THE WORK OF BEA MARTIN
Announcing the Jury for the 2025 MSA Drawing Prize
We are thrilled to launch the first-ever Drawing Prize at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA)—a new initiative celebrating the critical, conceptual, and imaginative potential of architectural drawing.
This year’s jury brings together practitioners and educators whose work has significantly shaped contemporary visual discourse in architecture: Dr Ken Shuttleworth | Birmingham-born architect Ken Shuttleworth founded Make Architects in 2004, a forward-looking and dynamic employee-owned practice with studios in London, Hong Kong, Sydney and Shanghai. Ken sketches every day. He sees drawing as a critical tool for exploring ideas and finding innovative solutions to the ways in which buildings are designed and made.
Greg Willis | Architect at Make Architects. Greg leads the design and development of Make’s virtual gallery programme – the Vault of Contemporary Art (VCA). In April 2020, he became the Project Architect for the VCA’s bespoke virtual exhibition on the work of artist Ben Johnson in collaboration with the V&A.
Professor Perry Kulper | MSA Visiting Professor. Perry is a Professor and Architect at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College. He has 17 years of teaching experience at SCI-Arc. A Columbia University and Cal Poly graduate, he has worked at firms including Eisenman/Robertson and Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown. His work focuses on architectural drawing, spatial design, and expanding architecture’s conceptual boundaries.
Bea Martin | MSA Senior Lecturer, Inscriptive Practices Lead. Bea's research operates at the intersection of visual studies, speculative drawing, and experimental architecture. Bea is the founder of Speculative Assemblies, an experimental design lab that investigates the architectural image as a visual construct. As both a theorist and maker, her practice is rooted in a conceptual exploration—across digital and analogue media—of the apparatus of drawing.
Dr Hamid Khalili | MSA Senior Lecturer, Future Processes Lead. Hamid’s teaching and research lie in the common ground between the theory and practice of architecture and digital narrative practices such as cinema, animation, video games, VR and immersive environments. Hamid has practised both design and filmmaking and has taught, developed and coordinated courses across three continents in both architecture and film schools.
Dr Ray Lucas | MSA Reader in Architecture. Ray has designed and taught courses including Thinking Through Drawing and Graphic Anthropology. In addition to writing about architectural drawing, he uses multiple forms of architectural drawing as a research method, also using movement notation, devising forms of sensory representation, and making paintings to explore the roles of inscriptive practice in architectural thinking.
