Dominic Wilkinson

Dominic Wilkinson is an award-winning architect, author, researcher and historian with 35 years’ experience in designing buildings and writing about architecture and urban history.

Formerly a director at ShedKM architects and design mentor at Austin Smith Lord architects, he is currently a principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and Creative Director of BADA.

In practice he has designed RIBA and Civic Trust award winning buildings, won international architectural competitions and worked on some of the Northwest of England’s most important historic structures.

As an academic he has taught at Manchester and Liverpool Universities and has an extensive track record of successful research grant applications and book publications. His monograph on Architect F. X. Velarde is the first comprehensive study of this important Liverpool Architect and a significant contribution to the understanding of his work. This book was supported by a grant from the Paul Mellon Foundation and published by English Heritage in collaboration with the Twentieth Century Society.

Working with artist Terry Duffy he has been instrumental in the development of the project for an Arts, Science and Sustainability Centre on the island of Hilbre and is currently Secretary of the Hilbre Community Land Trust.