Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde

Matthew Butcher is an academic, writer and designer. His work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum in London, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and the Prague Quadrennial, Prague. Matthew is also the editor and founder of the architectural newspaper P.E.A.R.: Paper for Emerging Architectural Research. Senior Lecturer in Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), he is Director of the Undergraduate Architecture Programme. He has contributed articles and papers to a wide selection of architectural journals and magazines. Luke Caspar Pearson is a designer and Lecturer in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), where he runs undergraduate and postgraduate design studios. He is the founding partner of You+Pea, a design research practice and the co-founder of Drawing Futures, an international conference. He has recently established REALMS, a new Bartlett funded initiative exploring the relationship between architecture and video-game design. Luke's work and writing has featured in architectural journals and magazines.