Mark Smout is a Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where he runs Postgraduate Unit 11 and the Final Year Thesis programme. His Architectural Design Research practice (Smout Allen, with Laura Allen) concentrates on conceptual and theoretical design projects that operate with the ephemeral and enduring forces of change in our environment. Vernacular techniques and passive systems are reinvented to enhance the latent qualities of the site and the architecture that inhabits it. New strategies for inhabiting territories of change, such as disintegrating coastlines, provide a model for an unfamiliar architecture that adapts with the restless landscape. Meticulous drawings and intricate models that propose synergies between architecture and landscape, representation and instrumentation, technology and vulgar knowledge typify their work. They recently published the best selling book Augmented Landscapes, PA28, in the prestigious Pamphlet Architecture Series. Their contribution to architectural design and technology teaching is acknowledged by numerous national and international accolades for innovation and excellence in education awarded to themselves and their graduating students, including 4 RIBA President Medals winners and the Royal Academy of the Arts Architecture prize in 2005. Smout Allen lecture and run teaching workshops internationally and their new work, "Envirographic Architecture" will be showcased at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno in 2011.