teaching
Director Andrew Carr combines practice with teaching and writing. His work leading Unit 10 at the Welsh School of Architecture - rooted in ‘Times, Seasons and Processes’ - draws on his research and writing, echoing the pre-occupations of tempo.
He has contributed to teaching in several schools of architecture, including The Welsh School of Architecture, University of Westminster, Newcastle University and the London School of Architecture.
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MArch Unit 10, Welsh School of Architecture
Andrew Carr is currently a design lead for MArch Unit 10 which focusses on ‘times, seasons and and processes’. The studio embraces architecture as time- bound. Long considered a static medium of constancy and permanence, more recently architecture has embraced more diverse temporalities. The climate emergency has prompted architects to look for ways of working with environmental rhythms, bio- based materials, re-use, repair, maintenance and the slow carbon cycles of 100-200 million years.
Buildings are then undertook as a temporal composition, an orchestration of rhythms and processes to provide environments for people to live in. Architecture becomes a weaving of the flux and flow of these rhythms and processes, revealing them, dampening them or intensifying them; in itself creating new rhythms and processes we might inhabit and enjoy, some faster, others slower. Equally, the so called time-based arts (music, poetry and cinema), suggest possibilities for narrative, plot and unfolding.
This studio work with these multiple temporalities; natural, cultural, social, historical, fictional, or otherwise...
See the work of the unit here.
Andrew has fulfilled various roles for the WSA since 1999, as a design tutor, internal examiner, visiting critic, technical consultant and guest lecturer.
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MA Architecture, University of Westminster.
Contributing to modules on ’Space and Identity’ and ‘City Re-imagined’, Andrew is a part time Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. Each combines critical engagement with theory situated evolved through design proposal for sites in London and beyond. Alongside his work on the MA, Andrew also contributes to DS22, an MArch studio run by Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif.
See here for examples of the work of the MA students.
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Guest reviewer and lecturer
Andrew has been invited to review the work of students in several schools of architecture, including the studio of Professor Adam Sharr at Newcastle University, Cardiff University and The London School of Architecture.
He has lectured on drawing the the WSA for several years has been invited to speak about his work at the WSA, TU Delft and Ravensbourne.
