With architecture schools around the world having to quickly adjust to online teaching, this virtual session aims to offer help and support to students who are now unable to go into their studios.

Each week a group of architects and tutors will offer advice through a zoom meeting on anything from preparing portfolios, looking for jobs, gathering precedents or best practice drawing conventions.

If you have particular questions or topics which you'd like covered please email them in beforehand to laura.j.mark@gmail.com or tweet to @mark_itecture.



This first session will feature:

Laura Mark (chair)

Laura Mark is an award-winning architecture critic, curator and designer based in London. She is the Keeper of Walmer Yard and runs the Baylight Foundation, where she curates a number of cultural programmes and projects. She currently teaches at the University of Greenwich and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained as an architect, Laura spent five years in architectural practice before joining the editorial team of the Architects’ Journal. During her time at the magazine, Laura won numerous awards for her work including IBP’s Multi-Media Journalist of the Year in both 2015 and 2016. She has directed a number of films including the documentary Zaha: An Architecture Legacy (2017) which has been shown at festivals in London, Milan, New York and Miami.



Max Dewdney

Max Dewdney is the co-director of the first year at the Bartlett School of Architecture. He founded his own firm Max Dewdney Architects in 2014. He trained in London at the Bartlett School of Architecture, New York at the Cooper Union and at the British School in Rome. Prior to establishing MDA he worked at Grimshaw Architects and Short & Associate Architects on a number of award winning public realm and infrastructure projects. Max is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.



Piers Taylor

Piers Taylor is an award-winning architect, broadcaster and academic. He is the founder of Invisible Studio - an architecture practice which operates through collaboration, experimentation, research and education, which he launched after leaving Mitchell Taylor Workshop in 2010. Piers is also one of the co-founders of Studio in the Woods - a weekend-long summer school which acts as a vehicle to test ideas through making at 1:1. He was the inaugural Studio Master at the Architectural Association for the Design & Make Programme at Hooke Park.

And others to be announced....



