msa Manchester School of Architecture

Staff / Dr Nick Dunn

Principal Lecturer

0161 247 6967

n.dunn@mmu.ac.uk

Nick is Director of Studies, Graduate Programmes and Programme Leader for the BArch Bachelor of Architecture. He, along with Richard Brook, leads the research-by-design unit: [Re_Map], whose research is concerned with the mapping and representation of urban networks, data and conditions. He also lectures and teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the School as well as supervising and examining postgraduate research at MA by Research and PhD level.

Nick is a founding member of 'team-bau', an architectural think-tank and research unit. team-bau research and explore the infrastructures of the contemporary recycled city as a multi-layered landscape, via international design competitions and collaborative external partnerships. Since 2007 he has also been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Nick's doctorate thesis, 'The Ecology of the Architectural Model' is concerned with developing a new methodology and system of diagrams with which to study and map the design behaviour of architecture students and therefore contributes to the understanding of the complex process of design. Awarded his PhD in 2005, which was funded by the AHRB, it has since been published as a book. His MA research explored urban fragments and investigated the nature of architecture based on two distinct themes: ‘city and space’ and ‘interior and place’.

His primary research interests are in the fields of visualisation, modelling, mapping, networks, representation in architecture, landscape and urbanism. Interdisciplinary in nature, his work explores the interstices of architecture, urbanism, geography, economics, politics, design and the visual arts. He is a Peer Reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences, most recently: www.fabricate2011.org He is also a member of the Urban Geography Research Group.

Research

Exhibitions

Dunn, N., 2010. Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, 14 May - 10 July 2010.

Dunn, N. and Brook, R., 2009. Shaping the Future: Heritage Open Days, Town Hall, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, 10-13 September 2009.

team-bau, 2009. State Legacy, Cornerhouse and Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester, 2nd April - 8th May 2009.

Stone, S. Dunn, N., 2006. Interventions, CUBE, 16/06/06 - 16/09/06.

Stone, S. Crompton, A. Dunn, N., 2005. CMI National Competitiveness Summit 2005, GMEX, October 2005.

Artefacts

Brook, R., Chung M., Dunn, N. & Tyson, N., 2008. 'bar_cycle', Competition entry.

Brook, N., Chung, M., Dunn, N. & Tyson, N., 2007. 'Silt City', Competition entry.

Books

Dunn, N., 2010. 'Architectural Modelmaking', Laurence King.

Dunn, N., 2007. 'The Ecology of the Architectural Model', Peter Lang.

Jointly Authored Book

Brook, R. and Dunn, N., 2011. 'Urban Maps: Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City', Ashgate, Farnham, UK.

Edited Books

Brook, R. and Dunn, N., 2009. 'Isolative Urbanism: an ecology of control', bauprint.

Book Chapters

Brook, R. and Dunn, N., 2009. 'The Control of Space: mediating fear in the urban condition.'. In Isolative Urbanism, 1, 7-14, bauprint, Manchester.

Journal Articles

Dunn, N., 2011. 'Infrastructural Urbanism: Ecologies and Technologies of Multi-Layered Landscapes', Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, 1, 1, pp.87-96.

Dunn, N., 2010. 'Hybrid Modes of Inquiry - [Re]Mapping the Nature of the Design Studio in Architecture Education', Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, 4, 2, pp.39-46.

Presentations

Brook, R. and Dunn, N., 2011. 'Data Mining: Abstract Urban Topographies', Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2011: The Geographical Imagination, Royal Geographical Society and Imperial College, London, 31 August - 2 September 2011.

Dunn, N., 2011. 'Living on the edge: cultural proximities, social peripheries and spatial margins', Architectural Humanities Research Association 2011: Peripheries, Queen's University, Belfast, 27-29 October 2011.

Dunn, N., 2010. 'Digital Networks: between open source mobility and closed loop assemblages', Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2010: Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment, Royal Geographical Society and Imperial College, London, 1-3 September 2010.

Dunn, N., 2010. 'Infrastructural Urbanism: Ecologies and Technologies of Multi-Layered Landscapes', Spaces & Flows: the Inaugural International Conference on Urban & ExtraUrban Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 4-5 December 2010.

Dunn, N., 2010. 'Mapping Interstices: understanding urban conditions through the lived experience of societal margins in contemporary film', Once Upon A Place: Haunted Houses & Imaginary Cities, 1st International Conference on Architecture and Fiction, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian & Museu da Electricidade, 12-14 October 2010.

Dunn, N. and Lotz, K., 2009. 'A Controversy in the Move.', Visualization of Controversies, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 14-15 May, 2009.

Yaneva, A., Dunn, N., and Heaphy, L., 2009. 'Mapping Architectural Controversies: An Enquiry on the Aesthetics of Matters of Concern', Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2009: Geography, Knowledge and Society, University of Manchester, 26-28 August 2009.

Dunn, N., 2009. 'Models in Architecture Education: an ecological approach', IASDR 2009, The 3rd Conference of International Association of Societies of Design Research: Design Rigor & Relevance, Coex, 159 Samseong dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-731, South Korea, 18-22 October 2009, in IASDR 2009 Proceedings, pp.3715-3718.

Dunn, N. and Brook, R., 2009. 'The City and The Control of Space', Metropolitan Desires: Cultural Reconfigurations of the European City Space, Manchester Metropolitan University, 8-9 September 2009.

Dunn, N., 2009. 'The Ecology of Architectural Models.', 4th International Forum on Architectural Education: Flexibility in Architectural Education, Faculty of Architecture, Erciyes University, Kayseri, 26-29 May 2009, in Architectural Education Forum IV.

Other Outputs

Brook, R., Chung, M., Dunn, N., Tyson, T., 2011. 'Emerge: Spatial Design Report', Commissioned report into formal design solutions for east Manchester recycling cooperative.

Dunn, N. and Brook, R., 2011. '[Re_Map]: the image of the urban landscape', Co-chaired conference session at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2011: The Geographical Imagination.

Tyson, N., Brook, R., Chung, M., & Dunn, N., 2009. 'Design Briefing Report for EMERGE Recycling Manchester'.

Yaneva, A., Dunn, N., & Heaphy, L., 2009. 'MApping COntroversies on Science for POLitics (MACOSPOL): Designing the space of controversies'.