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Prof Peg Rawes
102
Bartlett School of Architecture
22 Gordon Street
London
WC1H 0QB
Appointment
- Professor of Architecture and Philosophy
- The Bartlett School of Architecture
- Faculty of the Built Environment
Biography
I am Professor in Architecture and Philosophy and Programme Director of the MA Architectural History. I also supervise Architectural and Urban History and Theory and Architectural Design PhDs. Trained in art history and philosophy at the Universities of Leeds, Warwick and Goldsmiths, I am author of the books, Space, Geometry and Aesthetics: Towards Kant and through Deleuze (2008), Irigaray for Architects (2007) and edited collections, Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity (2013), and Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts (co-ed 2016), which publish architects together with humanities, social science, human and environmental rights and medical practitioners.
I regularly collaborate with colleagues across the academic architectural communities in the UK, EU, US and Australia. I also have strong links with collaborative groups in UCL, especially, the Institute for Advanced Studies (www.ucl.ias) and the Anthropocene Initiative. My recent invited talks to architectural, humanities and arts researchers in the UK, EU and overseas have included: Cornell, The Getty Research Institute, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, ETH Zurich, Iowa State University, KTH Stockholm, IE Madrid, Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Architectural Association, Cambridge University, Manchester University, and the London School of Economics.
My academic peer reviewing includes: Architectural Histories, Interstices, Footprint, Journal of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Routledge and Bloomsbury academic presses. I have contributed to research and scientific review committees of architectural design, wellbeing and diversity, anthropogenic and ecological arts in the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and in the US, and co-led the Department's 2014REF submission.
Research Themes
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I am an interdisciplinary architectural historian whose work focuses on 'relational architectural ecologies’. Since 2013, my research has examined these concerns in three intersecting modes:
a. Architectural ecologies and practices of human and non-human life: 'Visualising uncertainty and vulnerability', Life in the Time of Coronavirus Podcast, IAS UCL, July, 2020; ‘Nonhuman architectural ecologies’ and ‘Interview with Peg Rawes’, in Is There an Object-oriented Architecture? Graham Harman (2020); and ‘Insecure predictions’, E-flux Architecture, 24 July 2018.
b. Planetary poetics and imaginaries: 'Conversation on architecture, design and the climate emergency' with Design Earth, Reimagining Museums for Climate Action (2021); ‘Building Sexuate Architectures of Sustainability’, Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray (2020); ‘Aesthetic geometries of life’, Textual Practice, 33:5 (2019) and ‘Planetary Aesthetics’, in Landscape and Agency (2017).
c. Housing ecologies: 'Housing biopolitics and care', in Critical and Clinical Cartographies: Embodiment, Technology, Care, Design (2017); ‘Material and Rational Feminisms', in Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (2017); and ‘Spinoza’s Geometric and Ecological Ratios’, The Politics of Parametricism: Digital Technologies in Architecture (2015).
My funded research collaborations include: UCL PI for TACK Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing, an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie 2020 Training Framework (www.tacit-knowledge-architecture.com). Previously, the AHRC Equalities of Wellbeing published the film, Equal by Design (www.equalbydesign.co.uk 2016). Made with Beth Lord (PI, Aberdeen) and film-makers, Lone Star Productions, it interviews key British charities, architects, journalists and academics working on housing issues and wellbeing.
I am also Equality Diversity and Inclusion lead for the Faculty's BauHow5 partnership with ETH Zurich, TU Delft, TU Munich and Chalmers Universities, and on the Steering Committee for the University of London in Paris' Banister Fletcher Fellowship (2020-23).
Teaching Summary
My teaching is primarily located in the MA Architectural History Programme, including leading the core Critical Methodologies and Dissertation modules. Symposia and publications by the cohorts can be viewed here: www.bartlettarchhist.com.
My MA/PhD seminar Materialist Ecological Architectures (Spring term) examines ecological and architectural practices from a materialist perspective. Students learn how architectural histories and theories of ecology are informed by discourses in architecture, art, philosophy, scientific and environmental disciplines; from 17thc theories of substance in Spinoza, 19thc political and scientific materialisms, to present-day planetary debates of the anthropocene, ecofeminism, biopolitics and decolonialism.
Completed and current PhD student projects include: social architectures in post-Apartheid South Africa; landscape reconstructions and historiography; post-war Berlin social architectures; materialist politics of contemporary scanning technologies; speculative design after Michelangelo; seventeenth-century architectural transactions; an ecological critique of landfill; feminist critique of digital architecture; Deleuze's diagrams for affective design; Kleist's theory of collapse for experimental film-making; performative art and animal architecture; design through Spinoza's philosophy of joy; a postmodern historiography.
I particularly welcome feminist, intersectional or decolonial PhD applications on the following areas of study:
- climatic, planetary, ecological practices in architecture;
- the politics of care and housing histories;
- materialist and ecological critiques of computational architectural design
Appointments
| 01-OCT-2016 | Professor of Architecture and Philosophy | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| JUL-2014 | Programme Director MA Architectural History | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-JAN-2012 – 06-JUN-2014 | Associate Director of Research | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-JAN-2011 – 01-DEC-2011 | Director of Architectural Research | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-OCT-2008 | Senior Lecturer | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-OCT-2004 – 30-JUN-2011 | Departmental Tutor | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-OCT-2004 | Joint Co-ordinator MArch Architecture Thesis | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-OCT-2004 – 30-SEP-2008 | Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-OCT-2004 – 30-SEP-2011 | Co-ordinator MArch Architecture, Y4 History & Theory | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-OCT-1997 – 30-SEP-2004 | Teaching Fellow | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
| 2004 | Doctor of Philosophy | Goldsmiths College | |
| 1996 | Master of Arts (Hons) | University of Warwick | |
| 1994 | Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching | Oxford Brookes University | |
| 1990 | Bachelor of Arts | University of Leeds |
