Lucas is a qualified Urban Designer, Landscape Architect and academic, with an extensive background in both private sector practice and higher education course teaching and management as well as research. As a designer, he has expertise gained from working through a variety of practices, scales and sectors, from strategic regional framework, to detailed design, particularly in UK and Chinese contexts.

He works in the areas of Urban Design, Landscape Architecture and Architecture at Birmingham City University. Lucas’ PhD looked into the current and future potential for Augmented and Virtual Reality might increasingly play within collaborative and participatory practice.