Andreas Lang

Biography

Andreas Lang is Reader in Situated and Ecological Design Practices, Knowledge Exchange Placemaking Lead, and Course Leader of the M-Arch Architecture course at Central Saint Martins.

As course leader of the M-Arch Architecture at Central Saint Martins, he has established a strong reputation for critical and research-based work that challenges the architectural profession's boundaries. The course focuses on emergent practices that advocate social, environmental, and ethical practices with an extended understanding of architectural practice.

Since 2021 he has been the Knowledge Exchange lead for Placemaking at CSM, developing new knowledge exchange projects with a specific emphasis on climate action. A key project and partnership he has been working on is the Forest School platform with Forestry England and other international partners.

He is a co-founder of public works, a non-profit critical design practice that occupies the terrain between art, architecture, and research. Working with an extended network of interdisciplinary collaborators, public works re-works spatial, social, and economic opportunities towards citizen-driven development to nurture and promote the rights of communities, environments, and ecologies. The practice, set up in 2004, uses a range of approaches, including public events, campaigns, the development of urban strategies, and participatory art and architecture projects across all scales.

Andreas's personal practice is deeply intertwined with public works ethos and methodologies; he has a keen interest in ecology, pedagogy and participatory art and design practices.