Visual Research Methods in Architecture

About

Igea Troiani (PhD) is a trained architect academic and filmmaker who is a professor of architecture at the University of Plymouth. She graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and since 1996 has taught research-led design and history and theory in schools of architecture in Australia China and the United Kingdom. Igea produces books and publications buildings art exhibitions and architectural films as research outputs. Working mostly in academia now she uses exhibitions as a mode of research and dissemination writes theory as film and makes films on architectural production under her production company Caryatid Films. She is founder and editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary award-winning journal Architecture and Culture that publishes exploratory research that is purposively imaginative rigorously speculative visually and verbally stimulating. Suzanne Ewing is Professor of Architectural Criticism at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland and director of Zone Architects. Her publications include Architecture and Field/Work (2011) and she is co-editor of the award-winning journal Architecture and Culture.