The MSA Research@MSArch_Research

Research at the Manchester School of Architecture @TheMSArch

 Manchester, UK
msa.ac.uk/research/
Joined April 2020
Tomorrow we will have the first 'Research Lunch' of 2022 led by our 'Engaged Cities' research strand. We are really looking forward to welcoming @shahedsaleem_ @emilyonabike, Dr Mark Hammond and Professor Nic Clear to hear about their exciting research projects!
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Great to hear @TheMSArch colleague @StanekLukasz talking at the @TheSAHGB Annual Symposium ‘Architectural History + Climate Emergency’!
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Join us tomorrow at 4pm at the launch of our digital end of year show, celebrating the extraordinary work of students at the Manchester School of Architecture! @TheMSArch @MLA_TheMSArch @MAArch_Urbanism msa.ac.uk/2021/
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Join @praxxis_f at the #LFA2021 to hear the discussion 'Reclaim Holloway: A Women’s Building For London: Feminist Architecture' 14th June 2021 at 19:00. Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womens-…
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We have a fully funded @NWC_DTP PhD scholarship opening at @TheMSArch to research the history of UK telephone exchange buildings (like this one in York) in collaboration with @HistoricEngland and BT Archives! Apply here: mmu.ac.uk/research/research-…
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Join @praxxis_f and Sarah Renshaw on 21st January 6.30pm to hear the 2nd SHEbuild Talk organised by and @UrbanistasNW ! Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/shebuild2…
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Join us for the symposium 'Architecture for the Majority World' convened by @StanekLukasz tomorrow 2-5m on zoom! Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/architect…
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Come and do a PhD with us! @TheMSArch is part of the @NWC_DTP, that offers fully funded PhD scholarships in a variety of disciplines. More information about the funding:nwcdtp.ac.uk/funding-prospec… Get in touch by the 1st December for an initial discussion:msa.ac.uk/study/researchdegr…
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Join us for PAC@75 an exciting four-day celebration marking the 75th anniversary of the 5th Pan African Congress, held in Manchester in 1945, curated by Ola Uduku @twolatweet Professor of Architecture @TheMSArch mmu.ac.uk/pac75/opening-even…
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The article 'PRAXXIS Always Personal, Always Political, Always Pedagogical' by @praxxis_f @emilyonabike @sarahrunshaw and @kathryntimmins was published in the Journal of Architecture Education's 'Othering' (74:2) Issue! Read the paper here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Today is the first day of the BA3 Humanities Electives at @TheMSArch! These lectures bring a great wealth of research into our teaching, and this year we were able to offer 8 alternatives! We are looking forward to see all the great research outcomes! @ManMetUni @OfficialUoM
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'An Infrastructural Landscape II' by Richard Brook is a collection of images taken over the last 10 years that show the quotidian nature of the objects that sustain our mobility, energy, communication and hydration. Have a look at it here: the-modernist.org/shop/an-in…
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The book 'Cold War Cities: Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965' edited by Richard Brook, Martin Dodge and Johnathan Hogg is now available to pre-order! routledge.com/Cold-War-Citie… @TheMSArch @mmu_RAH @OfficialUoM
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The research project ‘The Last Hours of Modernism’ is our next @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight. The international action-research project led by Dan Dubowitz investigates lost futures from the ‘long ‘60’s’ in Italy, Australia, Germany and UK. photo: Casa Sperementale, Dan Dubowitz
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We are very much looking forward to read today’s @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight, the article “Matsuri as an Urban Gestures” by @DrRayLucas in A+U Special Issue: Tokyo: Right to the City!
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Today's @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight is the symposium ‘WHAT NOW? ARCHITECTURE HISTORY TODAY’ a debate on 20th century’s architecture in the curriculum of @TheMSArch with guest speakers Michiel Dehaene, Anne Kockelkorn and Huda Tayob organized by @StanekLukasz and Kim Förster
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Mark Hammond’s recently published research report is our @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight for today.  'Developing Age-Friendly Communities in the Northern Gateway' explores the impact of urban redevelopment on older people in North Manchester.
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Today’s @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight celebrates @lcszacka's research project, ‘World Wide Book: Charles Jencks and the Language of Post-Modern Architecture, 1977–1991’ supported by the @PaulMellonCentr! Read more here: paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/fel…
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The ‘Remember Reveal Construct’ research-through-modelmaking project is today’s @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight. It explored how context can generate architectural difference, and how contemporary architectural design can exploit this disparity and distinction.
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Our next @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight project is 'Tales of the High Street' funded by the Royal Commission for 1851’s Built Environment Fellowship. The project is led by @LucyUrbanDesign @Davidurbedcoop1 @Victoria_Payne @URBEDplus @URBEDmcr urbed.coop/projects/tales-hi…
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Today’s @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights series is the guest lecture ‘Uneasy Bedfellows in Post-War British New Towns’ by Janina Gosseye from ETH Zurich. The lecture was part of the ‘Runcorn:Destination Europe’ project funded by @McrJMCE
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Today’s @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight is the recently published paper "How to Enhance the Future of Urban Environments Through Smart Sustainable Urban Infrastructures?"  in the journal DISEGNARECON by @mazinalsaffar75 Read the paper here: disegnarecon.univaq.it/ojs/i…
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On day 18 of the @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights series read Richard Brook‘ s account of his visit to Bernat Klein's house, High Sunderland, designed by Peter Womersley. This is part of an ongoing collaborative project on Womersley's life and work. bernatkleinfoundation.org/jo…
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Day 17 of the @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights celebrates the essay ‘Critical Regionalism for our time’ in the @ArchReview by @lcszacka and Véronique Patteeuw. Read it here: architectural-review.com/ess…
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On day 16 of the @themsarch #ResearchHighlights series we are looking back at the ‘High Streets + Town Centres’ symposium a collaboration between the school and the @PlaceManagement. Organised as part of the @ESRC Festival.
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The '100 Year Street' project is today's @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight. @LucyUrbanDesign is working with Liverpool social enterprise @squashliverpool, @URBEDmcr, @URBEDplus @marianneheaslip and @Jamie0Brien find out more about the project here: msa.ac.uk/urbed+/
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Day 14 of @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights introduces ’Anthropology for Architects’ by @DrRayLucas a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture published by @BloomsburyBooks
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Today’s @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight celebrates female collaboration in the built environment professions. The @howwomenbuild1 project led by @praxxis_f and @lucaknorr is supported by the @PaulMellonCentr and the @WomensHistNet. For more details see: msa.ac.uk/howwomenbuild/
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On day 12 of our @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights series we are looking back at the symposium ‘Rethinking the Rural Landscape’ and the Hyper Rural Exhibition organised by @realm_msa
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Praxxis Builds with Stretford is today’s @themsarch #ResearchHighlight! The community engaged research and live build project run by @praxxis_f with @sarahrunshaw resulted in four pavilions for chatting, gossiping, leaning against, or just having your lunch on!
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“Architecture in Global Socialism” by @StanekLukasz - today’s @themsarch #ResearchHighlight - shows how the collaboration between architects, planners & construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe, West Africa & the Middle East shaped these regions in the Cold War.
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Today is Day 9 of the @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights series and we are looking back at our collaboration with the @modernistsoc to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the #Bauhaus, with an exhibition by Y1 architecture students, as part of their Humanities studies @matthewgsteele
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On day 8 of the @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights series, we are introducing the @PostWarInfrast1 project a new, innovative research network led by Richard Brook and @lucaknorr. The project is supported by the @ahrcpress through the @LandscapeDecis1 scheme. 👉msa.ac.uk/postwarinfrastruct…
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The book ‘Defining Contemporary Professionalism’ co-edited by @ArchiFuturist and published by @RIBABooks is our 7th @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlight of this academic year. Find out more about the book here: architecture.com/riba-books/…
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On Day 6 of @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights series have a look at 'Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display' by @lcszacka published by @gsappbooks. For more information visit: cup.columbia.edu/book/bienni…
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On Day 5 of @TheMSArch #ResearchHighlights we are celebrating Howard Read who has been awarded a PhD by Practice for his thesis ‘The role of drawing in the regeneration of urban spaces’ supervised by @ejcanniffe and Clinton Cahill, and examined by John Hewitt and Stephen Parnell
Day 4 of #ResearchHighlights at @themsarch looks back at the issue #31 of @modernistmag magazine, In-Between, guest-edited by @lucaknorr and featured articles by colleagues @vsjolley and James Robertson.
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Day 3 of our ‘Research Highlights’ series celebrates the guest lecture by Dr Simona Valeriani of the @ArchModelsNet , 'Architectural Models: Past, Present and Future of a Design Practice’. The event at @TheMSArch was part of the ‘Celebrating B.15:50’ @B15workshop @vamuseum
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This is Day 2 of our ‘Research Highlights’ series, and we are looking back at Issue 11 of the German academic journal 'Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge' co-edited by Kim Förster, lecturer at @TheMSArch @OfficialUoM
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Today is day 1 of our ‘Research Highlight’ series from the 2019/2020 academic year, and we look back at the multidisciplinary workshop ‘Is Seamlessness Possible’ organised by @InfraSpaceMSA funded by @McrJMCE.
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Event alert! Jose Hidalgo senior lecturer at @TheMSArch will give an invited lecture at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey titled 'Archiphany. Architecture as Manifestation'[Delivered in Spanish] You can join on zoom: itesm.zoom.us/my/gabriel.sv tomorrow, May 6th, 2020 - 5pm!
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We've had great research projects, publications and grant success this academic year at @TheMSArch. To celebrate these, we are going to share a 'Research Highlight' every day for the next month. Stay tuned! #architectureresearch #landscaperesearch @mmu_RAH @OfficialUoM
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