As an undergraduate design tutor, my teaching approach has been that of enabler and advisor, encouraging students in the early stages of their architectural careers to develop their own critical and conceptual approaches to architectural design. My studio-teaching has been shaped by my experience as designer, practitioner, academic and writer and my aim in first year teaching has been to nurture independent, confident thinkers and communicators who are self motivated, experimental and imaginative and who are equipped to develop design proposals with rigour and integrity.

Design education combines creative and analytical skills and knowledge and this applies equally to studio project work and other forms of architectural discourse. As an historian I am interested in the critical use of sources to construct and communicate an evidenced argument. As a dissertation supervisor I encourage students to approach their subjects critically and reflectively in order to be confident of their own intellectual position, while developing the key skills necessary for research practice and scholarship. A critical and reflective approach is also encouraged by me in my taught masters teaching, where I invite students to examine, for example, the impact of policy development on conservation practice, or to develop their own philosophical approach to conservation of the built environment by appraising the approaches and principles of others.

Until June 2011 I was design tutor in the first year undergraduate studio. I continue to teach at undergraduate level but I am now Programme Director for the MA in Conservation and Regeneration which I co-founded with John Paul Walker. I coordinate and teach on a number of taught masters modules including ARC 6873 Conservation and Regeneration Policy and Law, ARC 6874 Conservation and Regeneration Principles and Approaches, ARC 6876 Dissertation (Conservation and Regeneration) and I contribute to ARC 6871, ARC 6872, and ARC 572. As a member of the Humanities team, I supervise 3rd year undergraduate special studies and MArch dissertations (ARC 322, ARC 556-566). I also supervise PhD students.

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for the School of Architecture
Departmental Library Coordinator

I am fascinated by the everyday spaces that we inhabit and the influences that affect the continual renewal and adaptation of space and place. As an architect I am interested in how and why things are made.

I work within an architectural historical framework and continue to pursue interests initiated during my research degree and informed by professional practice.

My PhD thesis considered the historical development of shop typologies and the role of commercial architecture in transforming the high street. The study charted the emergence of different forms of retailing and documented the relationships between business practice, social practices and buildings.

By reflecting on those long-term social and economic processes that have shaped our built environment, I believe we can contextualise and interpret the present. I am currently investigating the various forces that have historically influenced or directed built form, addressing, for example, customary practices and typologies, construction, scale, ownership, finance and political agency. I am particularly looking at the emergence of commercial building forms in from the Victorian period onward with the aim of better understanding the influences, powers and controls that have shaped and continue to shape our buildings and cities.

I am also interested in the relationship between conservation and regeneration and the balance that exists between the preservation of our built and cultural heritage and its remaking and renewal into viable and sustainable places. Conservation-, context- and community-led regeneration implies a sustainable approach to heritage management and I am interested in case studies that demonstrate this. Likewise, I am concerned to broaden our understanding of the interaction between conservation and design philosophies and approaches as these continue to have a significant impact on the ways in we relate to our built and cultural heritage.

My previous research project with Professor Neil Jackson (University of Liverpool) investigated the development of Saltaire in West Yorkshire. A British Academy small research grant in 2003 enabled us to explore the form and planning of the model industrial town founded by Titus Salt in the 1850s. This study Saltaire: Building Morphology and social hierarchy was shortlisted for the RIBA President's Research Awards: Outstanding University-led Research in 2006 and was published in an expanded form in 2010.

Faculty Devolved Fund Grant Award (£1200): A spatial and historical analysis of the origins and impact of speculative commercial property development: a pilot study in Leeds; current project.

Shuntaro Nozawa, PhD student (Sept 2011 - )

I am an ARB registered architect. I hold associate membership of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. I am a member of SPAB.

I have peer reviewed for Building Research and Information Journal, acted as an Independent Peer Reviewer for the Arts and Humanities Research Council and peer-reviewed book proposals for Routledge.

Jackson, Lintonbon, Staples, Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town, (Spire Books, 2010)

Lintonbon, J., (Conference Paper, September 2009), ‘Identity and memory: experiencing local history through the built environment’, presented at 2009 Architectural Design and Global Difference Conference: The multiple faces of identity in the designed environment, Nottingham Trent University

Lintonbon, J., (Conference Paper, September 2009), ‘The nineteenth century high street in Sheffield: a spatial and architectural analysis’, presented at 2009 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution Conference, University of Wolverhampton.

Lintonbon, J., 'Designer shopping: The Development of the department store in nineteenth century Sheffield' in Materialising Sheffield: Place Culture, Identity, ed. by Sharon MacDonald, (e-book published by HRI online, 2006)  http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/matshef/

Lintonbon, J., `Place and Space´ in Building Clouds, Drifting Walls. Year One Design Studio: A Critical Appraisal, ed. by Ruth Morrow and others, (Bank of Ideas Publications, 2003)

Blundell Jones, Williams and Lintonbon, `The Sheffield Urban Study Project´, ARQ, 3, 3, (1999), pp. 235-244.

Lintonbon, J., and Williams, A., `Common ground on Campus´, The Architects´ Journal, 207, 22, (1998), pp. 33-36