MSA Stage 5 School of Architecture
Louis Aston
Louis is an RIBA Part-2 Architectural Assistant, he has spent time working professionally in the field of architecture at Stallan-Brand (Glasgow) and Civic Architects (Amsterdam) where he chose to pursue living and working in a city at the forefront of creative practice and sustainability.
His passion for community engaged design drove Louis to apply and receive a grant funded, shared-artist residency with New Practice and Karakusevic Carson Architects to speculate and self-instigate a research exhibition. He is also the recipient of the RSA John Kinross Scholarship that is awarded to graduating artists and architects to live and study in Florence, to curate and exhibit personal works that connect Art and the Urban Environment.
“The Ethical City within the City”, explores the ‘City within the city’ as a typology for urban planning supported by the readings of Leon Krier and Richard Senette that instill an ethical criteria of community collective and individualism to regenerate the 21st Century city as an artisanal economy within the diverse city of Marseille, France.