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"Waiting for Robbins” Modernist Architecture as a Representation of Transitional Education at the Royal Technical College, Salford, 1961-1964. (2024)
Thesis

Was the University of Salford a ‘new university’? Both technically and legally, Salford became a new university via Royal Charter on 4 April 1967. However, the University’s history can be traced back to its foundations in 1892. The Vice Chancellor, W... Read More about "Waiting for Robbins” Modernist Architecture as a Representation of Transitional Education at the Royal Technical College, Salford, 1961-1964..

Shifting Paradigms and High-Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building, with Sustainability in Mind. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Yioutani-Iacovides, M., Moustaka, A., & Walker, P. (2023, September). Shifting Paradigms and High-Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building, with Sustainability in Mind. Poster presented at High-tech Heritage: (Im)permanence of Innovation, Zurich, Switzerland

The Centenary Building in Salford was designed to embody a fusion of
design and technology (Fig. 1), serving as a hub for the University‘s Departments of Spatial, Graphic, and Industrial Design.
The building’s brief required the young architect... Read More about Shifting Paradigms and High-Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building, with Sustainability in Mind..

Shifting Paradigms and High Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building with Sustainability in Mind (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Yioutani-Iacovides, M., Moustaka, A., & Walker, P. (2023, September). Shifting Paradigms and High Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building with Sustainability in Mind. Poster presented at HIGH TECH HERITAGE, I(M)PERMANCE OF INNOVATION ARCHITECTURE, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

The Centenary Building was created to fuse design and technology, teaching at the University of Salford, as a hub for the Departments of Spatial, Graphic, and Industrial Design. The brief required the architect Stephen Hodder to align the building’s... Read More about Shifting Paradigms and High Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building with Sustainability in Mind.