This paper will introduce the intricate links between multidisciplinary teaching and research at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA)’s post-graduate architecture and landscape architecture programmes. The presentation will focus on the Land.Arch.Infra Research Method module and its links with the UK Research and Innovation and Arts and Humanities Research Council supported research project ‘Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Culture, Amenity, Heritage and Industry’ funded under the multidisciplinary Landscape Decisions Framework. The research project brings together academics, policy makers, charities and public bodies in order to understand and find new ways to communicate the various values of infrastructural landscapes.
Dr Richard Brook is Reader in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. He has an established research record in the field of architecture with a special focus on post-war modern architecture and mapping and visualisation. He is editor of the book Cold War Cities: Spatial Planning, Social and Political Processes, and Cultural Practices in the Age of Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965 with Martin Dodge and Jonathan Hogg (London: Routledge, 2020), author of Manchester Modern (Manchester: The Modernist Society, 2017) and Infra_MANC. Post-war Mancunian Infrastructure.