Dr David Lawrence
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
Associate Professor
- Email:
- [email protected]
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
Domains
My Senior Fellowship of Advance HE built on the work of curriculum development in the virtual learning environment of 'Canvas' and 'Blackboard'. After training in Learning Design for blended learning, I trained colleagues at Kingston School of Art in the use of the Canvas platform, and I developed templates which reflect the particular ways in which art and design is taught: primarily by modules within projects. I support colleagues across KSA with the Canvas platform.
I am a member of the Faculty Education Committee and the CMMP group. I lead modules in Historic Building Conservation and Postgraduate Work Placement.
Courses taught
I research the following topics:
- Architecture and design culture, history and practice
- Brand design
- Design for urban transit systems
- The design, history, culture and social activities related to roadside facilities and public transportation
- Car culture
- 20th-century urban design
- Technologies for online learning
- Pedagogy in relation to space use
- Graphic design for music culture
I welcome invitations to discuss projects and research degree proposals in these and related fields.
I am the Kingston School of Art coordinator for Erasmus, Turing and Study abroad programmes, working with colleagues in the University Study Abroad International Learning Team, and across the University. I coordinate new partnerships with educational institutions as part of my role.
Areas of interest
- International study
- Knowledge exchange
- Student and staff exchanges
I am architecture and design consultant to Network Rail, the Design Museum, and the London Transport Museum. I have curated exhibitions for the London Transport Museum, and edited publications for Network Rail and the London Transport Museum. I have been consultant to designers of transport wayfinding systems, and uniform insignia. I am currently contributing knowledge to a project for the National Maritime Museum.
I currently contribute to Faculty-wide education developments, drawing on my former roles as a head of school and course leader. My Erasmus coordinator role focusses on managing processes to deliver an enhanced student experience.
Publications
Book preview: British Rail Design 1948-97 by David Lawrence
Lawrence, David, 2016, Design Week, Published
British Rail designed 1948-97
Lawrence, David, 2016, Rail (814)pp 98-101, Published
The lost network
Lawrence, David, 2012, Peninsula Magazine (2012)pp 84-87, Published
Standing on the verge of a secret world
Lawrence, David, 2011, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (214), 5419pp 44-47, Published
The beauty of a wipe clean surface
Lawrence, David, 2007, KIOSK (1)pp 49-56, Published
Carchitecture: Space Stations
Lawrence, David, 2003, Intersection (1)pp 74-75, Published
HUB: making places for people and trains
Lawrence, David and O'Donovan, Luke (2020). London, U.K.: [Published]
Link: a study of Network Rail footbridges
Lawrence, David (2019). London, U.K.: [Published]
British Rail Architecture 1948-97
Lawrence, David (2018). Manchester: [Published]
British Rail Designed 1948-97
Lawrence, David (2016). London, U.K.: [Published]
The moving metropolis: a history of London's transport since 1800
Lawrence, David and Green, Oliver (2015). London, U.K.: [Published]
Ole Bill: London buses and the First World War
Ward, William D. (2014). London, U.K.: [Published]
Omnibus: a social history of the London bus
(2014). London, U.K.: [Published]
A logo for London
Lawrence, David (2013). London, U.K.: [Published]
Food on the move: the extraordinary world of the motorway service area
Lawrence, David (2010). London, U.K.: [Published]
Bright underground spaces: the London tube station architecture of Charles Holden
Lawrence, David (2008). Harrow Weald, U.K.: [Published]
A logo for London: The London Transport symbol
Lawrence, David (2000). Harrow Weald, U.K.: [Published]
Always a welcome: the glove compartment history of the motorway service area
Lawrence, David (1999). Twickenham, U.K.: [Published]
Underground architecture
Lawrence, David (1994). Harrow Weald, U.K.: [Published]
London Transport cap badges
Lawrence, David (1989). Harrow Weald, U.K.: [Published]
Tube time: how the subterranean city got faster by design
Lawrence, David (2019). In: Hendon, Zoe, Massey, Anne, (eds.), London, U.K.: [Published]
Riding on the District 1
Lawrence, David (2018). London, U.K.:pp 40-47 [Published]
Edward Johnston and his Underground Typeface
Lawrence, David (2016). [Published]
A Review of Gold Mineralization in Mali
Lawrence, David, Lambert-Smith, James and Treloar, Peter (2016). In: Bouabdellah, Mohammed, Slack, John F., (eds.), Basel, Switzerland: Springer-Verlag [Published]
Food on the move: the Autogrill motorway service station
Lawrence, David (2015). In: Celant, Germano, (eds.), Milan, Italy:pp 510-521 [Published]
Ten stations
Lawrence, David (2015). In: Coysh, Louise, Fuller, Laura, (eds.), London, U.K.: [Published]
Collecting and belonging
Lawrence, David (2013). [Published]
Collecting and belonging with London Underground
Lawrence, David (2013). In: Galviz, Carlos Lopez, Merrill, Samuel, (eds.), London:pp 73-82 [Published]
When A to B is not the point... The nocturnal geography of the motorway service station
Lawrence, David (2012). In: Corkish, Alan, (eds.), Liverpool, U.K.:pp 81-99 [Published]
Preview
Lawrence, David (2007). In: Hardingham, Samantha, Rattenbury, Kester, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: [Published]
All the way from America
Lawrence, David (2005). In: Hardingham, Samantha, (eds.), Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sonspp 94 [Published]
The motorway service station
Lawrence, David (2004). In: Holder, Julian, Parissien, Steve, (eds.), New Haven, U.S.: Yale University Presspp 219-244 [Published]
Underground architecture
Lawrence, David (1997). In: Burman, Peter, Stratton, Michael, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 197-210 [Published]
Putting technology in the frame: multiple lenses on evidenced based practice in a university wide roll out
Lawrence, David, Avery, Barry, Preston, Anne, Price, Linda, Downward, Stuart, Orwell, Suzan, Beardsmore, James, Casanova, Diogo, Dias Fonseca, Tania, Vyas, Nora, Lock, Nick and Alsop, Graham(2017). [Published]
How technology trends are impacting the movement of goods and people
Lawrence, David(2017). [Published]
British Rail designed
Lawrence, David(2017). [Published]
Off the rails: learning from the past and influencing the future
Lawrence, David(2017). [Published]
Trains and fonts and double arrows: design and identity for railways
Barnes, Paul, Dixon, Catherine, Lawrence, David, Inglis, Theo, Henning, Wallace and Fleming, Martha(2016). [Published]
Tube time: how the subterranean city got faster by design
Lawrence, David(2016). [Published]
Edward Johnston and his Underground Typeface
Lawrence, David(2016). [Published]
Logo for London
Lawrence, David(2013). [Published]
Under London by rail: memory, the archive and heritage : a round-table
Dennis, Richard, Merrill, Sam, Carlos, Galviz, Mullins, Sam and Lawrence, David(2013). [Published]
Collecting and belonging
Lawrence, David(2013). [Published]
Six lane highways and the electric sunshine of the motorway cafe
Lawrence, David(2011). [Published]
Designology
Lawrence, David (2016) [Published]
Imagining Highgate Archway - six model essays on modernist urban transit design
Lawrence, David (2015) [Published]
London by design
Lawrence, David, Murphy, Simon, Scott, Liz and Premru, Fliss (2015) [Published]
Goodbye Piccadilly
Lawrence, David (2014) [Published]
Savage School Window Gallery box set
Cullinan, Charlotte, Richards, Jeanine and Lawrence, David (2008) [Published]