Dr Renee Tobe
Reader in Architecture
I foster debate, support students to make calculated decisions, and encourage engagement in responsible and practical research. I focus on critical thinking and critical practice, imaginative decision making, indeterminacy, and strategy.
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AVA G.07, Docklands Campus
School of Architecture Computing and Engineering (ACE)
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London
E16 2RD - r.tobe@uel.ac.uk +442082233237
"Sex Happens; A phenomenological reading of the casual encounter" in Writing the Modern City, Routledge, 2011.
Architecture and Justice, Judicial Expressions in the Spatial Realm, editor, Ashgate Press, 2011
The City and the University, Research Project collaborative with Urban Design Research Group, Nottingham University
Architecture and Justice, Judicial Expressions in the Spatial Realm, editor, Ashgate Press, 2011
The City and the University, Research Project collaborative with Urban Design Research Group, Nottingham University
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
Renée Tobe's investigations into the nature of the relationship of architecture and its representation in film grants a deeper understanding of how architecture in film illuminates both architecture and the culture that produces it. Establishing a place is the fundamental task of architecture; the first task of architecture is to mark our place in the world. Architecture mediates the dialectics of dwelling and remoteness, belonging and estrangement. Realisation and expression of this exchange forms the basis for Architectural understanding. A current Research Project entitled the University and the City
investigates the synergies between the two to produce a toolkit to guide University development with limited capital investment. Dr Tobe lectures in History and Theory to Year 1 students, introducing precedents, and poetic concepts and expressions of space and place.
investigates the synergies between the two to produce a toolkit to guide University development with limited capital investment. Dr Tobe lectures in History and Theory to Year 1 students, introducing precedents, and poetic concepts and expressions of space and place.
Interests
Portfolio
BSc Architecture (Hons)
PG Architecture
MA Architecture: Interpretation and Theories
PG Architecture
MA Architecture: Interpretation and Theories
Conference Papers and Presentations
Keynote
“The Cultural Role Played by the Spatial Imagination” The Cultural Role of Architecture, Lincoln University, 2010
Invited Speaker
“Bridging Places and Spaces In-Between” Architecture + Phenomenology 2, Kyoto, Japan, 2009
"Sex Happens; a Phenomenological Reading of the Casual Encounter” Architexture, Architecture and Literature, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 2008
“Fear and Trembling; a Study of Why Movies Make us Afraid” Architecture + Phenomenology Conference, Haifa, Israel, May 2007
“Speeding into the unfixed and moveable future in neo-Tokyo” Architecture, Anime and Alternate Landscapes, Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, USA, April 2006
“The Constantly Evolving Mediated Surface” Models and Drawings; AHRA Annual Conference, Nottingham University, November 2005
“The Inhuman One; the Mythology of Architect as Réalisateur”, Terms of Engagement: Changing definitions of the Architect, Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, Canada, April 2005
“Two Grains of Wheat; In Remembrance of Walter Benjamin” Dani Karavan Conference, University Grenoble, Port Bou, Spain, September 2004
“Dr Heidegger’s Cabinet of Curiosities” Primitive Conference, Cardiff University, 2004
“The Case of Plato’s Cave and Hegel’s Master and Slave Dialectic”
Philosophy of Architecture/Architecture of Philosophy, Congress CATH2004, 2004
“The Unfamiliar in the Familiar Place, The North American Suburb” Visual Culture and Tourism Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, 2000
“German Expressionist Film and Heidegger,” Martin Centre, Cambridge University, 2000
“Norman Bel Geddes and the 1939 New York World’s Fair”, Social History Conference, Caius College, Cambridge University, 2000
“Gender and Architecture in Chantal Ackerman’s Film” Architectural Association, 1998
“Michel Foucault and the Space of the Body”, Disrupted Borders Conference, Photographers Gallery, London, 1993
“Memory and the Double Image”, Ecstatic Antibodies Conference, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1992
Related Work
The Thing Is .... Entertainment (Channel 4), Television Set Design (1991)
The Big Breakfast (Channel 4), Television Set Design (1991)
Various (Mecompany), Product and Image Design (1991)
Nervous Systems (Mute Records), Illustration of ‘Odyssey Tower’ album cover (1991)
Competitions
AJ/Westminster Cathedral Measured Drawing Competition Commended (1995)
Building Design: Peoples Palace
(1994)
RIBA/Baltic Flour Mills Competition Commended (1994)
RIBA/Mausoleum Design (1993)
Shinkenchiku Competition Yokohama Harbour Design (1992)
Exhibitions
Westminster Cathedral Centenary Exhibition, Westminster Cathedral, London (1995)
Metropolis, Open Window Gallery, London (1994)
The Ladies Cabinet, Disrupted Borders: National Gallery, Ottawa (1994)
Photographers Gallery, London; (1993) Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1994)
Continental Drift, Royal Institute of British Architects, London (1993)
Sauerbruch/Hutton Architekten Exhibition: Aedes Gallery, Berlin (1992)
Ecstatic Antibodies: Maison de la Culture, Montreal, (1991)
Battersea Arts Centre, London, (1989) Impressions Gallery, York (1990)
Intuition and Process, Architectural Association, London (1989)
Keynote
“The Cultural Role Played by the Spatial Imagination” The Cultural Role of Architecture, Lincoln University, 2010
Invited Speaker
“Bridging Places and Spaces In-Between” Architecture + Phenomenology 2, Kyoto, Japan, 2009
"Sex Happens; a Phenomenological Reading of the Casual Encounter” Architexture, Architecture and Literature, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 2008
“Fear and Trembling; a Study of Why Movies Make us Afraid” Architecture + Phenomenology Conference, Haifa, Israel, May 2007
“Speeding into the unfixed and moveable future in neo-Tokyo” Architecture, Anime and Alternate Landscapes, Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, USA, April 2006
“The Constantly Evolving Mediated Surface” Models and Drawings; AHRA Annual Conference, Nottingham University, November 2005
“The Inhuman One; the Mythology of Architect as Réalisateur”, Terms of Engagement: Changing definitions of the Architect, Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, Canada, April 2005
“Two Grains of Wheat; In Remembrance of Walter Benjamin” Dani Karavan Conference, University Grenoble, Port Bou, Spain, September 2004
“Dr Heidegger’s Cabinet of Curiosities” Primitive Conference, Cardiff University, 2004
“The Case of Plato’s Cave and Hegel’s Master and Slave Dialectic”
Philosophy of Architecture/Architecture of Philosophy, Congress CATH2004, 2004
“The Unfamiliar in the Familiar Place, The North American Suburb” Visual Culture and Tourism Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, 2000
“German Expressionist Film and Heidegger,” Martin Centre, Cambridge University, 2000
“Norman Bel Geddes and the 1939 New York World’s Fair”, Social History Conference, Caius College, Cambridge University, 2000
“Gender and Architecture in Chantal Ackerman’s Film” Architectural Association, 1998
“Michel Foucault and the Space of the Body”, Disrupted Borders Conference, Photographers Gallery, London, 1993
“Memory and the Double Image”, Ecstatic Antibodies Conference, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1992
Related Work
The Thing Is .... Entertainment (Channel 4), Television Set Design (1991)
The Big Breakfast (Channel 4), Television Set Design (1991)
Various (Mecompany), Product and Image Design (1991)
Nervous Systems (Mute Records), Illustration of ‘Odyssey Tower’ album cover (1991)
Competitions
AJ/Westminster Cathedral Measured Drawing Competition Commended (1995)
Building Design: Peoples Palace
(1994)
RIBA/Baltic Flour Mills Competition Commended (1994)
RIBA/Mausoleum Design (1993)
Shinkenchiku Competition Yokohama Harbour Design (1992)
Exhibitions
Westminster Cathedral Centenary Exhibition, Westminster Cathedral, London (1995)
Metropolis, Open Window Gallery, London (1994)
The Ladies Cabinet, Disrupted Borders: National Gallery, Ottawa (1994)
Photographers Gallery, London; (1993) Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1994)
Continental Drift, Royal Institute of British Architects, London (1993)
Sauerbruch/Hutton Architekten Exhibition: Aedes Gallery, Berlin (1992)
Ecstatic Antibodies: Maison de la Culture, Montreal, (1991)
Battersea Arts Centre, London, (1989) Impressions Gallery, York (1990)
Intuition and Process, Architectural Association, London (1989)