Professor Robert Mull is Publica’s Director of Quality and Innovation with responsibility for developing the team, building the practice’s professional and academic partnerships, establishing its international presence, and ensuring that the practice is at the forefront of the global conversation in terms of civic urbanism, critical thinking, research and design. Since joining Publica in 2016 Robert has been responsible for reviewing all Publica’s projects and ensuring that the practice’s work remains at the top of its field.

An architect, educator and urbanist, Robert was educated at the Bartlett and the Architectural Association, and was until 2016, Director of Architecture and Dean of the Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design in London. He has taught widely in the UK and internationally and held visiting professorships in Vienna, Innsbruck, Umeå and Izmir

Robert was a founder member of the architecture collective NATO and has worked on urban projects and research in many contexts including India, China, Cuba, Korea, the US, Russia, Ukraine and within the refugee crises in Turkey, Greece and France. Robert is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Limerick and teaches at Umeå University. Robert also leads the Global Free Unit, a transnational educational structure with academic, research, NGO and institutional partners focusing on live projects within areas of displacement and institutions including prisons, schools and communities. Robert is currently working with partners in Ukraine in support of the Kharkiv School of Architecture.