Kathryn Firth
Visiting Lecturer @Central Saint Martins, University Of The Arts London
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WORK HISTORY
Visiting Lecturer @Central Saint Martins, University Of The Arts London
London, GB
EDUCATION
University of Toronto
Bachelor of Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Urban Design
SKILLS
ABOUT KATHRYN FIRTH
Kathryn Firth is an architect and urban designer whose passion for creating thriving urban places spans some 30 years, working in cities around the world with diverse spatial, social and economic contexts. She leads masterplanning and urban regeneration projects across the UK, the US, Europe and the Middle East. These have ranged from public realm improvements to brownfield site development of several thousand hectares and strategic frameworks. Kathryn was a Director in Cities Planning & Design at Arup with whom she continues to work. Kathryn has been the Urban Design Director at several practices in the UK and the US. She was the Chief of Design at the London Legacy Development Corporation, where she directed teams of architects, landscape architects, planners, and engineers to realise the Olympic Legacy, contributing to the award winning Legacy masterplan. In this position she had oversight of the production of design guidance to control quality as agreements were entered with development partners.Kathryn is committed to a productive exchange between the practice of urban design and academic research and is a proponent of a multi-disciplinary approach that ensures collaboration across design, development and socio-economic disciplines. She has ongoing involvement in topical research and projects including the intersection of healthcare and urbanism, social and environmental resiliency in town centres, and investigations into typologies and morphologies that support land use intensification in urban and suburban contexts. Kathryn serves on several design review panels, is a Trustee of The London Society and co-chair of the ULI Infrastructure & Development Produce Council. She collaborates with and was a member of the BusinessLDN Place Commission, and is a Mayor’s Design Advocate alum. She holds a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she also taught. She is currently teaching at the Bartlett, UCL and in the MA Cities at Central Saint Martin\'s UAL.To get in contact: k•••••@public-realm.net
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