Lisa is an ARB-registered architect and tutor at the Manchester School of Architecture’s Infrastructure Space atelier. She currently works as a Historic Places Adviser at Historic England. Her practice experience includes masterplanning, commercial and residential design as well as specialist work in drama and TV studios. 

Lisa’s PhD research concerned the history of post-war telephone exchange buildings and relationships between architecture, technology and the state. She previously completed a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism followed by a Masters in Architecture at the MSA.

Research

‘The Telephone Exchange 1945-1981: The State, Official Architecture and Technology’. PhD thesis, Lancaster University, 2025.

‘Learning by Doing: Student Experience at the Property Services Agency’ paper presented at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference, 2025.

‘Crossed Wires: The production of telephone exchange buildings in the UK (1945-1981)’ paper presented at the Production Studies International Conference, 2024.

‘The Architecture of Telephone Exchange Buildings’, article in the ITP Journal 17(2), 2023.

‘Beyond the Operator: The women connecting the welfare state’ paper presented at the Visions of Welfare conference, co-hosted by Women of the Welfare Landscape Project, the SAHGB, and the Women in Danish Architecture, 2023.

‘Owned not by the Crown’, article in the Modernist Magazine, issue #45, 2022. 

‘All [ex]Change: Re-using the Lee Circle telephone exchange’ paper presented at the SAHGB’s Annual Architectural History Symposium for PhD Scholars and Early Career Researchers, 2022.