Chris Abel

Chris Abel is an award winning author, theorist and educator and graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (1968), London and the University of Sydney (PhD 2012). He first came to international attention in the 1960s and 70s with a series of essays in Architectural Design on self-organising urban systems and emergent, computer based technologies of production, anticipating by many years cutting edge developments in design theory and building technology. Described by one reviewer as "a nomad, in both the intellectual and geographical sense," he has lived in many parts of the world - latterly in Australia and Northern Ireland - teaching and researching the architecture of different cultures. A prolific writer with more than one hundred and forty publications to his credit, his multidisciplinary study, The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds, (Manchester University Press 2014) won the International Committee of Architectural Critics 2017 Bruno Zevi Book Award. A third expanded edition of his collected essays, Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change (Routledge 2017), was also shortlisted for another award by the CICA. He recently settled in France in the Paris suburb of Champigny Sur Marne and is currently working on two new books. For more go to: www.chrisabel.com