Lectures/Teaching
PUBLIC LECTURES UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design The Future Living Project, Daiwa House.March 2012 Lecture as part of a series for talks for UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design research initiative, The Future Living Project, supported by Daiwa House; Japan’s largest home builder, to investigate the relevance and changing notions of House and Home in an age increasingly overwhelmed by the imperatives of communication and mobility. As changes in lifestyle and technology redefine living conditions, the scale and scope of our living environment has expanded. The project aims to investigate and articulate this new expanded environment and consider new models and technologies for future living. “Manifest Destiny” Texas A&M March 2013 “Manifest Destiny” Bowling Green State University February 2013
“Manifest Destiny” – Edge Industries – Phoenix May 2012
“Manifest Destiny” – SMoCA Lounge, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA], Scottsdale, ArizonaManifest Destiny lecture and book signingMay 2012
“Manifest Destiny” – Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts (UK). Lecture on my book Manifest Destiny for CSA university lecture series “Multistory”.November 2011
“Manifest Destiny” – Trinity College, Greenwich, UK. Lecture for Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.November 2011
“Manifest Destiny”- University of Dundee, Scotland. Lecture for the ADAS lecture series in the School of Architecture at the University of Dundee.October 2011
“Manifest Destiny”- Lecture and Book Launch for The Architectural Association, London UK. Public Lecture Series.October 2011
“Manifest Destiny”- Lecture for Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Oxford Brookes University School of Architecture.October 2011
“Poptech” – Lecture for Architecture Department, College of Design, Iowa State University. March 2011
“Repurposed Political Ply” – Invited lecture to “Friday Conversations”. ASU Art Museum Tempe.October 2009
“Repurposed Political Ply” Lecture and panelist for AAFAB Designing Fabrication Symposium – Architectural Association London, UK. Presented award winning scheme “Repurposed Political Ply”.September 2009
“Architecture and Digital Craft” – Invited Lecture to art and cultural organization “Spirit of the Senses” based in Phoenix that provides a forum for creative dialogue and cultural expressionApril 2009
“Common Denominator” – Lecture as part of the SALA public Lectures series “Digit – Architecture and Electric Anthropology”. Lectures from this series present a range of diverse approaches that offers fresh insight into the poetics technologically advanced architecture.March 2009
Lecture – “Restrictive Nostalgia and the Imported Romantic”: 20:80 AIAS Midwest Quad Chapter.May 2005
Lecture – “Manifest Destiny” for “This Friday” Series. Iowa State University College of Design.January 2005
Lectures – “Collection Point” – A six-month lecture series and exhibition tour of North America – lectured and exhibited at 18 universities including SUNY Buffalo, RISDI, Rice, Tulane and UNAM.October 2002 to April 2003.
Lecture – “The Temple of Laughter” for the “Anatomy of Laughter / Traduire le Rire” International and Interdisciplinary Conference, St Hugh’s College, OxfordSeptember 2001.
Lecture – “Estetica de la Deception” – Lecture series for the University of Madrid (ESTAM),Universidad San Pablo CEU, University of Navara – Pamplona. Spain.April 2001
Lecture – “Inaboutof” for The University of Arizona Architecture Department.December 2001
Conference Session Chair – University of Westminster “Returns of the Avant – Garde”.November 2000
Lecture – “Inarch” Lecture Series- Lecture for the Ordinaire di Architecti – Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Rome, Italy.June 2000
Lecture – “Deaduse I”- Lecture for the University of Madrid (ESTAM) architecture dept and PHD for Housing Course.February 2000
Lecture – “Deaduse III”- Lecture for the Dept. of Art Media and Publishing Oxford Brookes University.July 1999
Lecture – “Deaduse II” – Lecture for the Dept. of architecture Oxford Brookes University.July 1999
Lecture – “Deaduse” – Lecture for the University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture.May 1999
Lecture – “The Temple of Laughter” – Lecture for Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARCH), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and University College San Diego (UCSD).April 1993
TEACHING
Arizona State University.
Assistant Professor, The Design School.The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.August 2007- Present.
Architectural Association
Co-teaching Marking the Forest AA Visiting School 2012/13
UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design
The Future Living Project, Daiwa House. 2013
Architectural Association
Collaborated with David Greene and Samatha Hardingham AA Intermediate Unit 5 2011
Architectural Association
London Summer School 2010
Iowa State University.
Lecturer, Department of Architecture, College of Design.August 2005
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Nebraska.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture.August 2004
University of Texas at Austin.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture.January 2004
University of Westminster, London, UK.
Senior Lecturer, module and deputy diploma course leader Department of Architecture.September 2000
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture. September 1999
Bartlett School of Architecture – University College London, England.
Diploma Unit 16 instructor, Department of ArchitectureSeptember 1997
Bartlett School of Architecture – University College London, England.
M.Arch. instructor, Department of ArchitectureSeptember 1994