Urban Renaissance Manchester
An International Conference
23-26 April 2009
Panelist Biographies
Richard Brook — Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture. Richard schooled at Manchester and studied aspects of the city’s architecture at undergraduate and post-graduate level. He is Head of BA2, co-directs a B[Arch] unit concerned with the mapping and representation of space and is part of a team delivering a Masters course in Architecture and Urbanism. Richard is in the midst of a research project part funded by the RIBA Modern Architecture and Town Planning Trust concerning modern and modernist architecture and planning in the Manchester conurbation. He has recently authored a guide to 95 Twentieth Century buildings, which is scheduled for publication December 2009. Richard is an active member of the Twentieth Century Society and has made contributions to various journals, composed from elements of his current research. He also directs and maintains the image archive “manctransit” a visual bank of functional and industrial artefacts.
Ian Caldwell — Director of Estates and Facilities, King’s College London and Chairman of the Higher Education Design Quality Forum.
Ian is a chartered architect, graduating from Strathclyde University in 1977. His early career included experience in private practice, local government and central Government. In 1989 Ian joined Deloitte where he carried out project and property assignments for a number of major clients in both the public and private sectors. In 1991 he was appointed Director of Estates and Services at Sheffield Hallam University.
In 1993, Ian became Director of Estates at Imperial College London where he was responsible for overseeing their substantial development programme and expansion of the estate with academic mergers. Projects included new bio-medical teaching and laboratory facilities, extension of the libraries, a new combined heat and power plant, a new music and arts centre. Ian has since joined King’s College London in February and is responsible for an extensive refurbishment programme for teaching, research, residential and social facilities.
Ian is also Chairman of the Higher Education Quality Design Forum.
Eamonn Canniffe — Principal Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He was born in Manchester in 1960 and was educated in Architecture at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. In 1996 he held a Rome Scholarship in the Fine Arts at the British School at Rome. Between 1986 and 1998 he taught at the University of Manchester School of Architecture, and between 1998 and 2006 at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He is the author of 'Urban Ethic: Design in the Contemporary City' (Routledge 2006) and 'The Politics of the Piazza: the history and meaning of the Italian square' (Ashgate 2008). He is co-author (with Tom Jefferies) of 'Manchester Architecture Guide' (1999) and (with Peter Blundell Jones) of 'Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945-1990' (Architectural Press 2007). Future publications include the editing of 'The City Past and Present: Global perspectives on urban history and change' (Ashgate 2009). He has recently been appointed as Architecture Series Editor for Ashgate Publishing.
Dana Carlson — Sales and Marketing Manager for Solatube Global Marketing, Inc. Dana has worked for the company for 6 years, and is responsible for Product Sales and Marketing, Product Education, New and Current Distributor Business Development and Branding. Dana is an active member of the International Trade Advisory Board and American Marketing Association and World Trade Center, San Diego.
Dana Carlson is a graduate of the University of San Diego with a dual degree in International Business and Spanish.
David Cockram, B.Sc C Eng., M.I.C.E — National Facilities Officer, British Cycling Federation As a former professional cyclist, Dave’s job as the National Facilities Officer for British Cycling allows him to combine his engineering experience with his hobby. As the National Facilities Officer, Dave has managed a national programme of cycle sport facility building and refurbishment that includes the rebuilding of seven outdoor velodromes, construction of eight closed road racing circuits, and construction of a number of bmx tracks.
Dave is currently engaged in a four year capital programme of cycle sport facility construction that will provide 40 new cycle sport facilities in the UK by March 2013. He consults on new velodrome designs and is currently assisting with the London Olympic Velodrome, a new velodrome in Glasgow, Scotland, and further improvements to the Manchester Velodrome.
Prior to joining British Cycling six years ago, Dave worked as a bridge and motorway engineer for the Lancashire County Council, Howard Humphreys, and Mouchel.
Kathryn Firth — An architect and urban designer, she is a Senior Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF). She has worked on a range of masterplanning and urban regeneration projects in the USA, Europe and the UK.
Kathryn has also been involved in highly topical research projects that inform both the practice of urban design and associated policy. These include a study of the spatial and social dynamics of streets in smaller cities and towns, and a separate study looking at urban density and how its affects neighbourhood perception. She has contributed articles to magazines such as Topos European Landscape Magazine, Regeneration Magazine and Stedebouw & Ruimtelijke Ordening.
Kathryn has consistently balanced practice with teaching. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Architectural Association. She ran the MSc City Design and Social Science programme at the LSE Cities Programme for 6 years. Prior to coming to the UK she taught at several universities in Canada and the US, including the GSD at Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, North-Eastern University and the University of Toronto.
Tim Gale — Senior Vice President Head of Landscape, Planning and Urban Design, HOK
Tim leads the team in HOK’s London office which focuses on the planning and design of the external environment. This covers a wide range of projects throughout the UK and Europe including master plans for Birmingham Eastside, part of the West End of London, a major redevelopment in central Brussels and recently Dublin Airport City.
During a long and distinguished career Tim has carried out a wide range of projects from landscape planning of new towns in the Middle East and Hong Kong; through Business Parks and commercial projects in Britain, France and Italy; environmental assessment work in Britain and France; to public realm projects including parks and public spaces.
Tim is a recent President of the Landscape Institute and was chair of the Urban Design Alliance — UDAL; he was a member of the Urban Green Spaces Task Force. He was appointed to the newly formed South East England Design Panel in 2001 and is on the Steering Group of CABE Space
Tom Goldthorpe — Senior Associate in the Manchester office of Denton Corker Marshall. Tom joined DCM in 2005 as the Site Architect on the Manchester Civil Justice Centre and is now responsible for the day to day running of projects from the Manchester Office that was established in 2007 following the completion of the Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
Keith Hamilton — Associate Director of Stephenson Bell
Stephen R Hodder, MBE BA(Hons), BArch(dist), DArts, RIBA, FRSA Stephen Hodder has been in practice since 1983 and in 1992 formed Hodder Associates that won the Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming Pool in Lancashire later that year. Shortly afterwards he won a limited competition to extend Arne Jacobsen’s Grade I Listed St Catherine’s College in Oxford and established a client relationship that has now extended for some 16 years. In 1996 Hodder Associates received the most important award in British Architecture for a single building, the inaugural Stirling Prize for Architecture for the Centenary Building, University of Salford. Stephen has written and lectured widely, has been a visiting examiner at a number of schools of architecture and was until recently the visiting professor at the Birmingham School of Architecture
Stephen Hodder was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in the Queens Birthday Honours List, 1998. He received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the Manchester Metropolitan University for his regional, national and international contribution to architecture, he also won the Roses Design Award ‘Architect of the Year’ in 2006. Professionally, he is a national member of RIBA Council and CABE’s Design Review Panel.
Ruairidh Jackson — Head of Planning and Property Strategy at The Co-operative Group. Before moving to The Co-operative in 2005, he worked in both local planning authorities and private practice. His present role includes responsibility for the Co-operative’s major projects portfolio, promoting various renewable energy schemes, the redevelopment of the Group’s 20 acre headquarters complex in Manchester city centre, an Eco town proposal near Leicester and other major masterplanning schemes in Scotland and South West England.
Ruairidh is also a board member of the National Retail Planning Forum and is closely involved in the Competition Commission’s Review of Grocery Retailing and the Government’s review of PPS 6.
Lester Korzilius, AIA, RIBA — Director, EllisWilliams Architects. Lester’s background includes nearly 30 years experience in the residential, commercial, institutional, and educational sectors. His current projects include both design/build roles and client side roles for a number of secondary schools, primary schools, and special needs schools throughout the United Kingdom. Lester is a board member and past president of the AIA UK.
Michael Lischer, FAIA, RIBA — Principal, Sport Concepts. Michael is the founding partner of Sport Concepts, a London based architectural practice. Sport Concepts specializes in the design of international sports facilities. Michael’s experience includes the recently opened Liverpool Arena, and arenas in Athens and Budapest. His experience also includes consulting for the London 2012 Olympic Games, consulting on the Manchester Commonwealth Games Stadium, and design of the Manchester Velodrome.
Prior to establishing Sport Concepts, Michael was a vice president of HOK Sport and ran their London office.
John Lorimer — Heads the Capital Programme Division that is responsible for managing Manchester City Council’s £300m+ pa capital programme. The group includes both Technical capability and Project / Programme Management skills. The Division is responsible for delivery of the £500m Building Schools for the Future programme.
A Procurement team within the Technical Services Unit has established and maintains framework and similar working agreements with suppliers for the capital programme that also includes regeneration projects. 95% of the Councils capital projects are delivered through its suite of Framework arrangements, which also include Professional Services.
Prior to joining MCC, John worked in the private sector on major projects in both Building & Civil Engineering, at home, in Europe and the Far East. His work as Operations Director with main contractors and also as a specialist sub-contractor has highlighted some of the tensions inherent within the supply chain. He is a visiting Professor at Salford University.
Clive Mainwaring — Consultant Architect (Transport Specialist)
Clive Mainwaring was Director of EGS Design for 20 years and since the acquisition by Jefferson Sheard is retained as a Consultant. Clive has had a long involvement with rail and transportation projects in and around Manchester, as well as industrial and commercial schemes.
Clive has led a number of high profile projects for Network Rail, GMPTE, and Merseytravel as Director and Project Manager, including Manchester Piccadilly Station, Metrolink, Phases 1,2 and 3, redevelopment plans for Liverpool Lime Street Station and Merseytram.
In addition Clive was Project Director of Leeds City Station, Phase 2 (a major interchange between rail, bus, tram and the city centre) and has worked for Network Rail for re-generation work throughout the North West of England on master planning projects.
Ray Makin, Dipl. Arch., RIBA, FRSA — Director; Makin Architecture Following a career specialising in low energy design, Ray left a position as Chief Architect to a large Metropolitan Authority in the North of England to join forces with fellow architect Jo Provan in 1980. The Practice was incorporated in 1996 and Jo retired in 2000.
Ray is a long serving member and past chairman of Manchester Conservation Areas and Historic Buildings Panel, an advisory body to Manchester City Council’s Planning Department, and previously Central Manchester Development Corporation, on all planning applications and policy documents affecting the City’s most vulnerable areas.
Ray is an expert on design which is both environmentally and ecologically sound and believes in the re-use of buildings where commercially justified.
He is also a founder member and past Chairman of Manchester Civic Society and was a founding trustee of the Ancoats Building Preservation Trust, a body committed to seeking the restoration of the City’s mainly redundant mills, as well as a founding Chairman of the Ancoats Urban Village Co.
Keith Millay — Director Swanke Hayden Connell Architects. Keith has extensive academic, research and healthcare design and planning expertise both within the UK and internationally.
Before joining Swanke Hayden Connell in 2005 he served as an Executive Director of the Anglo-American firm Anshen Dyer Architects in London, where he relocated from the US parent company in 2000. In the UK he lead a number of academic research and PFI healthcare projects. His work includes significant new research facilities for the University of Cambridge, Oxford University and University of York as well as the MIB at the University of Manchester.
In the US Keith worked nationally on a wide variety of healthcare projects, both delivering new clinical facilities as well as planning studies to support new clinical strategies. His focus just prior to his assignment to London was in the design of primary care facilities for both the University of California Medical system and the Kaiser Health Care system. The work for Kaiser included the master plan and Phase I building for a regional ambulatory centre totalling 80,500 Sq metres.
Keith’s particular skill is designing clear and flexible frameworks for building designs within complex briefs. He has focused almost exclusively on research and healthcare facilities for over 20 years, but continues to explore new creative solutions to these building types and challenge the formulaic approach within the ever changing health sciences field.
Keith served as the President of the AIA UK in 2008.
Ian Nahapiet — Director Ellis Williams Architects. Ian has a breadth of experience in several sectors but has been intimately involved in the procurement of educational facilities as a student of architecture then as a qualified architect. This spans a period of over 30 years. Ian has considerable experience in managing large and medium sized projects, which have educational and sports components. He has been responsible for the successful delivery of many educational projects for Local Education Authorities and Diocesan Boards and has demonstrated an ability to work well with both the client’s side and constructor’s to achieve pragmatic well-designed solutions in response to a wide range of briefing requirements.
Ian enjoys designing the appropriate solution to the brief and getting stakeholders to buy into it. He has been appointed directly by LEA’s on many schools projects to facilitate the exploration of their vision to determine their brief. Ian has led and co-ordinated other practices in educational PFI’s ranging over £100m on behalf of consortia. The projects in these PFI’s cover mainstream schools and those schools for pupils with Special Educational Needs. He has a wealth of knowledge of educational philosophy and maintains a keen interest of the current educational agenda. This allows for a good understanding of client / stakeholder needs and an ability to empathise with the end users.
Eamonn O’Rourke — Head of Sport & Leisure Services, Manchester City Council Eamonn has worked in Local Government for 25 years. He was seconded to the Manchester Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee to direct Venue Management and to ensure a long lasting legacy that benefits Manchester’s Communities after the Games.
His responsibilities included developing Manchester’s Sports Policy and for the business planning of the new world class sport facilities built for the Commonwealth Games. This included the development of a balanced programme, sustainable sports development, and facility management.
Eamonn is responsible for market testing and ‘outsourcing’ for Manchester’s Community Leisure Centres. He manages a capital investment programme of over £7m for ten community leisure facilities.
Stephan Reinke, FAIA, RIBA — Managing Director Europe of Woods Bagot.
Stephan has worked in the international arena for over 25 years, and has in-depth professional practice experience in Europe, the Middle East, North America and the Far East.
As a UK, EMEAI practitioner, he has extensive hospitality and commercial experience. Stephan was the Principal in Charge for Hotel Design for 74 St. James, the 500,000 sq. ft London Metropole Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre and the 500,000 sq. ft 36 storey hotel, conference centre and serviced apartment complex at West India Quay.
He is a leading Principal in Europe in the design and delivery of hospitality conference and workplace facilities. He has outstanding experience in design and project delivery as an integrated process.
Stephan is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars related to international hospitality design, professional practice, and project delivery.
He has made numerous contributions to magazines and journals regarding architecture, hospitality design and project delivery. Stephan was the Founding President of the American Institute of Architects London-UK Chapter in 1993 (The First International Chapter of the AIA).
Dr. Ian Rowbottom — Principal applications engineer for Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., headquartered in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1988 from the University of Manchester Institute of Technology (Manchester, England), with a Ph.D. in power electronics and electrical machine drives.
Dr. Rowbottom’s achievements include the development of neon cold cathode dimming technology (used in casinos, restaurants, etc.), direct current dimming technology (for use in MRI rooms), and he holds the patent on controls for individual lighting fixtures. After completing these engineering assignments for Lutron, he was based for several years in Tokyo, Japan, where he developed Quality standards that allowed Lutron to compete in one of the most competitive electronics markets in the world.
Dr. Rowbottom is currently the Energy Czar and product manager for Lutron’s Quantum Total Light Management System, which optimizes electric light and daylight to save energy and create a productive, comfortable, visual environment.
Malcolm Smith — A Director of Arup leading the Integrated Urbanism team. He joined Arup after completing his Masters degree in Architecture at Yale University. While at Yale, he worked in the Urban Design Workshop which carried out research and consulting work in the urban environs of Connecticut.
Prior to undertaking his Masters, Malcolm worked in Australia on a wide range of projects including waterfront development, tertiary education buildings, entertainment and arts facilities. Malcolm has led a wide range of urban design projects both in the United Kingdom and internationally including the masterplan for the redevelopment of Stratford Rail Land, one of the largest masterplans in the history of London, the proposal for Northstowe New Town which will be the model for sustainable communities in the UK and the masterplan for BSkyB facilities in London.
Malcolm is a visiting tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, and Yale University. In addition, he is a commissioner on the Housing Corporation ‘Design Standards for the Future’ commission.
Richard Spencer — Senior Vice President & Director Aviation & Transportation, HOK; President AIA UK Chapter
Richard is a Senior Vice President at HOK, one of the world’s leading Aviation design firms. He is a member of the Board of Directors of HOK’s London office as well as of HOK's global Aviation + Transportation group, and is responsible for heading up projects in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa.
Richard has a broad experience gained during 30 years in practice on government, industrial, commercial, academic and laboratory projects in addition to his extensive experience in the Aviation and Transportation sector. Recently, Richard was HOK’s Project Director for the Passenger Transport Interchange at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, working with BAA in defining the project requirements, then subsequently developing and delivering design for the six-platform rail station under the main airport terminal building.
Richard was also responsible for the new terminal at Cork airport in Ireland, the design of the new integrated terminal at New Delhi International Airport in India and has just completed the master plan for the new Lisbon Airport at Alcochete.
Alistair Sunderland — A Partner based in Austin-Smith:Lord’s Liverpool office, Alistair leads on architecture and interior design, urban design and landscaping projects. He has experienced all levels of responsibility in Austin-Smith:Lord, from graduate to Managing Partner.
Alistair’s project experience includes development strategies, environmental design, master planning, building appraisals and technical briefing. His active responsibilities include cultural, education, religious and commercial projects. During the past twenty years his work has been recognised by RIBA and Civic Trust awards.
Alistair is actively involved at board level in professional, cultural and social organisations; RIBA, Liverpool Urban Design Conservation Advisory Panel, Liverpool Biennial, South Liverpool Housing and Stoke Urban Vision Design Panel.
Eugene Uys — Associate Director, Arup Sport Eugene Uys joined Arup in 1996 and has gained considerable experience on a wide range of sports venue projects. This includes the London 2012 Olympic bid, and numerous international football and athletics stadia.
Eugene’s expertise is in the technical, operational and functional planning of sports venues where he has led this aspect of design on world-class venues such as the Beijing Olympic Stadium, the Allianz Arena, Valencia CF stadium, Singapore Sports Hub, and the Manchester Commonwealth Games Stadium.
Prior to joining Arup, he was an associate with Terry Farrell and Partners from 1985 until 1996, and worked on a wide range of major projects, including Embankment Place and Vauxhall Cross in London, and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
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