Ashley Mason Editor & Author

Ashley Mason is a Research Associate at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. Her research is engaged with creative-critical and textual-spatial practices, though especially with matters of site. Her doctoral thesis in Architecture by Creative Practice, Towards a Paracontextual Practice* (*with Footnotes to ‘Parallel of Life and Art’) (2019), intertwined a constellation of precedents with her own creative-critical works to offer a practice which admits inheritance and reasserts context in careful attention to the para-phenomena of ‘empty’ sites.

Adam Sharr is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. He practices with Design Office—the School’s consultancy specialising in research-led practice and practice-led research—which was included in the Architect’s Journal’s 40 Under 40 listing of ‘the UK’s most exciting emerging architectural talent’ in 2020. He is Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge University Press’ international architecture journal arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Series Editor of Thinkers for Architects (Routledge), and the author or editor of eight books on architecture.