Staff profiles

 

Patrick Hannay

Michael Cameron

Simon Cousins

Nick Evans

Craig Thomas

Charlie Bull

 

 

Patrick Hannay

 

Currently Programme Director and first year tutor of Interior Architecture, Patrick has passed through a vast spectrum of design activities, as a post grad architecture student with then a further post-grad in Urban Design, as an Interiors practitioner in Marseilles and London, as a Researcher at Oxford Brookes University, and as an International award winning journalist, book editor and magazine editor for the UK's main weekly architectural publication followed by 20 years of writing and teaching.

 

He has been a design examiner in Cyprus, Ireland, Oxford, Glasgow and Brighton and has taught at degree level in architecture and design in many HE institutions. He joined the Cardiff Interior Architecture teaching team in 1989 becoming Programme Director in 1994.For a time he was also MA Interior Architecture Course Director.

 

Following Welsh devolution he has became heavily involved in promoting design quality throughout Wales, through the editorship of 'Touchstone - the magazine for Architecture in Wales'.

 

His daughter is doing Interior Architecture at Brighton. It’s in the genes.

 

Michael Cameron

2nd/3rd Year tutor

 

On graduating from Kingston Art School in 1971 he worked within architectural practises in London, New York and Toronto, contributing to projects that ranged from Universities and corporate H.Q’s to one-off residential, retail and restaurant design.

 

His parallel interest in graphic design was given scope when, in 1979, he was invited to join the staff at Preston polytechnics B. A. course. During 1980-4 the course would dominate the newly formed ‘student D&AD’ (Design & Art Directors) competition, the winning designs were presented annually in London and also published.

 

Michael held principal design roles on London Undergrounds ‘Jubilee Line’ extension and retail projects in Stockholm and Helsinki, but it was his involvement with a modest commission for the Natural History Museum that would shape the next phase of his career.

 

Having become aware of the design opportunities and challenges unique to this subject area he gained a position in a specialist museum & exhibition practice and went to create permanent new galleries in London’s Science Museum and Horniman Museum, Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery and Sheffield’s Millennium Galleries; plus the Burne-Jones centenary exhibition in Birmingham’s City Gallery.

 

Having held several creative directorships during his career as a practitioner he brings a wealth of experience to the current role of full-time tutor to the 2nd and 3rd year he has held since 2004.

 

Nick Evans

MRICS

Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies

Tel: 029 2041 6746

Email: nievans@uwic.ac.uk

 

Nick is a chartered building control surveyor with over 25 years experience in industry and academia. His main teaching and research specialist areas are building regulations and environmental design.

 

A former Local Authority Building Control Surveyor, Nick joined UWIC in 1990. He is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architectural Studies where he was responsible for setting up the undergraduate programme in Architectural Technology. His main teaching and research specialist areas are Building Regulations and Environmental Design.

 

Nick has remained closely involved with professional practice, particularly focussing on building control and is frequently called upon to speak at events organised by RICS, CIAT, CIOB and RSAW. He has also provided specific training for Building Control Surveyors, Estates Officers, Home Inspectors and Domestic Energy Assessors.

 

He is a member of the Ecological Design for the Built Environment Research Strand in the Welsh Institute for Research in Art and Design and also sits on the 'Executive Guide To BIM Industry Review Group' a group working with the British Standards Institution and buildingSmart to produce a guide to Building Information Modelling.

 

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Simon Cousins

BSc (Hons) Building, MRICS, MCIOB, MIMBM

Programme Director Building Technology

Senior Lecturer

Tel: 02920 416 749

Email: scousins@uwic.ac.uk

 

Simon is responsible for the building courses in UWIC. A chartered surveyor and chartered builder he spent many years restoring old buildings before joining the university. He has appeared many times on television and radio; he was recently asked to give a presentation to an international conference in Canada on the sustainable design of buildings and he is presently the chairman of the Wales Region of the Chartered Institute of Building.

 

In his spare time he can be found walking the hills, cooking Italian influenced food, examining unusual stone walls, listening to traditional music and searching for the perfect pint of Guinness.

 

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Craig Thomas

 

Craig received first-class honours with Interior Architecture, Cardiff in 1996. An award winning museum / exhibition designer working in London on projects such as The Millennium Dome, he received a Design Week winning award for best exhibition design for his ‘Energy – Fuelling the Future’ gallery at the Science Museum, London.

 

He rejoined Interior Architecture as second and third year tutor in 2004, and is also the University of Wales Moderator of the Interior Design diploma course in Limerick Senior College. He is currently completing a two year MA in Fine Art, specialising in film.

 

He has two young children, Efan and Rhys.

 

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Charlie Bull

Technician Demonstrator

Tel: 029 20 416677

 

Charlie graduated from the Welsh School of Architecture in 2003 and joined UWIC the same year, initially as a technician with Architectural Design and Technology. She joined Interior Architecture, as technician demonstrator, in January 2008.

 

Her main role is the teaching of all the CAD and graphics software used by the course, but she is also involved with teaching drawing and will happily offer up advice on design and other project work. She is particularly interested in the creative application of CAD software, encouraging students to experiment with different approaches to the presentation of their designs, combining manual and digital techniques in order to develop individual and unique styles. She loves working with the course and is constantly impressed by her students.

 

Charlie is originally from Wolverhampton but has adopted Cardiff as her new home. She lives near the city centre with her pet chickens, and loves baking, cycling and live music.

 

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