Mike Dring
Biography:
Mike Dring is a registered architect and Course Director of the undergraduate programme in architecture at Birmingham School of Architecture. He graduated from Manchester School of Architecture with a distinction and commendation in 2000, working for two prominent architectural practices prior to joining the University in 2007. During his time in full time practice he collaborated with a variety of creative individuals from urban designers to artists, on schemes ranging in scale from an urban extension to Reykjavík to beach huts on the Lincolnshire coast. His latest commission involved the preparation of a feasibility report for the design and fabrication of a relocatable ‘Sebilj’, a reinterpretation of a traditional Bosnian monument for the Bosnian Community Centre in Birmingham.
Within BIAD, Mike is involved in the Undergraduate Forum and the Extended Induction Working Group as well as promotional activities for the School and Faculty.
Mike is currently working with local photographer Stuart Whipps towards an exhibition on post-Herbert Manzoni era Birmingham. The research, funded by Birmingham City University, will draw on extensive archives held by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Birmingham and Five Counties Architectural Association (BFCAA).
The "Glass Pavilion" Project that I delivered whilst in practice at Glenn Howells Architects has been published under my previous employers details, in the following publications:
- ‘New Architecture in Britain’, Kenneth Powell, 2003, Merrell Publishers Ltd
- Planahome Magazine, 2003 Edition, a runner up for the RIBA Manser Medal (part of the national RIBA Awards having won a regional award).
- RIBA Journal, October 2002
- Elle Decoration, August 2004
- Sunday Time Homes Section, 15th June 2003
- Front cover image of RIBA West Midlands Yearbook 2003
I also wrote text for an article on a bar refurbishment scheme by Juggernaut in Manchester, published in RIBA Interiors Magazine, December 1998.
RIBA Regional Award 2003 for Glass Pavilion whilst at Glenn Howells Architects, nominated for the Stephen Lawrence Award
Nominated for RIBA Silver Medal for B Arch project
Small research grant through Birmingham City University