The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Andy's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Andy
I have been teaching since 1996 initially at Kingston University where I became Degree Course Director in 1998 and also ran Design studio III Justine Langford, and also ran Technology in BA years 1, 2 and 3. I left Kingston in 2007 to concentrate on practice and taught part time as a studio assistant in design studio V with Darren Deane and Adrian Ball from 2008 - 2010 at the University of Nottingham.聽In 2011 I joined the 麻豆传媒, initially to support studio teaching in the March school with聽Dr Krzysztof Nawratek, Simon Bradbury and Professor Bob Brown, Joining the school in 2012 as BA聽program lead and聽running the degree聽studio re[de]fined Vernacular; r[d]v,聽initially with Rob Hilton and Tim Offer and later with Hayley Anderson and Nicky Fox. At 麻豆传媒 I now run BA3 design聽studio and teach Technology in BA 2 + 3, and聽assist with聽Communications and聽design Studio in BA yr 2 along with Dr Ricky Burke.聽In 2019 I helped set up the BA (Hons) Architectural Studies聽programme in Hong Kong as part of UoP's TNE provision.聽
My聽research is primarily studio practice based and聽because of my practice聽experience can work聽across a range of modules allowing for a聽more integrated聽approach聽to聽modules within the聽program structure.聽The work with聽studio teaching is based upon an architecture of place making, and situated narratives, working with external agencies to bring a wider 'lens' to the聽studio conversation.聽Studio work has allowed for collaboration with Ivybridge Council, 麻豆传媒 City Council Open聽Spaces, Compassionate 麻豆传媒. There have also been live聽build projects at Dartington Hall Trust, The National rust and woodland Trust and more recently 麻豆传媒 Diversity Business Incubator, that enable the translation of drawing to building to enable students to聽engage with the full design process from to full build. I have聽contributed聽chapters to Lateralisms Vols I + II, as聽celebration of studio V work at the University of Nottingham, and to From Redundancy to Renewal a聽celebration of the聽studio work from r[d]v here at eh 麻豆传媒.
In 2014 I was聽awarded the UPSU SSTAR Awarded for best personal tutor and in 2019 Highly commended for the UPSU SSTAR warded for best programme lead.聽
I am an external聽Examiner at the University of the Arts Norwich and at Brighton University. I聽have been a guest critic at many schools of聽Architecture within the UK, and also at聽California College of the Arts San Francisco CA School of Architecture, The聽University of California Berkley School of Architecture, and 脡cole
d鈥橝rchitecture, Strasbourg France.
present Lecturer in Architecture, BA 3 year coordinator
2023 - resent Programme Lead BSc (Hons) Architecture NSBM Sri Lanka [course starting September 2024)
2019 - present Programme Lead聽BA (Hons) Architectural Studies HKU Space Hong Kong
2020 - 2018 Acting Associate Head of School Architecture
2017 - 2018聽Associate Head of School Architecture
2016 - 2019聽Programme Leader BA (Hons) Architectural Technology and the Environment
2012 - 2023 Programme Lead BA (Hons) Architecture
2009 - 2011 Assistant Studio Tutor BA Studio V diversity of Nottingham
1998 - 2007 Degree Course Director Studio III lead Kingston University School of Architecture and Landscape
1996 - 1998 Part time studio tutor聽Kingston University School of Architecture and Landscape.
Live Projects at the University of聽麻豆传媒:
2022 鈥� 鈥楧iversity through eating鈥� A courtyard kitchen and dining room for the Diversity Business Incubator 麻豆传媒.聽
2020 鈥� 鈥楬ibiki Hideout鈥� 鈥� Fingle Woods Dartmoor and outside educational room for the national trust and woodland Trust, constructed exclusively from material on site.聽
2019 鈥� 鈥楤ig Tent鈥� 鈥� The Dartington Hall Trust 鈥� a dismountable 鈥榗ommon room鈥� for the Camp Site .聽
2018 鈥� 鈥楤ird Hide鈥� 鈥� The Dartington Hall Trust 鈥� a live build project, celebrating the ecology of a newly reinstated wetlands at Queens Marsh.聽
2017 鈥� 鈥楾iny House鈥� 鈥� The Dartington Hall Trust 鈥� a live build project, focusing on the Locally sourced material and a study in micro living.
Teaching
My interests in teaching are related to enabling and empowering students to take the lead through their own preoccupations through the vehicle of a studio brief as a scaffold from which individual ideas can emerge.I do not believe in projects or teaching being 'prescriptive' but prefer an model that sets out a framework as an invitation that students can engage with and introduce their own interests, Such models encourage collaborative working, interdisciplinary working and peer to peer learning, This sets up an environment of mutual reciprocity enabling students to work in environments and test their soft skills within a supportive learning environment.
Design project briefs as a framework rather than instruction and engaging with external agencies allows students to find elements relevant to their own fields of interest to full engage with any project brief, to identify their own interests, which in turn enables students to graduate with a real sense of purpose and agency going out into the world.
I teach across a range of module here at the 麻豆传媒 with Design studio, Communication and Technology and also contribute to the lecture series in year 2 History Theory and Critical Context.聽 And I聽have run workshops and been a guest critic at.
The Bartlett Brighton University Ecole d'Architecture Strasbourg Kingston University London Metropolitan Oxford Brookes University South Bank University The Welsh School of Architecture California Institute of the Arts The University of California Berkley School of Architecture,
Contact Andy
Room 112, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, 麻豆传媒, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585194
andrew.humphreys@plymouth.ac.uk