Hull School of Architecture, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.
Tutors: Andy Earl, Carl O'Coill, Norman Arnold, Gary Hornsby, Bridgit Handsford
The design projects focused on public and private buildings that could contribute to the city's regeneration. I have included in my portfolio designs for a housing scheme and a children's library & theatre.
Certain texts were particularly inspiring at this time; Colin Ward's The Child in the City, Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid, and Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. During the 2nd year I spent a semester at the Fachocshule Koblenz in Germany, as an Erasmus student. I used the opportunity to widen my experience of buildings and cities in central and northern Europe.
The political nature of architecture and urban design interested me a great deal, and chose to use my dissertation to explore the way they can contribute to the control and privatisation of public space. By comparing Hull's city centre with Mike Davis' distopian depiction of Los Angels in City of Quartz, I asked if the same forms and features he identifies have spread from the US to the UK as part of a globalised architectural vocabulary.