bea martin
ABOUT
I am Bea Martin—Portuguese-born, British by drift—an architect, artist, and educator tracing the edges of the not-yet. I teach at the Manchester School of Architecture and pursue a PhD at the Bartlett, drawn to what is unfinished, unformed, in flux.
My work moves between drawing and architecture, between thought and relation—assembling fragments that resist settling. I lean into abstraction and ambiguity, letting architecture slip beyond itself into other ways of seeing and making.
Trained in practice, once at Richard Rogers and Partners, I hold precision lightly, bending it toward experiment. Through Speculative Assemblies, I approach drawing as a live field—where marks generate possibilities, and architecture emerges through shifting relations between thought, matter, and form.
For me, architecture never arrives. It hovers, gathers, dissolves—always in a permanent state of becoming.
CORE TEACHING AREAS
Architecture as Thought Practice
Engaging architectural design through philosophical methods — critical theory, media studies, poetics — outside the conventional boundaries of practice.
Conceptual & Experimental Drawing
Drawing as a method of research, invention, and provocation. Not to describe architecture, but to speculate, fictionalise, and reveal its hidden logics.
Speculative Assemblies
Assemblies not as tectonic construction, but as conceptual, visual, and affective constructs — ways of holding together ideas, fragments, stories, logics, contradictions.
Visual Studies in Architecture
The visual construct not just as output, but as epistemic engine — tracing how visuals generate thought, spatial affect, and forms of knowing.
Radical Methodologies
Working with tools, techniques, and processes that sit outside (or against) architecture’s disciplinary norms — including cinema, notation, AI, narrative, diagram, montage, and performative image-making.
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