Perhaps now more than ever before, we are all aware of the built environment that surrounds us, and of the impacts it has on the health of individuals, communities, and the planet. The Architecture of Place series brings together the established and emerging voices working to create a better built future.
From December 2024 through February 2025, the 蜜桃传媒app, , and will co-host The Architecture of Place: In Conversation with..., a series of interviews featuring three architects and scholars from different backgrounds and points of view: John Smylie, Tiffany Abernathy, and Dr. Patricia Canelas. Over the three-part series, each speaker will have the chance to play the role of both interviewer and interviewee. In each installment, one of the three architects will be interviewed by one of the others about the influences, experiences, and projects that have led to their design perspective on the architecture of place. At the end of each session, students from partnering university departments will pose additional questions to the speakers, followed by an open Q&A with attendees.
The programs are free and open for public registration, and recorded versions of the programs will be made available to all.
In this iteration of the series, Tiffany Abernathy will interview Dr. Patricia Canelas about her scholarship and design perspectives.
Patricia Canelas is Course Director and a Lecturer for the at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. Previously Patricia has held academic positions at the University College London and University of Reading in the UK, and at Escola Superior de Actividades Imobili谩rias and Universidade Cat贸lica in Portugal. Prior to her academic roles, Patricia worked as an architect and urban planner and continues to work in policy making and analysis at local and national levels in and the .
Her research and teaching seek to advance knowledge on the dynamic relationship between the public, private and civic sectors involved in the governance of value creation (or destruction) and capture through the built environment. This includes exploring how the different sectors share responsibilities, how and why roles and responsibilities shift, the fundamental values of each sector, their knowledge sources, and the relative power of each side.
Intellectually, Patricia is interested in speaking across the disciplines of urban planning, urban design, and real estate, to discuss the fundamental values of the public, private and civic sectors, and how the different sectors conceptualise and engage with sustainable urban development. She has been involved in international research projects in China, US, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, Scotland and England.
She holds a PhD in Planning from the Bartlett, UCL, UK (2017) a Master鈥檚 in Architecture from University of California, Berkeley, US (2008), a postgraduate degree in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design from Universidade Cat贸lica (2006) and a 5-year degree in Architecture from Universidade Lus铆ada, Portugal (2001).