We are extremely delighted to welcome Mollie Claypool, Associate Professor in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), From October to December 2021, she will greatly support research with her excellence as International Visiting Professor at IntCDC.
Mollie Claypool, Block West, AUAR Labs, 2020 Image © NAARO
"Mollie Claypool is a leading young researcher and architectural thinker who not only has an interest in digital culture in architecture, but also possess both the technical background knowledge required to generate genuinely insightful theory, and the intellectual capacity to shape a theoretical body of work that offers an original understanding of computation’s and automation’s influence on the contemporary condition of the production of architecture and its impact on society at large. In this way, she offers complementary perspectives and stimulating research insights for IntCDC, which will surely enrich the work of the cluster. She will also contribute to strengthening the academic partnership between IntCDC and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, her home institution."
–––– Prof. Achim Menges
Block West, AUAR Labs, 2020 Image © NAARO
Mollie Claypool is an architecture theorist, consultant, writer and educator. She is Director of Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR), a design and technology consultancy in the UK, Co-Director of Automated Architecture Labs at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and History & Theory Coordinator in the MArch Architectural Design postgraduate programme in B-Pro. Her work broadly focuses on issues of social justice highlighted by increasing automation in architecture and design production, such as the future of work, housing, platforms, localised manufacturing, and circular economies. She lives in Bristol, UK with her partner and young child.
Mollie was trained as an architect at Pratt Institute in New York, studied architectural theory at the AA in London and is a PhD candidate at The Bartlett. Her work has been published widely and she regularly gives lectures in the UK and internationally on the topics of computation and automation in architecture.
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