Dr David Lawrence
- Kingston School of Art
Associate Professor
About
I am associate professor at Kingston University, London, research fellow for the London Transport Museum, and design consultant to Network Rail.
I teach Historic Building Conservation. I lead on the development of the virtual learning environment for Kingston School of Art.
As a member of numerous professional bodies (FRGS, FSAI, SFHEA), I curate, photograph and write on the subjects of design, architecture and culture, with a particular interest in those places where design, people and movement converge. These places include motorway service stations, railway and underground railway stations, holiday camps, food and drink environments, and sacred spaces.
I have written the following:
- Timepiece: Designing modern time (2023)
- Design Index: Network Rail Design (2021)
- HUB: Making places for people and trains (2020)
- LINK: A Study of Network Rail Footbridges (2019)
- British Rail Architecture 1948-97 (2018)
- British Rail Designed 1948-1997 (2016)
- OMNIBUS: A social history of the London Bus (2014)
- A Logo for London (2013)
- Food on the Move: the extraordinary world of the motorway service area (2010)
- Bright Underground Spaces (2008)
- Always a Welcome (1999)
- Underground Architecture (1994).
I have contributed chapters to:
- Design, History & Time (Bloomsbury, 2019)
- Moving Metropolis (2015)
- Arts & foods: rituals since 1851 (Milan Expo 2015)
- Underline (Art on the Underground, 2015)
- Going Underground: new perspectives (2013)
- Supercrit #2: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (Routledge, 2007)
- The 1970s is here and now (Wiley, 2005)
- The architecture of British transport in the twentieth century (Yale, 2004)
- Conserving the railway heritage (E & F N Spon, 1997).
Qualifications
- PhD
- MA
- Dip. Arch.
- BA (Hons.) Architecture
- FdA Pastoral Theology
- Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
- Fellow, Society of Architectural Illustration
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy