Technology in Architecture (CITA), and head of Institute of Architecture and Technology and associate professor David Garcia. Mark Mückenheim combines his post as graduate director in the school of architecture at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco with running his practice MCKNHM. Stefano de Martino is dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Martyn Hook is dean of the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, and Ulrike Mansfeld is professor in Hochschule Bremen’s School of Architecture. Lesley Lokko combines writing bonkbuster novels with being an associate professor of architecture at the University of Johannesburg. Bartlett School of Architecture staff currently number more than 220, many of whom graduated in the late 1990s under Cook and Hawley’s stewardship.
Architectural history RICHARD BECKETT
Even before Adrian Forty and Mark Swenarton had set up the Master’s in History of Modern Architecture in 1982, several Bartlett alumni distinguished themselves as architectural historians. Two have been awarded the RIBA Gold Medal: John Summerson and Joseph Rykwert. Mark Girouard, author of Life in the English Country House and biographer of James Stirling, took the undergraduate design course in the early 1970s in order to understand his subject matter better. By then, though, The Bartlett’s contribution to architectural
facilitated its workforce becoming more than 50 per cent female, won Architect of the Year in the awards in 2015.
(Above) Alga(e)zebo, marcosandmarjan, 2010 (Top right) Universal Tea Machine by Smout Allen with You+Pea, 2012. Concept with Iain Borden. Fabrication and design installation: Nick Westby (Westby Jones) and Oliver Palmer (Right) Montpelier Community Nursery by AY Architects, 2012
NICK KANE
The Bartlett has a long tradition of being open to wider ideas about architecture and education, and sharing pedagogy with other institutions. The 2016 AAE Conference is a contemporary manifestation of this characteristic, but it goes back far further. BB Bednarczyk, in an undated and unpublished typescript held in UCL’s archive, states that The Bartlett’s ‘influence in architectural education has covered the country and some parts of the world. The departments of architecture at Liverpool, Sydney and Tokyo can trace their origins to University College …’ Liverpool provided several notable professors of architecture and planning in the early 20th century; at the century’s end, David Dunster went the other way, moving from The Bartlett via a brief stint at Southbank University to become Liverpool’s Roscoe professor. Numerous alumni spend some time teaching at The Bartlett. Some stay while others move to various schools or into practice. AHMM’s Simon Allford and Paul Monaghan ran a successful unit in the 1990s, some of whose graduates went on to work for them; seven of their associate directors are Bartlett graduates. Latterly, Allford has been a visiting professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, overlapping with Farshid Moussavi, whose work there led to her publications on the functions of ornament, form and style. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, has three Bartlett graduates in leading positions: Professor Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (head) and associate professor Phil Ayres at the Centre for Information and
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