Biography

Chloe Street Tarbatt is Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP) at the University of Kent. She is a Senior Lecturer and an ARB registered qualified architect. Chloe studied architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art in London, where she won the annual industry award (Transco) and was nominated for the RIBA President’s Medals. She went on to work for a number of high-profile award-winning architectural practices including Dixon.Jones in London and de Blacam and Meagher in Ireland, gaining experience across a range of high profile cultural and educational projects. She was project architect for ‘Abbeyleix Library’; a community library, gallery, and civic space, which has won a number ofawards including RIBA, Civic Trust awards, and the RIAI Silver Medal for conservation in 2019.    

Chloe has taught widely across the BA and MArch design programme at ADP since 2012. She is interested in the psychology of space and how we can create environments that improve human interaction and quality of life through both their spatial organisation and material properties. She has a particular interest in working on architectural and urban scale projects that bring communities together and play a larger social role in society.She co-authored a book with Jonathan Tarbatt; ‘The Urban Block’ (RIBA Publishing, 2020) investigating the social implications of urban form and block/plot configurations, which won the Urban Design Group Book Award in 2021.

Biography

An ARB registered architect and chartered member of the RIBA, Richards has been MArch Programme Director at the Kent School of Architecture and Planning since 2008. Between 2004 and 2008 Richards held the position of Assistant Professor of Architecture at Oklahoma State University, USA.  He has been an invited guest critic at University of California at Berkeley, USA; Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Lille, France; University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; State University of New York University at Buffalo, USA.  As a practicing architect, amongst other roles Richards was the project architect for the office wing of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects’ House of Straw, a building that has won international awards and media attention. He was also lead-designer for the interior fit-out of all public railcars for the Marlboro Unlimited a $90M custom cruise-train built in Denver CO, USA.  Richards holds an undergraduate BA(Hons), and Postgraduate Diploma in Architecture (Dip ARCH) with commendations for both design and technology, from Kingston University. He also holds a Certificate in Professional Practice and Management, from the Bartlett, University College London.     His individual design work has been exhibited at the RIBA. He was nominated for the Gradus Detail Prize in 1994.  In academia Richards is a keen advocate of student life and has been Staff Advisor to the Kent Architectural Student Association (KASA) since 2008, offering guidance to, and advocating for, this rapidly growing student organisation.

Biography

Kay is an architect, curator, and a founding director of Bettie Blue Ltd. He teaches architectural design, professional practice, and history & theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he leads a seminar on 'Beauty and the Ethics of Aesthetics', BSc Y2, and a module on 'Architectural Future(s),' MSci Y4.  He has taught architecture, theory and urban design at the University of Kent, Coventry University and Ravensbourne University London. Kay is an associate researcher at the Kent School of Architecture and Planning, and co-editor of Intra Chatham, a research project developed at the University of Kent in association with Medway Council and Historic England. 

Sedki was the former editor of Interruptions, Jordan, and was shortlisted for King Abdullah II Award for Innovation, and nominated as a global changemaker at the World Economic Forum, Dead Sea, 2010. He studied architecture at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, the Architectural Association School in London, and the University of Kent. He is a member of the Architectural Association.