Mr. Gregory John Cowan

Consultant to SPURWIEN on construction of housing in York Way, London 2009

Consultant to 1100:architekten (Frankfurt / Main) on construction of energy efficient Loft Housing, East Frankfurt 2009

Presented "Learning from Ulaanbaatar; a perspective from outsiders" by invitation of the Centre for Comparative Architectural Research TU Vienna and the Confucius Institute, at the Symposium "Along the Great Wall; Architecture and Identity in China and Mongolia", Vienna, May, 2009

Consultant to SPURWIEN on construction of a dwelling in Cable Street East London 2009

Consultant and guest lecturer and critic, London Metropolitan University (MA Rapid Change and Scarce Resources), University College London (Building and Urban Design in Development), Sheffield University (Lines of Flight PhD research group) 2008 to the present

Collaborator with Connect Culture, an accessible travel Social Enterprise, on the architectural adaptation of an urban apartment for independent living with disabilities 2008 - 2009

Architect Teacher Trainer for Secure Livelihoods VSO Mongolia, August 2007 to August 2008

Secretary of international architectural education validation visiting boards for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Concepcion and Santiago, Chile (October-November 2008) Buenos Aires, Argentina (November 2008) and Seoul, Korea (2006)

Manager of Student and Graduate liaison, Royal Institute of British Architects, Education department, 2004-2007

Lecturer, Architecture annd Culture in London post-professional course, Workers Educational Association, Ilford,

Lecturer, architecture studio and landscape urbanism at Kingston University, School of Architecture and Landscape,

Invited speaker at the Banff International Curatorial Centre (Canada), 2004

Invited speaker, Urban Life, Gothenburg, 2005

Invited speaker, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 2004

Invited speaker, The Architecture Foundation's Renegade City, London, 2006

Architectural education, professional, urban and general from grass-roots community level to working with RIBA and other international validation and accreditation systems.

Modes of visual and linguistic communication critical to international work in architectural education.

Research on ephemerality, mobility, and collaboration in architecture. Research on 'nomadology', in particular, the relation of publics and professionals to challenging and reconceptualizing architectural theory and practice.

Ongoing research, including the chapter in Informal Architectures (Black Dog June 08), on the unsettling influence of activist architecture occupying spaces in the city.

Lecturer in architecture, Curtin University 1993 to 2003, Perth and Kuala Lumpur - primarily in design studio, professional studies and design communications.

Postgraduate research in architectural theory at the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at Adelaide University awarded Master of Architecture degree (research) 2002, the dissertation entitled 'Nomadology in Architecture: ephemerality, mobility and collaboration.'

Research on Architecture, architectural theory, nomadology and architectural theory of non-European cultures in German-speaking central Europe in particular, Vienna Austria.

Guest lecturer, Architectural Theory Department, Vienna University of Technology, 1999 with visiting lecture at the University of Zagreb in 1999

Architectural practice in Perth, 1992-1996 Design development and management of commercial and residential projects as a freelance architect

Architectural practice in Vienna in 1991-1992
Leading schematic development of a mixed use urban complex straddling a railway in Paltaufgasse, Ottakring, Vienna, with Atelier Architekt Hermann Czech

Architectural practice in Graz, Austria, 1989-1991.
Leading design and construction of 28 Apartments in Knittelfeld, Austria with Architekturbüro Szyszkowitz - Kowalski

Architectural practice, state architects' office of Western Australia, primarily educational facilities; including Electrical training workshops, CAD/CAM Furniture making education workshops

Architecture honours degree graduate of Curtin University, Perth, 1987

"Urban Design, Streets, and the Night Time City"

This project will develop theories and methods of designing city streets for night time use.

Urban environments are challenged by public debate through direct action, when citizens manifest their beliefs in the physical space of the street. In the contemporary city, these physical manifestations may produce pleasure or fear: they may be positive expressions where citizens are constructive actors, or they may be unheimlich, when tension breaks out. What role does urbanism and street architecture play in the night-time city?

Urban design provides for habitable streets through architectural spaces and materials. Urban design processes charge architectural practice with a concern for occupied public space. But mainstream traditions of urbanism practice have been dominated by tacit assumptions about daytime culture and use, and night-time occupation offers the designer an alternative lens. Dynamic cities fruitfully manage the tension between `designating' occupations of streets and fostering spontaneous, temporal street occupation. To think innovatively about urban design as a way of enabling shared ownership of streets, it will be vital to understand `aberrant' and `nocturnal' occupations of urban street `architecture'. Architecture can be repositioned at the centre of debates on the city by recognising the polemical role of urban design for the night.