Events

MULTISTORY* Guest lecture
Richard Beckett



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Thursday 18 November 2021
6 PM

PROBIOTIC DESIGN
Richard Beckett

Richard is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Bioaugmented Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is Co-Director of Research Cluster 7 on the BPro Architectural Design master’s programme and leads Studio 3 on the Landscape Architecture course. His research is focused on design operating at the intersection of computation, biofabrication, and microbial ecologies in buildings and cities. His research on Probiotic Design won the RIBA Presidents Medal for Research in 2021. He has built numerous projects and has been exhibited internationally including Archilab–Naturalising Architecture, The Pompidou Centre and Nature – Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

MULTISTORY* is a student and alumni led guest lecture programme series at Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts, seeking to invite architects, designers, writers, curators, photographers and artists to speak about their work.

MULTISTORY* lectures run from 18:00 – 19:00 on Thursday evenings in the Architecture Foyer at UCA Canterbury, unless otherwise stated. Details for each event are posted here in advance. Follow us on twitter https://twitter.com/cantarch to keep up to date on additions to the programme.