About the speaker
Dr Will McLean heads BA and MArch Technical Studies teaching across the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster. McLean writes about architecture, technology and Construction History and he has co-authored five books with colleague Pete Silver including Structural Engineering for Architects: A Handbook, Laurence King 2014, Air Structures, Laurence King 2015 and Introduction to Architectural Technology, Laurence King 2013 (3rd edition to be published in August 2021). McLean has recently completed a new book entitled Environmental Design Sourcebook: innovative design ideas for a sustainable built environment. The book will be published in August 2021 by RIBA Publishing.
Between 2005 and 2010 McLean wrote a column for Architectural Design (AD) entitled McLean's Nuggets, which appeared in over 30 issues of the magazine. In 2008 he established the architectural imprint Bibliotheque McLean, publishing new titles including Sabbioneta: Cryptic City by James Madge (2011), which was awarded a commendation in the RIBA presidents medals for research in 2012, Quik Build: Adam Kalkin's ABC of Container Architecture (2008) and Building with Air (2014) by Dante Bini. McLean has also designed an inflatable exhibition of the work of Dante Bini which has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Univesita della Svizzera Italiano in Mendrisio. In 2016 McLean was appointed as a co-editor of Construction History: International Journal of the Construction History Society.
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The online lecture is publicly accessible via the following Blackboard Collaborate link.
About the Decolonising Performative Architecture Lecture Series
The Decolonising Performative Architecture lectures are a series of online events within the frame of the Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A, and are curated by Senior Lecturer Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga.
