Mr Remi Phillips-Hood
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Lecturer in Architecture
Biography
Remi Phillips-Hood is an architectural designer, lecturer, and emerging researcher at the Â׸£ÀûƬ whose work explores the relationship between material intelligence, computational fabrication, and architectural envelope systems. His research investigates how performance-driven fabrication logics from high-performance sportswear can inform new approaches to responsive architectural design, positioning garments and wearable systems as precedents for future environmental envelopes rather than simply aesthetic references.
Drawing on professional experience within both architectural practice and product-led design workflows, his work sits between architecture, design studies, fabrication research, and emerging Industry 5.0 methodologies. Current research activity focuses on how principles such as material zoning, directional alignment, support/flexibility modulation, and filament-based fabrication can be translated into architectural systems through computational modelling and prototype-led investigation.
Alongside teaching within architecture at the Â׸£ÀûƬ, Remi is currently developing a REF-oriented research trajectory centred around fabrication-informed architectural methodologies, collaborative prototyping, and interdisciplinary design research linking architecture, sportswear systems, and robotics-compatible fabrication workflows.
Areas of Research
Remi’s research explores how architectural design can learn from high-performance sportswear fabrication and wearable systems to rethink the relationship between body, environment, and building envelope. His work focuses on performance-driven architectural systems, computational fabrication, material organisation, and responsive design methodologies that operate through differentiated material behaviour rather than conventional layered construction.
Current areas of interest include computational and robotic fabrication, material intelligence, responsive envelope systems, environmental performance, design-to-production workflows, and practice-based research methodologies. His research also investigates how prototype-led experimentation and fabrication testing can function as tools for architectural inquiry and methodological development.
A major strand of his current work examines how sportswear systems such as Flyknit, compression garments, and technical mesh structures can inform architectural approaches to zoning, density variation, breathability, support, and directional material organisation. This research positions fabrication not simply as production, but as a method for generating architectural knowledge through iterative testing, making, and evaluation.
Areas of Supervision
Remi’s PhD supervision interests sit at the intersection of architecture, computational fabrication, material intelligence, and performance-driven design methodologies. He is particularly interested in supervising research exploring responsive architectural envelope systems, fabrication-aware design processes, computational and robotic workflows, digital fabrication, and interdisciplinary approaches linking architecture with product design, wearable systems, and advanced manufacturing.
Current research themes include performance-driven architectural systems informed by sportswear fabrication, material zoning and environmental responsiveness, computational modelling and parametric workflows, prototype-led architectural research, and fabrication-informed environmental design. He is also interested in practice-based and research-through-making methodologies that use prototyping, testing, and iterative fabrication as tools for architectural inquiry.
Potential PhD topics may include responsive façade systems, computational fabrication in architecture, robotics-compatible construction methods, material intelligence and adaptive systems, environmental performance and fabrication workflows, wearable architecture, digital manufacturing, and interdisciplinary design research positioned between architecture, fashion, product design, and advanced fabrication technologies.
Alongside research activity, Remi teaches across undergraduate architecture programmes at the Â׸£ÀûƬ, where his teaching focuses on computational design, digital workflows, material experimentation, and fabrication-aware architectural thinking. His approach integrates professional industry experience with hands-on design methodologies, encouraging students to develop technically informed and conceptually rigorous approaches to architectural design.
His teaching increasingly intersects with his research interests in computational fabrication, responsive systems, and material intelligence, contributing toward a broader culture of experimentation and innovation within architectural education. Current teaching activity includes the integration of computational workflows, rapid prototyping methodologies, and digitally informed design processes within undergraduate studio teaching.
Remi currently teaches across multiple undergraduate levels and has experience leading and coordinating design studio activity, developing project briefs, and aligning architectural studio teaching with wider technical and technological agendas. His work places particular emphasis on helping students develop adaptable digital skillsets and fabrication awareness alongside conceptual and spatial design thinking.
From September 2026, Remi will also begin undertaking the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) at the Â׸£ÀûƬ as part of his continued development as an architectural educator. This will further support the integration of research-led teaching, pedagogical development, and innovative design studio methodologies within his academic practice.
Qualifications
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Architecture
2019 - 2021 -
Architecture
2015 - 2018