Developing a new idea?
Too many ideas?
The idea has got lost along the way?
The idea isn’t coming across?
I have a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to developing and structuring ideas, writing and editing. Expressing concepts in clear and elegant language and through images lie at the heart of my work.
As a writer, I can help with:
- Developing concepts for publications, exhibitions, websites and presentations
- Conducting research and interviews
- Composing texts and for different contexts such as articles, books, portfolios, websites and gallery spaces
As a creative structural editor, I can help with:
- Establishing the concept and contents of writing projects at inception
- The overall organisation of a manuscript
- The appropriate structure and style for different contexts such as books, academic papers and online articles
- Ensuring that arguments are logical and understandable
- Removing superfluous and repetitive text
- Titling
- The use of images to support an argument
- The correct use of English
- Proofreading and checking that the style of writing is consistent throughout
- Translation from German into English
Writing, editing and developing concepts are collaborative processes which begin with a conversation. To arrange a free preliminary discussion of your requirements, email me at info@timothywray.com.
Past clients and publications include:
- Erik Weiser, artist: text and concept for portfolio, website and funding applications (2023-ongoing, in German and English)
- Mario Balducci, Planning for Informality: Architectural Design Processes in Developing Economies: concept and structure for forthcoming publication
- hollington clothes, Paris: translation and proofreading of blog and advertising campaigns (2020)
- Camera Constructs: Photography, Architecture and the Modern City (published by Ashgate Publishing, 2012; second edition 2014): conception and co-editor
- Papers at academic conferences including Still Architecture: Photography, Vision and Cultural Transmission, University of Cambridge (2012), Visualising the City, University of Manchester (2005) and the Bauhaus International Kolloquium, Weimar (2003)
- Journalism: various articles for the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, the RIBA Journal, The Feminist Review, Il Giornale dell’architettura and mined magazine (2002-2008)
- Bartlett Works (published by August Projects, 2004): member of editorial board, responsible for editing all text
- Course booklets, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London: compilation and editing of comprehensive course information (2002-2003)
- RIBAstudent: editor of student newsletter for the Royal Institute of British Architects, London (2002-2003)
- Editorial Assistant, Mazars Neville Russell Chartered Accountants, London (2000)
Services are charged by the hour. The time it takes to prepare or edit a document varies, depending on its purpose and the standard of the existing text. As a basis for a preliminary discussion and in order to estimate the time and costs involved for editing work, please send me a sample page of your manuscript and a summary of the contents (if available).