We are happy to present the conference key note speakers: Professor Isabelle Doucet and Senior lecturer Karl Kropf !
Biography of Isabelle Doucet
Isabelle
Doucet is a Professor of Theory and History of Architecture at Chalmers University
of Technology, Sweden. Previously she was based at the University of
Manchester, Manchester School of Architecture, and has also taught at
universities in Belgium, Italy, Germany, and The Netherlands. Her research
focuses on the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and social
responsibility in architecture. She is particularly interested in the
relationship between architecture and urban politics in the 1970s and the repercussions
of architecture's "post-political" turn. She examines such questions
through both conceptual-methodological inquiries and historical and
contemporary cases.
Isabelle’s
books include The Practice Turn in Architecture. Brussels after
1968 (2015) and the co-edited volume Transdisciplinary
Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism (2011, with N.
Janssens). She recently co-edited the thematic issue “Resist Reclaim Speculate.
Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City” (Architectural Theory Review,
2018, with H. Frichot) and had previously co-edited thematic issues for Footprint
Journal and Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge. Isabelle’s
research has been widely published in journals including Architecture &
Culture, Architectural Theory Review, Oase Journal of
Architecture, City Culture and Society, and the Journal of Educational
Administration and History; and in edited volumes, such as the recently
published Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement (Routledge
2018). In 2018-2019, Isabelle was also a researcher for the Mellon
Multidisciplinary Research Project called Architecture and/for the Environment,
coordinated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Biography of Karl Kropf
Karl Kropf is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Historic
Conservation at Oxford Brookes University and Director of Built Form Resource,
an urban design, landscape and heritage consultancy. He has combined academic
research in urban morphology, teaching and practice in urban design for many
years with the aim of ensuring one benefits that other. In practice he has
worked in the UK, USA and France, including a time in the urban design team at
Skidmore Owings and Merrill in San Francisco and as Conservation and Design
Officer at Stratford-on-Avon District Council. His practice work includes urban
extensions and regeneration down to small urban infill.
Research projects include translating the results of morphological
analysis into design codes, developing computational tools for master planning
and establishing a repository of urban tissue. More recently, he has been
involved in collaborative research on street networks and route structure
analysis. Karl is Associate Editor of the journal Urban Morphology and
his Handbook of Urban Morphology was published in autumn 2017 by John
Wiley.