Architecture staff
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Andrew Hilton
Course Lead BA(Hons) Interior Architecture and Design
Andrew Hilton ARB is a BCU Alumnus (1993-2005), an architect, educator, and researcher with over 30 years’ international practice and teaching experience across architecture, interiors, landscape, and urban regeneration. He is the founder of Choral Studio Ltd (UK) and Urban Synthesis (China), practices that bring research,...
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Glenn Howells
Visiting Professor
Glenn Howells established Howells in 1990 and has led some of the UK’s most complex and ambitious regeneration projects. He has been particularly influential in shaping regional cities including Birmingham and large areas of East London over the last twenty years. Glenn has advised civic, cultural and educational...
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Helen Iball
Academic Lead for Teaching and Learning; Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Helen is an intersectional feminist architectural academic creatively teaching feminist spatial practice for over twenty-seven years, where she set up PRAXXIS aiming to stimulate a positive intersectional feminist debate in Schools of Architecture. Over nearly ten years of PRAXXIS Helen has taught well over 500 feminist...
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Nicholas Irvin
Senior Lecturer
Nick is a senior lecturer and has experience of writing and managing courses, whilst teaching across a range of modules and courses within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, at Birmingham City University. He has experience of leading on the postgraduate Master of Arts, Design Management course in the UK and overseas. He...
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Heba Iskandarani
Course Lead – BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology; Lecturer in Construction and Architectural Technology
A PhD researcher in planning at the school of Built Environment at Birmingham City University, Heba's research focus is in post-conflict reconstruction of the Middle East specifically housing projects.
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Kathryn Jones
Senior Lecturer, Level 6 Lead
Kathryn brings over a decade of experience to her role as a Senior Lecturer on BA Interior Architecture and Design, and has been instrumental in leading, delivering and transforming the course over this period to marry the needs of the evolving industry with the skills and ambitions of the students. As a respected alumni of the...
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Emma Jones
Product Design Lecturer
Emma is a Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Product Design program, currently teaching across all three levels of the course. Before joining the Faculty of Art, Design, and Media as a full-time member of staff in January 2022, she was a Specialist Lecturer delivering 3D design communication modules in industry-leading CAD modelling...
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Max Olof Karlsson Wisotsky
Senior Lecturer in Architecture & Course Lead: BA (Hons) Architecture
Max Wisotsky is a Swedish-American designer, theorist and historian from Los Angeles, California. He holds a BArch from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and an MA in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His personal research and design ethos centers around using local ideas of culture, material, and...
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Dr Yazid Khemri
Lecturer in Architecture
Dr Yazid Khemri has been involved in practice, research and teaching of Architecture for a decade. Yazid was awarded a PhD in Architecture by the University of Portsmouth, where he was also teaching across Design Studio, Technology and History and Theory. He holds an Architect diploma and an MSc in Architecture and Sustainable...
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Sarah King
Visiting Tutor – Materials Research and Sustainability
Sarah is a circular economy researcher, sustainability, and innovation consultant with experience in project management, design led research, and systems change. For the last eight years she has worked closely with businesses and academic institutions to educate and identify innovation opportunities in response to current...