Penny Lewis

Penny Lewis is a lecturer at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. She is a founding member of the AE Foundation (http://aefoundation.co.uk) and she writes for newspapers and architectural publications.

Her work includes; Challenging Contextualism (2004) and Curious Rationalism (2006). She is co-author of In Defence of the Dome (1999), and contributed a chapter to Future of the Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (2008).

Related Sessions
Saturday 19 October 2013, 1.30pm Cinema 3

Publications

Style: In Defence of Metabolism (Machine Books 2016)

Drinking by numbers: should we count our alcohol units?

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