Faculty Member, Faculty of Arts and Architecture
Senior Lecturer
Thesis Title: The Language of Space and Practice
About
Luis Diaz has been involved in a combination of practice, teaching and research for 14 years. His research based practice, Brooklyn Architects Collective, founded in 1993 carried out urban design research for the New York City Municipal Arts Society and the Greenpoint/Williamsburg Waterfront Coalition. In 1998 the practice was a selected prize winner and received a certificate of merit from the Van Alen Institute for their proposal for the Brooklyn Waterfront in the Van Alen East River Competition.
In addition, the practice carried out small residential and commercial design projects. These two disparate practices (and scales) generated an interest in research focusing on small scale everyday practices and spaces as a generator of programmes and propositions for urban scale problems.
Diaz has taught design and computer technology at the New York Institute of Technology, history and theory at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and is now a senior lecturer in Design and Histories Theories Issues in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton.
