Speakers

Piers Taylor is an Architect, Professor of Knowledge Exchange in Architecture at UWE and the author of ‘Learning from the Local’ which argues that architecture gains meaning, resilience, and relevance not by representing place through style or tradition, but by working relationally with local materials, ecologies, cultures, and communities through processes of care, participation, and ongoing adaptation. He is also founder of Invisible Studio, a multi-award-winning architecture practice that has been published widely and internationally, operating through collaboration, experimentation, research and education. Invisible Studio’s work includes the major cultural centre ‘East Quay’ designed for the social enterprise ‘Onion Collective’ as well as multiple experimental projects for Westonbirt Arboretum and the Architectural Association’s Hooke Park in Dorset. He studied originally in Sydney, and lives between a 100 acre woodland in Somerset and an Olive Grove in Greece.