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

Field of Research includes:

Material practices - digital & analogue hybrids

Regenerative materials

Waste flows from urban arboriculture

Contemporary timber construction (neo-timber)

Current Engagement activity includes:

Live project Lead in BA Arch Year 2 - Lancaster Music Co-operative 2023, Queens Market Morecambe 2024, Telephone House with HPA 2025.

Jateen Lad Architects - collaboration on exhibitions and experimental works for NGO in Pondicherry, India.