Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), Post-Graduate Housing & Urbanism programme Copenhagen Business School, Full-Time MBA Programme and Masters Theseus Institute (Nice) University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

Trained as an Architect in London and worked on a range of design & strategy intensive urban projects across Europe, in Latin America and Africa for non-governmental, public and private organization alike. In 1999 he joined Carillion Professional Services UK, developing innovation driven strategic solutions for Kotoka International Airport (British Pounds 40m, Ghana), Thornton Hillhouse Strategic Framework (British Pounds 800m, UK), estate property strategy for the New Economy, strategic solutions for the Co-location industry and BT. Haselmayer applied inward facing strategies to the consultancy's restructuring, alliance building and corporate identity programmes. He has been Architecture and MA Urban Design Unit Master at Greenwich University and lectures at various leading European Universities, incl. Copenhagen Business School, Architectural Association Graduate School and is conducting research on innovation environments and their urban impacts.

PhD in Economics and Political Sciences

• Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles
• MA Program, Economic Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany
• BA, Geography, University of California at Los Angeles; Departmental Honors, Dean’s List, Magna Cum Laude

BIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Barth is Senior Lecturer in Urbanism at the Graduate School of the Architectural Association, where he has worked to position the Housing and Urbanism Programme at the interface of architecture and urban strategy. In 2003, Mr. Barth also joined the Graduate School’s Landscape Urbanism Programme, developing the political and strategic component of its curriculum. In 2004, Mr. Barth initiated the formation of a sustained research programme in architectural urbanism at the PhD level and integrated the ensuing research culture into teaching in the school’s MA and Diploma programmes. Beginning in June, 2007 Mr. Barth will coordinate a new research cluster he has developed at the school, entitled The Architecture of Innovation. This cluster will bring architectural work at the AA into engagement with the multi-disciplinary challenges inherent in an urbanism for the knowledge economy.

Mr Barth regularly works independently as a consultant urbanist. He has collaborated most frequently with the Pritzker Prize-winning office of Zaha Hadid, integrating a commitment to strategic urban thinking into their large-scale design investigations. He has also assumed the lead role in overseeing a multi-disciplinary refinement of the central district within the one-north Masterplan for a next-generation innovation environment in Singapore. In London, he has initiated a series of AA discussions with architectural practices on the evolving role of design in the development and spatialization of innovation environments. Mr. Barth lectures and publishes broadly on current trends in urbanism and on the role of design in addressing contemporary issues in planning and urban development.