Ross Chinn was born in Birmingham, spent his childhood in Malaysia and returned to Birmingham in 1998. In 2006, Ross began studying architecture at the University of Plymouth although not initially understanding why. Although achieving Upper Second Class Honours, the first 2 years were a haze of cad work and designing to building standards but it wasn’t until the final year under the design tutorship from Mathew Emmett, a Bartlett and Architectural Association graduate, and theoretical guidance by Daniel Maudlin did he begin to realise and find reason through architecture. This was shown by achieving first class results in his final year. After spending his Part 1 placement working for Aedas, Ross will be continuing his Part 2 postgraduate diploma in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University.

Ross’ architectural interest attempts to infuse the sense of narrative (social and fictional) and culture into an architecture that explores the validity of self-sustainability. This is something that he finds very passionate about seen through his design projects “The Fragments of Gogmagog” and “The Ponic Village” using computer visualisations, montages and paper models as means of representation. Although the agenda and challenges are serious, Ross tries to find humour in his delivery. On the theoretical side, Ross chose to explore architecture through the eyes of the layman and find meaning of what the layman finds beautiful in an architecture that might be questioned by architectural critics. In 2010, his final year dissertation “My Father’s House: Memory and the Malaysian Mock Tudor” has been used and referenced in Andrew Ballantyne’s upcoming study on Mock Tudor architecture.

When not exploring the validity of his architectural research, he can be seen playing the guitar or doodling in his notebook. He has a lifelong ambition to draw the perfect Superman and Batman. He has not been successful as of yet.