Mr Tim Barwell

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: tim.barwell@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Tim Barwell, ARB RIBA, joined The Leicester School of Architecture, DMU in 2014. He is a qualified Architect, educated at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where his graduating thesis project won a number of awards including the Shephard Robson Sustainable Innovation award, he was also awarded the Building Design magazine standout graduating student award.

Tim has over 20 years of Architecture industry experience having worked in a number of award-winning Architecture practices in London, including two-time Sterling prize winners Wilkinson Eyre Architect, before founding his own practice in 2011 focusing on broadening public access to architecture and sustainable building.

Tim is a founder member of the national Architecture Apprenticeship Forum with the goal of further widening access to the architecture profession. Tim has been an invited lecturer and critic both nationally and internationally, this includes presenting a lecture on ‘UK Architectural Education’ as part of the summer school programme at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. 

Publications and outputs

  • River Tone Bridge, Taunton - At Moxon Architects Ltd
  • Madejski Academy, Reading - At Wilkinson Eyre Architects
  • Protoarchitecture : Analogue and Digital Hybrids, AD, Architectural Design Special
  • Bartlett Ideas: Speculating with Architecture, UCL, Wiley Publication

Research interests/expertise

  • Biodiversity in Architecture
  • Materials, Fabrication & Prototyping in Architecture
  • Architecture Installations
  • Digital & Analogue Making in Architecture
  • Innovative Technology in Architecture
  • Architectural Communication and Representation 

Areas of teaching

  • L7 Architect Apprenticeship Programme Leader
  • MArch 01 Year Lead
  • MArch Design Studio Tutor 

Qualifications

  • BSc(Hons) (ARB/RIBA Part 1) UCL
  • PGDip Arch/MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) UCL
  • Professional Practice and Management in Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 3) UCL

Courses taught

MArch

Honours and awards

  • Faculty Teaching Award for Innovative/Adaptable Lecturer- 2022/23
  • Shepherd Robson Award for Innovation and Sustainability in Architecture – 2007
  • European Lighting Design Winner – Low Energy Lighting Award - 1999

Membership of external committees

National Architecture Apprenticeship Forum Founding member and regular contributor (AAF)

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • ARB
  • RIBA