London Metropolitan

Urban Projects Bureau have taught in various positions at London Metropolitan University Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, including undergraduate studio, graduate masters, and post-graduate RIBA III, and have also worked with the Projects Office on the London Festival of Architecture 2008.

Management, Practice & Law

Alex Warnock-Smith was a lecturer in the undergraduate Management, Practice & Law course, encouraging students to address their particular design ideals and professional motives, and to assess the social and political consequences of their studio design projects.

With Gordon Maclaren.
Guest Lecturers: Jean Chiying Wang, Nina Virdi, Carl Fraser.

Alex Warnock-Smith was a design tutor for the Participation to Realisation undergraduate course, in which students experimented with mechanisms of immersing themselves in the particular social, cultural and political conditions of urban sites through participatory experiments, which led to the design and construction of 1.1 urban interventions.

The Food Exchange – students designed projects in and around Smithfield Market that explored its exceptional spatial character and speculated on its future, as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008.

The Alternative Work Agency – the student group established a new university department – the Alternative Work Agency – that facilitated new forms of work and industry between the university and the workplace, and designed and built an office space and mobile consultation booths in Highbury Studios. With Lena Tutunjian.

Participation To Realisation

Alex Warnock-Smith was a design tutor for the Participation to Realisation undergraduate course, in which students experimented with mechanisms of immersing themselves in the particular social, cultural and political conditions of urban sites through participatory experiments, which led to the design and construction of 1.1 urban interventions.

The Food Exchange – students designed projects in and around Smithfield Market that explored its exceptional spatial character and speculated on its future, as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008.

The Alternative Work Agency – the student group established a new university department – the Alternative Work Agency – that facilitated new forms of work and industry between the university and the workplace, and designed and built an office space and mobile consultation booths in Highbury Studios. With Lena Tutunjian.