Dr Shaun Young

Assistant Professor

School: Architecture and Built Environment

Dr Shaun Young is an architectural practitioner and Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment.

Teaching

Since joining Northumbria, Shaun has taught across all levels of the architecture programme. He is currently co-leading Year 1 (2020-), having previously lead Year 3 (2018-21) and an award-winning MA design studio entitled ‘Landhaus’ (2016-18). Shaun is an experienced educator and has taught at a number of other schools of architecture in the UK, leading MA design studios at the University of Nottingham and Birmingham City University, and final year BA design studios at Kingston University and Newcastle University.

Research

Shaun’s research is design driven and practice-led. His doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Contemporary Applications of the Picturesque in Architecture: A Practice-led Approach’, explored how concepts, techniques, and strategies from the eighteenth century Picturesque can inform contemporary architectural design. His current research continues to explore themes emerging from his doctorate and is concerned with how visual methodologies from architectural practice might be re-appropriated to provide alternatives to more traditional modes of conducting research in architecture.

Practice

Before joining Northumbria, Shaun worked in architectural practice for several award winning, design-led architecture offices in the UK and Switzerland including Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios; DRDH Architects; Adam Khan Architects; Architektbüro A. Furrer und Partner; Matheson Whiteley; and Pitman Tozer Architects. Shaun continues to work as an architectural practitioner and is currently working on several practice-led design research projects for community interest groups, artist collectives and local authorities in the North East of England.

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Key Publications

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The Necessity of Non-Linear and Experimental Architectural Practice in the Age of Financial Uncertainty, Young, S., Roberts, S. 8 Jan 2026, Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism, Glasgow, Urban Studies Foundation (USF)
Caring for Architecture: A provocation, Roberts, S., Young, S. 9 Jul 2025, Association of Architectural Educators 2025
Maps Without Centres: Peripheral Monuments, Young, S., McEwan, C. 19 Sep 2025
Seeing Double: Reflections on Drawings of an Unbuilt Interior, Young, S. 6 May 2025, Interior Educators Conference 2025
The Brothers of Midas, Roberts, S., Young, S. 15 Sep 2025, Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism
The Picturesque and the Periphery, Young, S. 2 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Architecture
Back to the Future: How can historic linear landscape infrastructure be re-appropriated to provide an alternative way of reconfiguring the countryside to ensure a more ecologically viable future and preserve the unique cultural heritage of the region?, Roberts, S., Young, S. 30 Mar 2024, AMPS: Prague - Heritages
Rewinding Education and Play in the North East of England: Three Architectural Projects, Roberts, S., Young, S. 26 Jul 2024, In: International Journal of Playwork Practice
Contemporary Applications of the Picturesque in Architecture: A Practice-led Approach, Young, S. 2022
Landscape Futures, Roberts, S., Young, S., Campbell, W. 5 Dec 2022

Professional Activity

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Editorial work: Architecture (Journal) 2026
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Peripheral Monuments 2026
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Maps Without Centres 2025
Invited talk: Peripheral Monuments: Maps without Centres 2025
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Peripheries 2025
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: AHRA International Conference 2023 Situated Ecologies of Care 2023
Invited talk: RIBA Journal Eye Line 2022 Winners Awards Ceremony 2022
Other: RIBA Journal Eye Line 2022 Winners' Exhibition 2022
Other: Mark Baines Architectural Illustration Exhibition 2022
Other: Royal Scottish Academy Art and Architecture Exhibition 2022 2022