Victoria Watson is the director of Doctor Watson Architecture (DWA) and a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Westminster. She has contributed articles about mind and matter in Modern and Contemporary art and architecture and about colour theory to a variety of journals and magazines. In 2010 she won a Rome scholarship for her AIR Grid work and in 2012 her book, Utopian Adventure: the Corviale Void was published. Her AIR Grid structures, derived from the study of /atmosphere/ in avant-garde painting and architecture, have sometimes been exhibited in venues in London.
Work
University of Westminster
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Royal College of Art
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Tutor to ADS5
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Education
University College London
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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PhD
University College London
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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MSc Architecture (History)
Polytechnic of Central London
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Diploma in Architecture
University College London
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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BSc Architecture
Publications
Flying Circus 015: Haunting - Whitehead & Mies
book
Space-Time and Architecture
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
journal-article
Doctor Watson Architects on Vimeo
DWA
other
Doctor Watson Architects: AIR Grid Installations
other
Finite Impossibilities
book
Doctor Watson Architects on Vimeo
DWA
other
YYOG
other
GreenBelt
other
Strolling the College of Colour
other
WALL TEST #01
other
/ATMOSPHERE/ The Origin of Air Grid
book
Gangue Architecture
other
Sofia Singler, The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto
Journal of Historic Buildings and Places
journal-article
Space Station Croydon: HIstory of the Space Station Idea
other
ARISTIPPIANS #01
other
MaKMaR
other
NNGLeaps
other
Harwood, Elain, Brutalist Britain, Buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
Journal of Historic Buildings and Places
journal-article
An Inquiry into the Architectural Identity of Herzog & de Meuron: A study of their Tate Modern, London, and the Museum of the Twentieth Century, Berlin, competition events and design strategies
Journal of Historic Buildings and Places
journal-article
ICW_V1_firsts_image 3_bottom right (16.jpg)
other
Design Practices
book
Propositions: The Architecture School
book
Doctor Watson Architects: Incomplete Works Volume Five
book
Restoration, Expansion and the Building Art: Contemporary Issues in the Life of Mies van der Rohe’s Museum of Modern Art (New National Gallery) in Berlin
Journal of Historic Buildings and Places
journal-article
Utopia Re-Visited: Post-Crash New Town
artistic-performance
Weaving an Air Grid 01
artistic-performance
Stevenage New Town Tabloids
other
A Single Chemist's Shelf
invention
Technologies of Care: Thought, Cardboard and Silver Paint
other
Architecture and Faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
book-chapter
After Belonging: Architecture, Nation, Difference
book
Architecture and Faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
book-chapter
Puffer Tank
other
SCREEN WALL
invention
TAFURI (DIGITAL)
other
TAFURI (LIVE)
other
Doctor Watson Architects, Incomplete Works Volume Four
book
A Nuclear Bomb Memorial
other
Doctor Watson Architects: Incomplete Works Volume Three
book
Sea Hotels
other
Trace: Translating Bankside Air Raid Shelter through Material and Spatial Tracings
book-chapter
An Eco Museum for Stevenage
invention
Construction Voids
other
Percussion Animation
other
A Grid with a Brain
other
am skyscraper series #1
other
A New Skyscraper Concept
other
Switch Beetles
other
DS2_6 Heritage to Helios: Six Projects, Hannah Ismail, Jason (Chan) Lai, Amber Collinson, Joe Robinson, Yuen-Wah Williams, Will Pope
other
AIR Grid: LARISSA
other
Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume One
AIR Grid Publications
book
AIR Grid: NEREID
other
FABLAB FabLab
other
Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Two
AIR Grid Publications
book
AIR Grid: TRITON
other
Architecture and Faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
National Identities
journal-article
Architecture and Faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
National Identities
journal-article
Doctor Watson Architects: Incomplete Works Volume Two
AIR Grid Publications
book
AIR Grid LAOMEDEIA
other
AIR Grid NESO
other
AIR Grid HALIMEDE
other
AIR Grid PROTEUS
other
AIR Grid GALATEA
other
AIR Grid DESPINA
other
AIR Grid THALASSA
other
AIR Grid NAIAD
other
ppF: sensation of a person in space/Chry&Co
other
Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi & Raymond Roussel
other
Doctor Watson Architects: The Architecture School
other
UNOVIS to Bauhaus: Malevich's Theory of Education
other
20th Century Avant-garde and Architecture: Mies van der Rohe's unbuilt design for the City of London
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
journal-article
20th Century Avant-garde and Architecture: Mies van der Rohe's unbuilt design for the City of London
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
journal-article
Car Park to Cosmos
website
LFA 2019: AIR Grid - Four Aristippian Structures
other
Bringing AIR Grid to the London Metropolitan Area
other
Trace: Design Project and Critical Reflection
Architecture and Culture
journal-article
Mies & Stirling in the City
Architectural Histories: The open access journal of the EAHN
journal-article
AIR Grid museum without balustrades, two animations
other
/ATMOSPHERE/
School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster
book
/ATMOSPHERE/
School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster
book
Team AIR Grid (CCC): Fab Fest 2018
Fab Fest, University of Westminster 2018
artistic-performance
Team AIR Grid (CCC): Fab Fest 2018
Fab Fest, University of Westminster 2018
artistic-performance
Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi and Raymond Roussel (full article & slideshow of images)
book-chapter
Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi and Raymond Roussel
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the European Architectural History Network
journal-article
Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi and Raymond Roussel
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the European Architectural History Network
conference-paper
Rurality and Minimal Architecture: An Inquiry into the Genealogy of Tate Modern’s Bankside Gallery Spaces
ARENA Journal of Architectural Research
journal-article
Rurality and Minimal Architecture: An Inquiry into the Genealogy of Tate Modern’s Bankside Gallery Spaces
ARENA Journal of Architectural Research
journal-article
AIR Grid: Exhibition Extract
other
AIR Grid: Partial Recall
other
Doctor Watson Architects: AIR Grid Transnational
other
Doctor Watson Architects: Bots, Collection
other
Review of: Mies van der Rohe + James Stirling: Circling the Square, The Architecture Gallery, RIBA, March 8 to June 25, 2017
Architectural Histories: The open access journal of the EAHN
journal-article
Trace: Design Project and Critical Reflection
other
Hatching: Piranesi & Tafuri
AIR Grid Publications
book
Hatching: Piranesi & Tafuri
AIR Grid Publications
book
Haunting: Whitehead & Mies
AIR Grid Publications
book
Haunting: Whitehead & Mies
AIR Grid Publications
book
Doctor Watson Architects: Classic AIR Grid, Collection
other
Doctor Watson Architects: Plasma Department, Collection
other
Doctor Watson Architects: Publications in the History & Theory of Architecture
other
The Earth is Flat and Square: Yves Klein’s Paintings of Thunderclouds
book-chapter
Maison Bruell
other
Reflections on Trace
other
Blue moments
other
Brown and Blue Airs
other
On the Matter and Intelligence of the Architectural Model: Arthur Schopenhauer’s Psychophysiological Theory of Architecture and Konrad Wachsmann’s Design of a Space Structure
ARENA Journal of Architectural Research
journal-article
On the Matter and Intelligence of the Architectural Model: Arthur Schopenhauer’s Psychophysiological Theory of Architecture and Konrad Wachsmann’s Design of a Space Structure
AJAR: Arena Journal of Architectural Research
journal-article
AIR Grid: Mock-up for an exhibition on the bridge
other
Big Air World Bots 1
other
Big Air World Bots 2
other
BluBot
other
Botvert
other
City of Unimaginable Subjects: 01, 02 & 03
other
Cosmological leaps
other
Doctor Watson Architects: Corviale, Collection
other
Flying into Space
other
PolBot & BotPol
other
gold X in a storm
other
Twentieth Century Modern Architecture and the Countryside
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
journal-article
Twentieth Century Modern Architecture and the Countryside
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
journal-article
CO & CHRY
other
COBRA
other
M & CO
other
Nineteen Cosmological Leaps
other
OORY
other
T A Q
invention
Twelve Cosmological Leaps - series 01
other
Twelve Cosmological Leaps - series 02
other
Making an Air Grid
other
Off Grid
artistic-performance
Three Towers
other
Three Towers Watching
other
Colour Sensation and Empathy
Architectural Theory Review
journal-article
Beyond Suprematism, 01
other
Flying Circus 014: Hatching - Piranesi & Tafuri
book
Tokamak City - Hello, Kepler 62f
other
Tokamak City - Orange Mine
other
Tokamak City - Microstructure, House Block
other
Achilles Turning and Peleus Turning
other
Flying Circus 012+1: The Prehistoric House
research-tool
Colour Sensation and Empathy: Arthur Schopenhauer's Negative Philosophy and Colour Theory as the Basis of an Elemental Colour Architecture
Architectural Theory Review
journal-article
Flying Circus 012: The Four Elements
research-tool
Flying Circus 012+1: The Prehistoric House
book
A New Temple Landscape
P.E.A.R (Paper for Emerging Research in Architecture)
journal-article
A New Temple Landscape
P.E.A.R. (Paper for Emerging Architecture Research)
journal-article
Flying Circus 011: Formal Models
research-tool
Flying Circus 011: Formal Models
book
Flying Circus 010: The Marriage of Lumen & Lux
research-tool
Flying Circus 012: The Four Elements
book
Flying Circus 010: The Marriage of Lumen & Lux
book
Utopian Adventure: The Corviale Void
book
The demonstrators - six colour forms & their antiforms: Marilyn & Antim / Polia & Antip / Olivia & Antio / Chrystophene & Antichry / Vectorah & Antiv / Cobra & Antico
book
Utopian Adventure: The Corviale Void
book
The locus inside
AA Files: annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture
journal-article
The Architecture of Looking
other
Pictorial Grids
The Journal of Architecture
journal-article
Problems of painting and building in architecture introduction
The Journal of Architecture
journal-article
Pictorial grids: reading the buildings of Mies van der Rohe through the paintings of Agnes Martin
The Journal of Architecture
journal-article
Air grid: five houses and some curious ideas - an interpretation of the fold
other
Air grid: the city of unimaginable subjects
other
Air grid: five houses
Colour: Design and Creativity
journal-article
Air grid: a new colour form
Colour: Design and Creativity
journal-article
On drawing forth, designs and ideas
book-chapter
How Henri Lefebvre missed the modernist sensibility of Mies van der Rohe: vitalism at the intersection of a materialist conception of space and a metaphysical approach to architecture
Journal of Architecture
journal-article
The Cotton Caves @ Stevenage New Town
Architectural Design Research
journal-article
The big air world: from 'cotton' to 'air'
Architectural Design
journal-article
Mies van der Rohe: drawing in space
book-chapter
Mies van der Rohe: a drawing and a letter to a client