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Abstract
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 (with Martin Dodge,
Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr is Reader in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. She
was educated in Landscape Architecture (Corvinus University, Budapest), Art History (Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest) and Art and Design (Manchester Metropolitan University), and is
particularly interested in the international knowledge transfer in landscape and urban design
theory during the 20th century. Her book Barren Places to Public Spaces: A History of Public
Park Design in Budapest 1867-1914 (Budapest City Archives: Budapest 2016) describes the
evolution of Hungarian public park design and theory in an international context. She is Co-
Investigator of the project ‘The Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Culture, Amenity,
Heritage and Industry’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).