PhD student spotlight - Simon Warren | Architecture Research Group

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Architecture Live Projects: Pedagogy in the Making

Simon Warren

Student: Simon Warren (staff)
Director of Studies (Second Supervisor): Dr Liz Stirling
Second Supervisor: Dr Lisa Stansbie

Project description

The research explores the ‘live project’ – a real life architectural design project which involves meaningful collaboration between students and a constituency outside the academic institution – as an essential pedagogical instrument in architecture, and proposes its necessary role in a pluralist architectural education. Climate change and energy depletion, computer advances in design and making, and more volatile economic conditions all contribute to the architect facing increasingly dilemmas of how to practice. Live projects give students the possibility to encounter these realities in a direct way. Rather than being educated solely within the confines of the institution and the orthodoxy of pedagogy that might prevail there, the live project has been identified by many educators as an influential experience in raising and confronting these issues. The live project programme, at this institution, is the vehicle for a practice-based PhD, enquiring into alternative models of architectural education and best practice in the field.

student Biography

Simon Warren (BAArch, DipArch, RIBA, ARB, SFHEA) is Senior Lecturer at the Leeds School of Architecture, where he leads the PG Diploma in Architectural Professional Practice course and has co-established the Project Office, a university-based architecture practice for student involvement in ‘live projects’. As a practicing architect he has been involved in built projects across the north of England from 1992 to 2008, and was a director at Bauman Lyons Architects in Leeds. The undergraduate design studio he directs, ‘CITYzen D’, situates its displacement explorations in post-industrial cities considering global imperatives and local issues together, to propose work for an adaptive, resilient, egalitarian and coherent city. Recent publications include: ‘How to be a happy Architect’ (with I. Bauman and G. Smith), in Bauman Lyons Architects (Black Dog, 2008), S. Warren, ‘The Fareshare Project’ (in H. Harriss and L. Widder (eds), Architecture Live Projects: Pedagogy into Practice, Routledge, 2014) and Warren S.P, Stott C.R., ‘Competitions and Educational Structures’ (in: Theodorou M, Katsakou A. (eds), The Competition Grid: Experimenting With & Within Architecture Competitions (RIBA Publicating, 2017).