Bob Sheil is a lecturer, researcher and practising architect based in London, UK. He runs diploma unit 23 at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he also teaches material-forming techniques and is Director of web information systems. He has been a guest lecturer at Edinburgh University Faculty of Architecture, University of Cambridge School of Architecture, Slade School of Art and Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. He is also a founding partner in sixteen*(makers), a workshop-based architectural practice.