Researchers

Graeme Brooker, Senior Lecturer Interior Architecture, Brighton University.

Graeme Brooker is a senior lecturer in Interior Architecture at Brighton University. He has practised and studied Interior Design in both London and Manchester, receiving his Masters Degree in 1995 with distinction for the project ‘The room and the city’. Between 1997 and 2004 he taught Interior Architecture at Cardiff before moving to Manchester where, between 2004 and 2010, he was the programme Leader of both the BA and MA Interior courses as well as the leader of the Centre for Design Research.

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Graeme Brooker’s research interests are focused on the cultural, historical and philosophical implications of reusing existing spaces and buildings. He has written and published numerous books, papers, articles and reviews on this subject, including co-authoring the highly acclaimed ‘Rereadings’, (2005). He is a commissioning editor for the publisher Ashgate and he is also a member of the editorial advisory board of the magazine ‘Interiors: Design: Architecture: Culture’ published by BERG. He is the co-founder of Interior Educators (IE), the national subject association for interiors courses in the UK and he was its inaugural chair from 2006-8. He was re-elected as its director in April 2010. He is currently working on a number of publications including a reader on Interiors for Routledge, an edition of commissioned essays on the interior, for Berg and a book on a History of Interiors, for Laurence King. All are due to be published in 2012/13.

 

 

Lorraine Farrelly, Professor of Architecture and Interiors, Portsmouth University.

I teach architecture, interior and urban design in the Portsmouth School of Architecture. My research interests include a multi-disciplinary approach to architecture and design at various scales, through understanding ideas of interior detail to urban concepts. I have a postgraduate urban design studio, which has made mixed use and housing proposals for many European sites in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Venice, Rotterdam, London, Dublin , Segovia and Istanbul. As a qualified architect my own completed projects range from the interior fit-out of bars and restaurants and retail design through to individual house design, school design and public spaces. Over the past three years I have been working with the BFL Building for Life awards with CABE to judge and assess housing across the South of England. Emerging research projects are relating the idea of the practice of interior design and architecture to education.

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I have been involved with the development of the New Project Office in the School which is encouraging a practice based approach to education connecting clients with students through the design project. Our clients have included the National Trust, local community groups such as Portsmouth Diocese, Hilsea Lido, the Isle of Wight Zoo, all projects have connected our students directly with a real client and design brief and the opportunity to develop the project further as a practice or research project. Publications include; Materials and the Interior and Drawing and Urban Design (both Laurence King Publishers), Basics architecture: construction and materiality, Representational techniques. The fundamentals of architecture. (Ava Publishers) and Bar and restaurant interior structures. (Wiley)

 

 

Ed Hollis, Programme Leader Interiors, Edinburgh College of Art.

Goethe described architecture as frozen music, but in fact buildings, interiors, and landscapes evolve, over time, only so slowly that we hardly see it happen. Ed Hollis has considered this issue as a journalist (monthly columnist for Building Design magazine), as the writer of literary non-fiction (The Secret Lives of Buildings, London and New York 2009), and as the author of academic papers (The Memory Palace and the House of Life, Berg 2010, ). His written work is an attempt to find ways of talking and writing about the ways in which the environments around us change and grow.

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Ed is also the Secretary of the Interiors Forum Scotland, which has successfully staged two international conferences and related publications about the growing field of interior research. (Thinking Inside the Box, Middlesex University Press 2007, Interior Tools Interior Tactics, Libri Books 2011).

 

 

Nancy Diniz, Programme Leader Interior Architecture + Design, University of Hertfordshire.

Nancy Diniz is a registered architect and Course Leader of the Interior Architecture & Design Course at the Faculty of Technology and Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. There she is also Pathway Leader of the MA in Interior & Spatial Design programme. In the last 10 years she has been teaching between the disciplines of Architecture/Interior Architecture and Interaction Design. In addition to her academic activity, Nancy is principal of the studio “Augmented Architectures” based in London, a research and design practice focused on creating adaptive and interactive systems for Architecture. Nancy has published and exhibited her work internationally in the main conferences and events of her research area. Some of the events she has participated: SIGGRAPH, Design Computing and Cognition, CAADRIA, CAD Futures, ACADIA, ISEA. Nancy is currently completing her PhD in “Evolutionary Behaviour” in Architecture at the Bartlett School, UCL.

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Main Research interests: Adaptive and Evolving Design, Physical Computing, Parametric and Digital Fabrication. Nancy has a Masters degree in “Virtual Environments” from the Bartlett and a diploma degree in Architecture from Lusiada University in Lisbon, Portugal. She is an External Examiner in the MA Interior and Living, DOMUS Academy, Milan, Italy. She is a visiting lecturer at the MA Architecture and Computation in Department of Architecture and Urban Design ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. In the past she was Course Leader of the MA in Architecture and Computation at the Architecture Course in Lisbon DAU/ISCTE, IUL, Lisbon, and Subject Leader in Technology & Environment at the Canterbury Architecture School, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK.

 

 

 

Dr Graham Cairns MA. B(Arch) BA

Dr Graham Cairns, UK, 1971. Head of Interior Architecture and Design at Writtle School of Design, Essex. He has taught at Universities in Spain and the UK and has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong. In the 1990s he ran a performing arts group called Hybrid Artworks and specialised in video installation and performance writing.

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He has presented papers at numerous international conferences and has published articles on film, architecture, interior design and advertising for various publications. He periodically writes for El Mundo newspaper, Spain. He has 2 books: The Architect Behind the Camera, Abada Editores, Madrid, 2007. Deciphering Art, Architecture and Advertising; selling to the sophisticated Consumer. Libri, Publishing, London. 2010

 

 

Ro Spankie is Course Leader for the BA(hons) Interior Architecture at the University of Westminster.

Following a Masters in Computing and Design she developed fascination for the role of the drawing in the design process that combines with research into the interior. Currently enrolled on the PhD by Architectural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, Supervisor Professor Philip Steadman, her thesis 'Thinking through Drawing' is focused on drawing out interior specific practice. She has exhibited and published work both in the UK and abroad including ‘Drawing Out the Interior’ published by AVA Academia 2009.