Graham Cairns (born 1971, UK) is an author and academic. He is the founder and director of the research organization AMPS Architecture Media Politics Society. He is Executive Editor of its associated peer-reviewed scholarly journal Architecture_MPS, , published by UCL Press. He researches and publishes on architecture and its relationship with visual culture and socio-politics. He has delivered talks, taught, run workshops, and held various positions at universities internationally.
Biography Cairns studied architecture at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Lincoln. His doctorate examined the relationship between advertising and commercial architecture and was awarded by the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. It was later developed into a book, Deciphering Art, Architecture and Advertising: Selling to the Sophisticated Consumer. In 1995, he founded and ran the UK-based performance arts company Hybrid Artworks, specializing in spatial installation and multimedia performance. He lived in Spain between 2000-2005 and published his first book in Spanish: El Arquitecto Detrás de la Cámara: Una Visión Espacial del Cine.Vozmediano, Elena. Book review, El Arquitecto Detrás de la Cámara. Section: El Cultural, EL Mundo, Madrid, Spain. 08 November, 2007.http://www.elcultural.es/revista/letras/El-arquitecto-detras-de-la-camara/21632 In 2011, he founded the research organisation Architecture Media Politics Society and its associated journal. In this role, he has organised academic conferences internationally with events in the UK, the US, Spain, Cyprus, and Australia. Examples include the 2014 events in both LondonThe Mediated City Conference PART 1, Ravensboune, London, 01-03 April, 2014.http://architecturemps.com/conferences/ and Los Angeles.The Mediated City Conference Part 2, Woodbury University, Los Angeles, 01-04 October, 2014.http://woodburymcd.wix.com/mediatedcityla#!about/csur He has also developed the 'interview article' as a form of academic publicationRoutledge Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Reflections-on-Architecture-Society-and-Politics-Social-and-Cultural-Tectonics/Cairns/p/book/9781138588608 Interview articles have been published by authors such as Noam ChomskyHidden Power and Built Form: Chomsky, Noam, with Cairns, Graham. The Politics Behind the Architecture. Interview Article. First published in Architecture_MPS 1 October 2013. Reprinted in Salon, 30 October 2013.http://www.salon.com/2013/10/30/chomsky_the_u_s_mexico_border_is_cruel_by_design_partner/ , Kenneth FramptonCunningham, David. Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture. The University of Westminster. Architecture_Media_Politics_Society Kenneth Frampton interview. http://instituteformodern.co.uk/2012/architecture_media_politics_society-kenneth-frampton-interview , Daniel Libeskind and Michael SorkinInterview Article. Driving on the Left: Sorkin’s View of the Street, the City and architecture. Michael Sorkin with Graham Cairns. https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.amps.2013v2i4.001 He has also established a resource repository as part of a collaboration between librarians and academics.Peters, Amanda. New Media and New Collaborations: Librarians and Academics Together. Feliciter 59 (1) February 2013. http://www.cla.ca/feliciter/2013/1/#p=32 He is the author and editor of seven published books on architecture, design, film, and advertising. He has published in English and SpanishThe cinematic promenade of Sergei Eisenstein and the Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier: a reappraisal of the influence of film on an icon of the Modern Movement. Language:Spanish.In: Daniel Martí (ed.), Journal RUA (Red Universitaria de Urbanismo y Arquitectura), Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico. No. 9. September, 2013. pp34-42. and his work has also been translated to French.
Research Cairns has two areas of research: i) Architecture in its socio-cultural context; ii) Architecture and Visual Culture. Through AMPS, he runs two research and publication programs that align with these areas of expertise. Housing – Critical Futures is a three year long programme of conferences, publications, and workshops operating over ten countries. It was launched in 2015. The Mediated City is a programme launched in 2014 that examines the role of technologies and media on urban design, experience, and living. As part of these research programmes, he has initiated book series with Intellect Books, Bristol; Libri Publishing, Oxfordshire; and UCL Press, London.
Publications Reification and Representation - Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex. 2019. Routledge / Taylor&Francis: London..Cairns, Graham. Reification and Representation - Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex. 2019. Routledge: London. routledge.com Visioning Technologies – the architectures of sight. 2016. Routledge / Taylor&Francis: London. .Cairns, Graham (ed). Visioning Technologies – the architectures of sight. 2016. Routledge: London. routledge.com Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics– Socio Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century. 2016. Routledge / Taylor&Francis: London. . Design for a Complex World – challenges in practice and education. 2014. Libri Publishing: London. .Cairns, Graham. Design for a Complex World – challenges in practice and education. 2014. Libri Publishing: London.http://libripublishing.co.uk/design-interiors-and-architecture/design-for-a-complex-world?cPath=& The Architecture of the Screen: Essays in Cinematographic Space. 2013. Intellect Books: Bristol. .Cairns, Graham. The Architecture of the Screen: Essays in Cinematographic Space. 2013. Intellect Books: Bristol.http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo15565725.html Reinventing Architecture and Interiors - A Socio-Political View on Building Adaptation. 2013. Libri Publishing: London. .Cairns, Graham. Reinventing Architecture and Interiors - A Socio-Political View on Building Adaptation. 2013. Libri Publishing: London.http://libripublishing.co.uk/design-interiors-and-architecture/reinventing-architecture-and-interiors?cPath=& Deciphering Art, Architecture, and Advertising: Selling to the Sophisticated Consumer. 2010. Libri Publishing: London. .Cairns, Graham. Deciphering Art, Architecture and Advertising: Selling to the Sophisticated Consumer. 2010. Libri Publishing: London.http://libripublishing.co.uk/art-and-design/deciphering-advertising-art-and-architecture El Arquitecto Detrás de la Cámara: Una Visión Espacial del Cine. 2007. Abada Editores: Madrid. .Cairns, Graham. El Arquitecto Detrás de la Cámara: Una Visión Espacial del Cine. 2007. Abada Editores: Madrid.http://www.abadaeditores.com/libro.php?l=138
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