Princeton University and Auckland University and received post-graduate degrees as a Fulbright Scholar from Princeton University (MA, PhD) and undergraduate degrees from Auckland University (BA, Arch Hons). He has practised internationally and served as the Managing Editor of Grey Room and the Cooper Union Archive. He is the Director of the ‘Paradise Lost’ AA Research Cluster.
AAVSP. Since 2007 he has been the Unit Master for Diploma 13. He regularly lectures and has curated an exhibition on the topic of ornament, and is now writing the Four Elements of Ornament.
Paul Davies has lectured at the AA since 1997, always on a populist agenda. He has contributed to many magazines and books, and is well known for his work on Las Vegas.
Maria Fedorchenko studied at UCLA, Princeton University and Moscow Institute of Architecture. She practised in Russia, Greece, and the US (including Michael Graves & Associates) and directs a design consultancy. She has taught at UC Berkeley, UCLA and CCA since 2003 and has been involved in HTS and Housing & Urbanism Programme at the AA.
Oliver Domeisen studied at ETH Zurich and the AA. From 1997-2000 he worked as project Architect for Zaha Hadid; since 2000 as director of dlm ltd; from 2001-07 as Unit Master for Intermediate 9; and from 2005-07 as a Studio Master for
Francesca Hughes joined the AA in 2003 and has been unit master of Diploma 15. She has lectured internationally and served as external examiner in schools, both in the U.K. and abroad. Author/editor of The Architect: Reconstructing
her Practice (MIT Press: 1996), she is currently completing a book entitled Error: The False Economy of Precision in Architecture. Her practice Hughes Meyer Studio has been published by AA Files, AR, ANY, Art Forum, Merrel, Routledge and Wiley. John Palmesino has established Territorial Agency. He is Diploma Unit Master at the AA, where he also teaches at the HCT Masters programme. He is Research Advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. He teaches at the Research Architecture Centre, Goldsmiths in London where he is pursuing his Doctoral Research. Previously he has been Head of Research at ETH Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute. Victoria Walsh is a curator, project manager and research consultant in the fields of visual arts, architecture, arts education and
post-critical museology, and has worked for the Tate, London Mayor’s Cultural Office, LSE Cities, Architecture Foundation, Foster + Partners, and the Royal College of Art. She has published on postwar British artists Nigel Henderson, Francis Bacon and Gilbert & George and architects Alison and Peter Smithson. Ines Weizman was trained at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Ecole d’Architecture de Belleville in Paris. She studied at Cambridge University and completed her PhD at the AA in 2004. She taught at the AA, Goldsmiths College London, the Berlage Institute of Architecture and London Metropolitan University. Research and exhibition projects include ‘Celltexts. Books and other works produced in prison’ and an architectural reenactment of Adolf Loos’ 1927 ‘House for Josephine Baker’.
Mark Cousins, HTS Friday Evening Lecture Series, Technology and the First Person Singular, 2010/11. Photo Valerie Bennett
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