Jon Goodbun BA(hons) Dip(arch) MSc MSc
Born: 28th April 1970, London
Teaching Current Positions:
University of Westminster – 0.6 Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Senior Researcher on EU HERA funded project SCIBE: Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment
BA Cultural Context: Contemporary Issues module leader
MSc Environmental Design module leader
contribution to Urban Cultures and Capitalism and Culture modules in English Department
Personal Details:
Architectural Education
2004-ongoing PhD: Ecology and Cybernetics: The Architecture of the Extended Mind
2008 MPhil transfer, University of Westminster
1998-00 MSc Architectural History, Bartlett, UCL, London
1996 MSc Computing and Design, University of East London
1994-96 Diploma in Architecture, University of East London
1989-92 BA(hons) Architecture, PCL/ University of Westminster), London
Secondary Education
1981-86 11 ‘O’ Levels
1986-88 5 ‘A’ Levels (Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Art)
Notable teaching Achievements
Ran Diploma Studio 10 at Westminster from 2000-6. During this period the studio was amongst the first to explore many of the themes which now dominate the architectural scene, including:
1. A renewed engagement with pattern, especially as a register of a mass ornament formed out of the eddies of global information flows, and facilitated by ICT
2. CADCAM driven shifts in the means of production and division of labour in architecture and construction (with particular research emphasis on adjustable concrete formwork)
3. The Environmental Question, framed as a systemic problem, approached through concepts developed out of ecology and cybernetics.
Tutored Awards 2000-6:
Winner Czech Embassy competition, 2005 – Nabil Sherif
2nd Prize Concrete Centre Competition, 2004 – John Hutchinson/Thom Klivert
Winner Pilkington Glass Competition, 2003 – Christine Jamet
Runner Up Corus Competition, 2002 – Robert Du Noyer
Runner Up Corus Competition, 2002 – Giles Lovegrove
3rd Prize Pilkington Glass Competition, 2002 – Nael Evans
CLAWSA prize winner, 2001 – Giles Lovegrove
RIBA Silver Medal winner, Serjeant award winner, SOM prize winner, 2001 – Alexis Kyriakides
Architectural Teaching
2009-10 Diploma Studio leader, UCA Canterbury
2009- ContempoCultural Context module leader, Westminster
2007- BA Dissertation tutor, Brighton and Westminster
2006- contribution to Urban Cultures and Capitalism and Culture modules in English Dept., Westminster
2004- Occasional contributions to Degree Studio Greenwich University
2008 Facilitator and design tutor, Design for Sustainability module, Schumacher College, Devon
2000-6 Diploma Studio 10 leader, Diploma Dissertation tutor, Technical Studies, Westminster
2005 Workshop at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, Germany
2004-5 History and Theory tutor, Bartlett, UCL
2002 Bauhaus-Weimar Summer Academy Studio Tutor, Rome, Italy
2001 Bauhaus-Weimar Summer Academy Studio Tutor, Weimar, Germany
1997-01 Design Tutor, MA Computer Imaging in Architecture,
1999–00 Studio Design Assistant to Andris Berzins, Westminster
1996-98 Studio Design Assistant to John Bell, Westminster
Visiting Critic: AA, Bartlett, Bauhaus Weimar (Germany), Cambridge, Canterbury, De Montford, Greenwich, AdBK Nürnberg (Germany), Oxford Brookes, Princeton (USA), TU Berlin (Germany), Syracuse (London)..
Architectural Practice
2002 – present Co-founded WAG (Working Architecture Group)
Selected projects:
Retail Interior (Sally Greer, London) – contract value £20K
The Refractory (Installation at Building Centre) – contract value £2K
Evaporative Cooling Tower research
YMCA Central London reception area and concrete desk – contract value £100K
Homes For Learning competition – runners up
Any Old St competition– runners up
‘The Good Life Social Ecology’ Europan 2007 – commendation
Open Tables interactive installation at Truman Brewery, Brick Lane
2000-1 Collaboration with Bob Baxter/At Large:
Unknown Amazon exhibition (British Museum, London) – contract value £0.7 million
WHSmith Innovations research team briefed to develop future experience based retail
Jewish Holocaust Memorial Center, Berlin (runners up)
1998-2000 Collaboration with Bob Baxter (At Large, formerly Amalgam) and Atelier One ,
Money Zone Pavilion, Millennium Dome, London
1997-8 FXV.org, London
Various new media projects
1995-7 Sir Norman Foster and Partners, London
Daewoo HQ skyscraper (Soeul, Korea) – contract value $800 million
Sir Norman Foster’s Penthouse (London) – contract value confidential
numerous competitions
1991-94 Planungsburo Fischer, Berlin
Historical Renovation (including Hans Scharoun, Frederic Schinkel, Emil Fahrenkampf)
Max Plank Institute Science Park, Adlershof, Berlin
Other Consultancy:
WHSmith June 2000 : part of sandpit team briefed to develop future experience based
retail environments, run by brand/management consultants Nowhere
Concrete Centre 2004-6: Member of Education Panel, chaired by Alain Haines
British Petroleum April 2007: part of sandpit team briefed to develop eco home leisure experience and off-grid/autonomous energy services, run by brand/management consultants Added Value
Procter and Gamble July 2007: part of sandpit team briefed to develop new scent experience, run by brand/management consultants Added Value
Trusthouse Forte July 2009: part of sandpit team briefed to develop concepts for a new chain of youth market hotels
Conference Papers and Lectures:
Empathising with Bateson: Towards and Ecological conception of Mind, May 2010, Towards a New Science of Consciousnes conference, University of Arizona
Design Activism, May 2010, University of Westminster
The Relation to Nature: Emergence, Pattern, Metabolism, Mind, April 2010, University of Westminster
Gregory Bateson: Ecology, Cybernetics, Aesthetics, February 2010, Cybernetics: From the Ontological Theatre to the Environmental Crisis, Science Technology Culture Research Group Conference, University of Nottingham
Future Scenarios for Architecture, May 2009, SCHOSA London
A New Political Theory of Ecology in Architecture, or, Is the DRL a right wing think-tank!? May 2009, Architectural Association PhD symposium
Ecological Cybernetics, April 2009 RIBA Roadshow, UCA Canterbury
Architecture and Systems, May 2009, Cavendish College, London
Ecological Cybernetics, October 2008 AHRA Agency, University of Sheffield
Eco-Cybernetic Architecture, July 2008 Changing the Change Conference, Milan Polytechnic, Italy
Contemporary Architecture, Nov 2007, University of Brighton
An Introduction to Eco-Cybernetics, Nov 2007, University of Syracuse in London
Building, Ecology and Value, Oct 2007 Guerilla Tactics, RIBA Small Practices conference
Architecture: Profession and Academy, July 2007, Sheffield University
Tafuri: discussion with Andrew Leach and David Cunningham, May 2007 University of Westminster
Architecture and Production, Dec 2006 University of Brighton
Architecture and the Politics of Drawing, Oct 2006 University of Brighton
Contribution to PhD seminar on Tafuri, May 2006, Columbia University, NY
Marx and the Spirit of Technology, Apr 2006 AHRA PhD colloquium, University of Edinburgh
Cybernetic Ecologies, Apr 2006 Spatial Interface Conference, University of Westminster
Spatial Interface – an introduction, Apr 2006 Spatial Interface Conference, University of Westminster
WAG Architecture – current research and practice, Oct 2005 University of Westminster
Network Architecture, May 2005 Architecture-Philosophy Conference, Bradford
WAG Architecture – current research and practice (with Cordula Weisser), May 2005 Akademie der Bildenden
Künste in Nürnberg, Lehrschule fur Architektur
WAG Architecture – current research and practice, Dec 2004 University of Westminster
Marx, Architecture, Modernity – an introduction, University of Westminster, Marx,
Architecture, Modernity conference, May 2004
On the romanticism of immersive technological environments (updated) – May 2004, AHRA, University of
Westminster,
Marx Matters – aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter, April 2004 Material Matters conference, University of East London
On the romanticism of immersive technological environments,June 2003- Bauhaus Weimar Colloquium, Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany)
Architecture and Modernity (with David Cunningham), Feb 2003, English Dept, University of Westminster
Interface Space, Nov 2002, Oxford Brookes University
Kinaesthetic, Cognitive, Iconographic, July 2002, Penn State University/Bauhaus University Weimar in Rome (Italy)
The Experience of Globalisation, May 2001 Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany)
Itinerant Architecture, Oct 1997, Penn State University (USA) (with Karin Jaschke)
Itinerant Architecture, Oct 1997, Princeton University PhD Seminar (USA)1997 (with Karin Jaschke)
Book Chapters
Tower of Winds – Evaporative Cooling Tower in Steve Hardy (ed.) Environmental Tectonics: Forming Climatic Change (London: AA Publications, 2008)
Marx Matters: aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter – in Katie Lloyd-Thomas (ed.) Material Matters (London: Routledge, 2006)
Analogue Computing – Or, How to build a Computer with Rope and Pulleys (with Cordula Weisser and Richard Difford) – in Katie Lloyd-Thomas (ed.) Material Matters (London: Routledge, 2006)
On Surrealism and Architecture (with some stylistic apologies to André Breton) (with David Cunningham), in Samantha Hardingham (ed.) The 1970’s is here and now – AD (London: Willey, 2005)
Means of (re)production – Fame and the changing role of the drawing – (with Karin Jaschke) in Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Paul Davies (eds.), StarArchitecture – An Architects Guide to Fame (London: Architectural Press, 2005)
Towers of Wind, WAG Architecture, in Rachael Stephenson (ed.) Bartlettworks, (2004)
Greer Gallery, WAG Architecture, in Samantha Hardingham (ed.) London Architecture – a guide, (2003)
On the Romanticism of Immersive Technological Environments in Medium Architecture, (Weimar: Bauhaus University Weimar Press, 2003)
InterSpace – a proposal for a communicative prosthetic space in Medium Architecture, (Weimar: Bauhaus University Weimar Press, 2003)
Public Private Pedestrianship – towards a critical experientialism of the inhabitable image, in Karin Jaschke
and Silke Olke (Eds), Stripping Las Vegas, A Contextual Review of Casino Resort Architecture (Weimar: Bauhaus University Weimar Press, 2003)
Journal Articles and Papers
Review of Hijacking Sustainability, by Adrian Parr, in Radical Philosophy 154, March/April 2010
Interview with Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf (with David Cunningham) in Radical Philosophy 154, March/April 2009
be2camp: Systems Thinking and the New Multi-Local Network Paradigm, in RIBA Journal November 2008
The Assasin – A Review of Columbia/Cooper Union Conference: The Critical Legacies of Manfredo Tafuri, in Radical Philosophy June 2006
Marx, Architecture, Modernity (with David Cunningham)– in Journal of Architecture, Summer 2006
Strangers in the City, conference report on Philosophy of Architecture/Architecture of Philosophy, CongressCATH 2004 (with David Cunningham) in Radical Philosophy 128 November/December 2004.
Spacey – Review of books by David Harvey and Stuart Elde (with David Cunningham), in Radical Philosophy 114 July/August 2002
Computation Matter – Review of RIBA Digital Tectonics Future Studies Conference, in Architects’ Journal 18.04.02
Introduction (with David Cunningham, Karin Jaschke), in Journal of Architecture (London: Routledge, Summer 2001)
Brand New Tafuri – some notes on the imaging of spatial demands, in Journal of Architecture (London: Routledge, Summer 2001)
Architecture and the Rain – David Greene in conversation with Jon Goodbun and David
Cunningham, in Journal of Architecture (London: Routledge, Summer 2001)
occasional column for BD Online Green Guru:http://www.bdonline.co.uk/sustain_section.asp?navcode=2975
occasional postings on weblog: www.thepolytechnic.org
Competitions/Awards:
Westminster Research Grant: Ecological Systems Theory, 2009
Tent Urbantine competition Winners, 2008
Europan Commendation, 2007
Westminster Research Grant: Ecological Cybernetics, 2006
Any Old Street urban design competition (final short list and interview), 2004
RIBA Research Grant (£10,000) (contemporary theory of architectural decoration
and concrete formwork using CADCAM) 2004
AJ Small Projects Awards, 2003
Homes for Learning competition, London (special mention), 2002
Jewish Holocaust Memorial Centre invited competition, Berlin (2nd place), 2001
RIBA Tutor Award, 2001
Exhibited Work:
Open Tables exhibition at Nous Gallery, London, Sept 2008
Open Tables installation at the Tent London design event, Sept 2008
Birnbeck Island Bridge Ecology, Weston-Super-Mare, Dec 2007
BD Coolwall (Fenn St eco house), 100% Detail, Earls Court, Sept 2007
Sustainable London (Fenn St eco house, Exchange bar and gallery, Evaporative Cooling Tower) Building Centre, London, Jan 2007
Contribution to Project 142 Recycling exhibition, Sailmakers House, London, 2006
The Refractory, installation in Any Colour You Like – Building Centre, London, 2003
Contribution to AJ Small Projects Awards -RIBA, London 2003
Contribution to Homes for Learning – Barking Town Hall, August 2002, and Cube Gallery
Manchester, Sept 2002
Contribution to Urban Picnic (with Stephen Leighton) – Aedas Gallery, Berlin, July 1999
Lewisham Park Proposal (with John Bell and Kevin Rhowbotham)- Lewisham Town Hall, 1995
Contribution to Invaliden Strasse Gallery, 1993
Conferences Organised:
Spatial Interface – architecture and technology, (co-organised with the AVATAR group at the Bartlett UCL, and Mark Burry/SIAL (RMIT)), University of Westminster, March 31st/1st April 2005
Marx, Architecture, Modernity (with David Cunningham), April 2004
Fantasy Space: Architecture and Surrealism (with David Cunningham, David Lomas, Peg Rawes), Institute for the study of Surrealism and its’ legacies, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, September 2003 –
Returns of the Avant Garde (with David Cunningham, Karin Jaschke) University of Westminster, Nov 2000
Art Demands Community (with David Cunningham) University of Westminster, Feb 1998
