Jonathan Hale

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Expertise Summary

Prof Jonathan Hale is an architect and Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment. He is Head of the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics research group (ACT) and Convenor for Architectural Humanities II, and Design, Culture & Context modules. Research interests include: architectural theory and criticism; phenomenology and the philosophy of technology; the relationship between architecture and the body; museums and architectural exhibitions. He has published books, chapters, refereed articles and conference papers in these areas and has obtained grants from the EPSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, and the Arts Council. He is founder and current steering group member of the international subject network: Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA); a member of the interdisciplinary Science, Technology and Culture research group, hosted by the Dept of French, and a Management Board member for the University's Research Priority Area in Creative and Cultural Industries.

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Research Summary

Keywords: Architectural theory and criticism; Philosophies of technology, materiality and perception; Phenomenology; The relationship between architecture and the body; Narrative design and digital… read more

Selected Publications

• HALE, J., 2014. Cognitive tectonics: from the prehuman to the posthuman. In: BEIM, A. and STYLSVIG MADSEN, U., eds., Towards an Ecology of Tectonics: The Need for Rethinking Construction in Architecture Edition Axel Menges.
• HALE, J., 2012. Narrative environments and the paradigm of embodiment. In: MACLEOD, S., HOURSTON HANKS, L. and HALE, J., eds., Museum making: narratives, architectures, exhibitions Routledge. 192-200
• MACLEOD, S., HOURSTON HANKS, L. and HALE, J., eds., 2012. Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions 1st. Routledge.
• HALE, J., 2012. Architecture, technology and the body: from the prehuman to the posthuman. In: CRYSLER, C.G., CAIRNS, S. and HEYNEN, H., eds., The Sage handbook of architectural theory Sage. 513-526

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Current Research

Keywords: Architectural theory and criticism; Philosophies of technology, materiality and perception; Phenomenology; The relationship between architecture and the body; Narrative design and digital media in museums and architectural exhibitions.

Recent publication projects include The Future of Museum and Gallery Design, co-edited with Suzanne MacLeod, Tricia Austin and Oscar Ho (Routledge 2018), and a book for the Routledge series Thinkers for Architects on the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty published in 2017; a co-edited book (with Dr Laura Hanks and Suzanne Macleod of the University of Leicester) entitled Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions. (Routledge 2012); From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (Routledge 2007) co-edited with Marco Frascari (Carleton University, Canada) and Bradley Starkey; Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, (Routledge 2007) co-edited with William W Braham (University of Pennsylvania). Funded research projects include: "Anywhere", "Future Garden" and "Moving City", a series of smart-phone guided walks and performance events - part of an ongoing collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab of the School of Computer Science (University of Nottingham) and the Austrian artist-choreographer Cie.Willi Dorner, also including the interdisciplinary 'Towards Pervasive Media' feasibility study funded by the EPSRC (£200k), involving an 18-month collaboration (2009-2011) with colleagues in Computer Science, Geography and History, alongside a number of artists-in-residence.

Past Research

Prof Hale was co-organiser of the 3-day interdisciplinary international conferences "The Future of Museum and Gallery Design" at the University of Hong Kong in November 2015, and "Narrative Space" co-hosted by the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester in April 2010; and chair and organiser of the 2nd Annual AHRA International Conference, 2005 at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with Leverhulme Visiting Professor Marco Frascari. He was a Visiting Professor at the Azrieli School of Architecture, Carleton University, Canada (Jan-Feb 2013) and an invited speaker at international conferences at University of Toronto (March 2014) and University of Oulu, Finland (October 2014). He has chaired sessions at other international conferences including: "This Thing Called Theory, Leeds Becket University 2015; "Field/Work", University of Edinburgh 2009; "Agency", University of Sheffield 2008; "Primitive", Cardiff University 2005; "Philosophy and Architecture", Congress CATH, Bradford 2004; "The Beginning Design Student", Portland State University, Oregon USA, 2002; "Habitus 2000", Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, 2000. He was an invited speaker at "Discourses of the Visual", an international conference at the University of Westminster, 2001, and has been an invited lecturer at the University of Bath (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), University of Pennsylvania, University of Edinburgh and University of Sheffield, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm (2001 & 2009), and the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2000). In 2007 and 2013 he conducted lecture tours in China to promote the translation of Building Ideas published by China Architecture and Building Press (2015) including visits to: South East University, Nanjing; Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan; Shandong Jianzhu University in Jinan; South China University of Technology, Guangzhou; and City University Hong Kong. He has acted as an editorial referee for the journals ARQ, Journal of Architecture and Culture, Theory and Critique, and an editorial reviewer for: MIT Press, John Wiley, Architectural Press, and Routledge. He was a member of the competition jury for the "Nottingham Contemporary" 2004, won by Caruso St John, and a member of the awards panel for the RIBA President's Medals 2002, (Dissertations), the RIBA President's Awards for Research 2010-2013, and the RIBA President's Silver Medal 2019; the East Midlands Design Review Panel (CABE/REM), from 2006-2011; and has served as an External Examiner at The Bartlett, UCL; University of Sheffield; the University of East London and the University of Greenwich. He is also an occasional contributor of review articles to the journal Architecture Today. As a student, he received the RIBA President's Silver Medal award for his final year design project - a reference library in Barcelona.

Personal website/blog: bodyoftheory

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Future Research

I am currently working on a book proposal on the theory of tectonics in architecture, and an interdisciplinary project between architecture and museum studies on the theme of the '4E Museum', with Prof Suzanne MacLeod of the University of Leicester.

I also work as an occasional advisor to the global creative consultancy BrightHouse, based in Boston.

PhD Supervision:

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD candidates from Home, EU and international countries who are interested in the following research areas: Architectural theory and criticism, philosophy of technology, tectonics, materiality and perception, phenomenology and embodiment, museums and exhibitions, Narrative design and digital media in museums and architectural exhibitions.

• XIANG, Y, LOO, Y M and HALE, J, 2024. The other Tianjin and its concession culture: local residents’ perception of the postcolonial identity of Minyuan Stadium Planning Perspectives. 39(2), 347-369
• CHEN, H, HALE, J and HANKS, L, 2023. Archive or exhibition?: A comparative case study of the real and virtual Pitt Rivers Museum Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. 32, e00305
• KATHARINA BORSI, DIDEM EKICI, JONATHAN HALE and NICK HAYNES, eds., 2022. Housing and the City Routledge.
• KAPSALIS, E., JAEGER, N. and HALE, J., 2022. Disabled-by-design: Effects of inaccessible urban public spaces on users of mobility assistive devices – a systematic review Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology.
• BORSI, K., EKICI, D., HALE, J. and HAYNES, N., 2022. Introduction: Housing and the City: Architectural Experimentation and Social Diagrams: Housing and the City Housing and the City. 1-9
• JIN, X. and HALE, J., 2022. Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design: Journal of Architecture Journal of Architecture.
• AYDIN, Y. C., MIRZAEI, P. A. and HALE, J., 2021. Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Esthetic Features of Buildings: Journal of Architectural Engineering Journal of Architectural Engineering. 27(3),
• YANG, J., HALE, J. and BLACKMAN, T., 2021. How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre: arq: Architectural Research Quarterly arq: Architectural Research Quarterly. 25(1), 83-92
• HALE, J., 2020. History. In: PEARMAN, H., ed., Evans Vettori: A Sense of Place 1. Matlock: Knowleston Press. 19-47
• HALE, J., 2020. The 'tectonic sensibility' in architecture: From the pre-human to the post-human: Nottingham French Studies Nottingham French Studies. 53(3), 350-367
• XINLENG, G., HALE, J. and WANG, Q., 2019. Novelistic essay: On the form of Wang Shu's PhD thesis, 'Fictionalising Cities': arq: Architectural Research Quarterly arq: Architectural Research Quarterly.
• HALE, J., 2019. Body Schema. In: MILDENBURG, A., ed., Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism New York NY: Bloomsbury Academic. 295-296
• KOCA, SENEM KAYMAZ and HALE, JONATHAN, 2018. Temporariness and Construction: Geçicilik ve İnşaa: Geçiciliğin Mekansallığı, Tekrarın Yeri, Mekanın Teni. Yapı Journal. 40-45
• MACLEOD, S, AUSTIN, T, HALE, J and HO, O, eds., 2018. The Future of Museum and Gallery Design: Purpose, Process, Perception 1. Abingdon: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
• HALE, J. A., 2017. Merleau-Ponty For Architects Abingdon: Routledge/Taylor and Francis.
• JÄGER, NILS, SCHNÄDELBACH, HOLGER, HALE, JONATHAN, KIRK, DAVID and GLOVER, KEVIN, 2017. Reciprocal Control in Adaptive Environments Interacting with Computers. 29(1), 1-18
• KAYMAZ KOCA, S and HALE, J, 2017. Conceptualizing “Thirdplace”: Exploring Embedded Narrations in Between a Spatial Trilogy Megaron. 12(3), 12
• HALE, J, 2017. Through the Eye of the Mirror. In: SMITH, J and LEÃO NETO, P, eds., Memorability as an Image Porto: Scopio Editions. 52-55
• TATUM, KIRSTEN, PORTER, NICOLE and HALE, JONATHAN, 2017. A Feeling for What's Best: Landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England Journal of Rural Studies. (In Press.)
• DE SILVA, W, HALE, J and PORTER, N, 2016. Ritualised Mythic Place: Body, Performance and Place In a Traditional Sri Lankan Landscape. In: DWYER, S, FRANKS, R and GREEN, R, eds., With(Out) Trace: Interdisciplinary Investigations into Time, Space and the Body 3. ID.Net. 314
• JÄGER, NILS, SCHNÄDELBACH, HOLGER and HALE, JONATHAN, 2016. Embodied Interactions with Adaptive Architecture. In: DALTON, NICHOLAS S., SCHNÄDELBACH, HOLGER, WIBERG, MIKAEL and VAROUDIS, TASOS, eds., Architecture and Interaction: Human Computer Interaction in Space and Place 1. Springer International Publishing. 183-202
• HALE, J., 2015. Found Spaces and Material Memory: Remarks on the Thickness of Time in Architecture. In: MINDRUP, M., ed., Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter First. Farnham: Ashgate.
• HALE, JONATHAN, 2015. The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE. 20(5), 923-925
• TAHSIRI, M., HALE, J. and NIBLOCK, C., 2015. Decreasing the effect of verbal noise in analyzing cognitive activity of a design process
• HALE, J., 2014. Cognitive tectonics: from the prehuman to the posthuman. In: BEIM, A. and STYLSVIG MADSEN, U., eds., Towards an Ecology of Tectonics: The Need for Rethinking Construction in Architecture Edition Axel Menges.
• HALE, J, 2014. Critical Phenomenology: Architecture and the Ambiguities of Embodiment. In: CONNAH, R, ed., A Carefully Folded Ham Sandwich: Towards a Critical Phenomenology 1st. Montreal: FAD Design House. 30-49
• HALE, J., 2014. Materiality, Movement and Meaning: Architecture and the Embodied Mind In: Proceedings ATUT 2014: Designing and Planning the Built Environment for Human Well-being. 305-314
• HALE, J., 2013. Critical phenomenology: architecture and embodiment Architecture and Ideas. n/a(n/a), 18-37
• DING, G., HALE, J. and PARNELL, S., 2013. Constructing a Place for Critical Practice in China: The History and Outlook of the Journal Time+Architecture Architectural Research Quarterly. Volume 17(3-4), 237-252
• HALE, J., 2012. Architecture, technology and the body: from the prehuman to the posthuman. In: CRYSLER, C.G., CAIRNS, S. and HEYNEN, H., eds., The Sage handbook of architectural theory Sage. 513-526
• MACLEOD, S., HOURSTON HANKS, L. and HALE, J., eds., 2012. Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions 1st. Routledge.
• HALE, J., 2012. Narrative environments and the paradigm of embodiment. In: MACLEOD, S., HOURSTON HANKS, L. and HALE, J., eds., Museum making: narratives, architectures, exhibitions Routledge. 192-200
• HALE, J., 2011. Construind Idei: O Introducere in Teoria Arhitecturii (Romanian edition of Building Ideas: An Introduction to Architectural Theory, trans. Cosmin Caciuc). Bucharest: Editura Paideia.
• HALE, J., 2011. Phenomenology & Existentialism. In: OTS, E., ed., Decoding Theoryspeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory Abingdon: Routledge. 93-94 and 167-168
• KAMEL, E. and HALE, J., 2010. Conflicts of Identity: Conservation and Cultural Heritage Meaning Management. In: LIRA, S. and AMOEDA, R., eds., Constructing Intangible Heritage Barcelos: Green Lines Institute. 87-100
• HALE, J. and SCHNÄDELBACH, H., 2009. Moving city: curating architecture on site. In: CHAPLIN S. and STARA, A., eds., Curating architecture and the city Routledge. 51-61
• FRASCARI, M, HALE, J and STARKEY, B.K., eds., 2007. From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture Abingdon: Routledge. (In Press.)
• BRAHAM, W.W., HALE, J.A. and SADAR, J.S., eds., 2007. Rethinking technology: a reader in architectural theory Abingdon: Routledge.
• HALE, J., 2006. Architecture and the Body: Materiality, Movement and Meaning MAJA: Estonian Architectural Review. 50(4), 23-27
• HALE, J., 2006. Building: Stables Restaurant, Wakehurst Place by Walters + Cohen Architecture Today. 16-21
• HALE, J., 2006. Building: Swanke Hayden Connell's inventive Centre for Collaborative Construction Research at Loughborough University Architecture Today. 170, 60-65
• SCHNADELBACH, H., HALE, J., DORNER, W. and BEDWELL, B., 2006. Future garden In: Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment. 346-351
• HALE, J and STARKEY, B.K., eds., 2005. Models and Drawings - The Invisible Nature of Architecture: Abstracts from the AHRA International Conference 2005 Nottingham: School of the Built Environment.
• HALE, J., 2005. Gottfried Semper's primitive hut as an act of self-creation arq: Architectural Research Quarterly. 9(1), 45-49
• HALE, J.A., 2005. Ends middles beginnings: Edward Cullinan Architects London: Black Dog Publishing.
• HALE, J., 2004. Gottfried Semper's primitive hut as an act of self-creation In: Primitive Abstracts.
• HALE, J., 2004. Building: artful craftsmanship, house in Rutland by Robert Barnes Architects Architecture Today. 18-25
• HALE, J., 2004. Architecture in the age of divided representation: the question of creativity in the shadow of production, by Dalibor Vesely Architects' Journal. 44
• HALE,J., 2004. Primitive: edited out of contemporary discourse (Report on the conference Primitive at Welsh School of Architecture, September 2004) arq: Architectural Research Quarterly. 8(1), 9-12
• HALE, J., 2004. Architecture and action: materiality, movement and meaning In: Material Matters International Conference.
• HALE, J., 2004. Michael and Patty Hopkins; Dominique Perrault; Peter and Alison Smithson [3 contributions to: Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture] At: Sennott, R.S. (ed.), Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture, Vols 2 & 3. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 649-650; 999-1000; 1220-1222
• HALE, J., 2003. Building: Bowling Pavilion, Leicester by Patel Taylor Architects Architecture Today.
• HALE, J., 2003. Architectural exhibitions: materiality, movement and meaning In: Proceedings, Spring Research Conference 2003.
• HALE, J., 2002. Building: housing, Bristol by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects Architecture Today. 46-54
• HALE, J., 2002. Review of: The unknown city: contesting architecture and social space, edited by Borden et al.
• HALE, J., 2002. "An architectural exhibition: bench with the film of its own making" in The Predicament of Beginning In: 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. 96-98
• HALE, J., 2001. Towards a critical hermeneutics in architecture In: Discourses of the Visual, International Conference.
• HALE, J., 2001. Building study: house, West London RIBA Journal. 108(2), 48-54
• HALE, J., 2001. Building ideas: an introduction to architectural theory Journal of Architecture. 6, 307-309
• HALE, J., 2001. Cognitive mapping: New York vs Philadelphia. In: LEACH, N., ed., Hieroglyphics of space: reading and experiencing the modern metropolis London: Routledge. 31-42
• HALE, J., 2000. Portraits of the body: architecture and action In: Habitus 2000 International Conference.
• HALE, J.A., 2000. Signs of resistance: re-membering technology Journal of Architecture. 5(1), 91-97
• HALE, J., 2000. Building: Knox Bhavan in Kent Architecture Today. 18-27
• HALE, J., 2000. Building ideas: an introduction to architectural theory Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
• HALE, J., 1999. Renaissance manipulation, review of Architectonics of humanism by Lionel March Building Design. 1385(March), 12
• HALE, J., 1997. Cheltenham blooms - student accommodation at Cheltenham and Gloucester College by Edward Cullinan Architects Architectural Review. 1204(CC1), 54-57
• HALE, J., 1997. Mapping New York: between the network and the body European Journal of American Culture. 17(1), 45-52
• HALE, J., 1997. Signs of resistance: re-membering technology In: ACSA International Conference. 278-281
• HALE, J.A., 1997. Cognitive mapping: rule or model? Renaissance and Modern Studies. 40, 83-96
• KAPSALIS, E., JAEGER, N. and HALE, J., Disabled-by-design: effects of inaccessible urban public spaces on users of mobility assistive devices - a systematic review: Disability and Rehabilitation-Assistive Technology Disability and Rehabilitation-Assistive Technology.
• JIN, X. and HALE, J., Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu's textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design: Journal of Architecture Journal of Architecture.