Andrew Higgott MA (Cantab) AA Grad Dipl PhD
andrew@andrewhiggott.com alternative email andrewviceroy@gmail.com
+44 (0) 7816 760747
Books and contributions to books Key Modern Architects: Fifty short histories of Modern Architecture Bloomsbury Academic London and New York May 2018 Visual sensibility and the search for form: the Architectural Review in post war Britain in Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal, ed Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham Routledge London and New York 2018 Camera Constructs: Photography, Architecture and the Modern City (co-edited with Timothy Wray) Ashgate Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT Includes authored Introduction and essays: Yerbury and the Search for the New and The New Brutalism and Photography 2012/pback ed 2014 Mediating Modernism: Architectural Cultures in Britain Monograph Routledge London and New York 2007 Making and Meaning in 4+1 Peter Salter: Building Projects Black Dog London 2000 Recourse and Historicity: the Case of Britain in Positionen University of Stuttgart Press 2000 Birmingham: Building the Modern City In Deckker The Modern City Revisited Spon Press London 2000 On Writing in UEL Book of the Year no 6 University of East London 2000 Teaching First Year: What do they need to know ? in Hardy and Teymur Architectural History in the Studio, Question Press London 1996 Form and Technology: The Idea of a new architecture in the Sixties in Borden and Dunster Architecture and the Sites of History Butterworth, Oxford 1995 Eric de Maré, photographer, builder with light, monograph, Architectural Association., London: Editor, Introduction 1990 Travels in Modern Architecture: Howard Robertson and Frank Yerbury Architectural Association, London: Editor, Introduction 1989 F.R.Yerbury, Itinerant Cameraman monograph, Architectural Association, London: Editor, Introduction 1987 Selected articles Eric de Maré: between the functional and the beautiful Journal of Architecture Volume 21, 2016 pp 873-889 Eric de Maré in search of the Functional Tradition AA Files 70, 2015 pp 144-151 Constructing Modernism History Today Vol 64 issue 5 May 2014 Online articles AA Conversations May 2014: De Mare: Photography framing architecture http://conversations.aaschool.ac.uk/eric-de-mare-photography-framing-architecture/ Boyarsky at the AA ARQ 2010 p189 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7922399 Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School: The Cultural Context of Architecture, University of Lincoln June 2010 Copan Building Twentieth Century Society May 2007 http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/copan-building-sao-paulo/ A Tradition of Experiment: the history of the AA School Archinect 2005 http://archinect.com/forum/thread/17899/andrew-higgott-a-tradition-of-experiment-the-history-of-the-aa-school Professional activities History and Theory Lecturer to BA Architecture University of Greenwich 2019- External Examiner, BA in Architecture Cass Faculty of Art Architecture and Design London 2014-18 Member of Revalidation Panel Taught MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design Architectural Association Graduate School 2015 Member of Co-ordinating panel, The Production of Place International Conference, University of East London 2012 External Examiner on M.A. Architectural History Theory and Interpretation, Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University 2004-9 External Member of Validation Panel, Masters Programmes in Architecture, University of Westminster 2007 Co-organiser and originator of Camera/Constructs conference on photography, architecture and the modern city at School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London. International conference accompanied by workshops and an exhibition 2006 Member of Judging Panel for Dissertation Medal, President’s Medals for Architectural Education, Royal Institute of British Architects 2004 Golden Lane Exhibition, co-ordination and writing of exhibition text, London Architecture Biennale 2004 Originator of Material Matters International conference, University of East London 2004 Founder member and member of steering group of AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) 2003-10 Member of AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Review Panel 2002-11 External Examiner on B.Arch, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University 2002-6 Reviewer of papers for Architecture Research Quarterly 2001- Reviewer of architectural book proposals for Routledge 2000-External member of Validation panel, M.A. Architecture, Kent Institute of Art and Design 2000 External member of Validation panel, Masters’ Programmes, University of North London 1999 Member of University Academic Board Research Committee, UEL1995-9 External Examiner on Architecture Postgraduate Diploma Course, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London 1994- 97 External Examiner on Architecture Degree Course, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London 1991-4 Member of Editorial Board, Architectural Association 1990-4 Co-ordinator of exhibition of architectural photography of Eric de Maré, Architectural Association 1990 Member of Editorial Board, Issues in Architecture, Art and Design 1989- 98 Co-ordinator of exhibition of architectural photography of F.R.Yerbury, Architectural Association 1987 Exhibitions of Photography Easter Island: Recent Photographs Architectural Association Photo Library Gallery London February 2014 Open Photography Exhibition selected participant Royal West of England Academy Bristol 2008 Camera Constructs exhibition Off Centre Gallery Bristol 2006 Camera Constructs Exhibition selected participant School of Architecture and the Visual Arts University of East London 2006 Fano Foundation Exhibition participant AIR Gallery London 1978 |
 'Key Modern Architects' with cover drawing by Gordon Cullen of the Smithsons' Economist Building
Qualifications Ph.D Architectural Modernism in Britain University of East London AA Grad Dipl in Architectural History and Theory, Architectural Association School of Architecture M.A. (Cantab) in English Literature, University of Cambridge Professional Positions 2011- Freelance writer and teacher in architecture 1997- 2011 Principal Lecturer in History and Theory of Architecture, University of East London Programme Leader: MA Architecture: History and Theory (later MA Architecture: Interpretation and Theories), University of East London Acting Director of Architecture, University of East London 2008- 2009 Senior Lecturer, University of East London 1985 –1997 General Studies Tutor/Master, Architectural Association School of Architecture 1988 -2007 Slide (Photographic) Librarian, Architectural Association, London 1975 –1989 Guest Lectures, Conferences, Public Events The Modern Movement and Photography Public lecture to DOCOMOMO UK, London December 2019 Brazilian Modernism Public lecture to DOCOMOMO UK, London February 2019 Brutalism: new design principles and new architectures in Post war Britain RIBA Brutalist Playground event The Edge, University of Bath July 2017 Guest critic, Mellon Research Architecture and/for Photography archive presentations, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal May 2017 Eric de Maré and the Functional Tradition Public lecture in association with de Mare photograph exhibition at the MIT Wolk Gallery MIT, Cambridge Mass February 2016 Image and Counter-Image: Architecture and its narratives Keynote Address In Place of Architecture Symposium Nottingham Trent University November 2015 Camera Constructs Guest lecture Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan October 2015 Thinking about Materiality: The Brutalist debate in Post-war Britain Public Lecture RIBA London June 2015 F R Yerbury: Representing Modern Architecture Public Lecture Architectural Association November 2014 Eric de Maré: the Functional and the Beautiful Conference paper Building with Light International Symposium RIBA London November 2014 Reconstructing Architecture: the Architectural Association in London in the 1970s and 80s Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo August 2014 Eric de Maré: Photography framing Architecture Public lecture Architectural Association May 2014 Architectural Modernism and the Published Photograph Architecture and Design Photography Study Day RIBA/Estorick Collection, London September 2013 Brutalism and Post war Britain lecture, Royal College of Art London March 2013 Camera Constructs: photography architecture and the modern city International Lecture series Bartlett School, University College London October 2012 Camera Constructs: photography’s re-making of architecture Fall Guest Lecture series Cornell University USA September 2012 Conference Paper: Architectural Modernism and the Published Photograph Still Architecture conference, University of Cambridge June 2012 Conference Paper: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School: The Cultural Context of Architecture conference, University of Lincoln June 2010 Public Lecture: Frank Yerbury and the search for the new Building Centre, London June 2006 Conference Paper: Memorability as Image: the New Brutalism and Photography Camera Constructs conference, AVA University of East London April 2006 Conference Paper: Framing Material: aspects of post-war British photography Material Matters Conference, AVA, UEL April 2004 Lecture and seminar programme: A tradition of experiment: the history of the AA school Architectural Association, London Autumn 2004 Invited Speaker São Paulo Architecture Bienal, Brazil: Modernism and Historicism in Recent British Practice December 1999 Fighting the battle with the drawings on the wall: the Alvin Boyarsky years at the Architectural Association Design and Lifestyle in 1970s Britain conference, Museum of London April 1999 Conference paper Birmingham and the Modern City The Modern City revisited, University of East London School of Architecture April 1999 February 1999 Invited Speaker: University of Stuttgart, Germany: Symposium on Recourse and Historicity: The Case of Britain Conference Paper: From Bauhaus to Birmingham Sixties Life Style Architecture conference , Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham April 1997 Invited speaker in Annual Symposium 'Challenged City 'John Moore’s University Liverpool February 1995 Conference paper: Teaching First Year: What do they need to know?' Histories in Schools of Architecture Conference, U.C.L., London May 1994 Conference paper: A Vision of the Modern; Sixties Birmingham reappraised Society of Art Historians Annual Conference April 1994 Invited speaker: delivered paper Reflecting the New; photography and architectural modernism Society of Architectural Historians' Annual Symposium February 1994 |