Anthony Aldrich

Job title: Lecturer, School of Architecture, Design and Environment (Faculty of Arts)
Telephone: +441752585161
Email: A.Aldrich@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
I am a senior lecturer (part-time since 2010)

My current teaching roles are:-
B A Hons Architecture (years 2 and 3) Design studio unit leader.
B A Hons Architecture (year 3) Dissertation tutor
M Arch (year 2) Module leader for 'Humane Architecture and Self Awreness' elective module, and for 'Materiality and Craftsmanship' elective module.

Past teaching roles have included:-
Diploma programme manager
Diploma design studio tutor
Diploma dissertation tutor
Pg Dip Humane Architecture programme manager
BA Hons stage 2 Year tutor

Qualifications & background

I am a contemporary artist, an architect and an educator. Originally from ‘Up-North’, I grew up in the South West. After obtaining RIBA part 2 (distinction) and being awarded the runner up prize for the RIBA silver medal awards in 1988, I qualified as an architect at the Architectural Asociation in 1991. Following 10 years working as an architect in Cambridge, Bath, and Bristol I returned to Plymouth in 2001 to take up a full time lectureship and to develop my creative arts practice. Since 2002 I have also held a Post Graduate Certificate for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

All of my work aims to engage with the underlying ambiguities and tensions of everyday life – both as a way to reveal them and their poetic content, and as a means to come to terms with them. I am an idealist - I still think that architecture and art are a means for supporting and enriching our everyday lives. As a result I am interested in ideas of ‘quality’, ‘experiential aesthetics’, skill / craft, phenomenological method, and qualitative enquiries into popular and material culture and identity.

Teaching interests

Current teaching commitments:-

B A Hons Architecture (year 2 and 3) Design studio unit tutor

B A Hons Architecture (year 3)         Dissertation tutor

M Arch (year 2) elective module leader for :-
                                                               Humane Architecture and Self Awareness
                                                               Materiality and Craftsmanship

Research interests

Pedagogy - Art and Design education

Fostering personal creativity, ethical awareness and empowerment within the design process.

Coaching the development of design skills, representation skills, and student creativity

Undertaking phenomenological studies of 'place' and exploring representative means for undertaking them

Developing creative art practice as research

Publications

MOST RECENT PROJECTS / EXHIBITIONS / PUBLICATIONS:

‘Cabinet’ exhibition - 2011 Peninsula Gallery – Roland Levinsky Building

Solo exhibition 2009 Art Mill Gallery. Plymouth.

Artist in residence 2009 – Coombe Dean Secondary School.

Journal article:-
European journal of Higher Arts Education – issue No 1. 2004. paper entitles – ‘Self Awareness and empowerment in architectural education – a case study

Book chapters:-
McDonagh. D, Hekkert, P. Van Erp. J. Gyi, D. 2004. Design and Emotion (the experience of everyday things).

Miles. M. 2005. New practices / New pedagogies (emerging contexts, practices and pedagogies in Art in Europe and North America)

Links
http://www.tonyaldrich.com