UD Staff Biographies
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
Professor Frédéric Migayrou B-Pro Director Frédéric Migayrou is Chair, Bartlett Professor of Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture and Deputy Director of the MNAM-CCI (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre de Création Industrielle) at the Centre Pompidou Paris. He was founder of the FRAC Center Collection and of ArchiLab, the international festival of Prospective Architecture in Orléans. Apart from recent publications and exhibitions (De Stijl, Centre Pompidou, 2011; La Tendenza, Centre Pompidou 2012; Bernard Tschumi, Centre Pompidou 2013; Frank Gehry, Centre Pompidou 2014; Le Corbusier, Centre Pompidou 2015), he was curator of Non Standard Architectures at the Centre Pompidou in 2003, the first exposition devoted to architecture, computation and fabrication. More recently, he co-organised the exhibition Naturalising Architecture (ArchiLab, Orléans 2013), presenting prototypes and commissions by 40 teams of architects working with new generative computational tools, defining new interrelations between materiality, biotechnology and fabrication. In 2012 he founded B-Pro, The Bartlett’s umbrella structure for post-professional architecture programmes.
Andrew Porter B-Pro Deputy Director Andrew Porter studied at The Bartlett School of Architecture, winning the Banister Fletcher Medal and the RIBA Silver Medal for his graduation project. He has collaborated on projects with Sir Peter Cook and Christine Hawley CBE, and was the project architect for the Gifu Housing project in Japan. He practices with Abigail Ashton as Ashton Porter Architects and has completed a number of award-winning commissions in the UK as well as prizewinning competitions in the UK and abroad. Andrew is co-tutor of The Bartlett’s MArch Architecture Unit 21, has been a visiting Professor at the Staedel Academy, Frankfurt and guest critic at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles and Parsons New School, New York. Professor Mark Smout MArch Urban Design Director Mark Smout is Professor of Architecture and Landscape Futures at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where, in addition to directing MArch Urban Design he also runs MArch Architecture Unit 11 with Laura Allen. His design research practice, Smout Allen, focuses on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man-made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape. Smout Allen have produced award-winning designs, and they have won the prestigious Royal Academy Award for Architecture and represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2012 and 2015, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015. Mark has held notable Professorships in Denmark and California and regularly lectures throughout the world. Sabine Storp RC11 Tutor Sabine Storp is an architect, design tutor and short course coordinator at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, educated in Italy and Germany. Founder of award-winning
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