About

I am an architect, a researcher and an academic; I am a Project Director at Flanagan Lawrence, I am an Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, teaching on the Designing for Performance and Interaction course and in February 2023 I  completed a PhD in Architectural Design at UCL, looking at Biometric Evolution of Sound and Space. My research sits at the intersection of professional practice and academic research, forming a reciprocally beneficial triumvirate of teaching, research and practice. The work is multidisciplinary and is based in the casual relationships between sound, music architecture and acoustics. The research work builds on innovative practices using both traditional methodologies of acoustic research as well as biometric sensing, evolutionary computation and neural networks informing digital modelling processes. The outputs of this research has been exhibited in the UK at the Tate Modern, the Science Museum, RIBA, the Barbican, and internationally in Ars Electronica, Austria, Finland and Japan.

My work in practice draws on traditional approaches to spaces from music and sound as well as novel architectural typologies for the presentation of music externally integrating lightweight construction methods with acoustic performance. Alongside the architectural, the work engages with novel performance typologies, working with musicians and artists creating new modalities of performance. At Flanagan Lawrence I am currently leading the team on Eastbank Studios for the BBC which will deliver new facilities for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Rock & Pop. I was also involved with the design of Soundforms’ Performance shell as part of Jacobs Park in San Diego, as well as the award-winning Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. I regularly contribute to academic and professional institutions as a guest lecturer, and am a regular judge at the World Architecture Festival.

Audialsense: alongside Jason Flanagan & Ian Knowles, we have been researching the qualitative and physical properties of sound as Audialsense. Our work recreates, enhances and reveals acoustic phenomena, turning sound into physical site-specific installations dependant on the architectural qualities of a given space.

We have had work installed in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, the London Festival of Architecture, and the Sonic Arts Networks Expo ’08 in Brighton, and 2010 saw us work with John Butcher as part of Musarc’s ‘chambers’ series of concerts. We regularly lecture on our work at universities, including the Bartlett school of Architecture as part of the international lecture series, which has hosted such luminaries as Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster.

Soundcloud

To hear samples of Audialsense’s work, visit relevant pages of this site, or the soundcloud site here;

http://soundcloud.com/audialsense

Audialsense in AD

Our 2007 experiments at the Tate were published in global architecture magazine, Proto Architecture: Analogue and Digital Hybrids (Architectural Design) (Paperback) edited By Bob Sheil, and published by Wiley Publishing, 2008.

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 Invited Lectures

  • December 2019, Sound of Space Conference – BSA – UCL, London
  • September 2018, Greenwich University – Activating Bio-philic Cities Conference
  • June 2018, Innsbruck University, Austria
  • November 2015, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • November 2014, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • May, 2013, Chelsea College of Art, London
  • January, 2013, Chelsea College of Art, London
  • November 2012, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • October, 2011, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • November 2010, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • November 2009, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • December 2008, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • October 2008, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • October 2008 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
  • June 2008, Chelsea College of Art, London
  • October 2007, SABE, Westminster University, London
  • April 2007 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
  • June 2006, Chelsea College of Art, London
  • June 2005, Chelsea College of Art, London
  • January 2005, Architectural Association, London

 

Conference Papers

  • Date: November 2018
  • Location: Elbehalle Hamburg
  • Title: ‘Artificial intelligence and the generation
  • Of emotional response to sound and space’
  • Event: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Hamburg 2018
  • Organising body: The Institute of Acoustics
  • Date: September 2018
  • Location: Greenwich University, London UK
  • Title: ‘Modular Aquaponics’ (Poster Presentation on behalf of Flanagan Lawrence)
  • Event: Activating Biophilic Cities
  • Organising body: The University of Greenwich Green Roofs and Living Walls Centre and the Department of Architecture and Landscape
  • Date: February 2013
  • Location: The Building Centre.
  • Title: ‘Soundforms’ (Presentation on behalf of Flanagan Lawrence)
  • Event: Prototyping Architecture conference
  • Organising body: The Building centre & Nottingham University
  • Date: July 2008
  • Location: Brighton University.
  • Title: ‘Listening spaces’
  • Event: Expo 08’
  • Organising body: Sonic Arts Network.
  • Date: June 2007
  • Location: Plymouth University.
  • Title: ‘Turbine Frequencies’
  • Event: Expo 07’
  • Organising body: Sonic Arts Network.

Respondent

  • Date: November 2012
  • Location: Centre for creative collaboration, Acton Street.
  • Title: ‘What is field?
  • Event: Michael Pisaro & Geosound
  • Organising body: Royal Holloway

Workshops

  • Date: March 2015 / 16 /17 / 18 / 19
  • Location: AA School of Architecture
  • Title: ‘The Sound of Space’
  • Invited by: Kate Davies

 

  • Date: March 2015
  • Location: Bartlett School of Architecture
  • Title: ‘The Sound of Space’
  • Invited by: Simon Kennedy

 

Visiting Critic

  • 2010 Architectural Association London, UK.
  • 2010 Unit 23, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.
  • 2009 Units 14 /23 Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.
  • 2008 Units 14 /23 Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.
  • 2007 Units 14 /23 Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.
  • 2006 Units 14 /23 Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.