CHRISTO MEYER WORKS situates itself as a creative practice at the intersection of architecture, design, research and academia.  CMW operates between the UK and Southeast Asia, working on speculative and built projects, employing design through making as a methodology of critical practice.  It leverages its role in practice and academia as a platform of confluence so that the one can inform the other.  CMW is also exclusively collaborative, aligning with individuals and institutions that share similar values, through competitions, research and writing.

Bio

Christo Meyer ARB RIBA is a South African British architect based in Singapore. Prior to joining NUS, he was the Assistant Director for Academics and Fourth Year Coordinator at the International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA), Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. A graduate of UFS, LSBU & The Bartlett, he has designed & delivered several award-winning & internationally published projects during his time in professional practice. As an experienced Academic & avowed Designer-Maker, he has also taught at the University of Central Lancashire, the University of Brighton, the University of Greenwich & The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. Christo’s creative practice, teaching and research focus on design through making, using explorative and experimental models, devices, and drawings to develop narrative projects as a critique and response to cultural and spatial contexts.

Research Areas:

Pedagogy in Architectural Education, Design through Making (Analog/Digital/Hybrid), Research by Design, Architectural Representation, Narratology, “Live” / Design-Build Projects, Islands and the Imaginary, The Global South