The Bartlett School of Architecture 2015
Professor Marcos Cruz BiotA Lab Co-leader Marcos Cruz is Professor of Innovative Environments and Co-Director of BiotA Lab at The Bartlett, where he has also run MArch Architecture Unit 20 for over 16 years. In addition to holding the Directorship of The Bartlett School of Architecture (2010-14), he has also taught at UCLA, University of Westminster and IaaC Barcelona. Cruz has published and exhibited widely and is co-founder of the architecture practice marcosandmarjan. He is currently Principal Investigator of an EPSRC-funded ‘Design the Future’ research project entitled ‘Computational Seeding of Bioreceptive Materials’. Richard Beckett BiotA Lab Co-leader Richard Beckett is Co-Leader of BiotA Lab and an MPhil/PhD candidate at UCL. His background is in both architecture and material engineering and he has expertise in 3D printing and digital manufacturing. He is currently embarking on the EPSRC-funded ‘Computational Seeding of Bioreceptive Materials’ project as a research associate, with Marcos Cruz. Javier Ruiz BiotA Lab Tutor Javier Ruiz trained as an architect at The Bartlett, where he took part in an exchange programme with SCI-Arc. He has worked at Foster + Partners, CRAB Studio (Sir Peter Cook + Gavin Robotham) and Eralonso Arquitectos. He has also collaborated with marcosandmarjan. As well as teaching in BiotA Lab he works in practice with Grimshaw Architects.
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Ruairi Glynn Interactive Architecture Lab Leader Ruairi Glynn is Director of the Interactive Architecture Lab and a practising artist and researcher. He has exhibited his work at Tate Modern London, Centre Pompidou Paris and National Art Museum of China Beijing. He also works commercially with clients including Twitter, Nike, Lego, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Arup, and Buro Happold. William Bondin Interactive Architecture Lab Tutor William Bondin is a Maltese architect and leading member of the Interactive Architecture Lab. Following his studies in architecture and building engineering in Malta he developed MORPHs – a reconfigurable interactive architectural system, at The Bartlett. William’s design research practice takes a fabrication-oriented approach towards architectural performance and behaviour. Dr Christopher Leung Interactive Architecture Lab Tutor Christopher Leung is an architect trained at The Bartlett. He earned a doctorate from UCL for work on applying passive thermal actuators to the environmental control in buildings. His work raises questions about the relationship between machines, occupants and buildings explored through design research. This has been published in peer-reviewed journals together with his collaborations in the sixteen*(makers) group. Vincent Huyghe Interactive Architecture Lab Teaching Assistant Vincent Huyghe is a robotic fabrication and interaction specialist. He obtained a Master of Advanced Architecture at IAAC followed by a Master of Adaptive Architecture and Computation at The Bartlett. He gained professional experience in the field while employed at Robofold. His areas of interest are robotics, scripting and software development, digital fabrication, micro-controllers and electronics.