Dr Fidel Meraz

I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Environment. I have an established career in architectural education in Mexico (Anahuac University), the United Kingdom (Universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and Suffolk) and Asia (India, Sri Lanka). I have participated in the planning, validation, and pedagogical direction of architecture programmes, coordinated international collaborations, and served as an external examiner for these disciplines in India, as well as a link tutor at UWE's partner City School of Architecture in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My experience as an educator combines practice-based teaching and theoretical research in architectural education, adopting a holistic approach.

I contribute to teaching and learning in architectural philosophy, theory, history and design at the undergraduate, master and doctoral levels. He is interested in moving forward a critical agenda for an architectural pedagogy that cultivates in students the potential of becoming agents of their own progress and the one of their communities.

My research focuses on philosophical approaches, primarily through phenomenology, to the relationships between spatiality, temporality, and architectural places, as well as on collective memory, heritage conservation, cultural identity, and perceptions of wellbeing. I have contributed with articles in books, journals and conferences at international level. I am a peer reviewer and member of editorial committees for several publications in the UK and abroad.

In practice, I worked extensively in design and construction in Italy, Mexico, and Central America on numerous projects, ranging from housing to shopping centres, performing in both the conceptual stages and the execution of building.

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