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Studio C102’s staff are active in architectural education alongside their practice, allowing the Studio to bring an experimental edge to each of its projects.
Kyriakos Katsaros has been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton since 2013. He currently teaches on the postgraduate course in Professional Practice (RIBA Part III), and he has previously taught postgraduate design technology and undergraduate design in Brighton’s architecture programme. He also currently teaches on the BA in Architecture course at De Montfort University. Kyriakos is also a guest critic at several leading universities, including the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he previously ran a studio in the Summer School programme.
Ben Spong is a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture where he co-runs an undergraduate design unit on the BSc Architecture programme and a MArch unit on the Design for Manufacture programme.
Bamidele Awoyemi is a tutor at the School of Speculation (SOS), an independent not-for-profit critical spatial design school that seeks to offer an alternative to traditional approaches and methods of design. The school’s current iteration is being hosted by the Koppel project, the Design Museum and the South London Gallery. Previous hosts have also included Bold Tendencies in Peckham, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).
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School of Speculation - SOS_19
Tutors: Pierre Shaw, Kishan San, Bamidele Awoyemi et al.
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Bartlett Summer Studio 2017
Tutors: Sayan Skandarajah, Calum MacDonald and Ioana Vierita
Sayan ran a summer studio at the Bartlett School of Architecture, a two-week workshop with undergraduate architecture students from around the world. Entitled ‘Drawing Translations’, the workshop built on Sayan’s interest in drawing and representation, using the axonometric to both observe and speculate on the culture of Soho, London. The characteristics of Soho such as fashion, music and nightlife were used as motifs to imagine new architectural proposals, using drawing as the primary tool.
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University of Reading - BA Year One - 2016-2017
Tutors: Sayan Skandarajah et al.
Sayan teaches at the University of Reading and is a core part of the staff in a brand new architecture school. There he teaches first year design students as well as running an architectural representation module that provides students key skills in drawing and model making.
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University of Brighton - MArch Technology - 2015-2016
Tutors: Jeff Turko, Omid Kamvari, Kyriakos Katsaros et al.
Kyriakos taught on the final year technology module that supplements and supports the students’ critical architectural position formulated in the design studio. The module aims to develop MArch students’ understanding of integrated environments, structural, constructional and material design strategies.
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University of Brighton - BA Studio 09 - 2014-2015
Tutors: Stefan Lengen and Kyriakos Katsaros
Stefan and Kyriakos ran Studio 09 - a vertical design studio for second and third undergraduate architecture students. This academic year the Studio's emphasis was on method and iterative design processes, informed by spatial investigations through intelligent devices that initially relate to the human body and ultimately reinterpret everyday situations. The studio programme aimed to open up new spatial experiences and market typologies, based at Broadway Market in London. We encouraged the rigorous dialogue between drawings and prototyping, the real and the fantastical, the static and the interactive.
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University of Brighton - BA Studio 09 - 2013-2014
Tutors: Stefan Lengen and Kyriakos Katsaros
In its first year, Studio 09 was interested in responsive devices that monitor and respond to environmental conditions and the activity patterns of specifically chosen sites. In the first term we asked our students to create responsive devices at a built scale of 1:1. Following on from that, now based in Newhaven, we explored the notion of ‘responsive architecture’ and its spatial phenomena and qualities, encompassing the designs of theatrical landscapes with performance platforms and festival structures.
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Bartlett Summer School 2013
Tutors: Kyriakos Katsaros, Stefan Lengen, Erica Calogero and Alice Labourel
We ran one of the groups at the Bartlett summer school, a ten day intensive workshop for sixth-form and undergraduate students from around the world. Our group examined the principles of interactive/responsive design – including hands-on workshops based on the Arduino microprocessor prototyping platform. Our students designed and built Heath Robinson-inspired devices, that responded to the movement around them by setting off a cascade of ping-pong balls and blowing soap-bubbles!