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Mr Tilo Einert

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Mr Tilo Einert

  • Stage Leader - Senior Lecturer
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Job Title
Stage Leader - Senior Lecturer
School or Academic Area
Mackintosh School of Architecture
Email
T.Einert@gsa.ac.uk
Contact Number
0141 353 4642
Professional Address
167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RQ
Country
United Kingdom

Biography

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.

Research Interests

place, space & thresholds
architectural education
lightweight structures

Teaching

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.

Latest Additions

  1. Einert, Tilo and Kemsley, Roderick (2013) 1916 Centenary Chapel at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
  2. Einert, Tilo (2011) Rethinking the meaning of place: conceiving place in architecture-urbanism (Book review). Housing Studies, 26 (1). pp. 177-178. ISSN 0267-3037
  3. future glasgow, team (2011) Future Glasgow 2011-2061 - City Centre. Project Report. Glasgow CityCouncil.
  4. Einert, Tilo and Mantho, Robert (2010) Acqua vista - Rome vertical spa.
  5. Einert, Tilo (2009) Integration as a Holistic Approach in the Design Studio. In: Architectural Design & Construction Education. EAAE, pp. 183-187. ISBN 978-2-930301-42-6
  6. McGuire, N., Einert, Tilo, Chadwick, Simon and Lear, Adrian (2006) Year of the Green - One of four winning submissions to 'Community Green' project to design a community green for a Polloksheilds of the 21st century. The Lighthouse, Glasgow, and The Radius Project Glasgow
  7. Chadwick, S., Einert, Tilo, McGuire, Neil and Lear, Adrian (2006) Design Competition entry.
  8. Chadwick, S. and Einert, Tilo (2005) Europan 8.