Prof. Richard Coyne
BArch(Hons), MLArch, PhD, ARAIA, RIBA
Professor of Architectural Computing

Room: 4.07
Tel: 0131 650 2332
Email: Richard.Coyne@ed.ac.uk
Website: http://ace.caad.ed.ac.uk/richard

Architecture: School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE)
The University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
EH1 1JZ, Scotland

Profile

Richard's research is conducted within the Department's Digital Media Design research group. He collaborates with John Lee, Martin Parker and a team of about 10 PhD students and research associates. There is increasing interaction with the MSc in Design and Digital Media and the MSc in Sound Design through project work.

Richard researches and teaches in information technology in practice, computer-aided design in architecture, the philosophy of information technology, digital media, and design theory. He inaugurated the MSc in Design and Digital Media, in which he also teaches.

He is author of several books on the implications of information technology and design with MIT Press and Routledge. His research has been supported by AHRC and EPSRC.

Major Committees:

Member of the AHRC review panel: Visual Arts and Media (practice, history and theory) until 2008 Member of RAE subpanel 30: Architecture and the Built Environment
(2007-8)
Member of the editorial board of arq: Architectural Research Quarterly

Richard is a registered architect (Australia), and previously worked at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne. Richard was Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh from 1999 to
2002 and was recently Director of the Graduate School of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment. He has been Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment since August 2007.

Current Research:

My research demonstrates the value of a broad interdisciplinary framework for examining the relationship between computing, design, and contemporary cultural theories. I am currently investigating the way we configure spaces through the use of pervasive mobile devices, such as mobile phones, iPods and GPS. I am developing this theme through the sonic metaphor of tuning. Visit my personal website for further information and a complete list of publications.

Books:

Coyne, Richard. 2010. The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital
Media. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

 

Snodgrass, Adrian, and Richard Coyne. 2006. Interpretation in Architecture: Design as a Way of Thinking. London: Routledge.

Coyne, Richard. 2005. Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press.

Coyne, R.D. 1999. Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism and the Romance of the Real, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Coyne, R.D. 1995. Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Coyne, R. D., Rosenman, M. A., Radford, A. D., Balachandran, M. and Gero, J.S. 1994. Knowledge-Based Design Systems, Japanese edition published by Ohm-Sha: Tokyo (First edition by Addison Wesley: Reading Massachusetts, 1990).

Coyne, R. D. 1988. <i>Logic Models of Design</i>, Pitman, London.