Robert Brown

I am a Professor with 30 years of experience and with multiple (25) award-winning students. I teaching architectural design and history and theory.

My professional experience is framed by "being somewhere else".
I have lived and worked in the USA, UK, and India.
I have taught in the UK at East London, Canterbury, Westminster, and Plymouth.
I have been a guest tutor / guest lecturer / visiting professor at 20 universities in the UK and overseas, including at: University of Innsbruck (Austria); City University of Macau, Jiangnan University, and Soochow University (China); the Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (Egypt); University of Pavia (Italy); and the Architectural Association and Cardiff University (UK).

This experience has made me very aware of the need of getting to know other people (their intentions and ideas) and to use this as a foundation for discussion and working together.

Critical in my approach to teaching is having a discussion between student and tutor which aims to reveal (more deeply) the students' own intentions, ideas, and ways of working. This forms a ground from which further discussion can take place.

I think tutorials done in this way need to be a minimum of 30 minutes, but may take up to 60 minutes.

Teaching will be online. I will use an online visualiser (basically a camera) to show sketches and images as a way of helping to advance discussion with you.