Architecture Research Staff

• Dr. Lorens Holm
• Dr. Shaleph O'Neal

Martin Jones Award

• Ullapool High School
• Ullapool Primary School
• Achiltibuie Primary School

A portfolio of critical creative work exploring walking techniques for architecture and making manifest issues of landscape as architectural context.

To explore the architectural potentials of artistic forms of walking. To apply and examine understandings of landscape and of place-making in an architectural context. To contribute to the ways of understanding landscape as the context and medium for architecture.

1. An approach to architecture as place-making. Norberg Schultz's definition of architecture as "a system of meaningful places" and Langer's description of the role of architecture in creating place
2. Landscape as cultural artefact. As implicit in the European Council Charter and exemplified by Carter and a holistic 'dwelling approach' as coined by Ingold
3. Creative approaches to cartography and landscape representation
4. Carreri's description of the potential of walking as a "primary symbolic architecture" and the nomadic roots of a kind of architecture
5. The body of artistic walking practice from Debord to Fulton and Long

A creative-production methodology (a practice-led approach). The creation, exhibition and critical exploration of artefacts which manifest issues, concerns and interests. This is building up as a portfolio of mapping, representational, design, and walking projects and textual exegesis.

This work has been presented at peer-review events at the North-East of Scotland Visual Research Training Network and the DSA PhD student seminars. Sections of the work have been exhibited at the Shanghai Student Bienalle 2008 and at 'an talla solais', Ullapool in 2009. Workshops have been run with Primary and Secondary aged school children, and input has been made into degree programmes at DSA. A paper is to be presented at 'the culture of architecture' conference at the University of Lincoln 2010. It is expected that the work will be presented and exhibited further during the completion of the study.

On approaches to contextual architecture in practice and academia. The thesis aims to demonstrate and manifest applied understandings considering place-engagements and place-making, useful for architects and other place-making disciplines and furthermore to all of us who engage with places.