Dr Richard Koeck is Professor and Chair in Architecture and the Visual Arts in the Liverpool School of Architecture and is Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA). He is founding director of CineTecture, an award-winning video production company based in Liverpool.

Richard led/co-led several Innovate UK and AHRC-funded projects that studied cities, film, digital media and immersive spaces. His research is cross-disciplinary and situated at the intersection of Architecture, Digital Creative Arts, and Digital Communication. He is co-editor of several books, including Cities in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image (2008), The City and the Moving Image’(2010) and Cinematic Urban Geographies (2016), author of numerous articles and book chapters on film, visual culture and advertising, and author of the monograph Cine|Scapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities (Routlege, 2012) and Immersed in the Image of the City (Routledge, forthcoming).