The resourceful architect
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Panel
Chair - Andrew Summers
Andrew Summers is Chairman of Design Partners, the industry/ government body which promotes design internationally, and a trustee of the RSA. He was previously Chief Executive of the UK Design Council working with business, education and government to improve their use of design.
He also works as board member and advisor to companies and governments worldwide including as Chairman of Companies House, Director of design engineers Ramboll and Governor of the Conservatoire for Dance & Drama.
He was previously Chairman of strategy consultancy Brandsmiths, Managing Director of food companies Sharwoods and RHM Foods and board member of New Covent Garden Foods. He has a Masters degree from Cambridge University, a Doctorate from Westminster University and a Professorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
David Gloster
David Gloster joined the RIBA as Director of Education in September 2006, following a long association working as a member of the RIBA Validation Panel and ARB Examiner. David has extensive experience as a practising architect working on housing, transportation, education, and commercial projects, and the restoration of listed buildings in both the UK and Europe. He also worked as an academic for 20 years at both the Architectural Association and London South Bank University, where he is a Visiting Professor. In connection with his research, David has spoken at the Society of Architectural Historians, the Society for the History of Technology, the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, the Institute for Historical Research, and the Royal Town Planning Institute. His work has appeared in Technology and Culture, Construction History Journal, Weimar Bauhaus Yearbook, and most recently, publication projects for English Partnerships.
Crispin Kelly
Crispin trained as an architect, but now works as a developer through Baylight Properties, promoting what good design can deliver, as well as writing and lecturing. Having built mixed use projects in London, he has moved on to focus on the raw deal available to ordinary buyers of new homes. He is developing a new pattern book, which deals not only with the house as an object, but also with what happens when you build a number of them: the struggle between privacy and community. He has been researching the unsung secrets of past suburban successes: management committees, rule books, shared spaces and car parking.
Nabeel Hamdi
Nabeel Hamdi is a Teaching Associate and Emeritus Professor of Housing and Urban Development at Oxford Brookes University. He qualified as an architect at the Architectural Association in London in 1968, and then worked for the Greater London Council between 1969 and 1978, where his award-winning housing projects established his reputation in participatory design and planning. From 1981 to 1990 he was Associate Professor of Housing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was later awarded a Ford International Career Development Professorship.
In 1997 Nabeel won the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour for his work on Community Action Planning. He founded the Masters course in Development Practice at Oxford Brookes University in 1992 which was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2001. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2008. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Housing and Urban Development at Oxford Brookes University and teaching fellow at The Development Planning Unit, University College, London.
He has been an Arup Fellow at the University of Cape Town and is adjunct professor at the National University of Technology, Trondhiem, Norway.
Nabeel has consulted on participatory action planning and upgrading of slums in cities to all major international development agencies, and to charities and NGOs worldwide.
Hanif Kara
Hanif Kara is a structural engineer and co-founder of Adams Kara Taylor, the design-led structural and civil engineering consultancy based in London. As design director, he has worked on award-winning projects throughout Europe. His projects have included Peckham Library (UK), the National Trust Headquarters in Swindon (UK) and the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg (Germany).
Hanif is a long-standing visiting lecturer at a number of design schools. He is currently appointed as a visiting Professor of Architectural Technology at (KTH), Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm, and is the Pierce Anderson visiting critic for Creative Engineering at GSD Harvard. He was selected for the Master Jury for the 2004 cycle of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. Professor Kara is the first structural engineer to be appointed a Commissioner at CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) where he co-chairs the design review panel and chairs the Inclusive Design Group. He is a fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He has interests in connecting education, design and construction through advanced tools and methods, and recently edited “Design Engineering”, a book that positions the work of structural engineers into a contemporary paradigm.
Peter Murray
Peter Murray trained as an architect - three years at Bristol followed by two at the Architectural Association. Disillusionment with current architecture, an attention span more suited to writing than building, and the influence of Cedric Price, where process had primacy over product, led him into journalism - first with Architectural Design and the late Monica Pidgeon and then as editor of Building Design newspaper. After a stint as editor of RIBA Journal he founded Blueprint magazine together with Deyan Sudjic and Simon Esterson. The clarity with which the magazine communicated architecture to a wide audience caught the eye of people like Peter Palumbo and Stuart Lipton who commissioned the Blueprint studio to design books and brochures about their projects. This grew into a stand-alone business - Wordsearch - which is now the leading global communications agency specialising in architecture and real estate. With Deyan, Peter organised the influential 'New architecture, the work of Foster Rogers Stirling' at the Royal Academy in 1986 and he curated the Living Bridges show at the RA in 1996. He founded the London Architecture Biennale in 2004 (now the London Festival of Architecture) and the New London Architecture centre in 2005. He also started the Cycle to Cannes charity ride to MIPIM which has raised over a million pounds in the last four years. He is Editor of Pidgeondigital.com and author of Commerce and Architecture, Understanding Plans and The Saga of Sydney Opera House.