Manuel Jimenez Garcia RC4 Tutor Manuel Jimenez Garcia holds an MArch from the AA (AADRL) and has previously taught at the AA, Universidad Politecnica Madrid and Universidad Europea Madrid. As well as teaching on GAD, he is Unit Master of MArch Unit 19; co-curator of the Bartlett Plexus and co-founder of Emeidiem, an architecture practice based in London.
Dr Christopher Leung RC3 Tutor Christopher Leung trained as an architect at The Bartlett and earned a doctorate from UCL for his work on passive thermal actuators applied to environmental control in buildings. His work explores the relationship between machines, occupants and buildings, and has been published in peer-reviewed journal articles, together with his collaborations in the sixteen*(makers) group.
Gilles Retsin RC4 Tutor Gilles Retsin’s work investigates new architectural models which engage increased computational power in design and fabrication. He is interested in the impact of computation on the core principles of architecture – the bones rather than the skin. Prior to founding his own practice, he worked in Switzerland with Christian Kerez, and in London with Kokkugia.
William Bondin RC3 Tutor William Bondin is a Maltese architect and creator of Morphs – a reconfigurable interactive architectural system developed under the supervision of Ruairi Glynn. He completed his professional studies in Malta (UoM) and then undertook The Bartlett’s MArch GAD. His design practice takes a fabricationoriented approach towards architectural performance and behaviour.
Philippe Morel RC5 Tutor Philippe Morel is an architect and theorist, and co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research. He is Associate Professor at the ENSA ParisMalaquais and has taught at the Berlage Institute and at the AA. He has published essays and books and curated exhibitions, and his works acquired by the FRAC and Centre Pompidou.
Ollie Palmer RC3 Tutor A graduate of the MArch GAD, Ollie Palmer taught in RC3 from 2011-14. He is currently pursuing a PhD by Design at the Bartlett, entitled ‘Mind Control in Architecture’. Besides design, he has hitchhiked across Iceland, taught computer skills in the Amazon, and sometimes plays with ants.
Dr Guan Lee RC5 Tutor Guan Lee graduated with a BSc in Architecture from McGill Montreal, and received a Diploma and MA in Landscape Urbanism from the AA. He holds a PhD in Architecture by Design from The Bartlett School of Architecture. His practice, Grymsdyke Farm, is set in the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire.
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Ruairi Glynn RC3 Tutor Ruairi Glynn is The Bartlett’s Lecturer in Interactive Architecture. Alongside his teaching and research he practices as an installation artist, exhibiting at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, and Tate Modern, London. He is co-founder of the Fabricate conference series and directs the Interactive Architecture Lab.