Professor Adrian Friend is an award winning architect, researcher and educator. Whilst Senior Tutor, Royal College of Art and lead scientist of the EU Marie Curie TRADERS research project, Friend headed the MA Architecture Live Project research repository delivering an annual student-led collaborative project with public bodies and industry sponsors such as the pop-up Helix Studio that was Highly Commended in the 2015 Wood Awards. His practice-based research on collaborative inter-disciplinary practices defines role of Maker Architects’ exploring the art of assembly and tactics that extend authorship through the workshop as a site of production in ‘hot-rodding’ by component designed, citizen build kits. Awarded an Innovate UK grant, ‘Flying Factory Autonomous Housing Construction’ (2015), for feasibility into multi-author prototypical systemised construction, Friend’s research was in partnership with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), High Value Manufacturing Catapult. This research exploring the application of advanced manufacturing in the built environment was demonstrated in an experimental house design, Pop-Up Ute that won 'Most Innovative' house in London award at the New London Architecture awards 'Don't Move Improve! 2018'.