Paula Craft-Pegg

As Programme Lead for Architecture at the University of Portsmouth, I work collaboratively with colleagues and students across the School of Architecture, Art & Design to foster cross-disciplinary design thinking, learning and teaching innovation, and promote environmental and creative design practice.  I work with teams across our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design, Masters, and PhD courses.

 

My teaching, practice, and research centre on integrated design education, cultural sustainability, and environmental responsibility in Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design. I teach and co-lead studios in the MArch and MA Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design Courses.

Since joining the University of Portsmouth in 2012, I have led and taught across a diverse range of courses and modules, including undergraduate and postgraduate design studios, professional practice, dissertations, and history and theory courses.

 

My leadership experience includes my current role as Programme Lead (Architecture), and previous roles as Head of the School of Architecture, Course Leader for the Master of Architecture (Part 2), the Final Examination in Professional Practice (Part 3), and Degree Apprenticeships.

 

Throughout my academic career, I have been involved in practice. I am a director of craft:pegg, a multi-disciplinary design office undertaking projects in urban design, landscape architecture, and art installations across the UK and the Middle East. Before establishing craft:pegg in 2004, I worked on diverse UK and international projects with leading firms including Gustafson Porter, Martha Schwartz, and Allies and Morrison, among others in the UK and US.

 

I studied Architecture and Anthropology at the University of Florida and completed my Master's in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I am currently pursuing a Doctorate focusing on professional identity and cross-disciplinary design.  My teaching experience spans multiple institutions, including leading undergraduate design studios at the University of East London and the Boston Architectural Center, student teaching at the University of Florida, and conducting landscape design workshops, drawing workshops, and design reviews in both the UK and US.  I also hold external examination roles at other UK HEIs, and am involved in accreditation panels for the RIBA and ARB.