Interior Architecture - Year 3
Tutors
Diony Kypraiou
D.Kypraiou@westminter.ac.ukDiony Kypraiou is a Senior Lecturer, architect and researcher. Her work explores practices of polyvocalism and performativity in design and writing, and she is interested in analogies staged across theatre, psychoanalysis, interiors and architecture.
Read More...Ro Spankie
R.Spankie@westminster.ac.ukRo Spankie is a Principal Lecturer and Subject Lead for Interior Architecture. Fascinated by the role of the drawing in the design process she has exhibited, and published work related to the interior both in the UK and Abroad. She is Associate Editor of the journal, Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture.
Read More...Allan Sylvester
a.sylvester1@westminster.ac.ukAllan Sylvester is Visiting Lecturer, a practicing architect, and founding partner of Ullmayer Sylvester Architects, a design led, and multidisciplinary collaborative practice.
Read More...Ana Araujo
a.araujo@westminster.ac.ukAna Araujo is an architect, teacher and researcher. She has taught in architecture schools in Brazil and the UK. Her interests and expertise are around modern and contemporary design, with a special focus on gender studies, postcolonialism and psychoanalysis.
Read More...Sam Aitkenhead
s.aitkenhead@westminster.ac.ukSam Aitkenhead is a designer, researcher and maker working across architecture, interiors, graphics and product design. His work explores ways to reduce environmental impact through design and material innovation.
Read More...Zoe Diakaki
z.diakaki@westminster.ac.ukZoe Diakaki is an architect and interaction designer. She has worked in practices in Greece and Belgium. Her work sits on the intersection of architecture, scenography and immersive technologies.
Read More...Marina Mersiadou
m.mersiadou@westminster.ac.ukMarina Mersiadou is an architect and set designer. She has worked in architectural practices in Greece and presented her work in various art & technology festivals. She is interested in the implementation of up-to-date technologies in architecture and theatre design.
Read More...Guest Critics
Adam Phillips (Gensler)
Professor Franco Pisani (ISI Florence)
Jonas Lencer (DRMM Architects)
James Stroud (Loyn + Co Architects)
Prokopis Mavridis (SNH Associates)
Tom Herre (Herre Ferreira Architects)
Ainhoa Tamara Schapira Perez
Jack Hoe (Inside Out)
Abdi Ai (Ruimte Design)
Quentin Dauvergne
Frida Otsby Hansen
Clara Dahan
Thanks
Professor Harry Charrington (Head of School of Architecture + Cities, UoW), Professor Sadie Morgan (DRMM Architects, UoW), Juan Oyarbide (Boom Studio Architects), Rebeca Ramos
Read More...Third year focused on the relationship between mental health, design and wellbeing. Drawing on conditions of isolation, our increased employment of digital tools, and inspired by the surrealists, term I began with a game of exquisite corpse: students paired up and co-created Exquisite Interiors, as composites of the space revealed in communication platforms, and that which needs to be imagined. With the guidance of practitioners, clinicians, experts and patient advocates as part of the Co-Production Workshop held with medical students from Imperial College, our group considered how design affects health and, how (pre)conditions of the mind inform the ways we perceive and design space. They pursued these ideas by designing Treat Trolleys for existing hospital sites, aimed to offer moments of comfort, pleasure and care. Term I concluded with innovative and transformative spatial propositions for the Marylebone Re-Treat(s), situated in our studio in 35 Marylebone Road, imagined to be requisitioned by the government for a post-covid centre. The Thesis Project is the main pursuit for Year 3 students. Each student identifies a host building and devises a programme based on analysis and personal design interests. Ideas are explored through an array of techniques including material experimentation, 3D scanning, and animation. The diversity of schemes and depth of speculation is indicated by the exhibited project descriptions and locations.
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