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Graham Cairns
Graham Cairns (born 1971, UK) is an author and academic. He is the founder and director of the research organisation AMPS ''Architecture Media Politics Society''. He is Executive Editor of its associated peer-reviewed scholarly journal Architecture_MPS, , published by UCL Press. He researches and publishes on architecture and its relationship with visual culture and socio-politics. He has delivered talks, taught, ran workshops and held various positions at universities internationally. Biography Cairns studied architecture at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Lincoln. His doctorate examined the relationship between advertising and commercial architecture and was awarded by the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. It was later developed into a book,'' Deciphering Art, Architecture and Advertising: Selling to the Sophisticated Consumer''. In 1995 he founded and ran the UK based performance arts company Hybrid Artworks specializing in spatial instal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architecture Media Politics Society
''Architecture Media Politics Society'' (AMPS) is a nonprofit academic research organisation. Its associated peer reviewed open access online journal is Architecture_MPS ISSN 2050-9006. It was set up in 2011 and the journal officially launched in 2012. Since 2015 it has been published by UCL Press. It is dedicated primarily to the study of architecture but examines it in the context of what it refers to as the mediated environment of contemporary culture. It was set up after a research bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, AHRC, for the project it hosted between 2012 and 2014; "Architecture as Political Image". It is an independent organisation that runs its research programmes in collaboration with multiple universities. It is based the United Kingdom. Research Programmes In 2014 AMPS launched a research programme called The Mediated City. Investigating the role and influence of new technologies of the use, experience and representation of ‘the city’ it involv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
