Frances Holliss
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Research Fellow+44 (0)207 133 2980f.holliss@londonmet.ac.uk |
- The architecture of home-based work, especially the building type that combines dwelling and workplace [‘workhome’]
- Home-based work as a regenerative force in urban, suburban and rural areas
- Urban form/ design for home-based work
- Governance frameworks for employment and housing [especially in relationship to dual-use buildings]
- Social and environmental issues relating to home-based work and travel to work
Dr Frances Holliss is an architect and an academic. Her particular research interest is in the architecture of home-based work.
In 2007 she completed a doctorate in which she identified the building that combines dwelling and workplace as an old but little researched or written about building type. She established the existence of this building type by tracing its history from medieval times to the present day in England. Through a close scrutiny of the lives and premises of 76 home-based workers, in urban, suburban and rural contexts in England, she developed a series of typologies and a wide range of design recommendations for workhomes.
Dr Holliss was awarded a £187,000 Knowledge Transfer Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2008. The project, which runs from February 2009 for two years, is to create an open access on-line design guide for buildings that combine dwelling and workplace, through the design of a series of exemplary buildings. It will also result in an on-line pattern book for workhomes.
Current/recent projects and awards
2007 PhD ‘The workhome… a new building type?’ London Metropolitan University
2008 Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Small Grant [to make a visit to Japan to investigate the architecture of home-based work]
2008 AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship: ‘Designing the workhome, from theory to practice’
Publications
2008 ‘Beyond Live/work’, Planning in London, Issue 67 Oct-Dec 2008
Books/ Chapters
2009 [forthcoming] ‘From longhouse to live/work unit; parallel histories and absent narratives’ [paper given at Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Symposium 2008, in process of publication]
