I teach Humanities throughout the school, i coordinate the BA and M.Arch dissertations, and coordinate Research Training for PhD and PGT students in the Graduate School.

My approach to teaching is informed by my broader research interests, which pursue the influence of critical theories on a range of architectural situations; in practice this is reflected in modules such as Urban (Hi)stories (which I jointly co-ordinate with Dr. Florian Kossak), which explores a wider range of approaches to understanding the city than conventional Urban Design courses. My recent M.Arch studios have similarly reflected this approach: Fast & Slow Architecture (2007, co-taught with artist Jez Noond) explored issues of temporality and urbanism informed by the writings of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and others. Meshworks (2009) developed around the writings of Manuel DeLanda, and All the Fun of the Fair (2010) was informed by my current work on the architecture of the traveling street fair.

My research area broadly encompasses art, architectural and critical theory and examines the questions that such theoretical projects can raise about particular moments of architectural and artistic practice. A developing methodology has brought together aspects of theory with a wide range of practical work including Mediaeval Breton architecture, ring-roads and the work of contemporary artists. In particular, I have undertaken research on the artist Gordon Matta-Clark, about whom I have now spoken and published extensively. This work has been supported by two grants from the British Academy, and culminated in a monograph published by I. B. Tauris. Tauris are also publishing my monograph on the artist Helen Chadwick, the result of support initially from the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, which funded my archival work on the Helen Chadwick collection in the HMI Archive, and more recently from an AHRC Study Leave Grant.

More recently, I have been developing my research interests and approach towards a more collaborative situation. I was a founder member of The Agency Research Centre, based in the School of Architecture at The University of Sheffield (2009). I have also become involved in a number of collaborative projects with staff elsewhere in the university, including with Professor Vanessa Toulmin (National Fairground Archive), working on the architecture of fairgrounds, an ongoing project that has attracted funding from the University and RIBA Research Trust Award. I am also working with parties outside the university; The Seven Sites project, together with artists Steve Pool and Kate Genever and with Amanda Ravetz of MIRIAD, MMU, received an Arts Council grant in April 2010 to support the development of an application to the AHRC network fund involving partners various five institutions including Sheffield, Manchester Metropolitan, Loughborough, Aberdeen, and the RCA, representing a range of disciplines (Architecture, Visual Arts, Anthropology, Geography, Archaeology and Education) and seven independent artists.

My research and teaching has increasingly been addressing urban issues. From early work on urban peripheries and ring-roads, I have, with colleagues, been developing both undergraduate and postgraduate courses with an urban focus; our level three Urban (Hi)stories module is now well established, and is the subject of a joint publication in preparation with Florian Kossak.

British Academy Small Grant, Gordon Matta-Clark: Discrete Violations, 2001, £1760, Stephen Walker

Leonardo network grant, Threshold Project, 2005, £1500, Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng and Stephen Walker

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, (Alvar Aalto Academy 2nd International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture, Jyväskylä, Finland) 2005, £350, Stephen Walker

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Support in kind for archival research, plus £200 travel, Stephen Walker

AHRC Research Leave Scheme, Helen Chadwick: Thinking Between Art and Architecture, 2007, £26,820.00, Stephen Walker

Knowledge Transfer Opportunities Fund, "An Architectural Vehicle for Curating Sheffield", £8986.00

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, (Cultural Landscape (European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design EURAU’08)) January 2008, £200, Stephen Walker

CILASS (Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences) IBL Grant, Integrating Study Skills in the Architectural Curriculum, August 2008, £3960.00.

CILASS (Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences) IBL Grant, The Theory Forum; Critical Pedagogy , 2009, £3960.00.

CILASS Conference Grant, Learning & Information Literacy Association Annual International Conference (LILAC), Cardiff, 31st March—1st April 2009.

CILASS Conference Grant, ARCLIB (Architecture Librarians' Group) conference, Cardiff, 8th July 2009.

Faculty Devolved Research Fund £1100 July 2009

RIBA Research Trust Award, Understanding the Architecture of the Travelling Street Fair, 2012, £9928.

Conference organiser: Body-Space, Architecture and the Contemporary Body, University of Sheffield, April 2003

Conference organiser: Agency, AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) International conference, University of Sheffield, November 2008

Conference organiser: AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) Annual Research Student Symposium, University of Sheffield, 22nd October 2010

Dr. Nadia Mounajjed, Rethinking the Body, Memory and Architecture in the Age of Digital Techtonics (with Chengzhi Peng) Completed, 2007.

Dr. Seyed Nader Pourmosavi, Urban Renewal Policies: A Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal Policies in Iran, 1286–1400 AH/1907–2020 AD. Completed 2011

Ruth Blacksell, The Use of Typology and the Document in British and American Conceptual Art during the 1960s and 1970s (Concordat Scholarship Studentship)

Paula McCloskey, Maternal Experience, Subjectivity and Art Encounters (with Jenny Hockey, Professor of Sociology)

Catherine Heatherington, Disordered Narratives: Public Perception and Understanding of Regenerated Derelict Industrial Landscapes (with Anna Jorgensen, Department of Landscape)

Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, Understanding User-Space Relationships: A Phenomenological Approach (with Rosie Parnell)

Sam Vardy Self-Organised Architecture (with Doina Petrescu)

Kim Trogal, Affective Urban Practices: A Feminist Approach to the Ethics of Care in Contemporary Urban Practice (with Doina Petrescu)

Alona Martinez Perez, Non-city, edge city, anti- city, city-field (with Tatjana Schneider)

Ruxandra Berinde Moving Images Of Home: Architectural Autobiographies in Cinema (with Renata Tyszczuk)

Maryam Fazel, Time Space in Diagrams: An Arrow from Spatio-temporality to Temporality in Diagramming (with Mark Meagher)

Sukaina Almousa, The Experience of Temporary Architecture: Tracing the Narrative and the body/mind Journey in Installation Art (with Mark Meagher)

Rosie Ward, Performing the City (with Flora Samuel)

Sara Mahdizadeh, Critical analyses of the existing situation of historical gardens, garden conservation and heritage before and after the Islamic Revolution in Iran (with Jan Woustra, Department of Landscape)

Member of the AHRC peer review college

Member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Steering Group

Invited Speaker, the Getty Research Institute/San Diego Museum of Art, The Barbican Art Gallery/Architecture Foundation, and the universities of Bath, Cardiff, Greenwich, Kingston, Nottingham, and Oxford Brookes.

External Examiner, Kingston University (2007–10); Nottingham Trent University (2009–); Cardiff (2011); Edinburgh (2012-)

External Advisor, University of Newcastle (New undergraduate courses, 2012)

Editor: Field journal, Architecture & Culture: the Journal of the AHRA (Berg)

Peer Reviewer: Architectural Press, Ashgate Publishers, Blackwell Publishers, Architectural Theory Review, Architectural Research Quarterly, The Journal of Architecture

Personal Tutor of the Year Award, Sheffield University Students' Union, 2008

I am currently Module coordinator for:
ARC 303/353 Humanities 5 (Urban Histories), with Dr. Florian Kossak
ARC 322 Special study (Dissertation)
ARC311-314 Architectural Studies
ARC556 & 566 Dissertation 1 and 2
ARC6710, 6720, 6730 Advanced Study and Research Methods 1, 2 and 3
FCS6100 Research Ethics & Integrity, with Dr Ruth Stirton (Law) and Dr. Simon Warren (Education)

I am a member of the following School Committees:
• Executive Committee
• Research Committee
• Graduate School Committee
• Ethics Review college

I am a member of the Faculty working group on Ethics and Integrity Training for PGR students, and School Ethics Review Coordinator.

Books

Stephen Walker, Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism, I. B. Tauris, April 2009.

Stephen Walker, Helen Chadwick: Thinking Between Art and Architecture, manuscript complete and contracted with I. B. Tauris, forthcoming 2012.

Edited Books

Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker (eds.), Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures, Routledge (AHRA Conference Series), November 2009.

Edited Journals

Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker (eds.) Editorial and selection of articles for Architectural Research Quarterly (special issue on ‘Agency’), volume 13, number 2, 2009.

Cristina Cerruli, Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker (eds.) Editorial, selection and editing of articles for field (special issue on ‘Agency’), 2009.

Renata Tyszczuk & Stephen Walker, editors for ‘Ecology,’ Field 4, November 2010

Articles (post 2000)

Stephen Walker, ‘Accommodating the Apocalypse: An examination of the relationships between the economics of salvation and the architecture of the Breton enclos,’ in The Journal of Architecture, Volume 6 (Autumn 2001), pp.249-277. ISBN 1360-2365

Stephen Walker, ‘Four Times Fictitious Architecture,’ in ‘Arquitecturas ficticias/ Fictitious Architecture’ Exit: Imagen y Cultura #6, May 2002. ISBN M0055549SH

Stephen Walker, ‘Baffling Archaeology: the Strange Gravity of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Experience-Optics,’ in The Journal of Visual Culture, volume 2 number 2, August 2003, pp.161-185. ISSN:1470-4129

Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng and Stephen Walker, ‘Interactive Installations on the Threshold of Built Heritage’ in Khaldoun Zreik, Reza Beheshti and Oqba Fakoush (eds.), Augmented Heritage: New Era for Architectural Design, Europia, Paris, 2005, pp.139-150. ISBN 2-909285-32-4.

Stephen Walker, ‘Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture’ in Grey Room, #18 (winter, 2005), pp. 108–131. ISSN 1526-3819

Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng and Stephen Walker, ‘Virtual Interventions: The Impact of Interactive Soundscapes and Visual Stimulation on Physical Architectural Spaces,’ in N. AlSayyad, V. Horayangkura & S. Murphy (Eds.), Hyper-Architecture And The Hyper-Real, IASTE 2006: Working paper series, Vol. 178. Berkeley, CA., USA: University of Berkeley, 2006.

Stephen Walker, ‘A52>A6>A601>A5250>A601>A516>A52 (Ring-Road as Sublime Site),’ in Space and Culture, (The International Journal of Social Studies), Vol. 9, No. 2, 2006, pp.157-179. ISSN 1260-3312

Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng and Stephen Walker, ‘Interactive Installations on the Threshold of Built Heritage’ in International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology, 13 (1), 2007.

Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng and Stephen Walker ‘Ethnographic Interventions: A Strategy and Experiments in Mapping Socio-Spatial Practices’ in Human Technology Journal, 3, Special Issue on "Culture, Creativity and Technology" 2007, pp. 68-79.

Stephen Walker ‘Cuius est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum et ad inferos’, in Architecture &, Vol.01 (‘Property’), Winter 2008, pp.4-6.

Peter Blundell Jones, Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker, ‘Before and After Agency’, in Footprint #4 (Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice), Spring 2009, pp. 113-122.

‘Viral Architecture, “Viral Landscapes”: the impact of modern science on Helen Chadwick’s art’ in Leonardo Volume 43, Issue 5 (October 2010) pp. 425, 458–463.

‘Mole Architects: Thinking and Making,’ in Architectural Research Quarterly, vol.14, no.3, 2010, pp202–220.

‘The Field and the Table: Rosalind Krauss’ ‘Expanded Field’ and the Anarchitecture Group’ in Architectural Research Quarterly, Vol.15, no.4, December 2011, pp.347-57.

Chapters (post 2000)

Stephen Walker, ‘Sacrificing Architecture? Gordon Matta-Clark’s Building Dissections,’ in Andrew Ballantyne (ed.) Architectures: Modernism and After, Blackwell Publishers, 2004, pp.118-141. ISBN 0631229434.

Stephen Walker, ‘Animate Form: Architecture’s troublesome claims to Formlessness,’ in Crowley, P & Hegarty, P (eds.) Formless: Ways in and Out of Form, Peter Lang, 'European Connections' series Vol.11, 2005, pp.239-253. ISBN 3-03910-056-4

Stephen Walker, ‘Gordon Matta-Clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy,’ in Katie Lloyd-Thomas, (ed.) Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice, Routledge, 2007, pp.43-54.

Nadia Mounajjed, Pepi Chourmouziadou and Stephen Walker, ‘Body & Matter: Materiality and the Senses,’ in Katie Lloyd-Thomas, (ed.) Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice, Routledge, 2007, p.129.

Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng, Stephen Walker, Nick Bryan-Kinns, & Jennifer Sheridan, (2007), Threshold (2006) in P. Wright & R. Dare (Eds.), Post-Proceedings Of The First International Symposium On Culture, Creativity And Interaction Design (pp. 57–61). York, UK: University of York.

Stephen Walker, ‘Making by Stealing: The Politics of Helen Chadwick’s ‘Creative + Manipulative Theft’,’ in Mark Swenarton, Igea Troiani and Helena Webster (eds.), The Politics of Making, Routledge, 2008, pp.257–71. 978-0-415-48800-6

Stephen Walker, ‘Centre or Periphery? The Architecture of the Travelling Street Fair,’ in Abdelmonem & Morrow (Eds) Peripheries, Routledge (Critiques Series), Chapter 8, forthcoming November 2012.

Stephen Walker, ‘Helen Chadwick: The Model Institution and Personal Identity,’ in Soumyen Bandyopadhyay & Guillermo Garma-Montiel (Eds), The Territories of Architectural Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalisation, Routledge, forthcoming 2013.

Papers and conferences (post 2000)

Stephen Walker, ‘A52>A6>A601>A5250>A601>A516>A52 (Ring-Road as Sublime Site)’ given at the ‘Sublime & the City’ conference, University College Cork, 28th-30th April 2000.

Stephen Walker, ‘Making and Unmaking: Georges Bataille’s altération’ given at the Making and Unmaking (DHS Annual Conference), University of Portsmouth, 7-9th September 2000.

Stephen Walker, ‘Below Paris, Below New York: The Strange Gravity of Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Baffling Archaeology”’ given at the ‘France and America: Culture and Society in the C20th’ conference, University of Southampton, 6th-7th July 2001.

Stephen Walker, ‘Animate Form: Architecture’s troublesome claims to Formlessness,’ given at the ‘Le travail de l'Informe: formless as function’ conference, University College Cork, 21st-22nd June 2002.

Stephen Walker, ‘Gordon Matta-Clark: Passing Through the Boundaries’ given at the ACSA International Conference, Contribution and Confusion: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry, Helsinki, 27-30th July 2003.

Stephen Walker, ‘Gordon Matta-Clark: Alchemy, Entropy, Materiality and Matter’ given at the Material Matters conference, University of East London, April 2004.

Stephen Walker, ‘Ready Steady Cook with Plato, Bergson and Gordon Matta-Clark,’ given at The Architecture of Philosophy/ the Philosophy of Architecture, CongressCATH, July 2004.

Stephen Walker, ‘Accidentally Architectural: the Anarchitecture Group,’ given at The Alvar Aalto Academy 2nd International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture, “Architecture + Art = New Visions, New Strategies,” Jyväskylä, Finland, 12-14th August, 2005.

Stephen Walker, ‘Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture’ given at the Architectural Humanities Research Association 2nd Annual Conference, Models & Drawings: The invisible nature of architecture, University of Nottingham, 18-19th November 2005

Stephen Walker, ‘Bad Manners: the Anarchitecture Group,’ given at the AAH Annual conference Art, Architecture and their Discontents: Adisciplinarity? University of Leeds, April 2006

Stephen Walker, ‘Making by Stealing: The Politics of Helen Chadwick’s ‘Creative + Manipulative Theft’,’ given at the Architectural Humanities Research Association 3rd Annual Conference, Politics of Making, Oxford November 2006.

‘The Ring-Road as Cultural Landscape,’ given at the European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design (EURAU08) ‘Cultural Landscape’ Conference, Madrid, 16th-19th January, 2008.

‘The ISACC Project’, LILAC conference, 30th March–1st April 2009, University of Cardiff.

‘Helen Chadwick’s “Composite Images”’ given at ‘Visuality / Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice’, at The Royal Institute for British Architects, London, 9–11th July, 2009

With Florian Kossak and Renata Tyszczuk, ‘Critical Reconfigurations of the non-European City Space’ given at ‘Metropolitan Desires: Cultural Reconfigurations of the European City Space’, Manchester European Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, 8-9 September 2009

‘Helen Chadwick: The Model Institution and Personal Identity’ given at ‘The Multiple Faces of Identity in the Designed Environment’, (2009 ADGD Conference) Nottingham Trent University School of the Architecture, Thursday 17 – Friday 18 September 2009.

‘The Field and the Table: Rosalind Krauss’ ‘Expanded Field’ and the Anarchitecture Group’ given at FIELD/WORK, the 6th Annual AHRA International Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Friday 20th – Saturday 21st November 2009.

‘Don’t Try This At Home,’ given at the ‘At Home’ symposium, University of Sheffield, 11th–12th November 2010

With Florian Kossak, ‘Chapter One … No, let me start again’ given at the conference Portrait of the City: Framing the significance of historic urban landscapes, Dublin Castle, 9th —11th December 2010

‘The Architecture of the Fairground’ given at the 7th Annual AHRA International Conference, Queens University Belfast, 27-29th October 2011.

‘It’s Very Easy to Trick a Camera’ given at the Merleau-Ponty Symposium, University of Nottingham, 2nd November 2011.

‘Dissensus & Fiction: Rancière, Chadwick, Ziarek’ to be given at the 9th AHRA International Conference Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, November 2012.

Book reviews

Alex Coles and Alexia Defert (Eds.), de-, dis-, ex (Volume II): The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity, BACKless Books/Black Dog Publishing, London, 1998, reviewed in Parallax #14, January-March 2000, pp.139-141

Pamela M. Lee Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark MIT, 2000, reviewed in The Journal of Architecture, Volume 5, Winter 2000, pp.431-4.

Ian Borden, Joe Kerr & Jane Rendell with Alicia Pivaro (Eds.) The Unknown City: Contesting Architectural and Social Space, MIT Press, 2001, reviewed in Building Design, 6th April, 2001.

John Rajchman, The Deleuze Connections, MIT Press, 2000, and Paul Virilio, A Landscape of Events, [1996], tr. Julie Rose, MIT (Writing Architecture Series), 2000, both reviewed in The Journal of Architecture, Volume 6, Winter 2001, pp.392-6.

Iain Sinclair, London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25, Granta Books, 2002, reviewed in EXITBOOK #1, 2002, pp.79-80.

Corinne Diserens (Ed.), Gordon Matta-Clark, Phaidon Press, 2003, and Atlee & Le Feuvre, Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between, Nazraeli Press, 2003, in EXITBOOK: Revista de Libros de Arte y Cultura Visual, No.3, 2004, and in The Journal of Architecture, Autumn 2003, pp.397-401.

Annette Fierro, The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris 1981–1998, MIT Press, 2003, reviewd in Modern and Contemporary France Vol.12, No.4, 2004, pp.546-7.

Mark Linder, Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture After Minimalism, MIT Press 2005, in The Journal of Architecture, Winter 2005.

Mark Linder, Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture After Minimalism, and Thomas Mical, Architecture and Surrealism, Routledge, 2005, comparative review essay in EXITBOOK: Revista de Libros de Arte y Cultura Visual, No.5, 2005.

Jonathan Hill, Immaterial Architecture, Routledge, 2006, in The Journal of Architecture, Winter 2007.

Hal Foster, The Art–Architecture Complex, Verso, 2011, in Times Higher Education, No.2032, 12-18th January 2012, p.57.

Other outputs

Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng, Stephen Walker, Nick Bryan-Kinns, & Jennifer Sheridan, Threshold, a collaborative project funded by EPSRC Leonardo-Net network. Threshold was a site-specific interactive work. It aimed to explore how media technology can create spatial narratives and relational analogy between the body of the user and the architectural space. The threshold intervention was also useful in speculating on possibilities and potential uses of the interface in relation to architecture and the body. The piece was exhibited twice. For stage one, it was installed In June 2006 for the PSI # 12: Performing Rights Conference at the Queen Mary, University of London. In stage two, Threshold was re-exhibited at the same location for the First International Symposium on Culture, Creativity and Interaction Design (CCID 2006) on Tuesday the 12th of September 2006.

Helen Chadwick; Thinking Between Art and Architecture; an Interview with Philip Stanley, interview audio files, transcript and commentary on deposit in the collection of the Henry Moore Institute Library, Leeds, February 2008.

Stephen Walker, ‘Clear Zones’, invited contribution to The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion, curated by Interboro Partners, NY, shown at Open City, the 2009 International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam.