The Leeds School of Architecture Yearbook 2023

Overview
Cityzen Agency studio is a creative and ethical activist environment for
students to act as a ‘force for good’. Regenerative Built Environments refers
to a holistic process of reimaging existing urban infrastructure for the benefit
of its communities and to ensure a net positive impact on natural systems.
Live Projects offer a different way of learning from the normative Design Studio
experience. It is live learning and it is unpredictable. Students and academics
have to think on their feet and work collectively as priorities shift in an everevolving
process.
Project 1 - Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards, Philadelphia, USA
We start each academic year by entering an international design ideas
competition. This year’s competition, set in Philadelphia, reimagined its
Chinatown district. Four teams of students from architecture and urban design
disciplines entered the competition. One entry called The Chinatown Inquirer
won second prize and was presented at the awards ceremony in Philadelphia.
Project 2 – Buttershaw Live Project, Bradford
Buttershaw is a post-war council estate, and has been lacking a defined centre
since it was built. Working with the community, students have developed a range
of co-design proposals that express the needs of the community and also suggest
many possible futures. The work will be used to inform a real-life development
that will be managed by Project Office, our school-based architecture practice.
Project 3 – Adaptive Re-use in Scarborough
Adaptive re-use refers to the process of reusing an existing building or structure
for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for. Although
Scarborough has been committed to arresting its decline as a tourist resort
for some time, students have formed urban and architectural propositions to
speculate on how Scarborough’s renaissance can continue to evolve through
adapting what is already there.
Students
MArch Year 1
(Full time)
George Goddard
Paige Jones
Yi Jia Ng
Ayesha Naaz Shaik
Kabilesh Suseendiran
Tian Ting Tan
Charlotte Whittles
Degree Apprentice
Thomas Morgan
Emmanuel Akintayo
MArch Year 2
(Full time)
Olivia Bailey
Jacob Bevan-Howarth
Vaishali Nidhi Muthyala
Nisarg Rajeshbhai Patel
Olivia Riley
Andrew Stanway
Jahnavi Trivedi
MARFU
Grace Ajibola
Qanita Qamarani
MAUDE
Vrutika Ashok Gohil
MArch Year 2
(Part time)
Myles Petcher
Eoin Rogers
Lew Rogers
MArch Year 4
(Part time)
Alexander Horne