Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment
ProBE is a joint research centre established in February 2010 between Westminster Business School (WBS) and the School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), committed to the development of a rich programme of research and related activities, including projects, oral history, film, exhibitions, and seminars. ProBE is inclusive, embracing those actively engaged in funded projects and publications. It will provide a research hub, a forum for debate and discussion, and a focus for interdisciplinary and international activity related to the production of the built environment.
Statement of Intent
The construction industry produces a range of outputs from iconic pieces of architecture, highly engineered hospitals, bridges and roads to cramped and shoddy housing. It is a vast and unstable sector employing a great range of people, from architects and engineers to bricklayers, labourers and electricians. ProBE co-ordinates and instigates research into the social processes and people producing the structures and spaces that frame the urban and rural environment, nationally and globally. In building up a coherent portfolio of projects and outputs with a committed team of researchers, ProBE seeks to be recognised as a distinct, original and controversial unit, researching problematic issues and developing unique theoretical approaches.
Directors
Professor Linda Clarke
clarkel@westminster.ac.uk
+44 (0) 207911 5000 ext. 3158
Professor Jeremy Till
J.Till@westminster.ac.uk
+44 (0) 207911 5130
Deputy director
Dr Christine Wall
