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Rahesh Ram

Programme Lead for Technology: Masters & BA Architecture

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Rahesh Ram

Rahesh Ram

Programme Lead for Technology: Masters & BA Architecture

Biography:
  • Qualified as an architect since 1998 practice
  • Set up a practice on 2005
  • Teaching at Çï¿ûÊÓƵ since 2005
  • Taught Design 1st, 2nd and 3rd year (10 years) and currently teaching Masters (Five Year)
  • Coordinated Technology 1st, 2nd and 3rd (10 years) and currently coordinating Technology at Masters Level. (Seven Year)
  • Taught Master’s Thesis 2019
  • Architecture Management Team from 2019
  • School of Design Management Team from 2019
  • Employability Lead for School of Design 2019
Student prizes won under his tutelage:
  • Commendation for the RIBA Bronze Medal 
  • RIBA Sergeants Drawing Prize  
  • Runner Up South East RIBA Region Drawing Prize
  • Worshipful Company of Architects Drawing Prize
Other points to note:

Currently undertaking PhD: Arabian Nights/Fiction and Architecture.
House of Many Cultures: The Others’ Story Exhibition - He conceived the exhibition and co-curated the exhibition in October 2021

Architecture

Responsibilities within the university
  • Architecture Management Group
  • School Design Management Team
  • Programme Lead for Technology BA + Masters
  • Employability Lead for School of Design
  • Masters Design Tutors
  • Masters Technology Coordinator

Recognition
  • Architecture Registration Board
  • Editorial Board of Environmental Psychology (specialty section of Frontiers in Psychology) as a Review Editor
  • On the Board of Academic Advisors at African Futures Institute
  • Attend Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture (SCHOSA) Meetings as Part of the Architecture Management Group

Research / Scholarly interests
  • Speculative and Experimental Architectural Design
  • Fiction as an Architectural Practice
  • Narratives in Architecture
  • Architecture & Architectural Technology

Media activity
  • House of Many Cultures: The Others’ Story Exhibition Oct.2021 was featured on MANOTOM PLUS TV

Recent publications
  • Architecture, Fiction and Thought Experiments for EAEA15 Conference to be published 2021
  • Conjuring Up the Jinni, R.Ram. AIS Architecture Image Studies, Scientific Journal. Vol. 1 Issue 2, Narrative Architecture 2020.

Presentations
  • Architecture, Fiction and Thought Experiments. EAEA15 Conference, Envisioning Architectural Narratives.2021. University of Huddersfield