Staff Research Profiles

Having worked as an architect, mainly in the field of the creative re-use of existing and historic buildings, and lecturing as I do in the ephemeral discpline of interiors, my chief research interest lies in the history and theory of the built environment, notably in respect of how buildings change over time.

A building is a dynamic entity, whose process of change mirrors and illuminates the processes of historical change; but that process may also be likened to the performance of a script, or the retelling of an old story.

Published papers, and a book, at present at the proposal stage, explore these themes.

In addition, interior design is a slippery and ephemeral discpline whose nature and boundaries are undefined and controversial. In connection with the Interiors Forum Scotland (IFS) I am organising a symposium and editing a publication wich explores these themes. it is anticipated that the outcomes of this event and publication will among the first theoretical readers there are for the discpline of Interior Design.

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