Speaking at Filed, Misfiled, Unfiled: Archives in Question, a New Architecture Writers live event at Heatherwick Studio, June 2025
Angus Taylor is a British-Malaysian researcher, educator, writer and designer working across architecture, urban studies, and critical spatial practice. He is currently an archival researcher at the Architectural Association, where he investigates the postcolonial legacy of the AA's Department of Tropical Architecture. He is also an Architectural Designer at Conrad Koslowsky Architects in London, where he specialises in the design and delivery of children's residential care homes.
Angus has held a number of educational positions, including as a Lecturer at the University of Brighton, where he co-led Studio 12 within the BA Architecture course. He also co-led second-year design studies at the SCE Negev School of Architecture in Beersheva, an educational institution founded in 2021 to decolonise knowledge of the desert and address social inequalities and ecological destruction in the Negev/Naqab. In addition, Angus regularly delivers seminars and sits on project review panels at the Architectural Association within the Diploma 7 Fluid Territories design unit and the Projective Cities MPhil course.
His writing has featured in The Architectural Review, Architects’ Journal, and AMPS Journal, and he is an alumnus of the New Architecture Writers' program, an architecture writing collective for people of colour established by the Architecture Foundation. He has also spoken at a number of conferences and public events, most recently at The Built Ocean conference hosted by the University of Porto and organised by the European Architectural History Network. Angus has also exhibited his research-led artworks at several exhibitions, including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023.
He received an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design with distinction from the University of Cambridge in 2020, where he was also nominated for the RIBA President's Medals Silver Award, and a BA in Architecture with First Class Honours from the University of Brighton in 2016. His current independent research on the impact of the global tech industry on coastal development in Southeast Asia is forthcoming as a publication with the National University of Singapore in Spring 2026.