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New Architecture Writers (N.A.W.) is an experiment in radical architectural pedagogy with the intention of disrupting the conventional institutions of architectural discourse. N.A.W. began in 2017 and has since become a platform for new writing about architecture and cities by emerging critics of colour. The programme is directed by Thomas Aquilina聽and Tom Wilkinson with support from the Architecture Foundation and the Architectural Review.

The programme鈥檚 advisory board is made up of leading practitioners and writers in the architecture industry including Priya Khanchandani, David Ogunmuyiwa, Adrian Lahoud, Bartlett alumna Farshid Moussavi and Bartlett Visiting Professor Lesley Lokko. Over 100 writers, curators and critics have volunteered their time to New Architecture Writers as contributors and mentors since its inception.

Yanqi responded to the programme鈥檚 most recent Open Call earlier this year, submitting a short piece of writing building on his research at the York C20 Architectural Gazetteer, questioning the local Council鈥檚 failure to provide shelters for its twentieth-century public architecture, through a close study of the recently demolished Tang Hall Branch Library.聽

The programme started in April, and comprises six briefs spread across 12 months. So far, Yanqi鈥檚 cohort, the sixth in the programme's history,聽have been working on news writing and interviewing (with the re:arc institute). As part of the ongoing 鈥淏uilding Study鈥� brief, his group toured the National Portrait Gallery with Thomas Longley of Jamie Forbert Architects, who recently completed a major conservation, retrofit and extension of the 1895 Gallery. N.A.W. will also host public events and share updates through their Instagram聽account.

Since it was launched in 2017, New Architecture聽Writers has welcomed a number of Bartlett students and alumni:聽

• Shukri Sultan (Architectural History MA, 2021)
• Gianluca Cavallaro-Ng (City Planning MPlan, 2020)
• Mahika Gautam聽(Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies BSc, 2020)
• Shiori Kanazawa (Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies BSc, 2019)
• Nasra Abdullahi (Architecture BSc, 2016)
• Siufan Adey (Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies BSc, 2015)
• Ella Adu (Architecture BSc, 2014)
• Calvin Po (Architecture BSc, 2013)
• Ting-Jui Brook Lin (Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part I) and Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2), 2009)

Yanqi is tutored by Prof Barbara Penner and Dr Robin Wilson, and his dissertation (on the aftermath of the 1968 Esher Report, a study of the conservation and continuation of York鈥檚 historic core by architect-planner Lionel Brett, 4th聽Viscount Esher) is supervised by Prof Murray Fraser, with research support from Prof John R. Gold.

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Lead image:聽New Architecture Writers 6 at National Portrait Gallery, 5 July 2024. 漏聽Thomas聽Aquilina.
滨苍濒颈苍别:听New Architecture Writers 6 at聽Jamie Forbert Architects, 16 July 2024. 漏 Julia Cabanas.聽