Fred Scott

Alteration, its Scope and Limitations

Fred Scott studied industrial design at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1961, followed by a year of ergonomic research with Professor Christopher Jones in the School of Advance Studies at the Regional College of Art in Manchester. Following this he worked as a designer for Philips Croyden, and for Alex Gordon and Partners architects, on the IBIS steel housing system.

In 1966 at the invitation of Peter Cook, he began working as a tutor in the Fifth Year at the Architectural Association, with Warren Chalk, and later James Gowan, Bernard Tschumi, Martin Pawley, Dalibor Vesely, David Wild and David Greene. At this time he was closely associated with the work of the Archigram group.

In the Seventies he was appointed a Unit Master in the newly formed Diploma School under Alvin Boyarsky, in the company of others such as Rem Koolhaas, Paul Shepheard, Peter Wilson, Leon Krier and Nigel Coates. He was Unit Master of Unit 4, teaching for many years with Robin Evans. He taught at the AA until the summer of 1981.

Fred was elected to the council of the Architectural Association, serving as Vice-president in1989-90.  

Until 2004, when he retired from full time teaching, he was Course Leader in Interior Design at Kingston University, having begun teaching there in 1984. He has been a visiting critic and lecturer to all the major architectural courses in the UK., and has taught in various capacities at the Royal College of Art, the Universities of Westminster, North London and Greenwich. In addition Fred is the Visiting Professor of Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design; he has also been visiting professor at Milan Politechnica and at la Sapienza, in the University of Rome.

External examining posts have included Design Product at the Royal College of Art, Creative Practice for Narrative Environments at Central St. Martins, and he continues to be external examiner in Interior Architecture at Brighton University and at the American Intercontinental University. 

Currently he is involved with the Interior Educators group, attending conferences this year in Writtle College Essex, and at Oxford Brookes University. In addition he is employed in the School of Architecture at Greenwich University. He has worked on freelance projects throughout this period, including a lighting shop in Amwell Street, London EC1, a library in a house near Nice for U2 in 1993, and a work for image and music with Michael Nyman in 1982. His work has been published in Arbitare, Architectural Design, Architects’ Journal and elsewhere.

As an author and a journalist, he has written for Building Design, AAQ, Architectural Design, Art and Design and other magazines. He has contributed to numerous other publications. Mr Scott’s book, On Altering Architecture, was published by Routledge in January 2008, and offers an alternative theoretical stance which brings together what may be defined as intervention design, and offers readers alternative perspectives on the sequence of demolition and new building that constitutes the usual practices of architecture. 

 Fred was born in Haverhill, Suffolk in 1939, and was educated at Sudbury Grammar School.

Julieanna Preston, Victoria University of Wellington

Wedges and Shimes: Levering a Feminist Interior Practice

Julieanna Preston is a senior research academic at Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Architecture and Design, teaching primarily in Interior Architecture. With a BArch from Virginia Tech (USA) and a MArch from Cranbrook Academy of Art (USA), Julieanna’s experience as a professional designer and an academic extends across geographical and discipline boundaries, a factor that continues to figure strongly in her creative work.

Recent publications include INTIMUS: Interior Design Theory Reader (Wiley, 2006) and Moments of Resistance (Archadia Press, 2002), both in collaboration with Mark Taylor. Earlier this year she was the guest editor of AD: Interior Atmospheres, an issue investigating the temporal and material attributes of atmosphere within interior environments.

Her history as a spatial artist is evidenced by numerous group and solo exhibitions: SHEET, Ames Iowa (1994) sponsored by a Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, her finalist entry to the Antemillineum Doll House Competition at the Atlanta Art Museum (1994), Pinned Structure and Folded Surface: Sewing Operations on the Eiffel Tower at RISD Architecture School (2002) and gallery52, Wellington, NZ (2003) and BLAZE at a show called Feminist Practices at Rhode Island School of Design’s BEB Gallery (2008). 

Julieanna is currently melding her background in feminist practices, craft and construction, interiors and landscape in a doctoral study at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.