Nick Tyson
Senior Lecturer in ArchitectureResearch Overview
Nick is a UK registered Architect, Teacher, and Maker. He has extensive industry experience in the fields of design and architecture, working at a range of scales from products, furniture, interiors to bespoke buildings and set construction for television.
In parallel to running a design practice in Manchester he has taught and directed academic programmes at leading Schools of Architecture across the UK before joining LICA in 2022.
These complementary fields of activity are connected by ‘design through making’ which provides a framework for open-ended experiment and radical pedagogies that drive innovation.
Current work takes a particular interest in regenerative and closed loop material flows, combining digital and analogue design tools to address production impacts and the depletion of global resources.
Current Teaching
Current academic teaching includes:
Design Studio Module Year 2
Architectural Technology Module Year 2
Current academic leadership includes:
Undergraduate Architectural Technology Lead
BA Architecture Year 2 Lead
Profile
Nick has held academic leadership and teaching roles at Manchester School of Architecture, The Bartlett UCL, Sheffield School of Architecture and Leeds School of Architecture. These roles have been focused within the fields of Design Studio and Architectural Technology. He has also led live installation projects in the public realm that include: Summer Pavilion at Manchester Museum and a OFF-CUT - a prototype environment at Fritz Hansen Showroom for the London Design Festival.
He has extensive experience in Architectural Practice in London including Dixon Jones Architects, Squire & Partners, Wright & Wright Architects and Tonkin Liu Architects in Hong Kong. Projects include award winning cultural buildings: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The Women’s Library, Aldgate East, in London and Broadway Arts Cinema, Mong Kok, in Hong Kong.
He is a founding partner of Chung Tyson Architects; an interdisciplinary design studio and workshop established in Manchester in 2001. Projects are often designed, made and installed and include: workshop house, garden studio and micro apartment located in London & Manchester. CT Workshop have also provided construction management services, installing sets for TV production in the UK and Overseas France.
Research Interests
Matter & Making
Field of Research includes:
Material practices - digital & analogue hybrids
Regenerative materials
Waste flows from urban arboriculture
Contemporary timber construction (neo-timber)
Carbon footprint
Circularity
Current Engagement Activity includes:
Lancaster Music Co-operative, United Kingdom -
Live project Lead in BA Arch Year 2
Jateen Lad Architects, Pondicherry, India -
Collaboration on exhibition and experimental works
- Imagination Lancaster
- Makers
- School of Architecture