Dr Patrick Lynch

I am an architect based in Hackney, where I run Lynch Architects and Canalside Press. I teach design in the final year of the MSt course. In particular, I focus on the urban scale of thesis projects, running workshops into site-model-making that reveal the morphology and typological characteristics of the civic situations where our students work. I’m also very interested in the design of rooms, both interiors and public spaces, and how these are mediated via solar facades. 

I studied architecture at The University of Liverpool before completing an M-Phil in The History and Philosophy of Architecture at Cambridge concerned with the theatricality of Baroque cities. This led to a PhD investigating the rhythmic character of urban spaces and the relationships between landscape and sculpture, ecology and ethics, and poetics and public life in modern architecture and civic spaces. My research led to the publication of a number of books including Civic Ground (2017), Mimesis (2015) and Part of a City: The Work of Neave Brown Architect (2022). My buildings and projects have been widely published and exhibited internationally, and have received quite a lot of awards. 

Before Cambridge I was a tutor at UCL, London Met and Kingston, and I’ve lectured all over the world. I attended a comprehensive school and was the first person in my family to go to university. I love exploring the civic dimension of architecture alongside my amazing students; their passion and imagination is inspiring.