I am an architect, educator, and researcher with over twenty-five years of experience in practice and teaching. As Senior Lecturer and Stage Leader, I mentor emerging architects while shaping curricula that value curiosity, craft, experimentation, and integration.
My teaching emphasises student-centred learning, encouraging design exploration through iterative and intermedial processes and fostering interdisciplinary, cross-boundary approaches. I contribute nationally and internationally as a visiting critic and External Examiner.
My professional practice spans from designing buildings of diverse typologies to restoration and adaptive reuse. During a recent sabbatical abroad, I contributed to research on lightweight, energy-efficient structures and retrofit solutions.
I am fascinated by the concept of thresholds, the ‘in-between’ that simultaneously permits relations and conflicts, an osmosis of spatial, material, temporal, and psychological forces. I envision thresholds as realms in their own right, charged by the presence of what lies adjacent. It is within this liminal tension - this productive friction - that fertile ground emerges, for exploration, for experimentation, for new ideas, and for transformation.
place, space & thresholds
architectural education
lightweight structures
I am currently the Stage 1 Leader (Head of 1st Year) in the BArch programme at the Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSA). I oversee all academic and administrative aspects of the first year, including the development and implementation of the curriculum, the teaching of design studio, theoretical and practical foundations of design and architectural studies, and the delivery of interdisciplinary subjects. Additionally, I deliver the course Structural Design 1.
