Newcastle University

Research Roles

APL Deputy Director of Research

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome inquiries from students who are interested in pursuing doctoral study by creative practice or by written thesis on topics related to the fields of architectural history and theory, visual culture, or design pedagogy.

Current:

Aikaterini Antonopoulou, 'From Digital Creations of Space to Analogous Experiences of Places'.
Sophia Banou, 'The Kinematography of a City'.
Lily Ford, 'Keeping an Eye on the View: Aerial Images and Their Makers' (London Consortium).
Fiona Hanley, 'Writing Languages of Inquiry' (University of Edinburgh).
Stavros Melissinopoulos, 'Architectural Pedagogy at the Extremes' (University of Edinburgh).
Catalina Mejia Moreno, 'Encounters with the Building: The Role of Experience in Architectural Criticism'.
Matt Ozga-Lawn, 'Revealing Design: A Dialogic Approach Through Exhibition Methodology'.
Tijana Stevanovic, 'Spatial Improvisations in New Belgrade'.
Yue Zhuang, 'Et in Arcadia Ego: Landscape Theory and the Funereal Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (University of Edinburgh)

Recently Completed: 

Ching-Pin Tseng, 'Redrawing Taiwanese Identities After Martial Law: Text, Space and Hybridity in the Post-Colonial Condition' (University of Edinburgh). 

Esteem Indicators

Selected international visiting positions:

Visiting Professor, Tianjin University, China, 2011 – present.
Guest critic, 5th Doctoral Peer Review Colloquium, TU Delft, Holland, April 2010.
Guest critic, Doctoral Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, Feb 2010.
Visiting lecturer and critic, Cooper Union, New York, USA, Feb 2010.
Visiting critic, School of Architecture of the Arts Institute of Chicago (SAAIC), USA, Feb 2010.
Visiting professor (MSc in Design Research), University of Michigan, USA, Feb 2010.
Visiting lecturer and critic, University of Queensland, Australia, August 2007.
Visiting critic, University of Pretoria, South Africa, November 2006.
Visiting lecturer and critic, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, April 2005.
Visiting lecturer and critic, UdK Summer Academy / Programme for Urban Processes, Berlin, July – August 2002.
Visiting lecturer and critic, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, April 2002.
Visiting Scholar, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, April – August, 2000.
Visiting lecturer and critic, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, May 2000.
Visiting lecturer and critic, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, May 1999.
Gilmour Visiting Lectureship in Architectural Theory, University of Calgary, Canada, September 1998.

Selected invited lectures and seminars:

‘Clouds of Architecture’, University of Michigan, USA, 12 February 2010 (public lecture, available at: vimeo.com/17819101).
'Warszawa: Projects for the Post-Socialist City', University of Michigan, USA, 10 February 2010.
‘Tracking the City: Approaches to Warsaw’, Urban Change in Eastern and Central Europe: Social, Cultural and Architectural Transformations, Vilnius University, Lithuania, 12 December 2008.
‘Metis: 4 Projects’, CITUR2008, 2nd International Forum – City, Territory and Urbanism, Santiago de Compostella, Spain, 3-5 December 2008 (plenary).
‘Euphoria and Vertigo Beside the Thames: Two Aerial Views’, Eyes Over London: Reimagining the Metropolis in the Age of Aerial Vision, University of Westminster/Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 15 November 2008 (keynote).
‘Vertigo and Transparency’, The Aerial View, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 13 October 2008.
‘The London Eye: Aeriality, Spectacle and the “Exhibitionary Complex”’, Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, 30 May 2008.
‘Stealth, Monstrosity, and the Grotesque’, Department of Critical and Historical Studies lecture series: Fantasy and the Grotesque, Royal College of Art, London, 31 January, 2008.
‘Diagrams, Miniatures and the Aerial View’, University of Chicago Center in Paris, 8 December, 2007.
‘Google Earth: Beyond the Picturesque’, The Picturesque and Beyond: Landscape and Modernity, Gent Urban Studies Team/SMAK, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium, 30 November, 2007.
‘Google Earth: Terrestrial Mediatization’, Media Architecture, Central Saint Martins Innovation, London, 12 September, 2007 (plenary).
‘Clouds of Architecture’, Radical Philosophy Biennial Conference: Materials and Materialisms, Birkbeck College, University of London, 12 May 2007.
‘The Wheel and the Dome’, Alice B Kaplan Humanities Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, 6 May, 2005.
‘Of Skulls and Stealth: the Image of the New Military Technology’, Department of German, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, 5 May, 2005
‘How the World Sees London’, The Clark Art Institute Annual Conference: Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, Williamstown, USA, 29 April 2005 (plenary).
‘Working through Representations’ (3 seminars), Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence, USA, 20-22 April, 2005.
‘Metis: Recent Work’, Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence, USA, 22 April, 2005.
‘Landscapes and Politics’, École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Versailles, France, 10 February, 2004.
‘Paysage urbain et changement des regards: le cas de la photographie aérienne’, Séminaire paysage urbain: genèse, représentations, enjeux contemporains, CNRS, Paris, France, 6 February 2004.

Honorary committee positions:

International scientific committee, Les carnets du paysage.
Scientific committee, Modi Operandi (book series, TU Delft).
International advisory board, Architectural Theory Review.
International advisory board, SARCHA (School of Architecture for All, Athens).
Editorial committee, Thresholds (MIT).
Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.
Steering group, 2010-11 Andrew W Mellon Foundation John E Sawyer Seminar: 'Embodied Values: Bringing the Senses Back to the Environment', IASH.
Editorial committee, Edinburgh Architecture Research.
Management Group, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2008-2010.
Member of first Steering Group, Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), 2003-2008.
Royal Institute of British Architects Education Awards Dissertation Judging Panel, 2004.

Metis – selected invited exhibitions etc:

Finalist, Cultural Centre competition, Northwich (2009):
(europaconcorsi.com/people/2144637786-metis/projects).
Special invitation to exhibit, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, 9 June-17 August, 2008.
'Northroom' (multimedia installation, with Victoria Clare Bernie) exhibited by invitation in The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 17 May-1 June, 2007; Il Palaggio di Parte Guelfa, Florence, 12-25 March, 2007; The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 1 December 2006-4 March, 2007.
Scottish Executive and Lighthouse commission for Venice Architecture Biennale, 2006.
One of 25 European architecture practices competitively selected by a committee led by Claude Parent for inclusion in the book 'Emergence 4: Transmutations - European Architecture', 2006.
'Laputa' (installation), commissioned and exhibited by The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 12 August-2 October, 2005.
'The Parachute Pavilion' (project), exhibited in the Van Alen Institute, New York, 2005
'Metis: Urban Cartographies' (retrospective exhibition), Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Matthew Architecture Gallery, University of Edinburgh, 7 August-10 October, 2003.
'Metis: Urban Cartographies' (retrospective exhibition), BEB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, 16-26 April, 2002.
'Mimetic Urbanism' (project), exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia: 7a. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, 18 June-29 October, 2000.
Britannia Basin housing (project), Cube Gallery, Manchester, 9 April-28 May, 1999
Latitude and Longitude Resolved (installation), Pitshanger Manor, London, 12 June- 24 July, 1998.

Other:

Commission by BBC of a series of programmes for Radio 3's 'The Essay', based on my paper ‘Clouds of Architecture’, published in Radical Philosophy 144. Programmes 1 and 5 were authored and read by Mark Dorrian; programmes 2, 3 and 4 authored and read by Steve Connor, Esther Leslie and Robert Harbison. Broadcast between 23-27 February 2009.
Manuscript reviewing for publishers:TU Delft (2011), University of Chicago Press (2008), Ashgate (2007, 2008), Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne (2007), Taylor and Francis / Routledge (2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010).
Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) nomination for excellence in teaching, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.

Funding

British Academy/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: Joint Project Grant, 2006-2008 (The Aerial View: Spatial Knowledges and Spatial Practices).
Scottish Executive/Lighthouse (Glasgow): Biennale Award, 2006.
Arts and Humanities Research Board: Research Leave Award, 2004-2005 (The Cultures of Aberrant Form: Monstrosity, Vision and Language )
Scottish Policy on Architecture: National Programme Innovation Award, 2004 (Six Cities: Narrative, Mediatisation and Performativity).
Graham Foundation (Chicago): Production Grant, 2002 (Landscapes and Politics).
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal): Visiting Scholarship, 2000 (Baroque Deformation).

• Dorrian M. Clouds of Architecture: Essays on the City, Visual Culture, and the Politics of the Image. London: I B Tauris, 2013. In Preparation.
• Dorrian M, Graham S. Dronosphere: Verticality, Robots and the Geopolitics of Security. Oakland, California: PM Press, 2012. In Preparation.
• Dorrian M. Atmosphere and Distance. Journal of Architectural Education 2013. In Press.
• Dorrian M. Architecture Regulated. Architecture Research Quarterly 2012. In Press.
• Dorrian M, Pousin F, ed. Seeing From Above: The Aerial View in Visual Culture. London: IB Tauris, 2012. In Preparation.
• Dorrian M. Utopia on the Rocks: Dubai's Sunny Mountain Ski-Dome as an Allegory of the Future. Cabinet 2012. Submitted.
• Dorrian M, Pousin F, ed. Vues Aériennes: Seize études pour une histoire culturelle. Geneva: Metis Presses, 2012.
• Dorrian M. The Resilience of Ruins. In: Pamphlet Architecture 32: Stasus – Resilience. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. In Press.
• Dorrian M. Voice, Monstrosity and Flaying: Anish Kapoor's Marsyas as a Silent Sound Work. Architectural Theory Review 2012, 17(1), 93-104.
• Dorrian M. Adventure on the Vertical: Powers of Ten and the Mastery of Space by Vision. Cabinet 2012, 44, 17-23.
• Dorrian M. On Google Earth. In: Jazairy, E.H, ed. New Geographies 4, Scales of the Earth. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Harvard University Press, 2011, pp.164-170.
• Dorrian M. Falling Upon Warsaw: The Shadow of the Palace of Culture. The Journal of Architecture: 'Warsaw: Tracking the City', Dorrian, M., Chmielewska, E., (eds.) 2010, 15(1), 87-104.
• Dorrian M. Imaginarios cartográficos: arquitectura, representación y transformación urbana. Apuntes sobre 4 proyectos de Metis. In: Alfaya, L.G., Muniz, P, ed. La ciudad, le nuevo global. Santiago de Compostella: Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia et al, 2010.
• Dorrian M. Introduction. The Journal of Architecture: 'Warsaw: Tracking the City', Dorrian, M., Chmielewska, E., (eds.) 2010, 15(1), 1-6.
• Dorrian M. Architecture and A-disciplinarity. In: Leach, A., Macarthur, J, ed. Architecture, Disciplinarity, and the Arts. Gent: A&S, 2009, pp.193-205.
• Dorrian M. The Aerial Image: Vertigo, Transparency and Miniaturization. Parallax 2009, 15(4), 215-225.
• Dorrian M. Black Meteorology – Peter Sloterdijk, Terror from the Air. Radical Philosophy 2009, 158, 55-57.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Cultural Centre, Northwich. 2009. http://europaconcorsi.com/people/2144637786-metis/projects: Europaconcorsi (Rome), Finalist in international competition.
• Dorrian M. Warszawa: Projects for the Post-socialist City. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2009.
• Dorrian M. ‘How the World Sees London’: Thoughts on a Millennial Urban Spectacle. In: Vidler, A, ed. Architecture Between Spectacle and Use. New Haven: Yale University Press/Clark Art Institute, 2008, pp.41-57.
• Dorrian M. Transcoded Indexicality. Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City 2008, 12, 105-115.
• Dorrian M. The Aerial View: Notes for a Cultural History. STRATES: Matériaux pour la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 2007, Paysage urbain: genèse, représentations, enjeux contemporains(13), 105-118.
• Dorrian M. Clouds of Architecture. Radical Philosophy 2007, (144), 26-32.
• Rendell J, Hill J, Fraser M, Dorrian M, ed. Critical Architecture. London: Routledge, 2007.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Metis: The Parachute Pavilion. 2007. In: Ryan Z and Cohen-Litant J ed., Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, Competition entry.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Northroom; Laputa; and The Cabinet of the City. 2007. Rivista di Architetture, Città e Architetti (Firenze), 8: 26, 46-49, Three architectural projects (drawings, models, constructions, photographs).
• Dorrian M. Cityscape with Ferris Wheel: Chicago, 1893. In: Lindner, C, ed. Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2006, pp.17-37.
• Dorrian M. The King and the City: On the Iconology of George IV in Edinburgh. Edinburgh Architecture Research 2006, 30, 32-36.
• Dorrian M. Something Strange and Rather Wonderful in Portlaoise. Architecture Ireland 2006, 222, 50.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Laputa: A Construction. 2006. made, 6, 68-69: Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture, Architectural installation commissioned by The Lighthouse, Glasgow.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Metis: Mark Dorrian + Adrian Hawker – Great Egyptian Museum (2003), Nam June Paik Gallery (2003), Irish World Performing Arts Centre (2004). 2006. In: Parent, C, ed. Emergence 4: Transmutations – European Architecture: Paris: Pyramyd, Metis were one of 25 practices competitively selected from across Europe for inclusion in this book.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A, Bernie V. Northroom. 2006. In: Bain, M ed. The Northern City: Between Light and Dark, Glasgow:The Lighthouse, 10-29, Commissioned installation/artwork.
• Dorrian M. Architecture’s Cartographic Turn. In: Pousin, F, ed. Figures de la Ville et Construction des Savoirs: Architecture, Urbanisme, Geographie. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2005, pp.61-72.
• Dorrian M. Criticism, negation, action. The Journal of Architecture 2005, 10(3), 229-233.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Metis: Nam June Paik museum. 2005. Architecture and Ideas 5(1) (Toronto): 82-89.
• Dorrian M. Mark Dorrian on 9/11, three years on. Architecture Research Quarterly 2004, 8(1), 83-88.
• Dorrian M. The Breath on the Mirror: On Ruskin’s Theory of the Grotesque. In: Pérez-Gómez, A., Parcell, S, ed. Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture. Montreal: McGill/Queens Press, 2003, pp.25-48.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. The Tortoise, the Scorpion and the Horse - Partial Notes on Architectural Research / Teaching / Practice. The Journal of Architecture 2003, 8(2), 181-190.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Metis: Urban Cartographies - Mapping as an Architectural Strategy. Arca: The Journal of Scottish Architecture 2003, 2(3), 14-18.
• Dorrian M. Of Skulls and Stealth: Reflections on the Image of the New Military Technology. Journal of Narrative Theory 2003, 33(1), 98-111.
• Dorrian M, Rose G, ed. Deterritorialisations... Revisioning Landscapes and Politics. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Grand Egyptian Museum. 2003. The Grand Egyptian Museum: The Book of the International Architectural Competition, 465-466: Cairo: American University Press, Competition project.
• Dorrian M, Hawker A. Metis: Urban Cartographies. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2002.
• Dorrian M. On Some Spatial Aspects of the Colonial Discourse on Ireland. The Journal of Architecture 2001, 6(1), 27-51.
• Dorrian M. Surplus Matter: of Scars, Scrolls, Skulls and Stealth. In: Hill, J, ed. An Other Architecture: the Subject is Matter. London: Routledge, 2001, pp.193-206.
• Dorrian M. Neil Leach (ed.), Architecture and Revolution. Architectural Heritage: The Journal of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland 2000, XII, 91-93.
• Dorrian M. On the Monstrous and the Grotesque. Word & Image 2000, 16(3), 310-317.
• Dorrian M. Joseph Rykwert. The Dancing Column. Architectural Heritage: The Journal of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland 1999, XII, 98-102.
• Dorrian M. The Middle Distance: On the Photography of Patricia Macdonald. KATALOG: Journal of Photography and Video 1999, 11(2), 2-11.
• Dorrian M. Mephistopheles’ Mirror. In: Faust: An Exhibition of Drawings. Edinburgh: Alan McGowan, 1998, pp.2-6.
• Dorrian M. Monstrosity Today. Artifice 1996, 5, 28-59.
• Dorrian M. Neil Denari: Recent Projects. Artifice 1994, 1, 9-24.