1.. Curriculum Vitae Peter Charles Gordon BEARD _Architect [UK] MA dip arch (cantab) RIBA www.peterbeardlandroom.co.uk Working within the fields of architecture and landscape, Peter Beard has created a unique body of work marked by its sensitivity to places as found. His work both in teaching and in design has been recognised internationally. His most recently completed project, the nature reserve on the Thames marshes at Rainham was awarded a special mention in the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2014), following a national award from the Royal Institute of British Architects for the Marshland Discovery Zone at Purfleet (2011). Recent teaching at Harvard University s Graduate School of Design (2011-14), has built on the techniques of photographic documentary first used in his research on post-industrial and post-military landscape sites during his fellowship with the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts [UK] (2003-06). Since December 2015 he has been based in northern Italy, documenting the transitional industrial and agrarian landscapes of Val d Ossola, and working with individuals and local groups on new models of production and sustainable technologies. He received his professional qualification from Cambridge University in 1987, is registered with the Architect s Registration Board (UK), and is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. His degree in architecture is from the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at Cambridge University (1979-82), graduating with First Class Honours. He spent a year studying as an exchange student at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, returning to Cambridge University for the second year of his Diploma, awarded with Distinction in 1985. As an undergraduate at Queens College Cambridge he received the Venn prize, and was a College Exhibitioner and Foundation Scholar. Following initial practice experience working on housing and listed building projects in London, he worked with Peter Salter, assisting with the realisation of the Kamiichi Pavilion (Japan - 1992). He also worked with Florian Beigel and the Architecture Research Unit at London Metropolitan University on projects in Germany, one near Leipzig (Cospuden - 1997) and another in Berlin (Lichterfelde sud - 1998). During his time as a unit master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture he entered a number of design competitions under his own name, receiving honourable mentions for his projects for the former U-boat base at Lorient, France (1999) and the Palla factory, Germany (2001). From 2004 he worked independently in practice, contributing to strategic planning initiatives in London, as well as realising a number of built projects. He was a member of the London Development Agency s Design Advisor panel (2004-11), advising on design issues related to the agency s extensive development portfolio. He also served on the Enabling Panel for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (2005-09), advising on aspects of planning and design.
2. His work on the East London Green Grid planning strategy received the President s Award from the Landscape Institute (2008) and was a category award winner at the World Architecture Festival (2009). He has published reviews and essays in AA Files (the Architectural Association s academic journal), Blueprint and Topos magazines. His design projects have been published in AA Files, Bauwelt, Architecture Today, Building Design, the Architect s Journal, the RIBA Journal, and in Despues de - Afterwards, remaking landscapes (Editorial Gustavo Gili Barcelona 2000). His work has been exhibited at the Monolith gallery London, the Royal Academy, and the Architecture Foundation. Competition projects have been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally. He first taught at the Architectural Association in 1987, as a design tutor in first year. He was then a Unit Master in the First Year (1998-92) and the Intermediate School (1992-96), before leading a unit in the Diploma school (1996-2004), and acting as Academic Advisor to the Diploma School (2000-03). He has also taught in Cambridge University s Architecture Department: following a one year appointment as a first year design tutor (1989-90), he was invited to lead a Diploma studio at the school which ran for three years (1993-96). Other short-term teaching engagements have included the Bartlett School (London, first year design tutor 1993), the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania (option studio workshop 1994). He has led summer schools and specialised workshops abroad including the summer school at the Universidad Catolica Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion, Paraguay as a British Council Visiting Teacher (1992), the Architectural Association Urban Landscape seminar in Yokohama, Japan (1997), the Small City design workshop held at the Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Stockholm (1999), and the Third International Summer Workshop, Wurtzburg, Germany (2000). He has been a visiting studio critic at the following schools of Architecture: Cambridge University, London Metropolitan University, the University of East London, Kingston University, Bath University, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. His teaching projects have been published in AA Files, Architecture d Aujourdhui, and in many other catalogues and reviews. His students work has been exhibited extensively, including at the Architectural Association, the Venice Architecture Biennale and at the RIBA s Eastern Region gallery in Cambridge. Whilst teaching at the Architectural Association he served as an elected representative, firstly on the Alpha Group as an academic staff representative (1994-95), and then as staff representative on the three member Chairman s contract panel (1999). He served as an elected member of AA Council for two years (2005-07). While Academic Advisor to the Diploma School at the Architectural Association he was the school s representative to the Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture - SCHOSA. 09.02.18 via dissegna, 23-28845 Domodossola VB - ITALIA peterbeard_landroom@mac.com +44(0)7905857478 +39 032 445903
3. _Peter Beard Architect [UK] MA dip arch (cantab) RIBA. Academic Study, Awards and Qualifications. FELLOWSHIP AWARD _NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS [UK] Three year Fellowship award by UK national body to support individual research work on approaches to Post-Industrial and Post-Military landscape sites _2003-06. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION IN ARCHITECTURE RIBA part III Cambridge University [UK] _1987. DIPLOMA IN ARCHITECTURE RIBA part II Cambridge University [UK] _1984-1985 Awarded with DISTINCTION _Dip Arch. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN Harvard exchange student Harvard University, Cambridge [US] _1983-84. DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE RIBA part I Cambridge University [UK] _1979-1982 Awarded with FIRST CLASS _B.A. M.A. (cantab) College prizes during Degree Study _ Venn prize, College Exhibitioner, Foundation Scholar [Queens College] *
4.. Design Studio Teaching. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN Harvard University, Cambridge [US] Design Option Studio in Landscape Architecture_fall semester 2014 Core Studio Landscape Architecture Mid-term Course _ 2011-2014. ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE London [UK] Diploma Unit Master _ 1996-2004, Intermediate Unit Master _ 1992-1996 First Year Unit Master _ 1989-1992, First Year Design Tutor _ 1987-1989. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY OF ART Cambridge University [UK] Diploma Studio Master _ 1995-1998, First Year Design Tutor_ 1989-1990. SCHOOL OF DESIGN University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [US] Option Studio Introduction _ September 1994. BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE University College London, London [UK] First Year Design Tutor _ spring 1993. International Design Workshops. INTERNATIONAL SUMMER WORKSHOP Würtzburg [DE] _August 2000. SMALL CITY DESIGN WORKSHOP Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm [SE] _February 1999. URBAN LANDSCAPE SEMINAR Architectural Association Summer School, Yokohama [JP] _September 1997. BRITISH COUNCIL VISITING TEACHER Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Asuncion [PY] _February 1992
5.. Design Awards. Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR URBAN PUBLIC SPACE Special Mention _ 2014. Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve Rainham to the River NEW LONDON ARCHITECTURE NEW LONDON AWARDS_Public Space Commended _ 2014. RSPB Marshland Discovery Zone, Purfleet ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS National Award _ 2011. RSPB Marshland Discovery Zone, Purfleet shortlisted for the STEPHEN LAWRENCE PRIZE RIBA special award _ 2011. East London Green Grid, London WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL Category winner _ 2009 Future projects _ Landscape. East London Green Grid, London LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE President s Award _ 2008. Palla Factory Conversion, Glauchau [DE] OPEN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION ON SUSTAINABILITY shortlisted stage 1 scheme _ 2001. U-Boat Base Conversion, Lorient [FR] SINGLE-STAGE OPEN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION jury prize _ 1999
6.. Authored Articles. RIVERINE_Routledge_ (forthcoming 2017) Metropolitan Riverine Essay on the rivers of London and Shanghai Landroom s London Marsh projects. TOPOS June 2011 Estuarine Landscape Short essay on the tidal Thames. EAST LONDON GREEN GRID PRIMER _2006 Slack Nature and the Working Wild Critical essay on green space planning in East London. AA FILES no.42-2001 Constructing Beyond Use Publication of Lorient project + essay. AA FILES no.31 Summer 1996 San Carlino and the Cultivated Wild Article on Carlo Borromini, student work + exhibition. BLUEPRINT July/August 1996 Life in the Ruins Peter Latz is making some former enormous steelworks into a park for the Post-industrial age Project review. AA FILES no.30 autumn 1995 Taking Measures Across the American Landscape Exhibition and book review of the work of James Corner and Alex Maclean. AA FILES no.27 - summer 1994 Peter Salter: Four Japanese Projects Exhibition review
7.. Project Publication Reference. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE EUROPE - 4th edition - On the Move - 2014 Blauwdruk _Wageningen [NL] ISBN 978-90-75271-82-9 All London Green Grid Rainham Marshes Projects overview. AA FILES no.66_2013 London After the Green Belt All London Green Grid and Rainham Marshes Projects _IRÉNÉE SCALBERT. THE NEW ENGLISH LANDSCAPE_2013 _ JASON ORTON, KEN WORPLE Field Station, London [UK] ISBN 978-0-9926669-0-3 Rainham Marshes and context. CÓDIGO 64 August - September 2011 Aquitectura - Destacados _RSPB Marshland Discovery Zone. GUARDIAN 17th May 2011 Paradise for Bird Lovers RSPB Marshland Discovery Zone RIBA Awards Review_JONATHAN GLANCEY http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/19/riba-architecture-awards-british-birds. BAUWELT 11th December + 12th November 2010 Development of Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve Planung fur Rainham Marshes Review_ALEXANDRA STARA. BUILDING DESIGN 19th November 2010 Rainham: Design for London s projects near fruition Documentary Review_OLIVER WAINWRIGHT. ARCHITECTURE TODAY 10th February 2009 On Rainham Marshes Peter Beard_Landroom is constructing a beguiling post-industrial arcadia Critical Review_KEN WORPLE
8. project publications cont d_. BUILDING DESIGN 17th April 2009 Flight Club_RSPB Marshland Discovery Zone Review_ELLIS WOODMAN. ARCHITECTS JOURNAL_4th September 2008 King s Cross Charette Urban Design Workshop. DESPUES DE_AFTERWARDS_Remaking Landscapes_2001 Editorial Gustavo Gili SA, Barcelona _ed. QUIM ROSELL ISBN 84-252-1813-6 Publication of Lorient project. AA FILES no.42_autumn 2000 Constructing Beyond Use Publication of Lorient project + essay. L ARCHITECTURE D AUJOURD HUI_December 1997 Peter Beard Studio Feature on student projects for former USAF base, Upper Heyford _UK. AA FILES no.22_autumn 1992 Work in Progress Light Engine projects. IL PROGETTO IMPOSIBILE_1991 Instituto Gramsci di Parma/Patriche Editrice_Parma Competition Project
9.. Lectures and Conference Presentations. University of Kent [UK] Riverine Conference - June 2014. Barcelona [ES] Centre de Cultura Contemporània - April 2014. Cambridge [US] Graduate School of Design, Harvard University - October 2011. London [UK] Thames Gateway Forum - November 2007. Milan [IT] Domus Academy - March 2007. London [UK] East London Green Grid Forum - December 2006. Würtzburg [DE] International Workshop - August 2000. Stockholm [SE] Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan - February 1999. Paris [FR] Société Française Des Architectes - May 1998. Yokohama [JP] Urban Landscape Seminar - September 1997. Philadelphia [US] School of Design, University of Pennsylvania - September 1994. UK Schools of Architecture. Architectural Association, London. Cambridge University. London Metropolitan University. University of Kent at Canterbury. Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury. Kingston University. De Montfort University, Leicester. Nottingham University. Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Sheffield University *