Research
Chapters in Housing Standardisation and Design Governance↗︎
Exhibition Housing Standardisation, shown at Farrell Centre, Newcastle↗︎ ; Centre Obert d’Arquitectura, Barcelona↗︎ ; Building Centre, London↗︎ ; and Asoc. de Oficinas de Arquitectos, Santiago de Chile↗︎
Article in Building Research & Information↗︎: Space standards in affordable housing in England→
Special issue for Urban Planning↗︎: Housing Norms and Standards: The Design of Everyday Life
Article in Housing Studies↗︎: The design of subsidized housing: towards an interdisciplinary and cross-national research agenda
Report: London Housing: Policy, Regulation, Typology and Dimensional Data↗︎
Between 2018 and 2025 I worked on Housing Standardisation↗︎, a research project asking how technical housing standards shape the housing we live in. A central focus was the tension between the claims of universality in technical standards and their contextual realities. In the first phase, I led a cross-country analysis of technical standards, published in Housing Studies↗︎. In the second phase, following the award of an AHRC grant, I led a quantitative survey of new affordable housing in six countries, including England, published in Building Research & Information. Concurrently we edited a special issue, Housing Norms and Standards: The Design of Everyday Life↗︎, for Urban Planning, drawing this work into wider debate. The project’s findings travelled in an exhibition to Newcastle↗︎, Barcelona↗︎, London↗︎ and Santiago↗︎, and were published as a monograph. The project archive can be found online.
Chapter in The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice↗︎ : Data of Alteration: A Databased Exploration of Terraced House Alterations→
Article in International Journal of Housing Policy↗︎: Changing Socio-Spatial Definitions of Sufficiency of Home: Evidence from London (UK) before and during the Covid-19 Stay-at-Home Restrictions
Article in Building Research & Information↗︎: Dwelling Size and Usability in London: A Study of Floor Plan Data Using Machine Learning
I defended my PhD dissertation, Interior Complex: Design standardization in London’s housing↗︎, in 2021. Drawing on data collected for the dissertation, I published Changing Socio-Spatial Definitions of Sufficiency of Home in the International Journal of Housing Policy↗︎. Expanding the floor plan analysis, Dwelling Size and Usability in London followed in Building Research & Information↗︎, with a chapter, Data of Alteration→, in The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice (forthcoming, 2026).
Teaching
Research studio Evidence-based Housing Design→
Design studio The Everyday Waterfront: Reimagining Housing at the Lee Edge→
At the University of Hertfordshire, MArch Architecture and Urbanism programme, I teach design and research studios on housing, with a focus on what makes housing good. In the research studio Evidence-based Housing Design→, students build empirical and theoretical arguments about housing quality. In the design studio The Everyday Waterfront→, they apply that thinking to a specific site at the edge of the Lee Navigation in East London.
Critical & Contextual Studies Constructing, Locating, and Experiencing Modernity→
Design Studio Earthlab: A Centre for Rammed Earth Construction