The University of Sheffield
School of Architecture
Julia Udall
  • MAUD Sharrow Exhibition Spring 2010
    MAUD Sharrow Exhibition Spring 2010
  • MAUD and TUM workshop spring 2010
    MAUD and TUM workshop spring 2010

BArch, MArch (dist)

I am currently a design tutor, PhD Candidate and a director of social enterprise architecture practice, Studio Polpo. I am interested in exploring the relationship and overlaps that exist between architectural design, theory and practice within the profession, institution and the city.

I studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow (2003) and Sheffield University (2007). I have worked in architectural practice for 8 years on a range of projects including heritage, educational and community buildings both in Sheffield and London. I am an active initiating member of the Save Portland Works campaign and the Distinctive Sharrow Action Group.

Teaching Activities

Since 2009 I have been a Design Tutor on Masters in Urban Design and have been involved in the MAAD and MAUD participation module since 2010. The Sheffield MA in Urban Design programme is characterized through a strong design focus, the integration of participation and participatory design processes, and an international relevance combined with regional appliance. My involvement in the programme includes the studio-based design work with individual and group tutorials; block seminars and workshops and the `Live Projects´ involving real clients and real community projects.

Since 2008 I have been a Tutor for the Landscape Undergraduate module, ‘Sustainable Urban Environments’. This module considers the nature of city environments, focusing on the role of spaces between buildings and urban green-spaces in creating sustainable urban environments including their physical, biological, cultural and social aspects and the psychology of urban perception.

I have been involved as an initiator, client and sometimes mentor with a variety of ‘Live Projects’ with a number of Sheffield University Departments which have real clients and briefs; each explores how different subjects consider issues of space, architecture, identity and representation. These include the MArch Architecture Programme ‘Live Projects ‘, The English Undergraduate ‘Sense of Place’ Module, the History MA live project placement and the MA in Sustainable Studies Module ‘Climate Sensitive Environmental Design’. I hope to continue to develop these cross-disciplinary relationships which hopefully provide stimulating modules for students, linking theory and practice and help participants gain a greater understanding of the city in which they are studying.

Research Interests

I am currently working towards my PhD by Design ‘Tools to create agency in contested urban spaces’. I am interested in representation, activism and participation in architecture and explore this through collaborative activist research.

I am part of the research group ‘Lines of Flight’ and take an active role in the post graduate school.

Grants, Awards, & Consultancy

2011

  • Studio Polpo, Ambassador practice for Architecture Foundation exchange programme for talented emerging architects between the UK and Finland for 2011

2010

  • Awarded Full Faculty Studentship for PhD study, Sheffield University
  • Reimaging Portland Works [Partner Little Sheffield Development Trust) KT Rapid Response GRANT, TUoS £ 9,500.00

2007

  • RIBA Silver Medals: High Commendation for MArch Dissertation "Architecture by Other Means: Instances of representation and participation"
Publications

‘Opposing practices: Making claims to the ‘Works’ in a post-industrialised northern English city’ in Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou, Nishat Awan (eds.) Trans Local Act, Cultural Practices Within and Across (aaa- peprav , 2011), ISBN: 978-2-9530751-13

‘Re-imagining Portland Works’ Cerulli, C. & Udall, J., 2011, Sheffield: Antenna Press. ISBN: 1908441003

‘Taking Control: Case Studies of Collectively Conceived and Produced Community Facilities’ Cerulli, C. & Udall, J. eds., 2011, Sheffield: Antenna Press (forthcoming.).

‘Distinctive Sharrow’, Chapter in Atelier d´Architecture Autogeree (eds.) – Urban Act: handbook for alternative practice and research in the city (aaa-peprav, 2007), ISBN:978-2-9530751-0-6

‘Knowledge Economies’ (with Sarah Hollingworth), ‘Useful and Non-useful Knowledge’ + ‘Declarations of Interdependence’ in, Tyszczuk, R., Ed. Architecture and Interdependence: Mappings and Explorations by Studio Six, (Shed, Cambridge, 2007) ISBN 978-0-9557534-0-4

‘IYO’ The Inconspicuous Yellow Office ZINE, PEPRAV, available at http://learningarchitecture.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/final-pdf-a3-zine.pdf