally, the walks introduce students to their new home, 

to key buildings within the city, to different members of staff and to one another. The walks each have a defined output 

and these are then employed in a short end-of-Semester design project, “Smart Small Dwelling”, which offers fledgling 

student designers the chance to try out their newly acquired skills, gathered during the Semester, and employ them in 

a context with which they have become very familiar. 

The students are encouraged to venture slightly further afield in a new Semester 2 project, “Prospect and Refuge”, as they 

undertake the design of a small contextually responsive outward-bound centre. In another departure for Stage 1, each of 

the ten tutor groups works on their own site and with a unique outward-bound activity as a focus. The coastal edge sites 

– strung along the promenade between North Shields fish-quay and the Spanish City in Whitely Bay – offer strong edges, 

changes in level, distant views, sandy beaches and sea air. Fish and chips anyone? 

Year Coordinators 

Kati Blom 

Simon Hacker 

Project Leaders 

Kati Blom 

Simon Hacker 

Shankari Raj 

Students 

Agata Malinowska 

Agatha Delilah Barber 

Aikaterini Passa 

Aleema Hira Aziz 

Alexander Jacob Caminero McCall 

Anastasia Asenova 

Anna Toft 

Aurelia Thompson 

Aya Rose Mordas 

Benjamin Galvin 

Benjamin Michael Rene Osta 

Benjamin Timothy Franklin 

Benoit William Rawlings 

Bethany Grace Valerie Rungay 

Brian Ethen Cox 

Catherine McConnachie 

Chao Jung Chang 

Charles William Kay 

Ching Yee Jane Li 

Christian Thomas Davies 

Christopher James Hegg 

Chui Lam Yip 

Chung Hei Mok 

Colin Rogger 

Constantinos Chrysanthou 

Daniel Mijalski 

Daniel James Andrew Bennett 

Danielle Marie Quirke 

Dk Noor ‘Ameerah Pg Kasmirhan 

Dominika Kowalska 

Dongpei Yue 

Ehan Harshal Halimun 

Eleanor Lindsay Jarah 

Eleanor Victoria Mettham 

Ella Lucy Freeman 

Ella Madeleine Ashworth 

Eloise Sian Macdonald Littler 

Emily Tamar Ducker 

Emma Louise Beale 

Fanny Lovisa Kronander 

Gabriel Dominic Saliendra 

Gloria Sirong Hii 

Grace Elizabeth Evans 

Guoyi Huang 

Haleemah M A M I Khaleel 

Hana Baraka 

Hannah Grace Fordon 

Hannah Maria Batho 

Harriet Roisin Harrington Allen 

Harun Kilic 

Hereward Percival H Leathart 

Hon Ying Chow 

Isobel Ann Prosser 

Jack Martin Callaghan 

Jehyun Lee 

Jemma Louise Woods 

Jenna Goodfellow 

Jessica Charlotte Dunn 

Jessica Helena Eve Male 

Jiahan Ding 

Jing Hao 

Jingci Yeong 

Jingqi Li 

Jiri Stanislav Goldman 

Jiwoo Kim 

Joshua Alexander Jones 

Joshua Imran Farghaly 

Joungho So 

Julian Nyalete K Djopo 

Julianna Skuz 

Junhui Lou 

Karolina Lutterova 

Katy Hughes 

Kinga Maria Rybarczyk 

Lea-Monica Udrescu 

Lewis Michael Neil Baylin 

Libby Mae Taylor 

Liene Greitane 

Liza Nadeem 

Lorand Nagy 

Louis Jacques Duvoisin 

Louis Oliver Hermawan 

Luca Edward Philo 

Madeline Collins 

Magdalena Katarzyna Mroczkowska 

Malaika Javed 

Malak Elwy 

Marianne Mikhail 

Matteo Giovanni Amedeo Hunt-Cafarelli 

Max Aaron Blythe 

Michael Jun Wang Liu 

Milly Rose London 

Molly Robinson 

Morgan Elizabeth Cockroft 

Muhammad Shujaat Afzal 

Muskan Sethi 

Natalia Stasik 

Neli Barzeva 

Niamh Hannah Kelly 

Nicholas Andrew Stubbs 

Nok Fai Nathan Yuen 

Oliver Denning Buckland 

Olivia Maria Ewing 

Oscar Michael Lavington 

Otto Lucas Jaax 

Pak Hei Julian Ng 

Peter Anthony Windle 

Philip David Russell 

Polly Ann Chiddicks 

Quanah Clark 

Rea Chalastani-Patsioura 

Reece Mckenzie Minott 

Robert Brentnall Gowing 

Rosabella Margaret Reeves 

Rosemary Charlotte Joyce 

Rositsa Krasteva 

Sam Ravahi-Fard 

Samuel Russell John Hare 

Samuel Scott Coldicott 

Samuel William Stokes 

Sarah Jayne Charlton 

Sebastian Adam Poole 

Si Cheng Fong 

Sophie Hannah Grace Henderson 

Stella Ogechi Chukwu 

Supapit Tangsakul 

Tabitha Victoria Edwards 

Taddeo Toffanin 

Tessa Elizabeth Lewes 

Thomas Charles Peter Henry Adams 

Tian Fang 

Trina Andra Zadorojnai 

Tsz Fung Wong 

Wing Hei Lo 

Xiaoqian Zhou 

Xindi Cheng 

Xinrui Lin 

Xixian Wu 

Xuhan Zhang 

Yat Hei Asher Hon 

Yuan Zhang 

Yuanyuan Chen 

Yuen Man Cheng 

Contributors 

Andy Campbell 

Anna Cumberland 

Cath Keay 

Charlotte Powell 

Cynthia Wong 

Damien Wootten 

Dan Kerr 

David Davies 

David McKenna 

Di Leitch 

Ed Wainwright 

Elinoah Eitani 

Ewan Thomson 

Graham Farmer 

Henna Asikainen 

Jack Mutton 

James Craig 

Jamie Morton 

John Kamara 

Karl Mok 

Kati Blom 

Kate Wilson 

Keri Townsend 

Martin Beattie 

Nathaniel Coleman 

Nick Clark 

Noemi Lakmaier 

Olga Gogoleva 

Patrick Malone 

Prue Chiles 

Raymond Verrall 

Robert Johnson 

Sam Austin 

Sana Al-Naimi 

Sarah Stead 

Shankari Raj 

Simon Hacker 

Sneha Solanki 

Sophie Cobley 

Stephen Tomlinson 

Tara Alisandratos 

Tony Watson 

Tracey Tofield 

Zeynep Kezer 

10 Text by Simon Hacker Opposite - Dominika Kowalska

Routes Into Architecture 

Kati Blom 

In this introductory project, students undertake a repeated walking route through Newcastle city centre, foraging for architectural elements 

and components, and learning about architectural forms, ideas and discourse along the way. They are encouraged to look at the city and its 

architecture and to represent their adventures – to sketch, measure, draw, model, map and photograph and to gather sufficient material for 

their second project. 

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Top Left - Xinrui Lin Top Right - Aurelia Thompson Bottom - Fanny Kronander

Top - Yuen Man Cheng Middle Left - Samuel Coldicott Bottom Left and Right - Aleema Aziz 

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Smart Small Dwelling 

Shankari Raj 

A dwelling comes in many forms depending on the location, site, climate and those residing in it. Heidegger argues that the manner in which 

we dwell is the manner in which we are, we exist, on the face of the earth – an extension of our identity, of who we are. In this project, students 

choose their client – each with a strong identity, ranging from an insurance broker who keeps chickens, to a secondary school student looking 

for a hide-away – and design a tiny experientially rich ‘dwelling’ for them, located within the City along the project 1.1 walking route. 

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Above - Aurelia Thompson

Top Left - Jiahan Ding Top Right - Wing Hei Lo Bottom Left - Muhammad Shujaat Afzal Bottom Right - Xuhan Zhang 

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Prospect and Refuge 

Simon Hacker 

This project asks students to design a small Outdoor Activity Centre, located on the coast, north of the River Tyne. In doing so, they consider 

a variety of different experiential spaces, both internal and external, and carefully consider how these might respond to their particular site, 

landscape and place. The ‘refuge’ element of the brief encourages thoughtfulness about room scales, materiality and light, whilst level changes, 

sloping sites and a focus on visual ‘prospect’ promotes sectional, as well as plan-based consideration. 

16 Top Left - Liene Greitane Top Right - Samuel Coldicott Middle - Fanny Kronander Bottom - Karolina Lutterova

Top - Muhammad Shujaat Afzal Middle - Robert Gowing Bottom - Julian Djopo 

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Stage 2 

Stage 2 is a transitionary year in which students begin to engage with questions of how architecture is produced by, and 

productive of, different types of economies, and how we, as architects, designers, researchers and thinkers, have a role to play 

in shaping the environments of the future. The year is divided into two semester-long projects, addressing two core themes: 

Housing in the first Semester and Experience in Semester two. 

Set in two cities, Edinburgh and Durham, and the imagined spaces of film, students are invited to explore increasingly 

complex spatial projects from collective housing, to public buildings, and work across the boundaries of architecture, art, 

engineering, craft and making. 


Christos Kakalis 

Stella Mygdali 

Project Tutors 

Adam Hill 

Amara Roca Iglesias 


Delia Murguia (Semester 1) 

Jack Green 

James Perry (Semester 1) 

John Kinsley (Semester 2) 

Justin Moorton (Semester 2) 

Luke Rigg 

Maria Mitsoula (Semester 2) 

Neil Burford 

Nick Simpson (Semester 1) 

Nikoletta Karastathi (Semester 1) 

Prue Chiles 

Samuel Penn (Semester 1) 

Sana Al-Naimi 


Artist Tutors/ 

Engineering Experience 

Aaron Guy 

Adam Goodwin 

Craig Hawkes 

Harriett Sutcliffe 

Isabel Lima 

Rosie Morris 

Will Stockwell 

Students 

Abbey McGuire 

Abdurakhman Talip 

Abu Borhan Mohammed Jabed Alahi 

Adam James Blacknell 

Alexander Adam Ollier 

Alexander John Thompson 

Alexandra Kathryn Heys Bramhall 

Alice Louise Cann 

Anastasia Winifred Cockerill 

Aruzhan Sagynay 

Aysel Imanova 

Callum Jacob Harker 

Charlie Barratt 

Charlotte Elizabeth Ashford 

Cheng Wu Teo 

Cheuk Lum Charlie Wong 

Che-Yi Lin 

Chi Ming Ng 

Colin Nils Elkington 

Daneshvaran Narayanasamy 

Daniel Luke Thompson 

Darcy Joy Norgan 

Denisa-Iuliana Calomfirescu 

Edward Harry Salisbury 

Ella Kate Johnson 

Ella Lucy Waite 

Ellen Marilyn Willis 

Emily Ming Orlando Harper 

Ethan James Medd 

Felipe Gonzalez Zapata 

Felix Frank Christopher White 

Feyzan Sarachoglu 

Florence Nancy Muwanga Nayiga 

Fu Kwong Franky Choy 

George Salsbury Spendlove 

Georgina Carol-Anne Walker 

Grace Carroll 

Hamed Sabri Musallam Salem Alseyabi 

Hannah Constance Carson 

Harry Goacher 

Heather Annie O’Mara 

Hei Lok Hong 

Herbert Winata Ng 

Hiu Kit Brian Hui 

Hizkia Widyanto 

Ho Wang Heymans Choy 

Hong Tung Chau 

Hope Frances Foster 

Hui Ching Lo 

Hyelim Lee 

Isabel Alice Vile 

Isabel Teresa Chapman 

Isabella Alice Colley 

Iulia Stefancu 

Jacob Oliver Botting 

Jacob Timothy Weetman Grantham 

Janet Wolf 

Jasmine Sophie Bishop 

Jean Nee Chia 

Jerrica Jou An Liu 

Jianbo Huang 

Jing Olyvia Tam 

Jonas Varnauskas 

Jonathan Barker 

Jonathan James Barnaby Coekin 

Jordon Johnathaon Anderton 

Joseph James Caden 

Jurgen Xavier Springer 

Ka Hei Chan 

Ka Ho Ng 

Kate Buurman 

Kate Margaret Flower 

Katherine Emma Belch 

Katy-Ann Eleanor Claridge 

Kieran Miles Forrest 

Kushi Lai 

Kyohong Min 

Lanna Jean de Buitlear 

Latifa Al Nawar 

Leo Justin Watson Fieldhouse 

Linxi Zhao 

Malika Bouabid 

Marc Justin Kabigting Gutierrez 

Marcus William Cornelissen 

Maria Aksenova 

Mariana Andrea Morales Munoz 

Matty Carr-Millar 

Migle Zabielaite 

Milena Ivova Sharkova 

Mirza Mhuhammod Imtyaz 

Momoko Kotani 

Muhammad Eijaz Fiqri Bin Norazim 

Natasha Alexandra Rice 

Niamh Mary Lyons 

Oliver Joseph Gabe 

Oyinkansola Temilolu Omolayo Omotola 

Pak Hin Tsang 

Paola Isabella Jahoda 

Pei Tung Au 

Peng Yin 

Po-Chen Shen 

Qixing Huang 

Rachel Elizabeth Ann Sexton 

Rana Mohammed Ismaile Khan 

Raphael Logan Barber 

Ren You 

Reuben David Jones 

Rory Kavanagh 

Rory Patrick Durnin 

Roxana Andreea Caplan 

Sarah Popsy Bushnell 

Sarah Safwan Moh’d Hasan Al Hasan 

Sasha Omid Edward Swannell 

Shu Zhang 

Shuk Yi Fung 

Shuwardi Boon Seen 

Simran Ravindan 

Sin Ian Si Tou 

Siriwardhanalage Navindu Deelaka De Saram 

Sophie Charlotte Spoor 

Sophie Grace Collins 

Talal Osama K Bader 

Tania-Cristina Farcas 

Tess Margaret Tollast 

Tunu Maya N Brown 

Victoria Aphra Lowsley Peake 

Wei Hua 

William Alexander Quealy Harrison 

William James Bell 

Xavier Nicholas Chen 

Xiao Lin Xie 

Xin Guo 

Yanchao Sun 

Yingjin Wang 

Yu Hua Lee 

Yu-Chieh Chang 

Zacharias Yiassoumis 

Zeyad Saudy Mohammed Hasanin 

Zeyu Chen 

Zhi Xuan Yew 

Guest Reviewers 

Andrew Ballantyne 

Alex Blanchard 

Cara Lund 

Chris French 

Claire Harper 

Dimitra Ntzani 

Elizabeth Baldwin Gray 

Graham Farmer 

James Craig 

Jack Roberto Scaffardi 

Katie Lloyd Thomas 

Kieran CWonnolly 

Martyn Dade-Robertson 

Matthew Ozga-Lawn 

Pedro Quero 

Rumen Dimov 

Samuel Austin 

Smajo Beso 

Stephen Parnell 

Zeynep Kezer 

Year Reps 

Roxana Caplan 

Denisa Calomfirescu 

Kushi Lai 

Degree Show 

Contributors 

Jonathan Barker 

Ethan Medd 

Jurgen Springer 

Roxana Caplan 

Migle Zabielaite 

18 Text by Christos Kakalis Opposite - Oliver Gabe

At Home in the City 

Christos Kakalis & Stella Mygdali 

The first semester project, At Home in the City, asks students to consider housing as a module of the city. Beginning with a disused industrial 

site in Edinburgh’s Port of Leith, students were asked to work across scales from the neighbourhood, to the house, to the threshold. 

20 Top - Marc Gutierrez Bottom - Oliver Gabe

Top - Migle Zabielaite Bottom Left - Colin Elkington Bottom Right - Roxana Caplan 

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Engineering Experience 


Semester 2 begins with a three-week collaborative project between architects, artists and engineers which starts our transition to thinking 

about the experience of space as a way of leading design projects, by investigating the imagined spaces of film and the construction of spatial 

installations. 

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Exploring Experience 

Christos Kakalis & Stella Mygdali 

Based in Durham, this project asks students to explore a condenser of experience – a public building that becomes a site of spatial and material 

richness and developing programmatic complexity. 

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Top - Marc Gutierrez Left - Colin Elkington Right - Jurgen Springer

Top Left - Roxana Caplan Top Right - Jonathan Barker Bottom - Oliver Gabe 

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Stage 3 

Stage 3 continues the tradition at Newcastle for year-long ‘studios’ and this year students were given a 

choice of eight studios. Each studio was taught by a pair of tutors – comprising varied combinations 

of academics and practitioners – who set themes that broadly reflect their practice and research 

interests. The studios share a common timetable but are encouraged to pursue and celebrate different 

methodologies – from close readings of context through systemic design to critical conservation 

practice. 

Studio themes this year included contemporary monasteries in the Ouseburn, critiques of commercial 

masterplans in Manchester, tourist destinations in Northumberland and extensions to Queen’s House 

in Greenwich. 

International field trips continue to be a popular aspect of the Stage 3 experience and this year was no 

exception, with field trips to Venice, Zurich, Turin, Milan, Paris and Coventry. 

This year there has been an increased focus on representing context in Stage 3 along with a number 

of refinements including increased integration of Theory into Practice and an expansion of Thinking 

Through Making Week. 


Cara Lund 

Matthew Margetts 

Sam Austin 

Studio Leaders 

Andrew Campbell 

Cara Lund 


Colin Ross 


Harriet Sutcliffe 

Iván Márquez Muñoz 

Jack Mutton 

James Longfield 

Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes 


Luke Rigg 

Marc Subirana 


Michael Simpson 

Rachel Armstrong 

Sam Austin 

Other Contributors 

Adam Sharr 

Akari Takebayashi 

Amrita Raja 



Armelle Tardiveau 

Graham Farmer 

Hazel Cowie 

Lukas Barry 

Jack Green 

James Craig 

John Kinsley 

Jon McAulay 

Jonathan Mole 

Juliet Odgers 

Manuel Bailo 

Matt Ozga-Lawn 

Nick Peters 

Peter Sharpe 


Rosie Jones 

Ryan Doran 

Shaun Young 

Simon Hacker 

Stephen Ibbotson 

Stephen Richardson 

Steve Kennedy 

Stuart Hallett 

Victoria Tinney 

Students 

Aaron Cheng 

Abigail Elisabeth Hawkins 

Akihisa Tomita 

Aleksandria Bolyarova 

Alexandra Ellen Duxbury 

Alice Katherine Du Fresne 

Amabelle Corbita Aranas 

Anastasia Ciorici 

Angela Savitski 

Anna Moncarzewska 

Anna Volkova 

Anna Christian Moroney 

Anya Beth Donnelly 

Assem Saparbekova 

Atthaphan Sespattanachai 

Burcu Oglakci 

Cameron Fraser Reid 

Chi Shen 

Chi-Che Lee 

Chloe May Dalby 

Christopher David Anderson 

Christopher Liam Carty 

Chunyang Song 

Dohyun Ha 

Edward Benedict Yaoxiang Yan 

Elizaveta Streltsova 

Emily Jane Morrell 

Emily May Simpson 

Emily Rachael Pendleton Birch 

Emma Fernandez Ruiz 

Erya Zhu 

Ewan Mark Smith 

Faith Mary Hamilton 

Flora Rose Sallis-Chandler 

George William Cooper 

Grant Martin Donaldson 

Harry Charlesworth Groom 

Harry James Hurst 

Hassan Mehboob Sharif 

Haziqah Hafiz Howe 

Hing Nam Eunice Lau 

Ho Hang Ryan Fung 

Hok Yin Au 

Holly Kate Rich 

Huyen Anh Do 

Ioana Buzoianu 

Irene Dumitrascu-Podogrocki 

Isabel Lois Fox 

James Edward David Hall 

Jianing Lyu 

Jingyi Zhou 

Jody-Ann Goodfellow 

Joseph George Allen 

Ka Ching Leung 

Ka Chun Ng 

Kareemah Muhammad 

Karishma Dayalji 

Karolina Smok 

Kate Asolo Woolley 

Katie Cottle 

Kirin Potocka Gallop 

Kristin Olivia Read 

Leah Charlotte Harrison 

Lucy Kay Atwood 

Luk Chong Leung 

Luke Tim Jonathan Shiner 

Madeleine Carroll 

Maegan Rui Qi Lim 

Maharram Mammadzada 

Man Chi Yeung 

Martina Dorothy Hansah 

Matthew Chi Ming Warrenberg 

Megan Frances Nightingale 

Michelle Sie Ee Lim 

Miruna Ilas 

Mohini Devi Tahalooa 

Myeongjin Suh 

Natalia Beata Piorecka 

Natalie Si Wing Lau 

Nathan Alan Cooke-Duffy 

Odaro Ehide Eguavoen 

Oliver Charles Harrington 

Patricia Prayogo 

Peter Thomas Staniforth 

Philomena Chen 

Pok Ho Cheung 

Pui Hin Lam 

Qian Yi Choi 

Rachel Emmeline Clark 

Rachel Sophie Keany 

Rebecca Sinead Crowley 

Rodrigo Miguel Pereira Domingos 

Rongzhen Jiang 

Rosa Sophia Kenny 

Ruth Niamh Angele Vidal-Hall 

Sabrina May Lauder 

Sally Emir Clapp 

Samuel Fraquelli 

Sarah Alexandra Johnsone 

Sarah May Bradshaw 

Sean Ryan Bartlem 

Shaunee Lyn Tan 

Shivani Umed Patel 

Shuchi Liu 

Sienna Poppy Sprong 

Sofia Binti Mohd Nasir 

Sofia Kovalenko 

Sofia Grace Turner 

Solomon Olufemi Adeyinka Ofoaiye 

Sophie Tilley 

Sophie Agnes Wakenshaw 

Thomas James Grantham 

Thomas Nathan McFall 

Tobias Evan Himawan 

Tongyu Chen 

Victoria Louise Haslam 

Vito Benjamin Sugianto 

Wen Hua Huang 

Wen Ying Ooi 

Will Peter Tankard 

Xueqing Zhang 

Yahsi Eda Vatan 

Yeekwan Lam 

Yi May Emily Chan 

Yiyun Liang 

Yun Tak Tam 

Zhana Hristova Kokeva 

Zhong Zheng 

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Text by Matthew Margetts 

Opposite - Matthew Warrenberg

Studio 1 – Getting Away From It All 

Colin Ross & Michael Simpson 

The ‘Getting Away From It All’ studio is based on the idea that architectural practice can be broad, diverse, surprising, dynamic and even 

fun. Our ethos is that architecture can cover multiple creative areas, across scales and disciplines, from regional planning to urban design, 

landscape to building design and interiors to sculptural installation….and more. Our studio has again focused on tourist destinations along 

the Northumberland coast. Students have been encouraged to challenge tourism and the role it can play whilst working fluidly between scales, 

developing a dynamic thought process that at one moment considers strategy, the next detail. 

28 Above - Lucy Atwood (2)

Top - Aleksandria Bolyarova Middle, Left to Right - Ioana Buzoianu, Sally Clapp Bottom - Rosa Kenny 

29

Perspective view Drone Arena 

30 Top - Chi Shen Bottom - Thomas Grantham

Left, Top to Bottom - Thomas Grantham, Natalie Lau, Sabrina Lauder 

Right, Top to Bottom - Shuchi Liu, Pok Ho Cheung 

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Studio 2 - City Assemblage 

Jack Mutton, Harriet Sutcliffe & Sam Austin 

This years studio is engaged in ideas concerning context, historical narrative and materials that create enduring architecture in search of a wider 

intelligibility. Working through a process of research, rather than invention, the studio is looking to create architecture that is rooted in place 

and explores the experiential potential of materials, carefully pieced together in a celebration of craft. We are looking to create architecture 

that is contemporary yet not isolated in time. 

The studio has studied the city and works of art from artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Cy Twombly and Man Ray. These observations have 

formed the basis of our proposals and working in the spirit of assemblage we have looked to create figurative, characterful city buildings that 

engage with their surroundings. Working on derelict and former industrial sites the studio has developed proposals for a series of studio spaces 

for artists alongside a public gallery and events space. 

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Above - Ewan Smith

Top Left to Right - Rachel Keany, Matthew Warrenberg, Ewan Smith 

Bottom Left to Right - Amabelle Aranas, Megan Nightingale, Aaron Cheng 

Middle Left to Right - Cameron Reid, Rachel Keany, Ruth Vidal-Hall 

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Top - Rachel Clark Middle - Matthew Warrenberg Bottom - Amabelle Aranas

Top Left - Martina Hansah Top Right and Middle - Katie Cottle Bottom - Megan Nightingale 35

Studio 3 - Ghosts in the Machine 

Cara Lund & Matthew Margetts 

This year the ‘Infrastructures’ studio was called ‘Ghosts in the Machine’, and continued to explore themes around tangible and intangible 

infrastructures at different scales ranging from the city to the individual. Our chosen ‘vehicle’ for this study was the Coventry Ring Road 

(A4053). An almost perfectly realised 1960’s ring road of 2.25 miles in length constructed between 1962 and 1974. It was conceived to keep 

cars out of what remained of the heavily bombed and extensively reconstructed urban core, with a network of car parks and high level access 

bridges at ground and high level. It now has something of a stranglehold on the city, limiting expansion, connectivity and generating high 

levels of pollution. Inspired by reading Ballard novels, the students were asked to identify their own ‘systems’ (tangible or intangible) situated 

along the ring road, to either DISRUPT, AUGMENT or PROJECT (into the future). 

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Top - Samuel Fraquelli 

Bottom - Sienna Poppy Sprong

...you work your way through the pathways of yews. When you reach the centre, the tallest machines from the lab pop up through the 

floor: a reminder of the process... 

135 refinement 

Top Left to Right - Wen Hua Huang, Luke Shiner Middle Left to Right - Flora Sallis-Chandler, George William Cooper Bottom - Atthaphan Sespattanachai 37

THE LIGHT WELL SECTION MODEL 

THE 

PEOPLES 

PALACE 

118 119 

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Top - Wen Hua Huang Middle - Jianing Lyu Bottom - Shaunee Tan

Top, Left to Right - Harry James Hurst , Shaunee Tan Middle - Yiyun Liang Bottom - Flora Sallis-Chandler 39

Studio 4 - Enclosed Order 

Christos Kakalis & Ivan Marquez Munoz 

The Enclosed Order studio proposed an investigation of monastic architecture, divided into two main stages: 

In the first stage, the students were asked to define the individual character and the community that would inhabit the suggested complex. 

It required students to imagine, formally explore and design the unit (monastic cell) that this character would inhabit, emphasising its 

atmosphere, intangible qualities and character. In the second stage, the students were asked to design a monastic retreat complex based upon 

the line of enquiry developed in the first stage, introducing specific programmatic requirements to define their own architectural enquiry. 

40 

Above - Chi-Che Lee

Left, Top to Bottom - Odaro Ehide Eguavoen, Myeongjin Suh Right, Top to Bottom - Karishma Dayalji, Rongzhen Jiang, Nathan Cooke-Duffy 41

42 Top to Bottom - Grant Martin Donaldson, Tobias Evan Himawan (2)

THE TRAPPIST MONASTERY AND DISTILLERY. SECTION A A REFINEMENT 1:200. 

m 

THE TRAPPIST MONASTERY AND DISTILLERY 

STRUCTURAL STRATEGY 

1. PRIMARY 

In-situ concrete foundations 

2. SECONDARY 

Outer leaf brick walls, inner leaf composite concrete and brick 

wall, window elements/ frame. 

with diphram brick walls. 

3. PRIMARY 

INTERIOR 

Stainless steel frame-I beams within walls and bridge 

construction. Hollow steel section columns interior, outside of 

walls. 

EXTERIOR 

Arch frame-hollow Cor-ten steel section supports 

SECONDARY-composite brick and concrete arch. 

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4. PRIMARY 

Brick segmental vault. Central ground floor communal 

area-composite concrete and brick segmental vault-to 

accommodate stairway openings. 

5. SECONDARY 

Concrete fill over arch. 

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6. SECONDARY 

Screed fill. 

7. PRIMARY 

Stainless steel beam stairway and exterior earth supported 

ramp. 

SECONDARY- Concrete fill threads with 

TERTIARY brick tiles on stairway and exterior ramp 

8. TERTIARY 

Brick tile flooring 

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9. SECONDARY 

Outer leaf brick walls, inner leaf composite concrete and brick 

wall dormitory bed elements. 

10. PRIMARY 

INTERIOR 

Stainless steel frame-I beams within walls. Hollow steel section 

columns interior, outside of walls, with 

TERTIARY brick cladding around columns not within walls. 

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EXTERIOR 

PRIMARY-arch frame-hollow Cor-ten steel section supports 

SECONDARY-composite brick and concrete arch. 

11. SECONDARY 

Composite concrete and brick vault with 

TERTIARY roof window frames. Parapet roof guttering system. 

12. TERTIARY 

Composite cement mix with brick slip exterior. 

8 

7 

6 

5 

4 

3 

2 

1 

Top Left to Right - Anna Christian Moroney, Sarah May Bradshaw Middle Right - Sarah May Bradshaw Bottom - Anna Christian Moroney 

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Studio 5 - Future Cities – A Space for Exchange 

Kieran Connolly & Luke Rigg 

Building on the themes that emerged in the Future City studio last year, A Space for Exchange explores the urban and architectural ‘futures’ 

of inner-city Manchester taking a strong critical stance toward contemporary techniques of urban regeneration that frequently prioritise neoliberal 

economic agendas. To counter these dominant socio-economic programmes, the studio were asked to develop alternative ‘futures’ for 

Manchester that prioritised a critical approach to how space is produced and who it is produced for. In response, the studio have proposed 

carefully constructed ‘exchange’ buildings, embedded with strong social and civic qualities and programmes that are inclusive of existing 

local communities, businesses, charitable organisations, cultural facilities and social groups frequently marginalised in private real estate 

development. 

44 

Above - Chris Carty

Left - Haziqah Hafiz Howe Right - Chris Carty Bottom - Assem Saparbekova 45

46 Top, Left to Right - Karolina Smok, Christopher Anderson, Jingyi Zhou Bottom - Harry Groom

AN ESCAPE WITHIN THE CITY 

MODERN HEALING TEMPLE 

Top - Will Tankard Middle - Sophie Wakenshaw Bottom Left - Hok Yin Au Bottom Right - Mohini Devi Tahalooa 

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Studio 6 - The Queens House: Building Upon Building 

Josep-Maria Garcia Fuentes & Marc Subirana 

This studio explores experimental preservation in architecture. The brief is grounded upon the idea that architecture and preservation are 

both placed within a cultural continuum and are the outcome of a complex cultural, social and political struggle. These ideas are investigated 

through the design of a major addition to or the transformation of a heritage building. This requires an understanding of the existing 

construction in all of the ways its architecture and materials express the values it sought to represent and serve at the time, and in the ways that 

these meanings may, or may not, be extended, enriched or transformed and reshaped by the new addition. 

This year the studio has focused on The Queen’s House by Inigo Jones, and its imaginary transformation into the British Centre for 

Architecture with the aim of hosting all architectural archives from the UK and becoming an international research centre on architecture 

linked to the RIBA and the Architectural Foundation. 

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Above - Chloe Dalby

Top Left - Isabel Fox Top Right - Miruna Ilas (2) Bottom - Ka Chun Ng 

49

50 Top - Pui Hin Lam Middle - Sofia Kovalenko (2) Bottom - Solomon Ofoaiye

Top Left - Xueqing Zhang Top Right - Ka Chun Ng Middle Right - Shivani Patel Bottom - Xueqing Zhang 

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Studio 7 - Palaces of Ecologies 

Andy Campbell, Rachel Armstrong and Andrew Ballantyne 

Experimental Architecture’s ‘palace of ecologies’ explored the concept of ecology and the notion of ‘palace’ as contested centres of communal 

activity. Based on two field studies, projects emerged through the production of prototypes, models, stories and field studies. The first site, 

in Rainton Meadows, considered the relationship between space, structure, materials and modes of inhabitation by non-humans, by making 

‘creature boxes’ that were installed as a formal visitor attraction. The second site in Sant’Elena, Venice, embodied an interface between complex 

human and non-human ecosystems, from which a diverse range of ‘palaces’ emerged. 

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Above - Thomas Nathan McFall

Top - Ho Hang Ryan Fung Middle, Left to Right- Sarah Alexandra Johnsone, Leah Charlotte Harrison Bottom - Kirin Potocka Gallop 53

54 Top, Left to Right - Angela Savitski, Holly Kate Rich Middle - Anya Donnelly Bottom - Man Chi Yeung

Top - Natalia Beata Piórecka Left - Emily Rachael Pendleton Birch Right, Middle to Bottom - Zhana Hristova Kokeva (2) 55

Studio 8 - Legacies of Modernism 

Elizabeth Baldwin Gray & James Longfield 

Our studio asked students to engage with the role of theory and idea as driving forces in the formation and realisation of an architectural 

project. 

To ground this endeavour, and catalyse the establishment of theoretical positions, students were required to undertake a close reading of two 

key movements of 20th Century architecture; early European Modernism, and the later British manifestation of Brutalism, and contend 

with their legacies through a series of analytical and propositional spatial exercises. In response, students sought to address the contemporary 

relevance of these (im)possibly linked movements, either through a continuation of their conflicted emergences or by reactionary contrast. 

By studying and adopting the processes that created them, the studio served to support the development of a spatial awareness of scale, 

volume, and projection - pushing beyond standard notions of style into an understanding of the modern project. 

56 Top -Kenny Tam Middle - Anastasia Ciorici Bottom - Huyen Anh Do

Top, Left to Right - Yeekwan Lam, Kenny Tam 

Bottom, Left to Right - Rodrigo Miguel Pereira Domingos, Anastasia Ciorici 

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58 Top, Left to Right- Anna Volkova, Patricia Prayogo Middle, Left to Right - Abigail Hawkins, Karen Leung Bottom - Erya Zhu

Left, Top to Bottom - Sophie Tilley, Patricia Prayogo Top Right - Faith Hamilton Bottom - Zhong Zheng 

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Stage 3 - Fieldwork & Site Visits 

As part of Stage 3, the varied studios undertake a range of field trips in Semester one, travelling to diverse locations around Europe. All eight 

studios included (at least) one European destination. 

Studio 1: Getting Away From It All 

Utrecht 

Rotterdam 

Delft 

Scheveningen 

Studio 2: City Assemblage 

London 

Basel 

Zurich 

Chur 

Studio 3: Ghost In The Machine 

Coventry 

Turin 

Milan 

Studio 4: Enclosed Order 

Madrid 

Studio 5: Future City 

Manchester 

Turin 

Milan 

Studio 6: Building Upon Building 

London 

Rome 

Venice 

Vicenza 

Studio 7: Palace Of Ecologies 

Venice 

Studio 8: Legacies of Modernism 

Paris 

Firminy 

Lyon 

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Opposite - Field Trip Images: Ghosts in the Machine, Future Cities & Legacies of Modernism

BA (Hons) Architecture & Urban Planning (AUP) 

Armelle Tardiveau - Degree Programme Director 

The BA (Hons) Architecture and Urban Planning programme is a radically 

interdisciplinary programme. It offers an integrated and critical approach 

to both disciplines and promotes an approach to the production of urban 

space from the perspective of people and communities who live and 

experience places. It addresses contemporary societal issues through the lens 

of participation, social justice and co-production of the built environment. 

As such the programme is dynamic and keeps on evolving for a great part 

thanks to the invaluable feedback from students, upon which we endeavour 

to reflect and take action. 

What’s new this year? 

Dr Andy Law, a sociologist and aspiring sinologist who used to lead the 

programme, is now my co-pilot for this journey and I am now in charge of 

leading and developing this exciting programme. As a designer and architect, 

I aim to improve the design provision keeping the focus on different ways of 

creating architecture, design and shaping our public realm. 

The programme ethos remains soundly underpinned by modules on 

alternative practice that fuse design issues with sociological and human 

geography themes. We offer three key routes alongside design and 

alternative practice: urban planning and urban development, social and 

political history and theory, as well as business and social enterprise. This 

allows students to develop their own interest and carve their own degree 

based on their interests and strengths. Very few AUP students graduate with 

the same profile, and this in my view, celebrates the diversity of students and 

the interdisciplinary nature of the programme. 

More news… 

In March 2019, the AUP design route received the RTPI accreditation as 

part of a pathway including the completion of the BA (Hons) Architecture 

and Urban Planning programme followed by the Certificate in Planning 

Practice and the MA Urban Design. This design route is particularly relevant 

for those students who are keen to pursue such creative practice through a 

more socially engaged practice including participatory approaches to the 

built environment. 

I remain immensely grateful to the committed staff from both Architecture 

and Planning who contribute meaningfully to this degree. A large part of 

their motivation lies in the value they place in educating students in thinking 

across disciplinary boundaries. In addition, their teaching generally emerges 

from their own research. Equally, a warm thanks to all practitioner tutors 

who provide an anchorage of the programme in professional practice. 

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AUP Stage 1 - Reading Into/Drawing From 


The Reading Into/Drawing From project was inspired by Spanish architects Ricardo 

Flores and Eva Prats, who were regular leaders of the charrette week on the invitation 

of Professor Michael Tawa about a decade ago. In these charrettes, students were 

invited to imagine the space and the life beyond a painting. Michael Tawa would 

argue that they “set up open frameworks for the intricacies and intrigues of [everyday 

life] to be narrated. They are preludes and invitations to story-telling. They set the 

scene and deploy the rules that might then be followed, challenged or broken.” 

(Tawa, M., 2008) 

And so we start the first year in the Architecture and Urban Planning programme by 

engaging and scrutinising the life unfolding in a scene set in the city of Siena painted 

between 1338-39. Its author, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, was a precursor of his time: 

through his deep observation, he convincingly depicted spatial depth and empirically 

approximated the one-point perspective developed no less than a century later by 

maestri such as Brunelleschi, who revolutionised representation techniques in the 

Renaissance pictorial art. 

The Effects of Good Government in the City and the Country is part of three 

paintings including the Allegory of Good Government and the Allegory of Bad 

Government, all located in the Pallazzo Pubblico, one of the first civic buildings to be 

built at the end of the 13th century in Siena. The painting is considered one of the 

first realistic landscapes, filled with vibrant life showing people going about everyday 

activities (building, trading, learning, dancing, celebrating, hunting, harvesting, etc.) 

in a regulated, peaceful functioning social life set in an environment structured with 

streets, squares, buildings, city gates, hills, etc. 

By observing, sketching and drawing, we can guess, decipher, imagine and read into 

the painting. The Reading Into/Drawing From project aims to engage students in 

articulating a coherent visual presentation of ideas through drawing an orthographic 

plan of the neighbourhood showing the ensemble of buildings lined along a medieval 

street pattern. This steep learning experience is broadened by modelling the depicted 

buildings flanked on a hill along the city wall. During these two intense weeks, the 

students learn to work in a group, gain an insight into the life of a city from another 

era, and make sense of, and practice, the first fundamental skill that deals with scale, 

drawing and modelling. 

Over the last three years, committed Stage 6 students have taught the expertise 

required to build a three dimensional form out of the painting. Every year, I am 

fortunate to collaborate with a team of engaged Stage 6 students who have taught 

AUP Stage 1. Ellie Gair who is about to complete her MArch states that “teaching 

whilst studying for my master’s degree was invaluable, it allowed a chance for 

perspective and reflection on the journey through education. Often Stage 1 students 

asked ‘why’ they are taught non-design modules, I could explain that they helped to 

rationalise my own practice.” 

Stage 1 Students 

Abin John 

Aida Aghayeva 

Alexander Joe Mewis 

Amy-Rosie Manning 

Angus John Atkin 

Chelsea Nicole Petrillo 

Darcey Lily Morse 

Declan O’Neil 

Diana Mihailova 

Edward James Frederick Bousfield 

Emma-Maria mItu 

Gabriella Bryllian Lie 

George Woodruff 

George Joseph Avery 

Hoi Ning Wong 

Jack Andrew McMunn 

Jacob Bowell 

Jacob John David Hughes 

Jacobus Michael Merkx 

Jae Eun Cho 

Jamie Ryan Bone 

Jeremy Anthony Julian Bidwell 

Jordan Niels Patrick Shanks 

Kira Sonal Nitesh Shah 

Lap Yan Tai 

Laura Jane Nicholas 

Luke Dixon 

Marcelina W 

Martin Bastien Joly 

Mary-Anne Catherine Murphy 

Megan Jane Raw 

Mindaugas Rybakovas 

Ngai Chi Fung 

Olivia Forbes 

Owen Samuel Thomas 

Paplito Kitenge-Fuki 

Quitterie Toscane Elizabeth Marie d’Harcourt 

Rabi Sultana Sani Duba 

Rachel Turnbull 

Ruth Mary Jefferis 

Samer Alayan 

Sebastian Ignacio Mena 

Simon Avishek Lama 

Simon Benjamin Tarbox 

Stephen James Payne 

Sunny Noah Howd 

Tahnoon Abdulla Mohamed Ali Alshehhi 

Thomas Coutanche 

Thomas Carlton Paramor 

Yuxi Liang 

Zahra Khademi 

Zoe Elise Ingram 

Contributors 


Nick Simpson 


Ellie Gair 

Freddie Armitage 

Jack Lewandowski 

Tom Goodby 

Tawa, M. (2008). Reading into, Drawing (out) from. Through the Canvas, (pp. 112 - 115). Barcelona, 

Spain: Actar-D 

64 Text by Armelle Tardiveau

Top, Left to Right - Zoe Ingram, Jacob Hughes Middle - Ambrogio Lorenzetti Painting Bottom - Diana Mihailova, Jacobus Merkx & Abin John 

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AUP Stage 1 - Architecture Occupied 


Contributors: James Longfield, Diana Wharton, Joanna Wylie, Alex Proctor, , Luke Leung, Mike Veitch, Tara Alisandratos, Charlotte Powell, 

Jane Milican, Anna Cumberland, Elinoah Etani, Freddie Armitage, Jack Lewandowski, Ellie Gair, Tom Goodby 

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Top Left to Right - Owen Thomas, Ngai Chi Fung, Lap Yan Tai 

Bottom Left to Right - Kit d’Harcourt, Edward Bousfield, Ruth Jefferis 

Middle Left to Right - Ngai Chi Fung, Hoi Ning Wong, Edward Bousfield

AUP Stage 1 - Taking Measure 


Site: Newcastle University 

Contributors: Kieran Connolly, Di Leitch, Robert Johnson, Juliet Odgers, Armelle Tardiveau, Tara Alisandratos, Damien Wootten, Charlotte 

Powell, Jane Millican, Elinoah Eitani, and Henna Asikainen 

Left - Marcelina Debska Top Right - Owen Thomas Bottom, Left to Right - Ed Bousfield , Helen Wong 

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AUP Stage 1 - Co-created City 

Ed Wainwright 

Site: The NewBridge Project, Gateshead 

Contributors: Ed Wainwright, Claire Harper, Daniel Russell, Sarah Stead, John Pendlebury, Loes Veldpaus, Alex Blanchard, Peter Kellett 

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Isomatric drawing 

demonstrating what 

how the building might 

be occupied and furnished. 

This drawing 

also attempts to show 

the curtain used for 

the changing rooms 

in the art studio. To 

conserve space, the 

studio can double up 

as changing rooms 

when a fashion show 

is taking place. This 

depiction also shows 

the foldable used in 

the studio, also with 

ideas to conserve 

space. 

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CO-CREATED CITY 

ARC 1007 | STAGE 1 AUP |170283243 

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1:100 ATMOSPHERIC THRESHOLD EXPLORATION 

Through the use of the 1:100 site model I explored the threshold of the entrance gate. The area I designed is 

aimed to be spacious and open, to display the sculptures produced there. To understand the focus points of the 

site I used a blacked out version of the model to show light and dark areas, and the parts of site that would draw 

your attention. As the lighter area leads from the view of the entrance, it was ideal to have the presentation area 

within the view of the public passing by. Another point of focus is the raised floor of the building, which displays 

the balcony, where artists can work from, intriguing passers by. 

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CO-CREATED CITY 

ARC 1007 | STAGE 1 AUP |170283243 

075 

1:100 ATMOSPHERIC THRESHOLD EXPLORATION 

Through the use of the 1:100 site model I explored the threshold of the entrance gate. The area I designed is 

aimed to be spacious and open, to display the sculptures produced there. To understand the focus points of the 

site I used a blacked out version of the model to show light and dark areas, and the parts of site that would draw 

your attention. As the lighter area leads from the view of the entrance, it was ideal to have the presentation area 

within the view of the public passing by. Another point of focus is the raised floor of the building, which displays 

the balcony, where artists can work from, intriguing passers by. 

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Top, Left to Right - Rachel Turnbull, Jacob Hughes Middle - Ngai Chi Fung Botttom - Jack McMunn (2)

AUP Stage 1 - Shelter 

David McKenna 

Site: Longsands Beach, Tynemouth 

Contributors. David McKenna (Project Leader) Claire Harper, Di Leitch, Sarah Stead, Tara Alisandratos, Elinoah Eitani, Robert Johnson, 

Jane Millican, Damien Wootten 

Top, Left to Right - Ngai Chi Fung, Jacob Hughes, Megan Raw, Edward Bousfield Middle - Zoe Ingram Bottom - Jacob Hughes 

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AUP Stage 2 - Place of Houses 

Peter Kellett 

Everyone lives somewhere, and our homes are arguably the most important places in our lives. Although ostensibly about 

housing and home, this module addresses one of the most fundamental aspects of both architecture and planning: the 

relationships we develop with the spaces and places we inhabit. Indeed the everyday processes of habitation and dwelling are 

at the core of this module. 

The module has a long history. It was developed in the 1990s as the theory element for the BA Architecture programme 

to run alongside a housing design project in second year. Three years ago History and Theory teaching in Architecture was 

reorganised, and housing was subsumed into a larger module (About Architecture). I continue to deliver a major component, 

‘Housing Cultures’, which engages with the key ideas. Simultaneously the new AUP programme was seeking a module to 

reinforce the housing element, so I reformulated the Place of Houses to match more closely to the dual disciplinary nature 

of AUP – giving greater emphasis to the characteristics and processes associated with the public realm of the city and the 

collective spaces within dwelling environments. 

The module encourages students to draw directly on their personal experiences of housing and to reflect on how different 

domestic environments help configure lifestyles and identities, as well as influencing the attitudes and decisions of designers 

and planners. The course has three aims: 

1. Inform and strengthen the theoretical basis on which students take design and planning decisions. 

2. Raise awareness of the richness and complexity of dwelling environments. 

3. Develop a critical understanding of domestic architecture and the interplay between ways of living and built form. 

Together we explore key theoretical concepts from a range of theorists including Dovey, Pallasmaa, Bourdieu, Rapoport, 

Oliver, Cooper-Marcus and Turner, to construct a conceptual framework which is then fleshed out using a range of case 

studies. 

The course is structured around the key forms of production and varying roles of designer, client and user. Emphasis is 

given to the relationship between the user and the home environment. The knowledge outcomes include an increased 

understanding of how housing environments are produced and consumed; a critical awareness of the role of professionals, 

complemented by an appreciation of every day environments and housing produced by non-professionals. 

My own background in both Architecture and Social Anthropology inflects the course towards the socio-cultural issues of 

housing. I draw heavily on my experience of living, working and researching in different parts of the world – particularly my 

long-term ethnographic experience in Latin America, as well as Indonesia, India and more recently Ethiopia. Most lectures 

are structured around current and recent research projects. This gives the course a strong cross-cultural focus – which is 

especially relevant given the international complexion of AUP cohorts and the increasing opportunities for students to work 

internationally in the future. 

In addition to lectures and films, small group presentations encourage shared learning within a lively, interactive and 

stimulating learning environment. 

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Text and images by Peter Kellett

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AUP Stage 2 - Beijing Fieldtrip 

Andy Law, Qianqian Qin and Ruth Raynor 

In the second Semester of this year, along with Planning and Geography and Planning (GAP) students, 

a number of AUP students took the TCP2035 study visit module and chose to go to Beijing; facilitated 

by Dr Andy Law, Ms Qianqian Qin and Dr Ruth Raynor. The trip ran between the 24th and the 29th 

of March, during which they all visited the Yuanmingyuan Gardens; the Forbidden City; the Hutongs, 

the Nanluoguxiang and Han’s Royal Garden Hotel; the 798 art zone; the Tsinghua Urban Planning and 

Design institute and the Shichahai area; and the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking 

University. 

Highlights of the trip included the Forbidden City, where, as well as observing the intricate design and 

layout of the city, some students also managed to meet and interact with Chinese tourists visiting the site. 

Students 

Sam Davis 

Deborah Ewenla 

Emily Hindle 

Andrew Marshall 

Cailean McCann 

Jennifer Mitchell 

Ashleigh Rossiter 

Casey Scott 

Bronwen Thomson 

Jessica Tiele 

Ying Mo 

Sarah Bird 

Another highpoint of the trip was a visit to the Hutongs and particularly the Nanluoguxiang, which 

was built in the Yuan period (1271-1368), but was given its name in the Qing period (1636-1912). The 

Nanluoguxiang, which is approximately 800 metres in size and is a popular tourist site, also led to some 

excellent student research; one group of students looked at the touristification and gentrification issues 

associated with the site and later gave an excellent presentation back in Newcastle. As well as the 800 

metre main street which makes up the Nanluoguxiang, we also ventured off into the back alleys or ‘fishbone’ 

lanes that are connected to the main street; arguably these back alleys or ‘fish-bone lanes’ have their 

own aesthetic and/or picturesque urban morphological features - see opposite top left. 

Another memorable event during this visit was a guided tour of Han’s Royal Garden Hotel, which gave 

students a decent introduction to the traditional Beijing Siheyuan - or Beijing courtyard - housing. As 

well as receiving a guided tour from Professor Bin Lu of Peking University, Ms Qin also commented on 

the structure and culture of the traditional courtyard - see opposite middle. 

Another highlight of the trip involved a lecture delivered to the students by planners and officials at the 

Tsinghua Planning institute; at length, institute staff discussed the development and regeneration of 

the Shichahai area in Beijing (near the Hohai lake); Dr Law, Ms Qin and Dr Raynor noted here, that 

all students from all programmes participated in a lively and respectful discussion with the Tsinghua 

planners that was both thoughtful and memorable. 

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Text by Andy Law 

Above - Sarah Bird having her photo taken with a Chinese tourist in the Forbidden City

Top, Left to Right - walking in one of the ‘fish-bone’ lanes off the Nanluoguxiang, one of the back lanes or ‘fishbone alleys’ off the Nanluoguxiang 

Middle - Ms Qin commenting on the courtyard structure of Han’s Royal Garden Hotel. 

Bottom, Left to Right - engaging in discussion with the Tsinghua Planning Institute, all students and staff with staff at the Tsinghua Institute 

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AUP Stage 2 - Twentieth Century Architecture, Design and Heritage 

Rutter Carroll and Sophie Ellis 

Contributors: Tim Bailey (XSITE Architects), Will Mawson (MawsonKerr Architects), Ronnie Graham (Ryder Architecture), Prof John 

Pendlebury, Prof Prue Chiles 

Students: Akhila Ganesh Shamanur, Amruta Sahebrao Satre, Bethany Ruth Meer, Dominic Michael Payne, Erin Noelle Dent, Henry Philip 

Gomm, Jingwen Chen, Kaniz Shanzida, Matthew Ellis Howard, Razan Abdul Karim Zahran Al Hinai, Sophia Kathryn Norbury, Yinghe Yi 

74 Top - Sophia Norbury Bottom - Kaniz Shanzida

Top, Left to Right - Bethany Meer, Matthew Howard Middle - Henry Gomm Bottom, Left to Right - Jingwen Chen, Akhila Shamanur 

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AUP Stage 2 - Relational Mapping, Design and Representation 

Sarah Stead, Koldo Telleria, Xi Chen, Ziwen Sun 

Students: Bethany Meer, Henry Gomm, Kaniz Shanzida, Jake McClay, Matthew Howard, Charlotte Maynard, Razan Al Hinai, Jessica Tiele, 

Bhumit Mistry, Akhila Ganesh, Amruta Satre, Jingwen Chen, Kelly Andwa, Dominic Payne, Leila Udol, Yinghe Yi, Matthias Bohr, Buddy 

Vuth, Ying Mo, Erin Dent 

76 Top - Groupwork Middle - Kaniz Shandiza Bottom, Left to Right - Matthew Howard, Jake McClay

Top - Site Sound Mapping Middle - Henry Gomm Bottom - Group Drawing: Henry Gomm, Bethany Meer, Kaniz Shanzida 

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AUP Stage 3 - A Home For All 

Prof. Tim Townshend and Mr Smajo Beso 

Our surroundings have a profound impact on our health and well-being. Tim Townshend’s 

research has demonstrated how these impacts can be either positive - allowing people to live 

rich, fulfilling lives; or negative - constraining healthy lifestyle choices and thereby contributing 

to poor physical and mental health and so-called ‘lifestyle’ diseases. Public parks provide vital 

greenspaces for urban residents and when attractive and well maintained, contribute positively 

to health and well-being by providing space for restoration and relaxation; physical activity; 

socialisation; and reduced impacts of pollution. Parks attract a heterogeneous range of users, and 

informal encounters build and expand social networks, an essential element of creating a sense 

of community with shared values and aspirations. Free to access and providing opportunities for 

activities that require little, or no, specialist equipment (unlike more formal sports facilities) they 

are ‘neutral’ settings for community interaction, and so make a positive contribution to reducing 

health inequalities. Therefore, parks can provide a truly therapeutic platform on which to focus 

on individuals’ well-being. 

Some individuals’ needs for such therapeutic settings are greater than others are, however. 

Across the UK, for example, there is an acute need for facilities for those coping with and/or 

recovering from addiction and substance abuse. Alcohol and drug problems are prevalent in all 

areas and occur across all sectors of society, but unfortunately, Newcastle has higher rates than the 

national average. Harnessing the power of therapeutic landscapes is something taken seriously 

by health providers and Newcastle City Council is no exception. They currently have a project 

for a wellness hub for recovered addicts, this would encompass the restoration of a locally listed 

building, ‘Western Lodge’ which is set within a conservation landscape, ‘Leazes Park’; the first 

public park in Newcastle, opened in 1873. 

The student’s brief in this module, closely paralleled that produced by the local authority. 

They had to grapple with the designing of a ‘home’ for recovered addicts, not in the sense of a 

residential unit, but somewhere service users and their families could feel safe and secure, where 

recoverees could learn to reintegrate with civil society at their own pace and could develop new 

life skills for a brighter future. Essential design elements included space for physical exercise; 

a community garden for growing food; family activities; holistic therapies; a commercial style 

kitchen for nutritional advice and cookery instruction, with an associated community café 

open to the general public; and counselling and associated services. All of this with a historic 

conservation setting. 

Stage 3 Students 

Abell Eduard Ene 

Aimee-Anna Akinola 

Andrew Fong 

Andrew Thomas Webb 

Cherry Au 

Chloe Savannah Cummings 

Chun Wing Matthew Li 

Daniel Robert Carr 

Dianne Kwene Aku Odede 

Dongjae Lee 

Dwayne Joshua Afable De Vera 

Ella Sophia Spencer 

Ellis Matthew Salthouse 

Emma Van Der Welle 

Fabian Kamran 

Farah Madiha Binti Ashraf 

Henry James Oswald 

Julian Baxter 

Juliette Louise Smith 

Karim Mohamed Khairy Shaltout 

Karl Wood Nam Lam 

Maisie Jenkins 

Mohammad Izzat Ali Hassan 

Nik Amanda Farhana Binti Azman 

Nur Salymbekov 

Oliver James Timms 

Ryan Hancock 

Salar Butt 

Samantha Ming Chen Chong 

Wenjing Deng 

Zhongqing Gu 

Contributors 

Sue Scott 

Sue Downing 

Claire Harper 

Kathleen MacKnight 

Matthew Potter 

Fred Plater (Tyne Bar) 

Lisa Tolan (Toffee Factory) 

Tim Bailey (Xsite Architects) 

Chris Barnard (Ouseburn Trust) 

Anna Hedworth (Cook House) 

Dan Russell 


As part of the project, students interacted with Andy Hackett and group members at the 

‘Roads to Recovery Trust’, in Newcastle; and were advised on their projects by Dr. Annette 

Payne, Health Improvement Practitioner, Newcastle City Council and Dr. Stephanie Wilkie, 

Environmental Psychologist, Sunderland University. We are grateful for all their inputs. The 

projects were presented to members of the council and interested parties at Newcastle City 

Council on 17.01.19. 

78 Text by Professor Tim Townshend Above - Team Oak: Andrew Fong, Karim Shaltout, Nik Amanda Farhana Binti Azman, Oliver Timms

Top - Team Beech: Andrew Webb, Daniel Carr, Dianne Odede, Samatha Chong 

Middle - Team Ash: Ella Spencer, Emma van der Welle, Juliette Smith, Zhongqing Gu 

Bottom - Team Lime: Chloe Cummings, Ellis Salthouse, Ryan Hancock 

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AUP Stage 3 - Alternative Practice: Co-producing Space - Jesmond Community Festival 

Daniel Mallo and Armelle Tardiveau 

Site: Temporary interventions deployed as part of Jesmond Community Festival (Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne) 

Teaching contributors: Amy Linford, Sally Watson 

Community contributors: Fiona Clarke, Chris Clarke, Tony Waterston, Joan Aarvold, Gavin Aarvold, Rachel Gibson, Keith Jewitt 

Student names (by project group): 

Play city: Andrew Fong, Chloe Savannah Cummings, Karl Wood Nam Lam, Gabi Muller, Matthew Li 

Active city: Dongjae Lee, Mohammad Izzat Ali Hassan, Abell Eduard Ene, (Dereck ) Wenjing Deng, Nur Salymbekov 

Green city: Dwayne De Vera, Ryan Hancock, Nik Amanda Farhana Binti Azman, Rebeka Petrtylova 

80 Above - Play City: Andrew Fong, Chloe Savannah Cummings, Karl Wood Nam Lam, Gabi Muller, Matthew Li

Top (3) - Green City: Dwayne De Vera, Ryan Hancock, Nik Amanda 

Farhana Binti Azman, Rebeka Petrtylova 

Bottom - Active City: Dongjae Lee, Mohammad Izzat Ali Hassan, Abell Eduard 

Ene, (Dereck) Wenjing Deng, Nur Salymbekov 

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Thinking-Through-Making Week 

Material forms the core of architecture’s practice - be it the material of construction or that of the drawing board or digital interface, the way 

making inflects thinking underlies the production of architecture. Thinking Through Making asks our final year BA students to delve into 

the possibilities of material; the potentials of technologies; the systems of structures; and modes of exploration of material design through acts 

of making. From a series of workshops with creative professionals from the fields of art, architecture, design and engineering, to an intensive 

week of making; our students have engaged with practices of making pertinent to their own design projects, embracing both success and 

failure as a productive experience. 

Workshop Groups & Leaders 

Pattern Magic 

Rachel Currie 

Encoded Material Processes 


Working With Wood 

Sophie Cobley 

Transforming Objects 

Poppy Whatmore 

Introduction to Stonemasonry 

Russ Coleman 

Casting 

Amy Linford 

Assemblages 

Stefanie Blum 

Working in Virtual Reality 

David Boyd 

Guest Speakers 

Nick Peters 

Associate 

Grimshaw Architects 

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MArch 

Stephen Parnell – Degree Programme Director 

Architectural practice and education are way more complicated and diverse than they 

used to be. Architecture continues to be an increasingly popular choice for students 

at university and more and more courses are still being set up to satisfy this demand: 

there are now 44 validated schools offering RIBA Part 2 courses (one more than last 

year with more on the way at Lancaster, Reading and Loughborough) and the total 

number of students at Parts I and II has increased by 8% from last year to around 

16,700. This might seem surprising considering that last year’s AJ student survey put 

the cost of an architectural education at £24,000 per year after its headline revealing 

that architects’ average annual salaries trail those of not only other consultants in the 

design team, but also tradesmen and women on site. The government anticipates 

demand for architects though: with Brexit looming architects have been put on the 

‘Shortage Occupation List’. 

While most of the public don’t have a clue what architects actually do, and architects 

have been side-lined in the debate on disasters like Grenfell, we have simultaneously 

never been more popular in culture – witness Assemble’s 2015 Turner Prize win 

and Forensic Architecture’s shortlisting last year. As the Programme Director of the 

MArch, if I consider all this alongside the RIBA’s statistics that only around twothirds 

of students starting a Part II course will end up qualifying as an architect, I’m 

forced to ask myself what the role of the degree is in a student’s life. 

So the RIBA Part II-validated MArch at Newcastle aims to equip students to think 

critically, creatively, and architecturally, whether or not they end up in practice, or 

what kind of practice they end up in. Our emphasis for the course is to encourage 

students to explore and experiment in order to discover what kind of architect 

they want to be. The programme is relatively small, with currently only around 

70 students across both years, which means that students inevitably get a lot of 

attention from tutors. And we bend over backwards to offer as much variety as we 

can during the MArch in terms of module options and design studios. 

This year the MArch was run horizontally, with Stage 5 concentrating on one design 

project based in Vienna in each Semester. The first Semester concentrated on the 

urban fabric, and the second on building fabric. The year-long design studio in 

Stage 6 then allowed students to concentrate on their thesis, building on the research 

and design skills they’d nurtured in Stage 5. We encourage rigorous research and 

theoretical underpinnings for design projects as well as thorough technical resolution 

and innovative representation. Across both years we offer a variety of studios with a 

mix of approaches by studio leaders from both academia and practice, with tutors 

from Faulkner Browns running a Stage 5 studio. 

There are various routes through the MArch, with students this year being able to 

choose modules from Urban Planning or Urban Design hosted by our colleagues 

on the Planning side of the School. Linked Research offers a route for students to 

work closely with a supervisor on one of their architectural research projects. This 

could be a Live Build in Kielder Forest, or a documentary about Dunelm House, the 

students’ union at Durham University under threat of demolition. Other students 

have enjoyed exchanges with other universities across the world, such as Sydney, 

Singapore or Stockholm to name but three. 

I hope this gives a flavour of the variety on offer and whether you’re a prospective 

student looking to come to Newcastle for the MArch, or a current student or 

graduate, you can be confident that architectural thinking, whether it results in a 

building or some other form of proposing a better world, is still a valuable and 

worthwhile endeavour. 

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Stage 5 

Stage 5 is a year for in-depth experimentation: for exploring architecture in all its cultural, social, 

political, material and historical contexts, for testing new approaches to design, representation and 

technology. Briefs emphasise critical thinking and require students to engage with current debates 

in architecture and society at large. The year’s work focuses on a particular international city – this 

year Vienna – beginning with an intensive week long study visit, including architectural tours, 

excursions, talks, group urban analysis and social events. Students undertake a critical reimagining 

of the city through two semester long projects which challenge them to work at two radically 

different scales – first urban, then detail. Framing design as a rigorous, as well as speculative process, 

they foster design-research skills and interests in preparation for Stage 6. 

In semester one, ‘Urban Fabric’ focused on the infrastructures, buildings, spaces and objects of 

the city, the relations between them and the conditions they produce; but also on how the forms, 

materials, routes and patterns that make up this urban fabric are inseparable from the diverse 

peoples, politics, histories, cultures, myths, events, forces, and flows of the city. It asked students 

to study an urban area in context, to develop a critical approach to that site through a group plan/ 

strategy, and each to design interventions in dialogue with that plan. Here, the city, a site, and a key 

urban theme/issue, are the starting point. 

In semester two, ‘Building Fabric’ switched focus to material and technology: on how architectural 

details can embody design intentions; and on how material explorations can be generators of design 

ideas. Beginning with a material, mechanism, process or technology, it asked students to work 

critically with elements of the city, drawing on the knowledge and experience from semester one, 

to design a building from the detail up. The project was accompanied by a series of tech studios, 

which aimed to help the investigation, development and refinement of technical strategies and 

constructions as part of the project narratives. 


James Craig 

Iván J. Márquez Muñoz 



Daniel Burn 

Dr Nathaniel Coleman 

James A. Craig 

Iván J. Márquez Muñoz 

Students 

Agnieszka Patrycja Flis 

Alexander Jack Ferguson 

Ameeta Praful Ladwa 

Balu Suresh 

Caitlin Elanor Francis Mullard 

Charlotte Isabella O’Dea 

Christopher John Johnson 

Daniel Joseph Cornell 

Elizabeth Rose Ridland 

Emma Kate Burles 

Evgeny Kandinsky 

Harrison Jack Avery 

Hugo Alberto Gallucci 

Jack James Ingham 

Jack Munro Glasspool 

Jed Richard Wellington 

Jenna Catherine Louise Sheehy 

Josephine Margaret Foster 

Katie Hannah Longmore 

Lisa Sophia Schneider 

Lucy Hartley 

Lucy May Lundberg 

Lydia Sarah Elizabeth Mills 

Matthew Davies Smith 

Michael Anthony Bautista-Trimming 

Michael Francis Robinson 

Muhammad Afolabi Ogunniyi 

Naomi Ruth Fife White 

Natasha Heyes 

Niamh Eilish Caverhill 

Nicholas David Green 

Oliver Patrick Timothy Kearney 

Philippa Grace Mcleod-Brown 

Praveena Selvakumar Sivalingam 

Rebecca Amelia Byren 

Richard Harry Thomas Mayhew 

Sarah Anne Hollywell 

Scott Matthew Doherty 

Tara Keswick 

Thomas Adam Reeves 

Tori Sophie Ellis 

Contributors 

Carlos Arleo 

Thora Arnardottir 

Nathalie Baxter 

David Boyd 

Dr Ben Bridgens 

Dr Neil Burford 


Anna Czigler 

Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson 

Niall Durney 

Chiemeka Ejiochi 

Yomna Elghazi 

Prof Graham Farmer 

Michael Findlater 

Jack Green 

Mike Hall 

Dr Neveen Hamza 

Imogen Holden 

Peter Hunt 

Dr Christos Kakalis 

Dr Zeynep Kezer 

Irina Korneychuk 

Dr Koldo Lus Arana 

Ana Miret Garcia 

John Ng 


Paul Rigby 

James Nelmes 

Dilan Ozkan 

Dr Miguel Paredes Maldonado 

Dr Stephen Parnell 

Prof Remo Pedreschi 

Gregorio Santamaria Lubroth 

Dr Ed Wainwright 

James Wakeford 

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Text by Iván J. Márquez Muñoz 

Opposite - Caitlin Mullard

Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena 

James Craig & Matt Ozga-Lawn (Semester 1) 

In architectural terms, we may think most obviously about transition as being a process of moving between two states: from inside to outside. 

In our site; Vienna’s Ringstrasse, this process of passage is a complex one, owing to the territory’s history as a perpetually layered gap between 

the historic centre and the suburbs that lie beyond. In his essay: The Potemkin City (1898), Adolf Loos describes The Ring as a clear deception 

of reality where the disjunction between architecture’s interior qualities and exterior expression is at its most profound. How then can we find 

a way to bridge the Ring’s divergent interior and exterior conditions? Students engaged with this question by designing transitional spaces 

that permeated both the inner and external reality of the Ring, creating spaces of encounter to be occupied by the city and its inhabitants. 

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Above - Group model. Photo taken by Jack Ingham

Top - Hugo Gallucci Middle, Left to Right - Tara Keswick, Daniel Cornell, Rebecca Byren Bottom - Michael Robinson, Muhammad Ogunniyi 

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Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena II 

James Craig & Matt Ozga-Lawn (Semester 2) 

Continuing with the theme of transition from semester 1, students started the semester by designing and building a transitional object at 

an appropriate scale (1:1, 1:5 or 1:10). These objects were inspired by key space(s) taken from the students’ urban proposals in the previous 

Semester. Objects such as thresholds, passages, windows, walls and atmospheres offered productive starting points for designing objects that 

mediate between internal and external reality. The work of Frederick Kiesler was a key reference due to the essence of transition that permeates 

projects such as Endless House; where, like the mobius strip, both internal and external conditions co-exist on the same surface. 

90 Top - Michael Robinson Bottom - Tara Keswick, Rebecca

SCHNITZEL COLLECTION 

SCHNITZEL CO LECTION 

Axonometric 

Looking Up from Ground Floor level 

Top - Daniel Cornell Middle, Left to Right - Muhammad Ogunniyi, Hugo Gallucci, Jack Ingham Bottom - Thomas Reeves, Elizabeth Ridland 

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The Fringe Olympics 

Iván J. Márquez Muñoz (Semester 1) 

In March 2013, Vienna’s citizens resoundingly rejected the city’s grand plans to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympics Games in a public 

referendum, where a majority of nearly 72% of its citizens said ‘NO’ to a potential bid. 

The Olympic Games will be coming to Vienna in 2028; this the studio’s provocation and leap of faith. After the fiasco of the referendum, 

we’ll work on the hypothesis that the city decided to explore options to revisit the Olympic plans reacting to the public vote, and this is when 

the work of this studio commences. 

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Above - Lucy Lundberg 

‘Play is dangerous, dabbling with risks, creating, destroying, 

keeping careful balance between both.’ Miguel Sicart

Top Left - Tori Ellis Top Right - Naomi White Bottom Left - Alexander Ferguson Bottom Right - Michael Bautista-Trimming 

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Minding The Gap 

Iván J. Márquez Muñoz (Semester 2) 

The ‘Minding the Gap’ studio proposes a design-based reflection about the value of gap spaces in cities, in the process of decay in their 

lifecycle. The task in hand is to create an intervention that provides living accommodation and associated common facilities for a particular 

protagonist in need of care, implementing a strategy of socially integrated and architecturally sustainable neighbourhood. 

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Top - Jack Glasspool Middle - Ameeta Ladwa Bottom - Jenna Sheehy

Top, Left to Right - Naomi White, Nicholas Green Middle, Left to Right - Emma Burles, Michael Bautista-Trimming Bottom - Tori Ellis 

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Memory Against History / Digging up the Dead: Turning over the Repressed 

Nathaniel Coleman (Semester 1) 

Spectres of Vienna challenges students to excavate hidden traces of repressed Vienna; spectral figures inhabiting its architecture (urbanism, and 

psyche). During Semester 1, students work with a pair of surviving WWII Flaktürme. Although encouraged to develop this work in greater 

detail during Semester 2, students can choose an alternative building (or complex) to work on, from the 1860s to the near present. Central to 

the studio is exploration of architecture as manifesting official stories determined by the dominant power (and modes of production) at any 

given moment.While this is architecture’s immemorial vocation, since around the mid-18th century, its implication in structuring national 

identity has become more pronounced; whether fascist, state socialist, or capitalist realist conceptions of the world that dominate imaginaries. 

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Above - Caitlin Mullard

Top - Josephine Foster 

Bottom - Groupwork 

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Spectres of Vienna 

Nathaniel Coleman (Semester 2) 

As students develop their individual projects, they are challenged to consider how buildings participate in conserving repression of historical 

and emotional contents – on individual and cultural levels – just too horrible to remember, confront, or be resigned to. In developing 

projects, students are challenged to seek out ghosts of modernity and modernist architecture residing alongside spectres of Utopia’s critique 

of the present, which strikes fear into the hearts of architects. Inevitably, students’ enquiries will raise challenges to their own Utopia-Anxiety. 

98 Top, Left to Right - Josephine Foster, Caitlin Mullard Bottom - Caitlin Mullard

Top - Richard Mayhew 

Bottom - Sarah Hollywell 

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Performing Vienna: City of Music 

Elizabeth Baldwin Gray (Semester 1 & 2) 

During the first Semester, students in the Performing Vienna studio designed a series of temporary music performance pavilions for a 

contemporary music festival, enlivening the existing musicians’ walks throughout the historic centre as advertised on the tourist website. The 

projects incorporated paths and public spaces which connected moments of classical history associated with Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and 

Strauss. 

The task sought to align a historically-informed sense of music and performance in Vienna with the global contemporary classical music scene 

as it exists today and as experienced through live performance. The proposed festival routes were designed, not only to draw in visitors from 

outside Vienna, but also to attract participation from Vienna’s own inhabitants. The festival in this respect could be understood as a means to 

give the city back to its own residents, in keeping with Henri Lefebvre’s concept of “disalienation.” Public festivals allow long-term residents of 

a city to reclaim it from forces that seek to control it and redirect its use towards other purposes such as commercialised tourism and high-end 

retail. The work sought to reach out to the broadest possible demographic, bringing in new audiences for a form of music, “contemporary 

classical,” more typically limited to a highly-educated, socially-elite coterie. 

In Semester two of Performing Vienna, students designed a public-facing music centre, which included alternative performance spaces 

specific to the music typology they had researched in Semester one, Pavilions. These performance venues were combined with spaces for music 

education and engagement with the aim of presenting the inhabitants of the city of Vienna, tourists and locals alike, with a particular kind of 

music as well as its history and legacy. 

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Above - Niamh Caverhill

Pavilion Perspective 

The image above is the internal perspective of the pavilion to the left. In the image the musician can be seen 

between the two walls with a Beacon (the cathedral) being seen through the roof which is directed through 

the angling of the walls. 

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Top Left to Right - Matthew Smith, Lydia Mills 

Bottom - Lydia Mills 

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102 Top, Left to Right - Lydia Mills, Christopher Johnson Bottom - Christopher Johnson

TRIUM FLOOR 

EILING 

Left - Niamh Caverhill 

Right - Lucy Hartley 

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City of Wellbeing 

Faulkner Browns - Dan Burn, Imogen Holden, Irina Korneychuk (Semester 1) 

In August 2018, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) named Vienna top of their yearly Global Liveability Ranking as the most ‘liveable’ city 

in the world. The EIU league table ranks 140 cities on a range of factors, including political and social stability, crime, education and access 

to healthcare. The press release issued alongside the ranking suggests that Vienna’s success can be explained by the quality and affordability of 

housing, efficient and cheap public transport, and access to green space. We took this report as our stepping off point with a view to developing 

a strand of analysis which questions the contribution the built environment can make to a city’s ‘liveability’. 

The studio was based in Ottakring, the 16th district of Vienna. At its eastern edge Ottakring meets the boundary of central Vienna at the busy 

inner ring road and railway known as the Gurtel. At its western edge it meets the trees of the forest which surrounds Vienna. The studios work 

began with a mapping exercise to understand the fabric of the area, its infrastructure, landmarks, housing types, environment and open spaces. 

The studio focused on health and wellbeing, as a vehicle to look at an alternative measure of liveability that is focused on the local, the personal, 

and an architecture centred on people and place. 

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Top - Evgeny Kandinsky 

Bottom - Jed Wellington

Top - Katie Longmore Middle, Left to Right - Lisa Schnieder, Praveena Sivalingam Bottom - Oliver Kearney 

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Made:Well 

Faulkner Browns - Dan Burn, Imogen Holden, Paul Rigby (Semester 2) 

The studio’s sSemester 1 brief asked for an intervention at an urban scale that reframed the priorities for the design of cities, placing the health 

and wellbeing of the population at the heart of the design agenda. The brief develops this theme from the urban scale to the building scale, 

looking at how the way buildings are constructed and how materials and technologies are used can affect our health and wellbeing. Our 

challenge for Semester 2 is to create an architecture that is based on people and place and that accepts, and designs, for changes in society 

and the environment. 

The brief asked for designs for a health centre for Ottakring which focuses on providing relevant facilities for the residents of Ottakring. 

The study site was the Yppenplatz in Ottakring, a vibrant public space with a direct link to Vienna’s Brunnenmarket. The existing buildings 

on the site include an arts base and cultural centre, small storage units, and cafes and restaurants. The Semester began with a study of three 

key projects; Lubetkins Finsbury Health Centre, Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium and the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, a pre-NHS 

experiment in the delivery of community health services. 

The resultant projects offer a wide ranging approach to architecture and health, from an alternative urban cancer care centre to an abattoir 

offering a way to read our methods of food production and its effect on our health. Emerging themes are based on the idea of building as 

backdrop, buildings which open themselves up and integrate services with the surrounding area making physical and mental health services 

visible and accessible. 

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Top - Harrison Avery 

Bottom - Charlotte O’Dea

CIVIC PRESENCE 

CIVIC PRESENCE 

full scale drawing in portfolio box 

integrated section - 1:50 at A0 

30 MADE:WELL MADE:WELL 

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Top - Lisa Schnieder Middle - Oliver Kearney Bottom, Left to Right - Philiippa Mcleod-Brown, Natasha Heyes 

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Stage 6 

Stage 6 comprises four thematically diverse year-long studios with students developing their own 

individual briefs and thesis arguments. This year we had an extraordinary array of projects on 

diverse themes ranging from the future of the university to a critical engagement with our design 

processes and media. 

What is particularly striking this year is the range of personal explorations in the work, in which 

students interrogate things relevant to their own lives and experiences in careful and spatial ways. 

This mature and self-assured approach to the thesis, and the intertwining of the personal and the 

architectural, is one of the things that sets our programme apart from many others. 

Detoxicated Practices, led by Ed Wainwright and Sam Austin, concludes a trio of studios exploring 

architectural practice over the past three years. The studio encouraged students to identify toxic 

elements within their own practices, and develop projects that critiqued or otherwise engaged 

with the systems of architectural production and education. As in the other studios in this thread, 

students took a trip to the Transmediale festival in Berlin, and worked closely with local artist 

collectives. 

Assemblages, led by Zeynep Kezer and Jennie Webb, asks students to develop architectural 

responses to a wide range of conditions that act as constructive agents in the design process. Projects 

were situated (as in previous years) across the UK, in each case taking account of wider political 

forces or ecological pressures to generate architectures that work on a range of scales and with 

complex elements. 

In Absentia, led by Stasus (James A. Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn), encouraged students to take 

a biographical, or autobiographical, approach to architectural processes. The studio focussed on 

the idea of an absent or longed for ‘home’ and how this could be interpreted through careful and 

considered representational practices. 

Univer(c)ity, led by Prue Chiles and Claire Harper, looked at the future of the university, with a 

particular focus on Newcastle University and its changing relationship to the city. Students worked 

on a range of projects, including masterplans of the campus area, to inform their individual thesis 

ideas. It was particularly helpful that two of the students in the studio work part-time in the 

University’s Estates office. 




Claire Harper 

Edward Wainwright 

James A Craig 

Jennie Webb 

Laura Harty 


Prue Chiles 

Samuel Austin 

Zeynep Kezer 

Man Chun Ip 

Men Hin Choi 

Rachel Earnshaw 

Reshma Upadhyaya 

Richard Mark Dunn 

Ruta Bertauskyte 

Sarah Elizabeth Rogers 

Sharifah Safira Albarakbah 

Simon Angus Quinton 

Thomas Joseph Goodby 

Yasmin Kelly 

Contributors 

Students 

Aaron Guy 

Alex Jusupov 


Alicia Charlotte Beaumont Anna Czigler 

Andrew Alfred Nelson Dan Kerr 

Ciaran James Topping David Boyd 

Costello 

Elizabeth Baldwin-Gray 

Dominic William Davies Gareth Hudson 

Eleanor Margarete Gair 

Holly Hendry 

Frederick Armitage 


Harry George Thompson 

Laura Harty 

Hayley Lauren Graham 

Leah Millar 

Hui May Koay 


Hun Pu 

Perry Kulper 

Jack Peter Lewandowski 

Roberts Evans 

James Morton 

Tim Bell 

Joseph Thomas English 

Joshua Oakley Higginbottom 

Laura Victoria Davis-Lamarre 

Lewis David Lovedale 

108 Text by Matthew Ozga-Lawn Opposite - Hun Pu The Sacred Everyday

Studio 1 – Detoxicated Practices 

Ed Wainwright and Sam Austin 

For the past two years, our design studio has been engaged in a process of understanding architecture’s relationship to intoxication. We have 

built an understanding of intoxication as a process that is shaped by and through space, and explored the idea of practices of architecture 

as forms of habitual intoxication. Progressively, we have seen through the studio a line of thinking emerge that locates architecture not as 

something that primarily ‘is’ but as something that is always in a state of being ‘done’. 

The 2018 studio marked a mid-point in developing critique-through-design as a practice, and helped to expose some of our cultural, material 

and architectural practices that have come to ‘intoxicate’ us, and in turn have, perhaps, become toxic. 

This year’s studio builds upon these understandings of intoxication, architectural practice and the politics of space, and seeks to move our 

critique onto a propositional restructuring of how we practice now, and in the future. It aims to explore the formation of architectural design 

practices and their impacts on our world, and how we can reshape these practices to become less ‘toxic’ but no less intoxicating. 

Contributors: Kieran Connolly, Aaron Guy, Laura Harty, Holly Hendry, Gareth Hudson, Leah Millar 

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Men Hin Choi An Architectural Odyssey: A ‘Toon’ In Space

Richard Dunn Overload: An Emotional Drawing Practice 

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112 Harry Thompson Killing Concept: An Object-Oriented Language of Architecture

Rachel Earnshaw Analogue Forensics’: Fyre Festival: Under the Influence 

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I plugged my box into the city. 

I never did see Kvinne again; I 

assume she was in a box somewhere 

nearby following similar orders. 

Order 

from 

Draw 

repea 

Another one among many, I was 

going to make a name for myself. 

… was it still my work? 

I was living the dream. 

My designs would be 

sent around the world. 

114 Joshua Higginbottom New Praxis Practice

Sarah Rogers A Post-Illustrative Education 

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Studio 2 – Assemblages 

Zeynep Kezer and Jennie Webb 

Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari, and, later, de Landa, this studio focused on assemblages, collectivities made up of interactive components 

comprising some combination of people, places, practices and objects. In an effort to ground theory in tangible materiality, students were 

initially encouraged to select an assemblage, identify its components and carefully trace the interactions between them at different scales. 

Following this intensive mapping process, buttressed by a series of seminars on select readings, each student proposed a critical spatial 

intervention to accelerate, disrupt, or ameliorate the workings of their chosen assemblage. 

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Laura Davis-Lamarre Birds and Balloons

Simon Quinton Reassembling the Native Honey Bee 

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118 Lewis Lovedale Social Datastructures

Joseph English Incubator 

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120 Jack Lewandowski From Trash to Riches

Thomas Goodby Exploited Territories 

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Studio 3 – Univer(c)ity 

Prue Chiles and Claire Harper 

This studio explores the physicality and spatiality of knowledge creation and transmission, capable of expressing radically different notions of 

the purpose and future for the University. What kind of institution or organisation can begin to address future global challenges and engage 

with the world around them, locally, regionally and globally? What are the most likely drivers of change and related uncertainties? What will 

the spaces of knowledge be like in the future and how can they be more open and accessible to our future generation. Themes around the 

future of the civic university, the postcolonial university and the knowledge economy were explored. 

We would like to thank all colleagues involved in the Univer(c)ity international symposium in January. 

With thanks also to our guest reviewers: Roberts Evans, Laura Harty and Tim Bell. 

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Frederick Armitage A Library by the Sea

Long Section - 1:200 

Towing Tank 

For testing vessel bow hydrodynamics. 

Dimensions - 100m long - 2.5m deep 

(Proposed) 

Marine School 

Main academic building and offices 

(Proposed) 

Marine Workshop 

Main design and build workshop 

(Proposed) 

Pump House 

Water pumping building for testing tanks 

(Proposed) 

Wave Basin 

Round marine technology testing pool. for testing large 

scale models. Dimensions - 80mØ - 5m deep 

(Proposed) 

Graving Docks - 1883 

Build site for Blyth Tall Ship charity, teaching traditional 

boat building skills to disadvantaged young people 

(Proposed) 

UK National Renewable Energy Centre 

Specialising in offshore renewable wind technology 

(Existing) 

Ward Dock - 1910 

Modernised to carry out wind and 

wave testing for wind technology 

(Existing) 

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James Morton Marine University 

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124 Frederick Armitage A Library by the Sea

Dominic Davies Open Making 

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126 Ciaran Costello Footprint A Socially Sustainable Community

Andrew Pitt-Nelson Town Meets Gown 

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128 Sharifah Safira Albarakbah Centre for Local Craft Research and Development

Hui May Koay Maker institute of Sustainable Development 

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Studio 4 – In Absentia 

James A. Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn 

In Absentia developed personal architectural projects either through close biographical readings of displaced individuals, or through 

autobiographical work. The thesis projects range from a study of sacred spaces of the everyday, to a study of one student’s Ukrainian 

grandfather’s life in Bradford, to a ‘what if’ scenario exploring Lazlo Maholy-Nagy’s brief time in (and rejection from) the UK. 

Students were asked to install their work, thinking carefully about the arrangement and composition of the various thesis elements. 

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Eleanor Gair In Absence of додому (Home)

Alex Jusopov Refuge in Hampstead - Total Arts Institute 

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132 Alicia Beaumont Theatre of the Repressed

Eleanor Gair In Absence of додому (Home) 

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134 Hun Pu The Sacred Everyday

Ruta Bertauskyte Antisground 

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136 Hayley Graham Retrieving Metropolis

Reshma Upadhyaya Prada 

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Stage 5 & 6 Fieldwork and Site Visits 

MArch 

As part of Stage 5 and 6 varied field trips were taken across the year. Stage 5 visited Vienna as a group, which gave the opportunity for students 

to experience the city and embark on site visits. The Urban Design module visited Milan, where their project site was based. Stage 6 studios 

visited Berlin and Venice, as well as students taking individual trips related to their thesis projects. 

MArch Stage 5 

Vienna 

Urban Design module 

Milan 

MArch Stage 6 

Studio 1 - Detoxicated Practices 

Berlin 

Studio 2 - Assemblages 

Venice 

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Research in Architecture 

At Newcastle University, we understand research as central activity to architecture – and as one to 

which architects bring unique skills from visual methods and forms of analysis to the capacity to 

synthesize and consider problems holistically. Whilst our staff comprise some of the strongest and 

most innovative researchers in architecture in the UK and internationally, we also aim to foster an 

inclusive research environment that involves and supports our large and talented body of external 

teaching staff, and connects with practitioners in the region and beyond, in particular through 

our collaborations with the RIBA North East research and innovation group and our editorial 

work on the international journal Architectural Research Quarterly (Cambridge University Press). 

Notable achievements this year include Dr Zeynep Kezer winning a prestigious Dumbarton Oaks 

fellowship in Garden and Landscape Studies to pursue her project ‘Engineering Eastern Turkey: 

People Place and Power in the Upper Euphrates.’ Professor Rachel Armstrong was one of only 

six architectural designers to be commissioned for the Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition Is This 

Tomorrow? (14 February – 12 May 2019). Dr Ed Wainwright and ARC postdoctoral fellow Dr 

Julia Heslop installed a room-scale architectural installation ‘Gathering’ at the Hatton Gallery (29 

Sept 2018 – 16 February 2019) which hosted events and gathered materials dedicated to artists 

who have expanded the practice of collage. 

We particularly pride ourselves on how this research feeds into our teaching, and provides unique 

opportunities for students to develop research skills with us in BA and MArch degrees as well as 

at PhD level. For example, in the final year of the Horizon 2020 Future Emerging Technologies 

Open Award LIAR project (LIving ARchitecture) Professor Rachel Armstrong has also run (with 

Andrew Campbell and Andrew Ballantyne) a BA design studio ‘Palace of Ecologies’ which explored 

the themes of her research with final year BA students. Dr Stephen Parnell, who has recently been 

appointed executive editor of the prestigious Journal of Architecture, gave a group of MArch 

students the opportunity to work with him on his research into architectural magazines, looking at 

Civilia - a special issue of Architectural Review (1971) that complied a vision of an urban utopia 

through buildings featured in previous issues. This was one of a changing offer of year-long ‘linked 

research’ projects between staff and students that are unique to the School of Architecture, Planning 

and Landscape at Newcastle. We also offer fourteen BA ‘dissertation electives’ which staff develop 

around their individual current research interests ranging from topics such as ‘site writing’ to 

professional practice as a basis for students’ dissertations or dissertation projects. For example, this 

year lecturer James Craig has just been awarded a Northern Bridge Doctoral Partnership award for 

his PhD ‘The Autobiographical Hinge’ and this research is the basis for the dissertation elective he 

runs with Matt Ozga-Lawn on ‘Architecture and Biography’. 

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“99 years, 13 sqm (the future belongs to ghosts)” 

Installation by Rachel Armstrong and Cecile B. 

Evans for the “Is This Tomorrow Exhibition?” at the 

Whitechapel Gallery, London, February to May 2019. 

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BA Dissertations 

The dissertations produced in this academic year respond to the range of agendas informing the fourteen electives offered by tutors at the School. 

Some of these were centred in building science, some in history and theory, others in planning and creative practice. The electives provide a starting 

point and intellectual framework for the students’ work, developed over the course of a year, bridging Stages 2 and 3 of the undergraduate degree. 

dE1 : Marginal Spaces 

Sam Austin and Ed Wainwright 

There are spaces in the city we see but never look at; spaces we pass through but never explore. 

There are spaces where we stop but never sit; spaces we use but never inhabit. There are buildings we 

enter but never know. This elective studio looks closely at these spaces and asks how we can develop 

methods to better understand how they are produced, consumed and experienced. 

dE2 : Emergence of Modernism: The Bauhaus 


The interwar period in Germany, in the early decades of the twentieth century, represents a time 

of rapid change. Modernism emerged in forms such as Expressionism, Dada, and the Bauhaus. 

Gropius’s school of architecture, the Bauhaus, is one of Germany’s best-known and most influential 

contributions to architecture. This elective explores the origins of modernism in Germany as it 

developed from early art and anti-art movements in Berlin, to the founding of the Bauhaus in 

Weimar, its move to Dessau, to Berlin, and its eventual emigration to the UK and the US. 

dE3 : Architecture of Place 

Andrew Ballantyne and Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes 

We are interested in the effects that place can have on architecture. This might be because a building 

responds to features in the surrounding landscape, such as a mountain—either by being placed in 

a dramatic position, or by incorporating ideas from the mountain’s form—or maybe the building 

is placed as an incident in an arcadian idyll. Whatever the case: buildings can enhance the places 

where they are built, by paying attention to the specific spot, its form or its culture, and making a 

creative response to it. Dissertations in this elective are concerned with buildings of the recent or 

distant past that make inspired responses to the places where they are to be found. Examples would 

include: Machu Picchu, Neuschwanstein, the Casa Malaparte, or Falling Water. 

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dE4 : Colonial exchanges: Meetings between “east” and “west” 


This elective investigates how (colonial) cultures mix, or not as the case may be, and how that 

process manifests itself in architecture. In a foreign context, the making of architecture can be 

seen as a dialogical process, entailing negotiation, domestication, appropriation, the reworking of 

local symbolic and material resources, and interaction with the surrounding social and physical 

landscape. How structures designed in a particular geo-political situation may be perceived and 

used in new ways after disruptions, or crises of the local, or international order, is also an interesting 

aspect of their meaning and symbolic function. Not only visual and stylistic, but also functional 

and social hybridity may be a component of the life of these buildings, especially in contexts where 

the boundaries between “east” and “west” were not yet rigidly established. 

dE5 : Architecture’s Unconscious 

Kati Blom 

This elective takes some key texts as its starting point, examining ideas in phenomenology, 

perception psychology and architectural theory related to embodied architectural experience, but 

also to the drawing process. Our themes are creation and making in general close reading of daily 

(drawing) rituals of architects; craft / the craft of drawing; direct reading of architecture, which 

involves close reading of architectural (tangible) elements (doors, windows, floors, roofs, canopies, 

hearths, lobbies, porches etc.) as architectural affordances; and experience of how buildings 

represent themselves to us including difficult experiences of environment and diverse tangible 

factors in architectural creation that remain partly unknown to us. 

dE6 : Architecture and Biography 

James Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn 

Architects are often presented – or present themselves – as a brand with a strong and unique 

identity; creative individuals who have become personalities capable of defining and shaping the 

zeitgeist. But this presentation often omits the more complex nature of their characters, and it 

is rare that we draw particularly close to a thorough or intimate understanding of an architect 

and their methods. This elective explores the lives and practices of a range of architects across 

history. We analyse the relationship of these individuals through writing on the biography; films 

such as My Architect on Louis Kahn and REM on Rem Koolhaas; as well as documentaries that 

attempt to get under the skin of their subjects. We also develop reenactments of particular methods 

of working in order to creatively reinterpret the approaches these architects took. Some students 

worked in a ‘creative practice’ dissertation mode in which the amount of writing is reduced, and 

supplemented instead with substantial creative practice attempts at understanding the individual 

architect through a drawn/modelled/film biography. 

dE7 : Bio-materialism 


In his article ‘Towards a Novel Material Culture’ Menges (2015) traces the origins of contemporary 

computational and fabrication techniques in architecture to ‘New Materialism’. Developed by 

thinkers such as Manuel DeLanda and Jane Bennet, the philosophical school characterises matter 

as active and “empowered by its own tendencies and capacities”. In architecture, New Materialism 

has often become associated with biomimetics. However, over the past four years a practice has 

emerged which aspires to develop demonstrators and technologies which go beyond biomimicry 

and make direct use of living systems, designing through the manipulation of living cells. These, 

often very early design explorations require thinking at multiple scales: from the construction of 

individual molecules through to the assembly of building parts. They highlight potentials, but 

also the challenges of a research through design engagement with living technologies. Our elective 

explores the philosophy and practice of this emerging field and may lead to dissertations, which are 

based on theory, scientific and/or creative practice. 

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dE8 : Tangible Energies 

Neveen Hamza 

When we build we create environments that reflect a spirit of place through transfers of unseen 

energies. Daylight, ventilation, and acoustics of a building all combine to unconsciously inform us 

of how a building will give us comfort while occupying its various spaces. In this sense enclosures 

within and how they connect to the outside environment speak to our feelings unreservedly. Energy 

flows through buildings, then takes a dominant role in how long these buildings will be enjoyed 

and used. Designing to manage energy flows to improve building enjoyment and delight is the core 

of performative architecture. This elective considers the meaning of comfort, its perception, and 

how energy flows through the various building typologies in the form of architectural design. It also 

considers how building design rating systems can hinder or support the creation of comfortable and 

enjoyable environments within. 

dE9 : Professional Practice in Architecture 

John Kamara 

Professional practice in architecture relates to the development and translation of designs into built 

assets, in response to the needs of clients, society and the wider environment. This elective explores 

issues relating to the framework within which architects work, and the processes and inputs to the 

design process in a practice context. Our questions include, but are not limited to, the following: 

what is professional practice and how does it influence the production of architecture? What is the 

role of clients and other members of the construction industry in architectural design and how 

do they contribute to (or hinder) the successful delivery of projects? How do architectural firms 

recruit staff (especially Part 1 graduates) and what knowledge and skills are they looking for in new 

graduates? What research methods are appropriate for exploring professional practice issues? 

dE10 : Alternative Architectures 

Peter Kellett 

Architects have traditionally worked only for elites and affluent groups. There is now increasing 

interest in how architects can engage effectively with relatively disadvantaged and marginalised 

groups: low income populations, the homeless, refugees/migrants, disaster victims, etc. At the same 

time the energy and innovative capacity of those without access to professionalised knowledge is 

becoming increasingly recognised. The elective explores a range of individuals and organisations 

who are attempting to bridge this divide and examine theories and promising precedents for 

alternative architectures. 

dE11 : Displaced Practices 

Zeynep Kezer and Christos Kakalis 

This dissertation elective explores the spatial dimension of the experience of displacement as a result 

of natural disasters, wars, genocides, mass-migrations, deportations and population exchanges in 

the modern world. We are interested in dissertations that explore both how people build new lives 

elsewhere and what happens in the landscapes they leave behind. Themes pursued by the students 

may include: 

(re)creating life in a new land; encounters with new neighbours; representation / reconstruction; 

abandoned homelands. 

This dissertation elective was paired up with a new live research project led by Drs Kezer and 

Kakalis. Students who signed up were invited to partake in a two-day symposium which took place 

at the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape on March 22-23 2018. 

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dE12 : Befriending a Column: Bodies, difference and space 

Katie Lloyd Thomas and Noemi Lakmaier 

All too often architectural design, regulations and discourse have assumed a standard (adult, male) 

universal body as user of buildings and public space. What if we started instead from the differences 

between bodies – acknowledging that our diverse ages, genders, sexualities, abilities and dis-abilities 

can transform our perspectives of space? How might we then rethink our ideas of the relations 

between bodies, objects and the environment? What kinds of reconfigured spatial experiences 

might become possible if we abandoned our habitual, normative approaches to bodies and space? 

Together with internationally renowned artist Noemi Lakmaier, the dissertation explores these 

questions through readings and examples from architecture, philosophy, fine art, disability and 

cultural studies, and through hands-on workshops and making. The elective is part of an Arts 

Council funded project ‘Moving to the Next Level: disabled artists make dis/ordinary spaces’ 

partnering disabled artists with architectural educators, and students may have the opportunity to 

contribute to project events 

dE13 : Architecture in the media 


This dissertation elective is about understanding architecture through the media. Throughout 

the twentieth century, the architecture magazine was architecture’s favourite medium and the 

primary method for architectural ideas and ideologies to be proposed, promoted, argued over, and 

disseminated across the world. The archive of back issues therefore contains the trace of the debates 

on what people have argued that architecture should be over the years and the magazines contain 

phenomenally useful and fascinating evidence about these debates. Having researched magazines 

for over a decade now, I’m constantly amazed by two types of content: firstly, debates that 

essentially haven’t changed at all over time (for example, architectural education has NEVER been 

good enough for practice); and secondly, material that shows how societal attitudes have changed 

considerably (such as is evident in the adverts). Students choose a topic of interest to research from 

architectural magazines, from any era or country, developing their ideas whilst considering how to 

go about understanding architecture, historically and theoretically, through its relationship with the 

media, from the traditional magazine to the online zine. We are interested in architectural criticism, 

journalism, photography, or ways that architecture as a field and profession is constructed through 

the press. The group also works in and with the new MagSpace. 

dE14 : Custom Build: Situating the Architect in Mass Produced Housing 

Dhruv Sookhoo 

Custom build, a variation of self-build, gives prospective new residents opportunities to work with 

architects and developers on the detailed specification of their new home and neighbourhood. 

With early pilots underway, this new mode of development has potential to offer even non-affluent 

residents unprecedented choice, affordability and design quality within a UK speculative housing 

sector frequently derided as being uninspired, profit-hungry and substandard. This elective gives 

students an opportunity to explore the potential for architects to re-enter the speculative housing 

market through custom build and other design-orientated modes of development. The elective 

is supported through structured seminars covering topics relating to current and future design 

and development practice in housing, including: housing standards and regulatory regimes, using 

consumer preferences to inform architectural briefs, custom build (new practice based examples), 

manufacture for residential development (e.g. digital technologies and off-site construction), and 

best practice in residential design. Students can follow either dissertation or project route. 

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AUP Dissertations 

Uncovering the third place concept and its importance in the neighbourhood: 

How the Egyptian ahwa could help improve British third places 

Karim Shaltout 

The popularity of third places has fluctuated in Britain throughout the years but there is currently a 

general downward trend. This research looked at how the Oriental Egyptian ahwa, which originally 

influenced the first British coffeehouse, could help improve modern British third places. This research 

investigated the ahwa’s place attachment through creative practice methods comprising of Atelier Bow- 

Wow’s observational study, Jacob Moreno’s sociograms and Nishat Awan’s interviews. 

‘An Investigation into the Makings of a Successful Intentional Community: A Case Study of the 

Isle of Erraid Community, Scotland, UK’ 

Andrew Webb 

This research investigated the factors that contribute to the success of an intentional community. 

This was done in order to address the issues that cause an estimated 80% of these communities to 

fail within the first few years of their existence. Semi-structured interviews and observation were 

undertaken during a week spent living and participating with residents from the Isle of Erraid 

intentional community. Thematic analysis of the residents’ reflections gave an insight into how 

the community is able to achieve an environmentally conscious way of life without sacrificing 

the wellbeing of its members. Certain practices, such as the conflict resolution mechanisms, were 

identified as being fundamental to the communities’ long-term success. It is hoped that this research 

can give an indication of how other start-up communities might be able to adopt certain practices in 

order to improve their chances of long-term success. 

How public perception influences how skateboarders and traceurs use public space within 

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 

Ella Spencer 

This dissertation draws from the concept of public space and what that entails. Within this topic it 

explores the relationship between skateboarding and parkour in the built environment, in particular 

it draws upon how public perception can influence this relationship. Through the case study of 

Newcastle upon Tyne, interviews from 13 people and multiple observations throughout the city centre 

were carried out. The end result highlighted how perception is key in whether these activities are 

allowed or prohibited in public space by the council and by the general public. 

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STRANGELY FAMILIAR 

MArch Dissertations 

The 10,000 word MArch dissertation offers students the opportunity to undertake a sustained enquiry into a topic of particular interest to 

them and to develop their own modes of writing and presentation. Where appropriate the timing of the dissertation allows for topics explored 

to inform their final thesis design project. The research has a growing profile in the School, with two public presentations taking place in 

October and February, and the dissertation is now a feature of the Degree Shows in Newcastle and London. 

Figures 2.8 - 2.11 Second floor gallery spaces (top left, top middle). Podium level entry foyer (top right, 

and bottom). Author’s own photographs. 

The Language of Myth-Making: A Reading of the Glucksman Gallery 

Tom Goodby 

Tom Goodby’s dissertation examined the power of myth making through the written 

word and the network of mutually supporting power structures that exist within the field 

of architecture. By using Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework and applying it to the 

field of architectural cultural production it sought to demonstrate the power of these 

networks within the profession and its discourse. 

Gooby’s dissertation offers a close reading of the Glucksman Gallery in Cork by the Irish 

architectural practice O’Donnell + Tuomey and its depictions within the professional 

discourse. By examining both publications by O’Donnell + Tuomey and other publicity 

and criticism that appeared in a range of venues, he highlighted how several agents 

within the field of architecture have used their social and cultural capital to construct 

myths—consciously or unconsciously—around the practice and the building. Notably, 

these myths have the power to inform the reputation accorded to the architects and 

position a practice within the architectural canon. The motivation of the dissertation 

was to expose the “hidden” mechanisms involved in producing the perception of an 

architectural practice that has acquired significant cultural capital within the field of 

restricted architectural production. 

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Linked Research 

Among the most exciting and ambitious modules we offer as a School, the Linked Research module 

is unique to the Newcastle curriculum and spans the two Stages in the MArch enabling year-long 

collaborative research projects between staff and students. Linked Research encourages approaches 

that extend beyond the conventional studio design project or ‘lone researcher’ dissertation model 

allowing space for multiple and speculative forms of research. Projects are often open-ended and 

collaborative and, because they are long term and involve groups working together, they can enable 

participatory projects and large-scale production with a wide range of partners inside and outside 

the University. 

Analysing Indoor Microclimates 


Simon Quinton 

Dunelm House 

Claire Harper 

Hun Pu 

Eleanor Gair 

Alex Jusupov 

More Than Once 

Daniel Mallo & Armelle Tardiveau 

Hayley Graham 

Shafirah Safira Albarakbah 


OE 

Simone Ferracina 

Men Hin Choi 

Testing Ground 

Graham Farmer 

Dominic Davies 

Rachel Earnshaw 

Joseph English 

Lewis Lovedale 

Harry Thompson 

Reshma Upadhyaya 

Olivia Ebune 

Theo Crosby House 

Steve Parnell 

James Morton 

Laura Davis-Lamarre 

Towards Four Dimensional Engagement 

Matthew Margetts , Cara Lund 

Sarah Rogers 

Frederick Armitage 

Man Chun Ip 

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Analysing Indoor Microclimates 


This year we extended the work of last year’s Linked Research elective by developing our research on Bacteria Spore based hygromorphs and 

extending to look at the indoor environment and how humid air moves through spaces such as kitchens and bathrooms. To this end, Simon 

Quinton developed methods to monitor humidity in indoor domestic spaces. The following text is from Simons report: 

“I began by looking at a tradition¬al Tyneside flat to use as my test space and thought about possible ways in which I could test the conditions 

along with the relationship between the spaces. I hypothesised an experiment which mapped the daily movements of a person within the flat 

and the stimuli they use throughout the day which would affect the humidity in the spaces. These stimuli would include items like the shower 

and kettle as they emit significant amounts of moisture into the atmosphere (…)” 

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[re]defining Dunelm House 

Claire Harper 

[re]defining Dunelm House was an ethnographic study into the decision making and agencies involved in architectural conservation. The 

study set out to chart the activities of the ongoing campaign to save Dunelm House, Durham University’s Students’ Union building, from 

the threat of demolition. The campaign group, SaveDunelmHouse, was formed in December 2016 following an application by Durham 

University for Immunity from Listing for the building. It comprised of architects, historians, academics and students from Durham and 

beyond and had been actively organising events: a petition, crowdfunder, conference and design charrette to both raise awareness of the 

campaign and challenge the technical, economic and strategic reasons cited by Durham University as cause for demolition. 

Designed in 1967-69 by Richard Raines of Architects Co-Partnership, Dunelm House is regarded by many as an exemplar of post-war 

university architecture. The study therefore questioned how ‘experts’ viewpoints are articulated by the strategies and tactics deployed within 

the campaign. The students elected to use documentary film-making to set out a narrative to their inquiry. Interviews were carried out with 

campaign organisers, vocal advocates for the building, Durham University and Students’ Union representatives, alongside activists from other 

campaigns around building conservation. 

The documentary contributes to a growing body of architectural debate that uses the aesthetic potential of film to elaborate a verbal narrative 

and makes an important addition to the recorded history of this poignant building. 

Special thanks are owed to Craig Hawkes, a local documentary film-maker who worked with us throughout the project, James Perry from 

SaveDunelmHouse, Felicity Raines, wife of the architect Richard Raines and a long list of interviewees who gave their time and insight 

enthusiastically. 

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More than Once 


Despite the climate emergency, the construction industry appears, for a great part, to remain oblivious to the environmental issues related to 

waste that the current way of designing and building is leading us into. “More Than Once” Linked Research project exposes the environmental 

implications of waste and proposes an alternative to landfill by reusing a substantial percentage of salvaged building materials. The reflection 

invited students to rethink our consumerist culture of ‘take-make-dispose’ and embrace an alternative model based on a circular approach, 

‘take- make-consume-reuse and recycle’. 

In the context of Newcastle University, the refurbishment of Claremont Tower and Daysh Building offered an outstanding opportunity to 

sample material for reuse through a live project that enabled students to discover, dismantle, salvage, catalogue and reuse part of interior 

materials and furniture. The exploration culminated in a charrette project led by “More Than Once” MArch students and Tibo Labat where a 

small structure and furniture was prototyped employing solely material that had been collected from the tower. 

The pedagogic experience was much enhanced by a Newcastle University travel scholarship that allowed students to take part in two live 

projects in Europe during the summer (“Hotel Egon” in Germany and “Aldea-Village” in Spain). The practices of reuse, taking action and 

engaging in a renewed understanding of material cultures, will have a long-lasting influence on the students. 

Contributors: Tibo Labat 

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Œ Case Files (punctum books) 


Organs Everywhere (Œ) is an independent online journal that, since 2010, has been active in promoting conversations that approach 

architectural design from the edges of the discipline, plunging it into a strange fabric of marginal and experimental practices that fundamentally 

question its boundaries, technologies, methods and (e)valuation systems through the eyes of architects, designers, philosophers, artists, science 

fiction writers, activists, poets, and scientists. Œ Case Files is a joint imprint of punctum books and Œ, publishing anthologies of select articles 

that are curated/retrofitted into a fresh cartography of associations, gaps, juxtapositions, and thematic clusters. This project focused on the 

design, curation and production of the first Œ Case Files volume; investigating publishing as a platform for original architectural research, 

and understanding the book as a coherent set of positions, explorations and decisions. 

 

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NO.2 

Alternate Ecologies 

Neil Spiller 


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Testing Ground 

Graham Farmer 

The Testing Ground programme provides the opportunity for students to collaborate with a range of related disciplines, external organisations 

and building users through the vehicle of ‘live’ projects. 

This year the Live Build project is based at Blakehope Nick, the highest point along the Forest Drive, between Kielder Village and Byrness. 

The project is part of the Revitalising Redesdale scheme, which aims to celebrate the environment and culture of the area by highlighting the 

value and importance of the surrounding natural environment. 

The brief was to create a structure at Blakehope Nick that would be visually intriguing, to encourage visitors to stop and interact with it whilst 

being accessible and providing some shelter from the elements. The project aims to draw attention to the beautiful surrounding landscape, 

presenting it from a newly created perspective. Further, to create a form that allowed the movement of people through the structure with 

individually orientated viewports to guide the observer towards particular vistas, incorporating the neighbouring ridges in the distance, the 

local fauna and the night sky. 

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Photos by Neil Denham

Theo Crosby House 

Steve Parnell 

Theo Crosby (1925-1994) is better known today for his behind-the-scenes work promoting others than for his own architecture. For example, 

he was technical editor of Architectural Design magazine from 1953 to 1962 where he promoted his friends Alison and Peter Smithson and 

the New Brutalism, and he curated the 1956 This is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, the swansong of the Independent 

Group. However, his own New Brutalist house in Hammersmith – one of the earliest and best-preserved examples of the movement, remains 

unknown. 

This is no doubt how he preferred it, but 25 years after his death, this project set out to resurrect the house and establish its place in the history 

of the New Brutalism. Through doing a measured survey, archival and oral history research and interviews, the house was reconstructed 

in CAD and model form from its 1955 conversion from a coach house, through its iterations over the years as it adapted to the life of the 

Crosbys. The students built a 1:50 model of the house, based on the Brutalist ‘ethic’, with components that could be plugged in and out to 

configure the iterations of 1955, 1960, 1967, and 1986. This hands-on approach to reconstructing history, rather than simply writing about 

it, enabled a deeper understanding of the project and the principles of the movement from which it was constructed. 

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Towards Four Dimensional Engagement 

Matthew Margetts, Cara Lund 

“How can architects use their spatial thinking & communication skills to help communities to engage with complex problems?” 

With thanks to Chris Newell, Wendy Young, Claire Margetts, Sam Brooke, Lieselotte van Leeuwen and everyone in the Bell’s Yard Group. 

Our linked research project this year looked at applying architects’ spatial thinking and communication skills a little more laterally – exploring 

how they could be applied to help communities understand and articulate complex problems. 

Initially we approached the subject from a number of parallel perspectives - Consultation and Architectural Communication, Play Theory, 

Environmental Psychology, Public Engagement, Systemic Design and Dynamic Diagramming. This resulted in a broad understanding of 

current communication thinking. After some brief experimentation with board game design, the students were then given the opportunity to 

test their research on a real-life scenario at Bells Yard Playground, Jesmond. 

The problem involved multiple users sharing a play space concurrently. This resulted in overspill of activities between ‘territories’ such as 

footballs flying into toddler play areas and concerns over safety. The presumption was to simply provide more fencing between the different 

zones. However, our research challenged this and through the construction of an abstracted, dynamic model of the problem, we enabled 

children and the public to have an informed (and enjoyable) discussion around a variety of ‘grown-up’ themes such as temporal zoning, 

boundaries and thresholds. 

The dynamic diagram model was used successfully at a public consultation event and the research outputs, including analysis of a series of 

questionnaires, assisted the client in a section 106 funding application. 

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MA in Urban Design 

Georgia Giannopoulou 

Contributors: Georgia Giannopoulou, Tim Townshend, Ali Madanipour, John Devlin, Stuart Hutchinson, Smajo Beso, Aidan Oswell 

Guest Contributors: Martin Podevyn, Rose Gilroy, Roger Maier, Dhruv Sookhoo, Sarah Miller, Michele Duggan, Michael Crilly, Anna Brown, 

Georgiana Varna, Geoff Whitten, Colin Haylock, Michael Cowdy, Cristina Pallini, Derya Erdim, Giacomo Borella 

The MA in Urban Design is a well-established interdisciplinary programme at Newcastle University that draws on expertise from the 

disciplines represented in the School, namely Architecture, Planning and Landscape. The programme brings to the foreground a strong 

agenda of social and ecological engagement, together with a relational approach to the built environment and public life. Three distinct design 

projects punctuate the year and are supported by theory courses and critical debate around the practice of Urban Design. The projects engage 

with varying localities and the challenges and themes emerging from the place as well as themes for regeneration and societal challenges. The 

two major projects are parts of a year-long project on a complex site in the city centre of Newcastle and deal with issues of post-industrial 

urban renewal; the first part of the project ‘Skills in Urban Regeneration’ engages with contemporary concepts of Digital/Smart Cities, as 

well as sustainability in the context of a mixed use masterplan for this key site in the city. ‘Housing Alternatives’, forming the latter part of 

this project, examines new models of neighbourhood design in the context of the housing crisis and housing needs. The project explores 

concepts of affordability, sustainable living and community led-models as well as new and contemporary models for living addressing issues of 

resilience, changing patterns of working, and an ageing population centred on the cohousing model, which is increasingly popular in the UK. 

The European field trip to Milan (Italy) aimed to introduce alternative approaches to Urban Design using concepts of landscape, health 

and GreenBlue infrastructure. The project was based on a derelict site planned for a railway station on the Milan-Mortara line, including 

an unfinished railway structure by Aldo Rossi. Students were tasked with producing proposals for developing a salutogenic landscape using 

theoretical explorations on the theme as well as taking into consideration the city’s history in relation to its water systems and fitting into the 

context. The year concluded with the Urban Design Thesis, a major research-led design project, on topics selected by the individual students 

around their interests. The course features a robust engagement with urban design process including issues of financial viability and delivery 

across the design projects. Students in the course have many opportunities for visiting places within the UK and in Europe in the context of 

the projects. 

Stanhope Street 

3. 

2. 

4. 

Pitt Street 

1. 

5. 

Douglas Terrace 

6. 

Wellington Street 

KEY 

1. Custom Build 

2. Intergenerational Co Housing 

3. Community Garden 

4. International Harvest Church 

5. Arthurs Hill Clinic 

6. Supported Elderly living 

7. Elderly Co Housing 

Diana Street 

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1. Allotments 

2. Sensory Garden 3. Play Space 4. Picnic Tables 

5. Event Space 6. Smart Furniture 7. Outdoor Gym 8. Pop Up Pods 

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MSc Advanced Architectural Design 


Contributors: Raymond Abdulai, Martyn Dade-Robertson, John Devlin, Sir Terry Farrell, Georgia Giannopoulou, Zan Gunn, Neveen Hamza, 

Sinead Hennessy, Astrid Lund, Patrick Malone, Anna McClean, Jack Mutton, Brian Peel, Christopher Rodgers, Dhruv Sookhoo, Jennifer Stephens, 

Tony Watson, Duncan Whatmore 

Our MSc Advanced Architectural Design is a unique degree programme for international designers to enhance their design and research skills. 

The programme is devised to help students consolidate their own identity as a designer, and develop their own distinctive specialisms through 

research-led design, in a world where successful architects increasingly have to be specialists as well as generalists. 

The programme offers a set of innovative, absorbing, research-led pathways in advanced architectural design, from which students can choose 

one of the following pathways: Architecture & Cities; Sustainable Buildings and Environments; Computation; and, Property Development. 

There is a balance of shared and specialist teaching across all of the pathways. 

The Architecture and Cities pathway focuses on the dialogue and interconnection between architecture and the fabric of cities. It helps students 

appreciate architectural design in the broader social, cultural, and economic contexts of cities. The pathway focuses on how architecture can be 

derived from detailed studies of particular urban communities, and determine what is appropriate in the strategic and detailed development 

of specific urban sites. 

The Computation pathway enables students to learn key skills in programming and computational hardware. Students develop building 

systems based on responsive and biological based materials, challenging them to think in new ways about computation. 

The Property Development pathway is unique and specifically set up for designers. Architects bring distinctive skills to property development 

as they are able to rapidly test plots for their potential and devise innovative solutions for making the most of sites. However, designers rarely 

lead such development schemes and normally lack the knowledge and skills to do so. This programme addresses this knowledge gap. 

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MA in Landscape Architecture Studies 

Dr Ian Thompson 

Contributors: Reader in Landscape Architecture 

The MA Landscape Architecture is a one-year taught masters-level programme which provides opportunities for students to develop systematic 

knowledge and understanding of landscape architecture and its interface with planning and architecture. Students develop the capacity for critical 

thinking about the design of place and space and gain skills to enable them to deal with complex aspects of landscape design and planning in a 

creative and innovative way. Through studio based design projects, students refine their design skills and develop the ability to critically analyse 

and discuss landscape projects and styles. 

The programme has been designed for those who wish to build upon a first qualification in landscape architecture or a cognate qualification 

in environmental art and design, garden design etc. It has been particularly designed with international students in mind, so it diverges from 

the (British) Landscape Institute’s recommendations for accredited degrees. The programme, which includes lectures, workshops, seminars and 

tutorials, alongside studio practice and critical reviews, is intended for those who wish to develop their critical thinking in tandem with their 

individual practice. 

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PhD and PhD by Creative Practice Students 

PhD Completions: 

Two Ways of Meaning in Architecture 

- ‘Conceptual Meaning’ and Pragmatic 

Meaning’ 

Dr Xi Ye 

Architectural Reflections on Housing Older 

People: Nine Stories of Retirement-Living 

Dr Sam Clark 

Towards More Open Citizenship: 

Exorcising the Colonial Ghost, Re- 

Imagining Urban Space, and Critical 

Spatial Practice in Wenzhou, China 

Dr Xi Chen 

Negotiating Space: Women’s Use of Space 

in Low-Income Urban Households, 

Surabaya, Indonesia 

Dr Sarah Cahyadini 

Returns - Towards a Photographic 

Criticism. (Or, the Case of the Berliner 

Bild-Bericht and the North American Grain 

Elevators) 

Dr Catalina Mejia Moreno 

Architecture and Urbanism in Twentieth 

Century Iraq: The Enduring Legacy of 

Gertrude Bell 

Dr Sana Salman Dawood Al-Naimi 

Incorporating Self-Management: 

Architectural Production in New Belgrade 

Dr Tijana Stevanovic 

A Coincidental Plot: The Potential of 

Paracontextuality in Spatial Practice 

Dr Ashley Mason 

Continuing PhD Students: 

An Investigation Into the Conservation of 

Historical Buildings in Mecca, Saudi Arabia 

Mohanad Alfelali 

ILLUSORY CONSTRUCTIONS The 

architectonic of “indeterminacy” in space as 

scenery for social interaction 

Carlos Arleo 

Bacterial Choreography: Designing 

interactions through biological induced 

mineralisation 


Architecture by Default 


Embodiment and computing at the 

architect’s interface for design 

Alexander Blanchard 

Housing Design and Marketing Images 

Hazel Cowie 

The Autobiographical Hinge: Revealing 

the Intermediate Area of Experience in 

Architectural Representation 

James Craig 

Living in Princely cities: Residential 

extensions, bungalow culture and the 

production of everyday spaces in Bangalore 

and Mysore, South India ca.1831 to 1920 

Sonali Dhanpal 

Integrated Design Approach for Responsive 

Solar-Shadings 

Yomna Elghazi 

Reimagining children’s spaces with Seven 

Stories: The National Centre for Children’s 

Books 

Daniel Goodricke 

Aldo Rossi: Architecture in a Cultural 

Context 

Sinead Hennessy 

Learning from Tokyo 

Nergis Kalli 

Frameworks for Ingenuity: Processes of 

Practice in the London County Council 

Architects Department (1943-65) 

Ruth Lang 

Syn.Emergent Material 

Sunbin Lee 

An investigation into the use of Building 

Energy Performance Simulation as Active 

Design Method at Conceptual Design Stage 

in the UK practice 

Ramy Mahmoud 

An Investigation Into the Effect of the 

Thermal Performance of UBEC Classrooms 

on Learning 

Charles Makun 

Vatican II, Modernism and concrete. 

Meaning and interpretation of the material 

in post-war Britain 

Ivan Marquez Munoz 

How architects can increase the use of fullculm 

bamboo to provide adequate urban 

housing in tropical developing economies 

John Naylor 

The Role of Computer-Based Energy 

Simulation Applications in the Early Stage 

of Residential Buildings Design in Saudi 

Arabia 

Hatem Nojoum 

The Duke in His Domain: Revealing the 

Studio Space 


Investigating the Properties of Mycelium to 

Develop Free Form Building Materials 

Dilan Ozkan 

Bio-based Pressure Sensing System as a Soil 

Reinforcement Technique 

Javier Rodriguez Corral 

Museums & Landscapes to shape 

Modernity 

Aldric Rodriguez Iborra 

The Enchantment of the Wild 

Usue Ruiz Arana 

Comparative Analysis of the Influence 

of Organic and Gridiron-Urban 

Morphological Effects on Human Comfort, 

a Case Study-Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq 

Ali Salih 

Designing Water. A Living Wall between 

Land and Sea 

Pierangelo Scravaglieri 

A Spatial-Based Programme Approach to 

Water Supply Development in Indonesia 

Djuang Sodikin 

Participation, Dwelling and Environment: 

Re-housing an Indigenous Karen 

Community in Thailand 

Sadanu Sukkasame 

Repositioning the Profession: The 1958 

RIBA Oxford Conference and its impact 

on Architectural Education 


Smajo Beso 

David Boyd 

Emmanuel Odugboye 

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Participation, Dwelling and Environment: Re-housing an Indigenous Karen Community in Thailand 

Sadanu Sukkasame 

This study aims to understand and evaluate the impact and effectiveness of 

a re-housing process on the lifestyle and culture of a Karen community and 

to identify supportive factors and challenges affecting the process. The study 

investigates the people of a Karen village who were forcibly evicted from their 

village homes by armed Thai forces and national park officials. They were 

relocated to new areas further from the Thai-Myanmar border but still within 

the national park where they constructed initial dwellings in a new village. 

The study employs a multi-method perspective: architectural, anthropological 

and sociological. A participatory approach was employed throughout the 

project, with a focus on design workshops which were a key approach of the 

study. Furthermore, sub-themes focus on socio-cultural, environmental and 

economic issues, such as kinship, gender, tradition, income, building materials 

and construction. The empirical findings enhance our understanding of the 

roles and responsibilities of parties involved and the process of working in the 

indigenous environment. 

Main Supervisor: Dr Peter Kellett, Second Supervisor: Prof Prue Chiles, Internal 

Examiner: Dr Cat Button, External Examiner: Prof Nabeel Hamdi, Oxford 

Brookes University 

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Incorporating Self-management: Architectural Production in New Belgrade 

Dr Tijana Stevanović 

Rapid post-war industrialisation of the building process brought profound change to the built environment 

and transformed how architects dealt with technical developments. Focusing on the development of New 

Belgrade in conjunction with the expansion of flexible structural systems and the reform of architectural 

education, the thesis posits socialist Yugoslavia’s self-management principle (1949-1989) as a potent 

cultural paradigm that conditioned relations between architects and the building industry. Despite its 

influence being frequently dismissed by Yugoslav architects, the thesis argues that the ceaselessly debated 

purview of self-management (through the three federal constitutions of 1953, 1963 and 1974) strongly 

influenced the organisation of architectural techniques. It does so by interpreting a range of sources – 

technical and legal documents, educational literature, oral history etc. – that elucidate the transformation 

of the everyday realm of the work of architects and common processes rather than the products of 

(individual) design emphasised by other recent studies of Yugoslav architecture. 

By articulating three critical mediations used to reflect on the conjunction of self-management and 

architectural production: i) social property; ii) individual vs. collective; and iii) the notion of architect as 

worker, the study tracks how they shaped the broader field of architectural culture. It explores how the 

foundations of the practice of self-management were laid by the voluntary youth labour that prepared the 

New Belgrade construction site. Further, it demonstrates how emergent notions deemed merely technical— 

such as ‘open prefabrication’ or ‘expanded communication’—reinforced architects’ detachment from the 

material building process. Lastly, it argues that the criticism of modernist oversights was ineffective for its 

blindness to social relations and regulations underlying architectural production in self-management. The 

study contributes to research into the socio-political dimension of building technology in architecture, 

but also problematises how reducing self-management’s collective capacity to individual self-discipline 

intensifies the atomisation of responsibilities in architecture. 

Main Supervisor: Professor Katie Lloyd Thomas, Second Supervisor: Professor Mark Dorrian (The 

University of Edinburgh), Internal Examiner: Professor Roger Burrows, External Examiner: Dr Christine 

Wall (University of Westminster, London) 

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ARC – Architecture Research Collaborative 

In addition to the promotion and facilitation of outstanding individual research in the school, a key aim of the Architecture Research Collaborative 

ARC, co-directed by Dr Neil Burford on the practice and building science side, and by Professor Katie Lloyd Thomas on the humanities side, is to 

engender an inclusive environment that supports seed projects, early career research and collective endeavours across our members. Membership of 

ARC is open to all, including PhD candidates, part-time and external staff, and is organized around thematic clusters that are distinctive to research 

in the school and each include diverse methodologies and disciplines from engineering, biology and environmental humanities to history, theory, 

ethnography, design-led research, participatory art practice and urbanism. This year we have introduced three new overarching themes: 

Matter + Ecologies is led by Dr Ben Bridgens and seeks to build better understandings of interrelationships between people, matter and energy across 

a range of scales from the macro (city & region) to the micro within both natural and man-made ecologies and infrastructures. The micro scale is 

exemplified by our work on ‘Living Architecture’: the design, prototyping and deployment of active and responsive materials and systems, while at the 

macro scale we analyse flows, processes and energetics of matter in complex spatial networks. 

Dr Juilet Odgers co-ordinates Histories + Cultures which is concerned both with the forms of landscapes, buildings and places and the political, 

cultural and conceptual contexts which shape their production and our understanding of them. Newcastle University has one of the largest and 

strongest groupings of historians and theorists in any UK architecture school, and consequently our work covers a wide range of topics, addressing real 

and imaginary conditions and diverse geographies and periods - past, present and future, often taking interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. 

Daniel Mallo faciliates Processes + Practices which seeks to understand the many ways architecture can be created in the 21st century. Research 

addressing the diversity of processes that shape our built environment mobilises knowledge to understand the ‘practical’ world of making architecture 

whilst carving a space in between theory and practice. The theme demands underpinnings in philosophical, political and social theories and histories 

that have engaged with these problems. It encompasses diverse sites of enquiry including pedagogy, professional practice, industry, informal settlements 

and the co-production of space. 

This year we have been really pleased to welcome the design and marketing assistance of Sarah Delap and have focused on extending the outlets for 

promoting, debating and displaying ARC research. An ARC display wall for the reception area and a space to share research in progress at our regular 

meetings, is currently being fabricated by Plyable designers. Professor Prue Chiles and Dr Polly Gould have been working with creative practice 

researchers to prepare portfolios of their work which were brought together in an exhibition in the school in May. We’ve been delighted to welcome 

Sonali Dhanpal as the first recipient of the prestigious John and Mary Forshaw PhD Scholarship, and to see successful PhD completions from Sana Al- 

Naimi, Tijana Stevanovič and Catalina Mejía Moreno amongst others. In order to build ARC PGR activity Dr Zeynep Kezer has taken on a new ARC 

role coordinating architecture PGR membership in ARC, and we were delighted in March to welcome the internationally renowned scholar Professor 

Dell Upton to respond to presentations from PhD candidates and staff. 

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Creative Practice Research 

We are a group of practitioners in the process of defining our research that is practice-based or practice-led. We are looking at ways to develop and 

present our practice outcomes through creative and visual methods of knowledge production; using political, cultural and societal processes, to gain 

new and critical insights in architecture. 

The projects illustrated below are a collection of academic staffs’ practice that have been collated as creative practice portfolios. We hope to enlarge 

this collection in the future to other design studio staff and PhD students and create a website of this developing architectural culture at Newcastle. 

99 Years, 13 sqm: The Future belongs to Ghosts 

Rachel Armstrong & Rolf Hughes 

99 years, 13 sqm (the future belongs to ghosts) is the first publicly accessible wall-scale 

prototype of the EU funded Living Architecture project and collaboration with artist 

Cecile B. Evans. Exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery from 14 February to 12 May 

2019, this simplified version (based on only one bioreactor type, MFC) demonstrates a 

compiled version of the modular system. 

Hygromorph: Moisture Sensitive Materials for Responsive Architecture 

Ben Bridgens, Graham Farmer & Artem Holstov 

Contemporary “smart” building systems typically aim to reduce building energy use by 

means of technologically enabled climate-responsiveness; however, these technologies 

lack the efficiency and elegance of naturally responsive mechanisms which employ the 

inherent properties of materials, such as the moisture-induced opening and closing 

of conifer cones. This mechanism can be replicated to produce low-tech low-cost 

hygromorphs: moisture-sensitive materials that change shape due to shrinkage and 

swelling of wood. 

The Energy Autarkic Living Laboratory 

Neil Burford 

The Energy Autarkic Living Laboratory is an integrated technical platform for the 

ongoing research, technical development, assessment and in-use performance of an 

experimental energy self-sufficient building. The project develops novel spatial and 

constructional techniques for the design of a small-scale self-build, Passivhaus prototype 

and tests the viability of achieving energy autonomy in both regulated and unregulated 

energy demand. The research also takes into account the use of regionally sourced 

materials, water conservation and treatment, and the design’s material and formal 

responses to its landscape context. 

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The Barn in Castleton 

Prue Chiles 

The importance of the barn to the very idea of the National Park cannot be understated. 

This project asks: how do you create a new dwelling within an historic barn that 

can successfully contribute to the social, human, aesthetic, cultural, economic and 

environmental sustainability of the National Parks? The challenge with this barn, in 

particular, is to facilitate change and intervene architecturally in a building that was 

historically used for husbandry and crop storage; to create an extended home and work 

place that is sympathetically embedded in the spirit of the landscape, the village of 

Castleton and contributes to the spirit and memory of place and sustainable future of the 

Peak Park in Derbyshire. Different perspectives and knowledge from the collaborators 

allows for insights on the culture of the craftsmen and the relationship between 

functionality, relevance and beauty for all parties involved. 

Everest Death Zone 

James Craig & Matt Ozga-Lawn 

Everest Death Zone is a site‐specific installation and accompanying set of four drawings 

and a text, depicting in abstract the landscape of Mount Everest and focussing on the 

bodies of endeavourers on its surface. The project was presented to the public as part 

of the AHRC Being Human Festival of the Humanities, within the north tower of 

Newcastle’s iconic Tyne Bridge. The installation, constructed from fabric, metal and 

climbing equipment, was suspended in the central void of the tower. The drawings are 

greyscale collages combining physical and digital models and photographs. The 1924 

film The Epic of Everest was presented alongside the project. 

Testing Ground 1: Three Rural Villages 

Graham Farmer 

Testing Ground is an ongoing constructive design research project established in 2013 

in partnership with Kielder Art & Architecture. The programme is working within and 

across rural communities and landscapes in Northumberland to explore small-scale, 

locally-generated variants of built environment sustainability. It is aiming to ground 

design-build research and pedagogy within a concern for the broader ecology of the 

building process. Testing Ground explores environmental and social sustainability, 

by working directly with rural organisations and communities in collaborative and 

participatory ways whilst also seeking to provide direct social and economic benefits to 

those communities. 

Architecture for an Extinct Planet 

Polly Gould 

Architecture for an Extinct Planet is a series of speculative art works in watercolour, 

fabric, glass and paper that relates to past visions of the future in science fiction and 

architectural design to make comments upon contemporary debates regarding climate 

change. The research method mixes archival research with practice-based outputs that 

apply visual assemblages of historical and contemporary imaginaries. How do the 

histories of ‘paper architecture’ as a mode of architectural design of unbuildable realities 

that were never meant to leave the page, intersect with the paper-based art works and 

paper-based writing of speculative fiction and manifestos? The work has been presented 

in three art fairs in London and New York and has been developed as the content of a 

solo show at Danielle Arnaud, London and Venice for the Architecture Biennale 2020. 

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Penguin Pool 

Polly Gould 

Penguin Pool is a performative lecture that plays on the pun of ‘pool’ as an architectural 

design for zoological display designed by Lubetkin and gene pool. The work uses forty-six 

lantern-slides- and the same as the number of chromosomes in the human genome, and 

the outmoded medium of the lantern-slide. The audience’s participate in a performance 

of a sequence of projected images with citations from historical and contemporary 

sources on design, the archive and extinction in the face of climate change. 

Protohome: Rethinking Home Through Co-production 

Julia Heslop 

Protohome was a collaboratively built architectural installation, 5 metres x 10 metres, 

designed as a prototype for a self-build house. It was sited in the Ouseburn, Newcastle 

upon Tyne from May-September 2016 and was a collaboration between Julia Heslop, 

Crisis, the national charity for single homelessness, xsite architecture and TILT 

Workshop. 

Working alongside an architect and a joiner members of Crisis built a timber-frame 

self-build housing prototype. The ‘house’ hosted events and exhibitions examining the 

collaborative design-build process and issues regarding housing and homelessness in an 

austerity context and participatory alternatives. A publication, website and film were 

also created. 

Made in Ethiopia: The Changing Material Culture of Everyday Life 

Peter Kellett 

Through a series of public exhibitions, this ongoing research is examining the effectiveness 

of visual methods to communicate complex issues of international development. 

Installations of everyday objects and images are used to explore the visual and material 

culture of Ethiopia at a time of rapid change. Drawing on practices and techniques from 

visual anthropology and contemporary art, the innovative assemblages and projected 

images present stories of celebration and creativity alongside development dilemmas and 

challenges. The exhibitions aim to reach audiences beyond academia, particularly young 

people and ethnic minority groups in different cities (Newcastle, Bath and Bristol). 

Fenham Pocket Park: Design Activism in the Co-production of the Urban Space 


This research project focuses on intensifying participatory design as the means to 

stimulate public life in the urban realm. Whilst articulating approaches that overcome 

the limitations of mainstream stakeholder-led forms of consultation, we explore openended 

and inspirational participatory engagement with particular attention on the role 

of design as activism. This process of experimentation, situated within the everyday, 

ordinary life, engages community actors in a socio-spatial co-production process whose 

impact goes beyond the delivery of the project. Situated in the west end of Newcastle 

Upon Tyne, our case study highlights the transformation of an unused urban space into 

a lively pocket park. 

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Sensory Exploration: A Future Facility at Scotswood Natural Community Garden 

Daniel Mallo, Abigail Schoneboom & Armelle Tardiveau 

Mobilising a fusion of participant-led design and sensory ethnography, this socially 

engaged research project invited users of Scotswood Natural Community Garden 

to explore the meanings and values attached to a garden nested in one of Newcastle 

upon Tyne’s most deprived neighbourhoods. This ESRC IAA funded co-production 

project engaged the diverse aspirations of project participants in articulating a rich and 

meaningful shared vision for a future expanded facility. 

Design Office 

Adam Sharr, James Longfield, Yasser Megahed, Kieran Connolly, Aldric Iborra, & Assia 

Stefanova 

Design Office is an architecture and design research consultancy run by the School of 

Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. The office focuses on 

research-led practice, drawing on the accumulated expertise and academic interests 

of its associates and the distinctive research agendas of the School. Formed in 2010, 

Design Office has worked on a variety of architectural and research projects, and 

collaborated with a variety of organisations, community groups and construction 

industry professionals. Through undertaking architectural work associates of the office 

also conduct original research, critically reflecting on specific themes and experiences 

of professional practice they have encountered through their work with Design Office. 

Ghosts of The Newbridge: A Haunted Spatial Archive 

Ed Wainwright 

Four months prior to the demolition of an active artist studios space in Newcastle city 

centre, a form of ‘rescue archaeology’ was undertaken to document and record the 

use and inhabitation of Norham House. Using millimetre-accurate LiDAR scanning 

technology, a digital model of The NewBridge Project studios has been produced. 

Through modelling, projection, immersive video and sound, this project aimed to 

explore the production of affective states through digital representation and spatial 

installation practices. The project combined high definition, digital video, projection 

mapping in a basement space in The NewBridge Project’s new home in Carliol House, 

alongside modified audio recordings of interviews with studio holders and recordings of 

the now demolished building’s ambient sound. 

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99 years, 13 sqm 

The future belongs to ghosts 

Rachel Armstrong & Rolf Hughes 

hygromorph 

moisture sensitive materials for responsive architecture 

Ben Bridgens, Graham Farmer & Artem Holstov 

The Energy Autarkic 

Living Laboratory 

Neil Burford 

Design and Creative Practice Research Folios 






The Barn in Castleton 

Everest Death Zone 

Testing Ground 2 

Three Rural Landscapes 

Prue Chiles 

James Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn 

Graham Farmer 







Penguin Pool 

Protohome 

Rethinking home through co-production 

Fenham Pocket Park 

Design activism in the co-production of urban space 

Dr Polly Gould 

Julia Heslop 








Made in Ethiopia: 

the changing material culture of everyday life 

Dr Peter Kellett 

Design Office 

Adam Sharr, James Longfield, Yasser Megahed, Kieran Connolly, 

Aldric Iborra, and Assia Stefanova 

Ghosts of The Newbridge 

A Haunted Spatial Archive 

Dr. Ed Wainwright 







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Contributors 

Each year, the School draws on a vast and extraordinary array of talented architects, artists, critics and other practitioners who substantially 

contribute to our students’ learning, and to the culture and status of the School more generally. On this page we’ve gathered all (we hope!) of 

these vital individuals who come week-after-week to teach in our School. Our thanks go to each and every one of them, and we hope they will 

keep returning, as without their critical input the School would be a very different place. 

Stage 1 

Andy Campbell 


Cath Keay 

Charlotte Powell 

Cynthia Wong 

Damien Wootten 

Dan Kerr 

David Davies 

David McKenna 

Di Leitch 

Ed Wainwright 

Elinoah Eitani 

Ewan Thomson 

Graham Farmer 

Henna Asikainen 

Jack Mutton 

James Craig 

Jamie Morton 

John Kamara 

Karl Mok 

Kati Blom 

Kate Wilson 

Keri Townsend 



Nick Clark 

Noemi Lakmaier 

Olga Gogoleva 

Patrick Malone 

Prue Chiles 



Sam Austin 

Sana Al-Naimi 

Sarah Stead 

Shankari Raj 

Simon Hacker 

Sneha Solanki 

Sophie Cobley 

Stephen Tomlinson 

Tara Alisandratos 

Tony Watson 

Tracey Tofield 

Zeynep Kezer 

Stage 2 

Aaron Guy 

Adam Goodwin 

Adam Hill 


Amara Roca Iglesias 


Cara Lund 

Chris French 


Craig Hawkes 

Claire Harper 

Delia Murguia 

Dimitra Ntzani 


Graham Farmer 

Harriett Sutcliffe 

Isabel Lima 

James Craig 

Jack Green 

James Perry 

Jack Roberto Scaffardi 

John Kinsley 

Justin Moorton 

Katie Lloyd Thomas 


Luke Rigg 

Maria Mitsoula 



Neil Burford 

Nick Simpson 

Nikoletta Karastathi 

Pedro Quero 

Prue Chiles 

Rosie Morris 

Rumen Dimov 

Samuel Austin 

Samuel Penn 

Sana Al-Naimi 

Smajo Beso 



Will Stockwell 

Zeynep Kezer 

Stage 3 

Adam Sharr 

Akari Takebayashi 

Amrita Raja 


Andrew Campbell 



Cara Lund 


Colin Ross 


Graham Farmer 

Harriet Sutcliffe 

Hazel Cowie 

Lukas Barry 

Ivan Marquez Munoz 

Jack Green 

James Craig 

John Kinsley 

Jon McAulay 

Jonathan Mole 

Jack Mutton 


Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes 

Juliet Odgers 


Luke Rigg 

Manuel Bailo 

Marc Subirana 



Michael Simpson 

Nick Peters 

Peter Sharpe 

Rachel Armstrong 


Rosie Jones 

Ryan Doran 

Sam Austin 

Shaun Young 

Simon Hacker 

Stephen Ibbotson 

Stephen Richardson 

Steve Kennedy 

Stuart Hallett 

Victoria Tinney 

AUP 


Kati Blom 

Laura Harty 

Ed Wainwright 

David McKenna 

Sean Douglas 

Di Leitch 

Joanna Wiley 


Freddie Armitage 

Ellie Gair 


Tooka Taheri 

Sarah Stead 

Xi Chen 

Ziwen Sun 

Nikoletta Karastahi 

Daniel Mallo 

Rutter Carroll 

Sophie Ellis 

Xi Chen 


Stage 5 

Ana Miret Garcia 

Anna Czigler 

Carlos Arleo 

Chiemeka Ejiochi 

David Boyd 

Dr Ben Bridgens 

Dr Christos Kakalis 

Dr Ed Wainwright 

Dr Koldo Lus Arana 

Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson 

Dr Miguel Paredes Maldonado 

Dr Neil Burford 

Dr Neveen Hamza 

Dr Steve Parnell 

Dr Zeynep Kezer 

Dilan Ozkan 

Gregorio Santamaria Lubroth 

Imogen Holden 

Irina Korneychuk 

Jack Green 

James Nelmes 

James Wakeford 

John Ng 



Michael Findlater 

Mike Hall 

Nathalie Baxter 

Niall Durney 

Paul Rigby 

Peter Hunt 

Prof Graham Farmer 

Prof Remo Pedreschi 


Yomna Elghazi 

Stage 6 

Aaron Guy 


Anna Szigler 

Dan Kerr 

David Boyd 

Elizabeth Baldwin-Gray 

Gareth Hudson 

Holly Hendry 


Laura Harty 

Leah Millar 


Perry Kulper 

Roberts Evans 

Tim Bell 

Yearbook Contributors 

Jenna Sheehy 

Michael Bautista-Trimming 

Sarah Delap 

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Sponsors 

This year our thanks go to Faulkner Browns who have been kind enough to sponsor our end-of-year degree shows and publication. The 

Newcastle-based practice Faulkner Browns is our principle sponsor and plays a big role in the life of the School. 

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Student Initiative - NUAS / SIGNAL / PRAXIS / Fold 

NUAS / SIGNAL 

Newcastle University Architecture Society is the student-run representation body within the School. Representing just under 600 students, we 

work to provide opportunities that enhance our members’ education through programmes ranging from skills workshops, industry panel talks 

to one on one support. For many students in APL the society forms the heart of the School, bringing together students from across different 

stages with staff and practitioners in a casual environment. Every year we work to host a variety of events aimed to break up academic teaching 

including international trips, socials, and our annual Winter and Summer Balls. 

NUAS continues to go from strength to strength after winning runners up for ‘Best Departmental Society’ and ‘Most Improved Society’ by 

reworking how students perceive Architectural education, creating an enjoyable atmosphere outside of lectures to meet, discuss and challenge 

the industry sector. The society’s growth this year has continued to influence students across the region, working closely with other student 

architecture societies to host competitions and improve networking opportunities for our members. 

This year has also seen the introduction of SIGNAL, a collection of students from stage 1 to stage 6 who have paved the way for more 

student-led initiatives in the future. With the help of NUAS, the team have put on a small talk series, bringing in professionals from differing 

backgrounds – people like RIBA President-elect Alan Jones, Director of Levitt-Bernstein Architects Jo McAfferty, architectural artist Perry 

Kulper to name but a few. The movement has brought plenty of conversations into the school, a series of debates and architectural workshops 

enabled a newfound connection between postgraduate and undergraduate students. 

The Society wishes to thank all the staff of APL for their endless help and enthusiasm as well as the RIBA and our industry partners for their 

support. Our thanks also goes to our members, for without whom we simply would not of had the outstanding year we have had. 

Society 2018/19 

President/SIGNAL: Jonathan Barker Secretary/SIGNAL: Ming Harper Treasurer: Ellen Willis Social Secretary(s): Niamh Lyons, Alice Cann Formals 

Officer: Heather O’mara Publicity Officer: Marc J Gutierrez Sports Secretary: Florence Niaga Lectures and talk/SIGNAL: Sasha Swannell 

Society 2019/2020 

President: Shujaat Afzal Secretary/RIBA NE Rep.: Colin Rogger Treasurer: Quanah Clark Social Secretary(s): Milly London, Sam Coldicott Formals 

Officer(s): Eleanor Mettham, Emily Ducker Publicity Officer: Julian Djopo 

PRAXIS 

PRAXIS is a student led collective co-ordinated through a collaboration between Signal and About. Design. The ethos of Praxis is to enable a collaborative 

learning environment between the students of APL and the communities in which we are situated, to facilitate genuine and positive change. The team 

has developed two key projects since the creation of Praxis in December 2018, engaging APL students with local design studio Plyable and the Star & 

Shadow Cinema. 

Our collaboration with Plyable engaged student design thinking with ideas surrounding educational furniture for architecture, providing a student voice 

within the reimagining of the architectural studio. This resulted in a student organised competition open to the whole school to gather ideas for how 

the furniture could be created. 

Our second ongoing collaboration with the Star & Shadow Cinema to develop a new Box Office will be a student-designed and student-constructed 

project, to be built using funds in collaboration with the GoVolunteer fund of Newcastle University’s Students Union. Praxis has worked alongside 

volunteers at the Star & Shadow to create a holistic collaboration culture of knowledge and skill sharing that benefits the cinema and wider creative 

community of Newcastle. 

Fold 

Fold is a student led magazine initiative uniting the whole school under one voice to critique, promote and raise awareness. Through the medium of 

zine we intend to engage with issues across the school and beyond the walls of the studio, working in collaboration with NUAS and Signal to further 

participation within such initiatives. We aim to empower each student to speak critically about the bigger picture of architecture. 

Our aim is to issue Fold regularly, providing a consistent voice throughout the school. To make this a success it is crucial to have writers, photographers 

and graphic designers in each stage, both inside and out of the University, could this be you? 

If you wish to contribute in any way, please feel free to get in touch: Foldncl@gmail.com 

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Newcastle University School of 

Architecture, Planning and Landscape 

Yearbook ‘19 

Editorial Team 

Jenna Sheehy 

Michael Bautista-Trimming 

Sarah Delap 

Printing & Binding 

Statex Colour Print 

www.statex.co.uk 

Typography 

Adobe Garamond Pro 

Paper 

GF Smith 

Colourplan, Lavender, 350gsm 

First published in June 2019 by: 

The School of Architecture 

Planning and Landscape, 

Newcastle University 

Newcastle Upon Tyne. 

NE1 7RU 

United Kingdom 

w: www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/ 

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e: apl@newcastle.ac.uk

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