Alan Chandler
Reader in Architecture Director of REF 2021 Architecture and the Built Environment
Place Production Group, Sustainability Research Institute
Research leader for REF 2014 and 2021, specialist in collaborative practice with expertise in the fields of fabric formed concrete development and the politicisation of architectural heritage. Current responsibilities include coordination of collaborative research around the UN Sustainability Development Goals across the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering.
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AVA 1.09, Docklands Campus
School of Architecture Computing and Engineering (ACE)
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London
E16 2RD - a.chandler@uel.ac.uk +442082233260
Research leader for Architecture and the Built Environment,
Leader in technical integration, Heritage theory lecturer.
Devised and
validated the MA Architecture and Urbanism (Computational Architecture,
Sustainability, Urban design, Heritage and Practice)
Devised and validated the MRes Architecture –
Reading the Neoliberal City, taught by Anna Minton and Dr Douglas Spencer
Current supervision
of four PhD Students
REF 2014 and REF
2020 Architecture + Built Environment UoA16 leader
(45% of research
outputs in the REF 2014 submission rated at 3* and 4*)
RAE 2008 Art and
Design – Category A researcher, 4 submissions
External
Examiner at Edinburgh University MA Material Practice 2015-2018
Previous
teaching experience at the Architectural Association, Goldsmith’s College of
Art, Cambridge University, Edinburgh University and the CASS.
Chartered Architect, accredited Specialist Conservation Architect, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the RIBA Conservation Committee (Education Adviser) 2012-present
Member of the RIBA Professional Education Committee 2009-2013
Member of the RIBA/ARB Validation panel for UK Schools 2006-2009
Architects Registration Board Lead examiner 2008-2012
arts lettres techniques architect 1999 to present, Company Director
SH Architects 1993-2001, Company Director
RIBA Conservation Register assessor since the inception of the register
London Borough of Hackney Design Advisory Panel member 2008-2012
Co-Chair of the RIBA Conservation Register Steering group, Visiting Professor at the Universidad Catolic, Santiago de Chile.
External Examiner, Edinburgh University 2015-2018
Reviewer for the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Reviewer for 'Charrette' journal of architecture
Reviewer for RIBA Publications
Overview
The politicisation of architectural heritage
Fabric formed concrete innovation and implementation
Exhibitor, lecturer and panel member of the Courtauld Institute ‘East Wing Biennial’, site-specific installations: ‘The Memory of Surfaces’, February 2016
Member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the ISoFF International Conference on Fabric Forming structures, Amsterdam August 2015
Keynote Speaker at the XIX Chilean Architecture Biennale in Valparaiso, speaking on the socio-political role of Heritage in architecture, May 2015
Book Chapter ‘Building is also a verb’ in ‘Architecture- Live projects’ eds. Harris and Widder, Routledge June 2014
Co-Curator and fabricator of the ‘London-Venice’ installation on the Loggia of the Ducal Palace, St Mark’s Square, Venice during the 2014 Architecture Biennale and the 2014 London Architecture Festival, June 2014
Seminar Speaker on the restoration of the Basilica El Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Keynote Speaker at the annual conference on Patrimony, hosted by the Chilean Directorate of Monuments at the National Library in Santiago, Chile (audience and live stream via the internet and publication in 2014), November 2013
Co-organiser with Roland Karthaus of ‘The Production of Place’ International Conference, University of East London 2012
Consultant/specialist contractor for 27 tonne 1:1 fabric formed concrete prototypes for Heatherwick Studios ‘1000 Trees’ (325,000sqm building project in Shanghai, China) 2013, published in the Journal of Architecture June 2015. Consultant/specialist contractor for the building of the largest fabric formed concrete structure outside the Americas (Norfolk, UK) 2012
Keynote presentation published by Bath University - The ISoFF Fabric Formwork Conference, Bath University 2012, member of the Scientific Steering Committee.
Palacio Pereira 2012–16, First place competition entry for the restoration of a national monument commemorating the Bi-Centenary of the Chilean Republic, (with Cecilia Puga, Alberto Moletto and Paula Velasco), defining the conservation strategy, on site consolidation and repair - on site 2016
Consultant/specialist contractor for rammed concrete elements for MUF
Art/Architecture LLP installed in Altab Ali Park, London E1 2011
Consultant/specialist contractor (with Remo Pedreschi) for Paul Hensey’s Silver Gilt winning fabric formed concrete ‘Urban Garden’, Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Concept, design and co-editor of ‘Fabricformwork’, winner of the RIBA Presidents Medal commendation for university based research in 2008.
Article + cover - fabric casting techniques research for Architectural Research Quarterly, 11 pages with illustrations, Volume 8 2006.
Chapter in Material Matters Edited by Dr. Katie Lloyd-Thomas, published by Routledge, October 2006, Conference in 2003 co-organised by Chandler/Lloyd-Thomas.
Research and Practice work covered in the Architects Journal, the RIBA Journal, Building Design, Textile, The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Arquitectura Viva (Spain), the World of Interiors, Elle Interior (Norway), Vogue (British and Australian) Elle Decoration (British), Bolig Magasinet (Denmark) Telegraph Magazine, AD Magazine (El Mercurio – Chile), Concrete Elegance II – ‘Fabric Formwork’, Architects Journal, RIBA Journal, FX Magazine, Building Design, Architectura Viva, Journal of Garden Design, ‘Concrete: A Studio Guide’ (Stacey 2012)
Lectures: Bath, Belfast, Berlin, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, Loughborough, Oxford, Santiago, Valparaiso, Winnipeg.
Masterplanner with C+S Architects of the heritage assets of the River Brenta, Veneto, Italy for the Director General of the Ministry of Culture, 2016
Designer and presenter of the RIBA Conservation workshops visiting ten UK schools of Architecture in 2016-2017, beginning with Bath University in November 2016.
Research on William Morris and the politics of craft within a contemporary urban context.
Collaborators
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IUAV / University of Venice
Dr Michela Pace
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University of Edinburgh
Prof Remo Pedreschi
Research
Publications
OfS SPICE bid for Innovative practice in Knowledge Exchange 2020; Newton Fund 'Links' award 2017 'Cities in Transition' with Karandinou and Elsharkawy; 'Live Project' engagement programme with external communities and collaborators, £130K to develop built projects via the MArch architecture curriculum 2009-2020 ongoing; Emerald Fund 'Fabric Formed Rammed Earth practice'.
British Council
Emerald Fund
Direzione dei Beni Culturali del Veneto
Heatherwick Studios
DOKA GmbH
Funding
Collaborative practice
Interests
Technical adviser BSc Architecture (Part I)