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Sam Coulton

I am a London based multidisciplinary designer & creative working across architectural, set and production design.

 

As Lead Designer for SWEAR Studio I have worked on the Brit Awards 2022, Gorillaz Live Shows 2023 and Blur at Coachella 2024. I am also the Architectural Designer of IICON for Block9 at Glastonbury Festival.

Awarded the Sir Banister Fletcher Medal for attaining the highest marks from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2018, I am also Lecturer in Drawing and Digital Skills at UCL and have taught in London since 2015.​

My academic work received a commendation for the RIBA Silver Medal and has been published in Dezeen. Whilst my thesis has been published in AJAR: Arena Journal of Architectural Research. I am also a current member of the RIBA Educational Development Group, working to help talented and disadvantaged students to achieve their degrees. 

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The projects featured are a selection of some of the public works I have been involved in.

I operate across multiple fields:

  • Production design and creative consultancy for live music, stages, exhibitions and installations

  • Spatial drawing

  • Construction detailing and design coordination

  • Concept deck creation and presentation

  • Still and video rendering for spatial and installation designs

  • Art and video direction with experience of multi-screen LED show design and realtime content pre-visualisation.

  • Digital fabrication

  • SpatialcClimate simulation

  • Construction scheduling and build management

Proficient in: Adobe PS / Ai / Indd / Rhino / Vectorworks / Microstation / Grasshopper / Enscape / Twinmotion. With working knowledge of: Cinema 4D / Premiere / SketchUP / Daz3D / 

sam.coulton@yahoo.co.uk

Awards 

2018

Sir Banister Fletcher Medal, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

2018

Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

2017

Wren Scholarship, Royal Institute of British Architects, London

2016

Part 2/MArch Bursary, Royal Institute of British Architects, London

Group Exhibitions

2023

Brick By Brick, Portico Library, Manchester

2019

2018

London Is... Seoul biennale, Curator: Peter Bishop

Unit 12, Final Exhibition, Bartlett Summer Show

Publications and Links

2023

Portico Library, Brick by Brick Exhibition

https://www.theportico.org.uk/brick-by-brick

2021

Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History - 2021
The Architect as Physical Historian. Edited by Jonathan Hill

link

2021

Cartographies of the Imagination. Book and Exhibition

https://cartographiesoftheimagination.com/

2021

Swear Studio

www.swear.studio

2020

Irradiated Landscapes: Journey to Prospect Cottage

AJAR: Journal of Architectural Research

https://ajar.arena-architecture.eu/articles/10.5334/ajar.259

2018

2018

2018

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