Applications for this program will open soon.

All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required and are advised to contact their home embassy early. An official letter can be issued by the Programme Heads confirming enrolment onto the programme once fees has been settled.

Programme Heads:

Frosso Pimenides

Frosso, Hon FRIBA, is an internationally registered architect, educator and Honorary Emeritus Professor of Architecture at UCL. She has built and worked in practice in Athens before teaching, firstly at the University of Cambridge (1984-88) and the AA (1988-90), then over 30 years at the Bartlett from which she has retired (1990-2023), where her honours included the Faculty Teaching Award (2004) and the prestigious Provost’s Teaching Award (2012). She reflects on these experiences in her book on Architectural Education: "Dreaming the Impossible to Build the Extraordinary" (Bartlett, UCL, 2022). Frosso is also an experienced external examiner in schools of architecture across the UK and in Canada, and has been a member of RIBA Validating Boards both in the UK and internationally (2012-present). Since 2012 she has been involved with OPEN CITY, initially as cofounder of Accelerate, and later as an Advisory Member, and an advisor to Fondation Aldea in Chile, advocating for wider access to the profession, and the value of sharing practice with different disciplines and cultures. She is now based in Crete and London, working on research on topography, and a sustainable approach to heritage.

Graeme Sutherland

Graeme is a co-founding director of Adams & Sutherland, a London based, award-winning architectural practice best known for its work in the public realm for both public authorities and communities. Over the past 25 years, the practice has won competitions, been widely published, and exhibited, including at the V&A and Design Museum, and gained plaudits, including RIBA Awards and BD Public Realm Architect of the Year. Graeme is also an experienced teacher, having taught in many schools of architecture, including at the Bartlett, UCL for over a decade. He lectures regularly, has been an external examiner at the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow and was a Glasshouse Community-Led Design Enabler. Formerly a design critic for the London Mayor, he is currently a design advisor for several London local authorities. adams-sutherland.co.uk@adams_sutherland

TUTORS

Elliot Nash

Elliot is an architectural practitioner and teacher. He co-leads Accelerate, an education programme for young Londoners from underrepresented backgrounds, and teaches at the University of Greenwich. Elliot has worked with Wright and Wright Architects since 2017. Elliot graduated from The Bartlett UCL, where his projects explored the potential and poetics of construction through material casting and were awarded the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Bursary and the Architectural Review Future Projects Award. Elliot has exhibited at the Barbican, the Royal Academy and Drawing Matter

Manolis Stavrakakis

Manolis is an Assistant Professor in Architecture at the National and Technical University of Athens. He was born in Heraklion Crete and studied architecture in Athens, in New York (AAD, Columbia University), and in London (PhD, Architectural Association). He taught design and theory of architecture at the Architectural Association and The Bartlett, UCL between 2011 and 2021. Manolis is currently practicing, teaching and researching as an architect in Athens and Heraklion.