https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1502-6599
I joined academia full-time relatively late in my career, having co-led an award-winning architectural practice in Madrid for 15 years. I also taught part-time as an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCH-CEU in Valencia, Spain (2003–2013), module leader, master in housing, University of Panama (2007), and as unit leader and urban design strategies tutor at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA, 2015–2016). In 2017, I took the full time role of Senior Lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSA). I hold an MArch from Turin Polytechnic, Italy; an MSc in Planning and Development from the Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett, UCL; an MRes in Town Planning from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; and a PhD in Urban Studies from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Salutogenic design of the built environment, ageing, well-being, and public health; post-human approaches to urbanism and architecture; housing design and policies; user involvement in design and production of the built environment; and architectural design pedagogy.
My doctoral research on local high street, ageing, and well-being was fully funded (£50,000) by a Heriot-Watt scholarship (2013–2016). Most recently (2024), I was awarded as P-I a British Academy / Leverhulme small grant (£9,815) to continue the research I have been developing in previous years with my colleague Dr Malonza from the University of Rwanda on rural housing policies and design.
- Housing policies and design in the global south
- Ageing, urbanism and architecture.
- Well-being and the salutogenic design of the built environment
- Post-human approaches to urbanism and architecture.
As second supervisor, Madiha Salam, Urban dwellings morphology and occupant’s health.
Investigating Sunlight Accessibility and Vitamin D Health Impacts in Karachi’s Middle-Income Formal Housing .
As second supervisor, Roba Al Garny, The Use of Advanced Computing Technologies and Generative Systems to Investigate the Design of Public Buildings in Saudi Arabia- An Inquiry into the Role of Digital Media and Generative Patterns Design in public buildings in Saudi Arabia.
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As Stage Leader, my principal role is to lead and coordinate a full year, currently Stage 3. I am also responsible for designing and delivering all studio-based courses within the year (60 credits). In recent years, my additional teaching has focused on the taught MArch programme, where I have designed and delivered the Creative Urban Practices pathway and, more recently, developed the new Project in the City course (2025)
