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Chair: Ted Cullinan CBE, RA, RIBA, HonFRIAS
Ted Cullinan is an inquisitive, inventive and passionate composer and
maker of buildings. He was educated at Cambridge, the Architectural Association and Berkeley.
He worked for Denys Lasdun before setting up his own
practice in 1959 and starting teaching at Cambridge in 1965. Edward Cullinan Architects was established as a co-operative in 1965.
He has taught and examined extensively in this country and abroad,
being awarded five Professorships: Bannister Fletcher Professor at
the Bartlett (1978-79), Graham Willis Visiting Professor at Sheffield
(1985-87), George Simpson Visiting Professor at Edinburgh (1987-90)
and Visiting Professor at MIT (1985). He is currently a visiting
Professor at the University of Nottingham. He has been awarded
Honorary Doctorates at the Universities of Lincolnshire and
Humberside (1996), East London (2000) and Sheffield (2001).
He was awarded a CBE in 1987 for Services to Architecture, elected a
Royal Academician in 1989 and elected an Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland in 1995. In 2005 he was
awarded a Special Commendation at the Prince Philip Designers
Prize, for his outstanding lifetime achievement in design. He has been
an active trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Construction
Industry for Youth Trust, the Building Experiences Trust and the
Koestler Award Trust for art in prisons. With the help of friends and
students he has built six houses, including Gib Tor Farm for his family
in North Staffordshire.
Ted Cullinan was awarded the 2008 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture.
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Vice-Chair: Geoff Wright
Geoff Wright is a town planner and as Birmingham City Councils Head of City Centre Planning during the 1990s he was responsible for visioning change through the cities 'quarter plans'. Following this Geoff established the midlands office for Turley Associates and is now Head of Planning at AIMS Ltd and a CABE Regional Representative. Geoff is a founding member of the Urban Vision Design Review Panel and also sits on the Design Review West Midlands Panel.
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Vice-Chair: Joe Holyoak
Joe Holyoak is an architect and urban designer with his own practice based in Birmingham. He is also the recently appointed Director of the MA in Urban Design at Birmingham School of Architecture, University of Central England. In practice and academia Joes interests are in urban regeneration, architectural conservation, the design, use and management of urban space and19th and 20th century architecture. Joe is a CABE Regional Representative and also sits on the Design Review West Midlands Panel.
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Vice-Chair: Jon Phipps
Jon Phipps is an architect and urban designer and is presently the Director of Urban Design at Lathams. Jon has extensive urban regeneration and masterplanning experience in the public and private sectors across the UK. Recent successfully completed masterplans for industrial and mixed use areas facing change include those for Nottingham Eastside, the Druid Quarter, Hinckley and the Upper Don Valley, Sheffield. Jon is a founding member of the Urban Vision Design Review Panel.
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Vice-Chair: Alistair Sunderland
Alistair joined Austin-Smith:Lord in 1974. An executive Partner based in the Liverpool office, he leads on architecture and interior design, urban design and landscaping projects. In addition to design his project experience includes development strategies, environmental design, master planning, building appraisals and technical briefing. During the past twenty years the quality of his work has been recognised by the RIBA and the Civic Trust with awards for numerous projects. His active project responsibilities include masterplanning, architectural advice and design for museums, schools, FE colleges and universities and for public libraries. His current project experience also encompasses the design and setting of commercial, industrial, cultural, leisure and healthcare buildings. Alistair is variously Chair, Trustee, Council, Board or Panel member with RIBA, Liverpool Urban Design Conservation Advisory Panel, Liverpool Tate, Liverpool Biennial, South Liverpool Housing and RENEW Design Review Panel.
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David Ainsley
David Ainsley is an architect and a Director of Ainsley Gommon Architects based in Liverpool. The practice has a strong reputation for working co-operatively with its clients on a broad range of projects, from education, health and church buildings, leisure, housing and commercial projects to listed building restoration, landscapes and master-planning. David is an RIBA Client Design Advisor and is a founding member of the Urban Vision Design Review Panel.
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Jerry Birkbeck
Jerry Birkbeck is a Landscape Architect and Town Planner with experience in Open Space Design and Guidance, Environmental Enhancement, Landscape Management, Public Enquiries and Community Consultation. He has worked for the London Borough of Southwark, Staffordshire and Warwickshire County Councils and now works as a Consultant. Jerry is currently on the Committee of the Midlands Branch of the Landscape Institute.
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Julian Baker
Julian is an architect and has been with Ellis Williams Architects since 1991 as a Director since 1997. Latterly he has been focussed on developing a series of new FE colleges across the country as part of the LSC Capital Works programme, one of which is to be located in Newcastle-under-Lyme and has been through the Urban Vision Design Review Panel. Julian has received numerous awards for his projects including Lymm Water Tower, De Montfort University, Stroud College and New College Nottingham.
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John Bishop
John Bishop is an architect with considerable academic experience gained whilst teaching at the Manchester University School of Architecture. Since leaving academia in the mid-1990s John has continued to work extensively in the feld of architectural education most recently with CUBE and Places Matter! in the north west.
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Hugh Cannings
Hugh is an architect and urban designer who trained in both the UK and the USA as a Harkness Fellow. Hughs main professional focus has been on large-scale development design ideas and implementation and he has undertaken teaching assignments in both the UK and South Africa. He is the author of Place Making, Place Marking - an approach to urban design.
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Dave Chetwyn
Dave Chetwyn is Head of Planning Aid England with the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and Chairman of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC). Before joining the RTPI, Dave spent 17 years working in planning and urban regeneration in local Government, specialising in design and heritage-led regeneration. He has also helped to develop and deliver training programmes and adult education for CABE, the Civic Trust and Keele University. Dave has been involved with various national steering groups, sounding-boards, stakeholder groups, panels and parliamentary select committees concerned with regeneration, planning, heritage protection, and State Aid. He has MAs in Town Planning and Architectural History.
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Francis Colella
Francis is a landscape architect and has headed his own Staffordshire based practice FFC Landscape Architects since 1986. Francis has been involved in large scale land restoration projects for the Coal Authority as well as work for various Health Authorities and a range of housing, industrial, retail and commercial project.
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Annie Coombs
Annie Coombs is a charted landscape architect, Fellow of the Landscape Institute and has a postgraduate planning qualification. She spent 15 years in Asia as a managing director of an environmental practice and was responsible for a wide range of landscape implementation, master planning and policy work. She is now a CABE Space enabler and is also involved in brief-writing for London’s Olympic Parklands and Public Realm. Annie is a past member and Chair of the LI Technical and Environment Committee.
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Rosemary Coyne
Rosemary is a landscape architect by training and has worked in the development of new communities and regeneration for the last 15 years. Her particular area of specialism is sustainability and shewas recnetly the Eastside Sustainability Advisor working for Groundwork Birmingham seconded to Birmingham City Councils Eastside Team
and has recently moved to work for Advantage West Midlands
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Bob Crombie
Bob Crombie is the Innovation and Development Advisor with the Housing Corporation in the West Midlands.
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Caroline Foxhall
Caroline Foxhall is currently the Director of External Relations and Development at Arts Council England, based in Birmingham.
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Bob Ghosh
An architect working since 1992, Bob was a co-founder of Kinetic AIU in 2003 having previously worked at Glenn Howels Architects where he was responsible for the award winning Timber Wharf development for Urban Splash. Bob states that his motive to join the Design Review Panel is to 'challenge convention and oppose mediocrity, promoting the argument that even low-cost buildings are no excuse to permit ill-conceived design and accept poor quality.'
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Hilary Hughes
A stage designer by training Hilary was a founder of B Arts in 1985 and became closely involved with Welfare State International in the same year. Hilary has worked extensively on large scale projects that have significatly contributed to the transformation of urban communities . To date she has worked in Denmark, italy, Germany, Belgium, Romania, Hungary, Bosnia, France and New Zealand.
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Chris Jones
Chris is a planner and urban designer and is currently a principal planner at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. He is a former Chair of the West Midlands RTPI Urban Design Forum.
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Dryden McNair-Lewis
Dryden is an architect and urban designer with Stoke-on-Trents largest practice Hulme Upright Manning
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Noha Nasser
Noha trained as an architect and is now Director of the new national Centre for Urban Design Outreach and Skills (CUDOS) at Birmingham City University. She is an external examiner on the MSc Urban Design at Edinburgh College of Art, and the MA Urban Design at both the University of West of England and Newcastle University. Noha isCo-Chair for the Design Review Panel for Urban Living and sits on the Design Review West Midlands Panel.
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Kevan Spink
Kevan is a qualified urban designer working for the City Design Team at Birmingham City Council. He has worked for a number of local authorities and is also a chartered landscape architect. He has extensive urban and landscape design experience that includes masterplanning, producing design guidance, development and competition briefs, townscape character appraisal, public realm strategies and detailed design. Kevan has been a written examiner for the Landscape Institute’s professional practice paper and is a former treasurer of the north-west branch of the Landscape I.
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Michael Taylor
Michael is the Historic Areas Advisor for English Heritage in the West Midlands region. He is a Town Planner and Conservationist with extensive experience gained predominantly in local government. Prior to joining English Heritage in 2000 he was conservation officer for Leicester City Council. Michael also sits on the Design Review West Midlands Panel.
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Tony Whitehead
Tony is an architect with 30 years varied experience in private practice, local and central government and as an urban designer regenerating post-Industrial cities for a development corporation. Tony is also a CABE Enabler and has been enabling education projects in the West Midlands. He has also developed a DQI tool and as a construction client (as well as practitioner) has extensive experience working with construction stakeholder bodies such as Constructing Excellence. Tony’s interests relevant to UVNS are housing design, conservation and regeneration, urban design and landscape, and construction innovation – particularly sustainable design
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Noëlle Wright
Noëlle is an Architect with 30 years experience in the public and private sectors as both client and consultant. Her work has focussed on complex public buildings and specialised in transportation projects, acting in 2006 as Independent Verifier to the Department of Transport on the new Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport. Noelle has been a visiting tutor to the School of Planning, UCE and the School of Architecture at the University of Manchester, where she also held an Elective in ‘Built Form in the Landscape’. Noëlle is presently Head of Architecture at Atkins' Birmingham office.
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