Robin Wilson

Robin Wilson is an Associate Professor at the The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, specializing in architectural criticism, theory, and media studies. Their work bridges academic research with artistic practice through collaborations like Photolanguage, focusing on visual and textual representations of architecture, urban space, and landscape.

• Key Research Themes: Utopic critique, architectural media, modernism/brutalism, urban space politics, and interdisciplinary methodologies.
• Notable Projects: Author of Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media (Ashgate, 2015); co-editor of Land Use Poetics (Swedish Research Council-funded); co-author of Journeys in a Modern Topography (Arts Council England-supported).

Robin's recent publications and exhibitions engage with brutalist architecture, postmodern critical theory, and experimental documentation techniques. They have received research grants from the Bartlett Architecture Research Fund and actively contribute to academic discourse through peer reviewing, conference organizing, and teaching.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Grant (2021) - Bartlett Architecture Research Fund
  • Grant (2019) - Bartlett-UCL
• Teaching: Courses on architectural theory, utopics, and experimental writing; supervision of PhD students at Bartlett. Emphasizes collaborative knowledge generation and destabilizing hierarchies in design education.
• Collaborations: Photolanguage (with Nigel Green), Warren & Mosley, Brandon LaBelle/Errant Bodies.