Liam Ross

Liam is an architect and lecturer in architectural design at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.  He has experience of practice in Edinburgh, London and New York, on projects in the UK, USA, Russia and UAE, and spent 5 years with Malcolm Fraser Architects, leading and assisting on projects across the UK. He has received a number of awards for his design work, and in 2012 was selected to exhibit in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He has worked at Edinburgh University since 2004 as a studio tutor and Lecturer, and has taught internationally with ArchiPrix International and Tong-Chi University.  He is a member of the interdisciplinary research group ITSAFE, and an editorial board member of ‘Architecture &’ Journal.  Besides his research publications has contributed journalistic work to online and print magazines, including Archi-Ned, Blueprint, & Prospect.

Qualifications

• 2004 Master of Architecture, University of Edinburgh
• 2001 Master of Architecture, University of Edinburgh
• 2008 APEAS Examination in Professional Practice and Management, Part 3

Publications, Exhibitions and Presentations

• 2012, ‘On Contradictory Regulations’, included in Further Reading Required Special Edition, Architectural Research Quarterly, Volume 16/3
• 2012,’Invitation and Escape’ included in Theory By Design, details TBC
• 2012, ‘British Standard / Lagos Exception’, exhibited at the British Pavilion, 13th Venice Architecture
• 2012, ‘Designing Risk’, included in Healthy Design Creative Safety, HSE / RIBA
• 2011, ‘Compliant Architecture: Regulatory Limits and the Materiality of Risk‘, included in Candide: Journal of Architectural Knowledge, Volume 4, RWTH Aachen / Actar
• 2011, Diagramming BS8213: Safe Cleaning of Windows. Further Reading Required, Bartlett, UCL
• 2010, ‘What is the Disposition of the Architect-Curators”, included in cityspeculations 3, Firenze: Curating the City, University of Edinburgh
• 2010, ‘The Boredom of Building Regulation’, Cultural Role of Architecture, Lincoln
• 2010, Contributed to ‘Drawing for Explanation’, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
• 2009, ‘Stuff up the Cracks’, included in Architecture &: Work, University of Edinburgh
• 2007, ‘An Excess of Unthinking Material’, Tectonics: Making Meaning, TU Eindhoven / Critique of the New, Architecture Association
• 2006, ‘What is That Thing on Your Waterfront?’, included in Scroope 18, University of Cambridge / EAR, Edinburgh University Press

Awards