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Academic publications

Here is a complete list of our publications, which relate to our practice and research specialisms.

If you would like more information on any of these papers or would be interested in future research collaborations, please get in touch with us.

  • Transylvanian villages: conservationism, but at what price?
    Hughes A, Hughes T, Koranyi J
    Open Democracy (paper available online), 2010
  • Rehabilitation and retrofit: Sustainable futures in Romania’s Saxon Villages
    Hughes A, Hughes T
    XXXVII IAHS World Congress on Housing, Santander, Spain, 2010
  • Towards a sustainable critical regionalism
    Hughes A, Lu C, Du Y
    In ‘Urban Morphology and Urban Transformation’, Sixteenth International Seminar on Urban Form, Guangzhou, China, 2009
  • Cultures, identities, heritage, conflict: emerging dynamics in Transylvania's Saxon villages
    Hughes A, Hughes T
    ADGD Conference: The Multiple Faces of Identity in the Designed Environment, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 2009
  • Will there be conflict? Identity and values tensions in Transylvania's Saxon villages
    Hughes A
    Europolis, Journal of Political Analysis and Theory (4), pp. 309-328, 2008
  • The thermal behaviour of buildings incorporating single skin tensile membrane structures
    Devulder T, Wilson R, Chilton JC
    International Journal of Low Carbon Technologies, Manchester University Press, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2007, pp. 195-213, 2007
  • Tailoring the environmental properties of membrane constructions
    Devulder T, Chilton JC, Wilson R, Blum R
    Proceedings of the TensiNet Symposium 2007: Ephemeral Architecture — Textiles and Time, Milano, 2007
  • Steel Frame Homes: Design practice and consumer response in the take up of Steel Frame in English Speculative Housing
    Hughes T
    PhD thesis, University of Lincoln, 2005
  • Steel homes: Construction systems and identity
    Hughes T
    International Conference Globalisation and Representation, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2005
  • The thermal behaviour of textile skins
    Devulder T, Chilton JC, Wilson R, Blum R
    TensiNews, published by the Communication Network for Tensile Structures in Europe, September 2005, 2005
  • European Design Guide for Tensile Surface Structures
    Blum R, Chilton JC, Devulder T, Rutherford P
    Chapter 4: Internal Environment, TensiNet, ISBN 908086871X, 2004
  • The thermal response of textile membrane constructions
    Devulder T
    PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004
  • Consumer response to steel frame housing: A choice modelling experiment
    Hughes T
    European Network for Housing Research conference paper, 2004
  • Environmental monitoring of the Inland Revenue Amenity Building, Nottingham
    Chilton JC, Devulder T
    Proceedings of the TechTextil Symposium, Innovative Lightweight membrane construction session, Frankfurt, Germany, April 2003, 2003
  • Integrating Light Steel Frame: Impact on product and process
    Hughes T
    XXX IAHS World Congress on Housing, Vol. 1, 2002
  • Chapter House Roof, Lincoln Cathedral
    Chilton JC, Devulder T
    Proceedings of Spatial Wood Structures 2002, special session of the Fifth International Conference on Space Structures, Surrey, UK, 2002
  • It's a steel
    Hughes T
    Article on steel frame housing, Architects' Journal, No. 5, Vol. 216, 2002
  • Material Presence: Spatial Potential
    Hughes T
    Proceedings of the 5th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics, 2001
  • Widespan membrane enclosures as passive climate modifiers
    Devulder T, Chilton JC
    Proceedings of the International Symposium on Theory, Design and Realization of Shell and Spatial Structures, Nagoya, Japan, 2001
  • An Historic Timber Reciprocal Structure - The Chapter House Roof, Lincoln Cathedral
    Chilton JC, Devulder T
    Proceedings of the IASS Symposium, Bridging Large Spans from Antiquity to the Present, Sanayi-i Nefise Vakfi, Istanbul, 2000