Education
Cairns studied architecture at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Lincoln.
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Graham Cairns
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He researches and publishes on architecture and its relationship with visual culture and socio-politics. He has delivered talks, taught, ran workshops. And held various positions at universities across the world including Oxford University, United Kingdom, Columbia University, United States of America, and the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, United Kingdom. His doctorate examined the relationship between advertising and commercial architecture and was awarded by the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
lieutenant was later developed into a book, In 1995 he founded and ran the United Kingdom based performance arts company Hybrid Artworks specializing in spatial installation and multi media performance.
He lived in Spain between 2000-2005 and published his first book in Spanish: In this role he has organised academic conferences internationally with events in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Cyprus and Australia. Examples include 2014 events in both London and Los Los Angeles
Interview-articles have been published by authors such as Noam Chomsky, Kenneth Frampton, Daniel Libeskind and Michael Sorkin. He has also established a resource repository as part of a collaboration between librarians and academics.
He is the author and editor six published books on architecture, design, film and advertising.
He has published in English and Spanish and his work has also been translated to French. Cairns has two areas of research: i) Architecture in its socio-cultural context. Ii) Architecture and Visual Culture.
Through AMPS he runs two research and publication programs that align with these areas of expertise.
Housing – Critical Futures is a three year long programme of conferences, publications and workshops operating over ten countries. lieutenant was launched in 2015.
The Mediated City is a programme launched in 2014 that examines the role of technologies and medias on urban design, experience and living. As part of these research programmes he has initiated book series with Intellect Book, Bristol.
Libri Publishing, Oxfordshire.
And University College London Press, London.
Politics
He is the founder and director of the research organisation AMPS Architecture Media Politics Society. He is Executive Editor of its associated peer-reviewed scholarly journal Architecture_MPS, ISSN 2050-9006, published by University College London Press. In 2011 he founded the research organisation Architecture Media Politics Society and its associated journal.
He has also developed a new genre of academic publication – the ‘interview-article’.
