Philip Tabor

Philip Tabor studied architecture at Cambridge, where his PhD concerned CAD (computer aided design), and was for many years a partner in Edward Cullinan Architects. He cofounded the Land Use and Built Form Studies research centre (now Cambridge University’s Martin Centre) and Applied Research of Cambridge, a company specialising in developing CAD software (later sold to aircraft manufacturers McDonnell-Douglas). He was awarded a Personal Chair in Architectural Theory and Criticism at University College London, where he was the Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture. He taught at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and, with Gillian Crampton Smith, founded and now coordinates the Interaction Design programme in the Visual and Multimedia Communication masters course of the Faculty of Design and Arts, Iuav University of Venice. He believes that interaction design can and should equal architecture’s historic role: to develop and transmit social values and cultural meanings subtly, wittily and movingly.