Roger William Connah
Mentor, SAA
Roger Connah is a Welsh writer, and independent scholar based in Ruthin, North Wales, and has taught for over three decades in Finland, India, Pakistan, Sweden, Canada, and the United States. He was professor of architecture at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
He is currently at work as editor, researcher and contributor to the commissioned volume “Re-Radicalizing Architecture”. This is a research by design collaborative venture between Alvar Aalto University (Helsinki) and Guangdong University of Technology (Guangzhou).
Publications, exhibitions, films carried out over 4 decades in Finland, Sweden, India, Pakistan, Italy, USA, UK and Canada. In India (1986-1990) taught film and media at Jamia Millia Islamia, Design at NID, Ahmedabad, exhibition design at Pragati Maidan; Art Creative for The Times of India, designer/curator for (1988-89); Kham (1987 IGNCA New Delhi), Shelter (with Gautam Bhatia, Hudco 1988), Satish Gujral Retrospective (1988), Nexus (NID, Ahmedabad1987); Films: Drive (1992), 27 Minute Lies (1993), Take Five (1993 ), Aaltomania (1997), Involuntary Architecture (2005/2019), Sick City (Film/Game/VR); publications (amongst) : Being: An Architect with Ian Ritchie (2014); Sick City, (2016); Writing Architecture (MIT 1989); Welcome to The Hotel Architecture (MIT 1999); How Architecture Got its Hump (MIT 2001), Finland Modern Architecture in History ( 2005).
