Staff details

Mr

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Three Dimensional Design, School of Architecture, Design and Environment (Faculty of Arts)
Email: mathew.emmett@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Award Leader

Qualifications & background

RIBA Part III

AADipl RIBA Part II

Bsc (Hons) Bartlett School of Architecture RIBA Part I

Central Saint Martins

Professional membership
RIBA (chartered member)

ARB (Architects Registration Board)

Architectural Association

Roles on external bodies

Chelsea College of Art & Design: MA External Examiner

ALP & Critical Friend

Teaching interests
Architecture, Spatial Design, Public Realm & Landscape Urbanism, Interior Architecture, Architectural furniture, Interactive/Immersive Design & Installation

Staff serving as external examiners
’05-08: Chelsea College of Art and Design: External Examiner: MA Interior and Spatial Design.

MA External Examiner Mentor

Research interests
Focusing on the phenomenological presence of space Emmett's work crosses the boundaries of architecture, art, technology and music. Trained at Central Saint Martins, The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL and was awarded the Gardiner Theobald Scholarship at the Architectural Association. Throughout his career Emmett has assisted the theorist Charles Jencks in designing dynamic landforms such as Portello Park, Milan, Imperial War Museum- North (in collaboration with Studio Libeskind) and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Scotland. Emmett has also been awarded art bursaries to collaborate with Kaos Theatre Company and the Jurassic Challenge - sponsored by the World Heritage Commission. Exhibitions include the Royal Academy, sonic performances in London and kinetic installations, India. Up coming publications include "Space Craft - Developments in Architectural Computing & Advanced Geometry" and "Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings". Emmett lectures in architecture and spatial design at the University of Plymouth and is an external examiner at Chelsea College of Art and Design. As part of his PhD, he recently participated in the Karlheinze Stockhausen Composition and Interpretation course in Germany to formulate a system for interpreting sound as a spatial concept for architecture.

UoP Research group membership

Culture, Theory, Space
Design Knowledge

Other research

Estranged Space, interdisciplinary research group: Founding member

Current research project:

Artist Residency at The Roman Baths, Bath. The residency explores mnemonic structures, spatial perception, & transdisciplinary practice and includes collaborative practice with leading international research groups. The project examines the evidential traces emotional embodiment in architectural sites and aims to produce a design ordination system calibrated between the interrelationship between the body, the mind & serial perceptual experiences - through time & space.

“estranged space” is a group of artists, designers, architects, writers and academics who extract and amplify the latent meaning in spaces which have slipped from memory or view.

Grants & contracts
R1A funding to attend Karlheinze Stockausen Composition & Interpretation Course

R1A funding for transportation of work to London Group exhibition

Creative practice & artistic projects

'10: Artist Residency, The Roman Baths, Bath

'10: Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Architecture.

'09: The London Group, Menier Gallery, London.

’07: The London Group, Menier Gallery, London.

’07: Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Architecture.

’05: Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Architecture.

’04: Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Architecture.

COMPETITIONS:

’04: The New Architecture Foundation Building, London.

‘02: The Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

Publications

'10: ‘Architects’ Sketchbook’, Thames and HudsonLtd. Publication in process.

'10: ‘Landforms:Charles Jencks’, Francis Lincoln ltd. Publication in process.

’08: ‘Space Craft, Advances in Architectural Computing’, RIBA publishing, “Contemporary Digital Design”.

’07: ‘Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings’, John Wiley & Sons, “Soundscape of 2 Marsham St”.

’05: ‘Building Design’, Issue 1661, February.

’04: ‘Architects Guide to Running a Practice’, Elsevier/Architectural Press.

’04: ‘Building Design’, Issue 1634, July.

‘03: Charles Jencks, ‘The Garden of Cosmic speculation’, Frances Lincoln.

‘02: RIBA Journal, November.

‘02: Charles Jencks, ‘The New Paradigm in Architecture’, Yale University Press.

Reports & invited lectures
’07: Co-coordinator & lecturer: “Intervention interaction” MA module, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Other academic activities

Co-coordinator:

ADAD - Advanced Digital Architectural Design

International Summer School, Detmold,Germany, July 18-31 2010

www.hs-owl.de/adad/program/

Additional information
”Psychological Vector” By Mathew Emmett 2008 Hidden City Symposium

Links
www.mathewemmett.com