Michael Cassidy

  

Born in London, Michael Cassidy graduated in 1962 with First Class Honours in Architecture from University College, London, and received his Master’s Degree in 1970, in City and Regional Planning, from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Harkness Fellow. He received his PhD from the University of Plymouth in 2023. Following experience in hospital research, teaching and design, he was appointed Leader of the Environmental Studies group in the Greater London Council. From 1975, he worked as an architect and planner in private practice in London and Kuwait and has been responsible for the design and execution of more than one million square meters of building. He has held academic positions at University College, London, the Regent’s Street Polytechnic [now University of Middlesex], Washington University, St Louis, the Centre for Planning and Development Research, UC, Berkeley, Kuwait University Department of Architecture and Gulf University for Science and Technology. He is a Registered Architect in UK. His additional interests include painting and travel and he has published widely in the technical press. He has held successful exhibitions of his paintings in Kuwait and Mexico. He is currently an Associate Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Plymouth.