Andrew Crompton BA MA (Cantab.) BA BArch (Manc.) PhD

a.crompton@manchester.ac.uk

Telephone +44 (0)161 275 6919

September 2, 2008

I am a lecturer in architecture at Manchester University,
and a researcher at the Manchester Architecural Research Centre,
part of the School of Environment and Development

my page at Manchester University.

Publcations

1. 1999 -- Secret of the Cenotaph. AA Files 34
2. 2001 -- Fractal Nature of Everyday Environment. -- Environment and Planning B
3. 2002 -- Fractals and the Picturesque. -- Environment and Planning B
4. 2005 -- Scaling in a Suburban Street. -- Environment and Planning B
5. 2006 -- Perceived distance as a function of time. -- Environment & Behavior
6. 2006 -- (with Dr Frank Brown) Distance perception in a small scale environment -- Environment & Behavior
7. 2007 -- The Destruction of Durnford School. -- Chapter in 'Making Manchester' Ed. C. Hartwell & T. Wyke.
8. 2008 -- (with Frank Brown) A statistical examination of visual depth in building elevations -- Environment and Planning B
9. 2008 -- (with Frank Brown) Forthcoming -- Self Anamorphic Images. -- Journal of Mathematics and the Arts.
10. 2008 -- Forthcoming -- Three Doors to Other Worlds. -- Journal of Architectural Education.

Others

1. 2004 -- The fractal nature of everyday space. Ffraq-Art Conference Madrd March
2. 2000 -- Lifelike tessellations. Manchester Architectural Papers.
3. 2005 -- How big is your city, really?. --Making Cities Livable Conference, 2005.
4. 2007 -- (with Frank Brown) The double fractal structure of Venice. Space Syntax 6 Conference 2007.
5. 2007 -- (with Michael Hebbert) The English Genius for Townscape 1850-1950. Visual Planning conference, Newcastle, 2007.

Research interests

1. My research uses cognitive science to investigate space in the built environment. The questions I am trying to answer are these: Is the everyday environment fractal and how does this effect the way we perceive and use it? Can we manufacture space as if from nothing by appropriate design?

2 I am also interested in Baroque architecture and buildings, sometimes grotesque, that seem to talk or contain stories: see for an example: Crompton, 1997 The Secret of the Cenotaph, AA Files 34, p.64-68. For my site on Grotesque Geometry see www.cromp.com/tess/

Teaching

Since 1990 I have taught architecture students at Manchester University, the AA, and now at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Design Work

Conegro
Tea Oracle
Square Revolving Door
Sphere and Cone
Mystic Railings
Whitehaven Tilings

These and others may be seen on a site I maintain dedicated to the Grotesque in Geometry

Architecture

see design work link