bea martin
ARCHITECT
ARTIST
EDUCATOR
ABOUT
I am Bea Martin—Portuguese-born, British by drift—an architect, artist, and educator tracing the edges of the not-yet. I teach at the Manchester School of Architecture and pursue a PhD at the Bartlett, drawn to what is unfinished, unformed, in flux.
My work moves between drawing and architecture, between thought and relation—assembling fragments that resist settling. I lean into abstraction and ambiguity, letting architecture slip beyond itself into other ways of seeing and making.
Trained in practice, once at Richard Rogers and Partners, I hold precision lightly, bending it toward experiment. Through Speculative Assemblies, I approach drawing as a live field—where marks generate possibilities, and architecture emerges through shifting relations between thought, matter, and form.
For me, architecture never arrives. It hovers, gathers, dissolves—always in a permanent state of becoming.
RECENT SHOWING
Impossible Drawings
A+D Museum | Los Angels | 2024-25
"Collaborative exhibition by A+D Museum and Thom Mayne’s Stray Dog Cafe directing audiences to reconsider spatial assemblage while it is still in the threshold of physical realization."
– Thom Mayne
TEACHING
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
As an educator, I approach teaching as a shared field of enquiry—where drawing becomes a way of thinking, testing, and developing individual positions.
Research on drawing as a relational and spatial practice, developed through Speculative Assemblies.
Writing and printed work extending the practice into discourse and public circulation.