Luke Lowings

Professional Experience

Carpenter/Lowings Architecture & Design, Ltd., London
Director

James Carpenter Design Associates,Inc., New York
Project Designer, Project Manager

Richard Rogers + Partners, London
Project Design Team Member

Teaching

Architectural Association, London
Guest tutor diploma unit 5, George Liaropoulos and Lluis Viu Rebes

Columbia University, New York
Graduate Seminar

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduate Design Studio

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
Graduate Design Studio

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ,
3rd Year Design Studio

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
Graduate Design Studio with James Carpenter and Peter McLeary

Guest Critic, Columbia University, Bennington College, NJIT,
University of the Arts, Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania

Education

Registered Architect, New York State

South Bank Polytechnic, London
RIBA Part III Exam for ARCUK registration, registered architect in the UK
Royal College of Art, London, MA Dip Arch.

Kingston Polytechnic, London, BA Architectural Studies
Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Cambridge
Foundation Course in Art and Design

Publications and Awards

"Chapel for the Salvation Army HQ, London" short-listed for the ACE / RIBA Award for Religious Architecture

The Projects "Chapel for the Salvation Army HQ, London", "Light Helix in The Royal Albert Hall, London" and "Glass Wall and Roof of the Columbus Center, New York" short-listed for the Bombay Sapphire Award

"Constructing the Ephemeral - Innovation in the use of glass": Contribution to "Innovation in Architecture", Alan Brookes (Ed.)

"The Material and the Ephemeral" in "Glass - Structure and Technology"
S. and S. Behling (Eds.)

"The Material and the Ephemeral" paper given at conference
"Glass in Buildings" University of Bath, England

Numerous publications of work with James Carpenter Design Associates:
Architectural Review, Techniques & Architecture, Progressive Architecture, L'Arca, A+U, DETAIL etc.

General Services Administration, Lens Ceiling (with Richard Meier),
Phoenix, AZ

Benedictus Award, Citations

"Tensegrity Rings Sculpture" exhibited in "Mutant Materials" Exhibition at MoMA, New York

Progressive Architecture Design Award for “Twin Mast Bridge”, St. Paul

Prizewinner, Young Architects Forum, Architectural League of NY, New York

Thesis project - RCA (for 1M sf temporary exhibition space on the site of the Crystal Palace), published in “Building Design”, London