Nicholas Boyarsky

Dr. Nicholas Boyarsky

Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Practitioner and academic based in London.

Non-academic positions

  • Director
  • Boyarsky Murphy Architects
  • London, UK
  • 20 May 1993 – Present

Supervisor projects

  • Collaborative Visions: Architecture as Expanded Practice
  • 21 Nov 2025
  • Reflections on My Design Process as an Interior Architect
  • 7 Nov 2025
  • The first room. Construction of a Swiss pilot project for transformational change in birth environment design.
  • 16 Sep 2025
  • CARTOGRAPHING SEMI-CONDUCTOR CHIP'S FLOWS & THE RESOURCE 'SAND & WATER'
  • 19 Jun 2025
  • Constructing Drawings / Sounding Practice
  • 2 Jun 2025
  • Medium of Care: Making With Bio-Based Materials
  • 21 Mar 2025
  • Architectural Agonism
  • 22 Aug 2024
  • Architecture's Fitness: Health, survival and death between the anatomical and the planetary
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Adaptation - a process in making
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Modernity slippage and archival memory - A drawing investigation into Vietnamese architecture and its embedded ideologies
  • 13 Jun 2024
  • Six Tales of Animals and Five Related Essays and Projects - Piecing Cities Together by Taking their Objects Apart
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Refocusing the Lens: Spotlighting the Hidden Role of Back-of-House
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Deep Design For Empathetic Architecture: Negotiating Hyper Complexities During China's Rapid Urbanisation
  • 20 Feb 2024
  • Architecture of Co-making: Practices of Questioning Ownership and Undisciplining
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Animating the Inanimate: Architectural ‘Magicking’ at Work
  • 27 Feb 2023
  • Into the Droame
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • Atlas of a Slow Traveller
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • The Exquisite Building
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • Building Stories: Retelling Pasts and Presents and Building Unpredictable Futures for Stories and Buildings
  • 21 Feb 2022
  • Mud: teaching, gardening, making
  • 21 Feb 2022
  • Projecting Architecture - The Spatial Dialectics of Drawing and Model
  • 16 Dec 2021
  • The Expanded Field of Operation. Uncovering New Modes of Working in Architectural Practice.
  • 8 Oct 2021
  • Groundbreaking: Fieldnotes from Forty Walks Across Stockholm’s Landscapes of Extraction
  • 3 Aug 2020
  • Tectonic Accentuations A Transitional Design Framework from Structural Surfaces to Fibrous Morphologies
  • 7 May 2020
  • Mediation and Affect. Fundamentals of an Expansive Architecture
  • 21 Jun 2018

Research interests

Architecture, Representation (drawing), Urban Design, Micro-urbanism, Design Activism, Pedagogy, Archival.

Initiatives and links

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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