Dr. Renée Tobe  Subject Director of Architecture at UEL

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Dr Renée Tobe is Subject Director of Architecture at University of East London. She has previously been affiliated with a number of Universities in the UK that include Lincoln, Sheffield Hallam, Nottingham, Bath, the AA, Cambridge and UCL. Before entering academia by way of doctoral research at Cambridge University, she was in professional practice for 10 years after training at the AA, previous to which she studied Architecture at Cornell University and Ryerson University. Dr Tobe has a strong track record as primary coordinator in organising symposia, conferences and publications. These include a one day symposium and workshop entitled The Ethics of Sustainable Architecture, a 3-day International Architecture and Justice Conference. In addition, she has published widely, edited one book and is currently editing another. She has been both invited and keynote speaker at a International conferences. She is also programme leader for the MA Architecture Interpretation and Theory that investigates critical and historical practices of Architecture and how this affects our understanding of contemporary practice.Areas of Interest/Summary of ExpertiseRenée Tobe's investigations into the nature of the relationship of architecture and its representation in film grants a deeper understanding of how architecture in film illuminates both architecture and the culture that produces it. Establishing a place is the fundamental task of architecture; the first task of architecture is to mark our place in the world. Architecture mediates the dialectics of dwelling and remoteness, belonging and estrangement. Realisation and expression of this exchange forms the basis for Architectural understanding. A current Research Project entitled the University and the City  investigates the synergies between the two to produce a toolkit to guide University development with limited capital investment. Dr Tobe lectures in History and Theory to Year 1 students, introducing precedents, and poetic concepts and expressions of space and place.


Competitions
  • AJ/Westminster Cathedral Measured Drawing Competition Commended (1995)
  •  Building Design: Peoples Palace  (1994)
  •  RIBA/Baltic Flour Mills Competition Commended (1994)
  •  RIBA/Mausoleum Design (1993)
  •  Shinkenshiku Competition Yokohama Harbour Design (1992)



 Exhibitions
  •  Westminster Cathedral Centenary Exhibition, Westminster Cathedral, London (1995)
  •  Metropolis, Open Window Gallery, London (1994)
  •  The Ladies Cabinet, Disrupted Borders: National Gallery, Ottawa (1994)
  •  Photographers Gallery, London; (1993) Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1994)
  •  Continental Drift, Royal Institute of British Architects, London (1993)
  •  Sauerbruch/Hutton Architekten Exhibition: Aedes Gallery, Berlin (1992)
  •  Ecstatic Antibodies: Maison de la Culture, Montreal, (1991)
  • Battersea Arts Centre, London, (1989) Impressions Gallery, York (1990)
  •  Intuition and Process, Architectural Association, London (1989)


Publications

  • "Sex Happens; A phenomenological reading of the casual encounter" in Writing the Modern City, Routledge, 2011.
  •  Architecture and Justice, Judicial Expressions in the Spatial Realm, editor, Ashgate Press, 2011
  •  The City and the University, Research Project collaborative with Urban Design Research Group, Nottingham University
  •  The Humanities in Architectural Design, (2009) ed. N. Temple, R. Tobe, J. Lomholt, Soumyen Bandyopadhyay London: Routledge
  •  Brayford Pool Development Framework (2009) R. Tobe and K. Borsi, Lincoln: Lincoln University Press


Journal Articles
  •  “Plato and Hegel at Home” in arq (11:1) 2007
  •  “Time and narrative in sequential art; Frank Miller’s Elektra: Assassin” in ImageText, 2006
  •  “Port Bou and Two Grains of Wheat: In Remembrance of Walter Benjamin” in Architectural Theory Review, Summer 2005
  • Architecture Journals and Published Work
  • “Modernist Noir” in Perspectives, Winter 2007
  • “Westminster Cathedral Drawings” in Architect Journal, 12 October 1995
  • “Rest Home” in Themes VI Intuition and Process, (London: Architectural Association, 1989)


Extra Links:

Architectural Grounding in Miller's Elektra: Temporalityand Spatiality in the Graphic Novel-By Renée Tobe

Legislation sur la commercialisation

Plato and Hegel stay home by Renée Tobe


Reference: UEL staff website