Felipe Lanuza

Biography

I am an architect qualified in Chile, with experience in practice, teaching and research. I hold a PhD in Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and completed a post-doctoral research residency at the UCL Urban Laboratory, which finalised with a solo exhibition at the Bartlett School of Architecture in October 2019.

My research focuses on experiences of absence in the built environment (such as overlooked spaces, fragments and traces of disappeared structures) to develop alternative understandings and representations of urban change, and to inform design thinking. Socially and culturally, absence addresses forms of use, memory and meanings that are alternative or marginal to, or have been obliterated by the dominating narratives that shape present architectures, cities and landscapes.

I have disseminated and discussed my research in several conferences, publications, exhibitions, and through invited talks. My teaching experience, mostly developed in Chile and the UK, spans 20 years and covers the design of the built environment at different scales (interiors, architecture, urban and landscape design) and relates design studio, research and humanities.

I also contribute as a peer reviewer for The Journal of Architecture, Revista de Arquitectura (University of Chile) and the Urban Transcripts Journal (online). I am a co-founder of DLA Scan and an Associate at Urban Transcripts.

Currently, I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Architecture Culture and Tectonics Research Group at the University of Nottingham and teach at the School of Architecture and Landscape, University of Sheffield.