About the Speaker:

Professor Daniel Barber is the Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney. He is a historian and theorist focused on environmental dimensions of architecture's past, present, and future. He is the recipient of a 2022-2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, and is part of the British Academy Global Convening Grant on the Just Transitions.

He has authored two significant books: 'Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning' (Princeton University Press 2020) and 'A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War' (Oxford University Press 2016). These represent an essential part of the flowering of 20th Century environmental architecture history, as evaluated during the last decade.

About the Moderator:

Prof. Colin Porteous, ARIAS, FHEA, FRSA, OBE, is an architect and researcher whose interest extends to energy-efficient design moved from practice to in-depth research. In 1981, he became active in the international solar community and then a full-time academic in 1986 after leading a community technical aid centre.

He linked problems of fuel poverty to passive solar solutions via EU-funded Easthall Demonstration Project in early 1990s. Prof. Porteous initiated the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit (MEARU) in 1993. He is the author of numerous books including THE NEW eco-ARCHITECTURE, (2002), Solar Architecture in Cool Climates (2005), Sensing a Historic Low-CO2 Future (2011), Precendented Environmental Futures (2019).

Speaker

Prof Gokay Deveci is chartered architect and hold a professorial chair at the School of Architecture & Built Environment, RGU.

His areas of interest are affordable and innovative low-energy housing design, environmental monitoring and Post Occupancy Evaluation. For the last 25 years, his practice-based research outputs have contributed significantly at the national and international level to the advancement of knowledge in Innovative, low-energy housing which can be evidenced through design his outputs,
His research-based practice has designed a number of innovative low-energy housing projects since 1990, including the first ever social housing project in Britain that has met the 'Passivhaus' energy standards in 2010. His projects have been groundbreaking and have won a series of prestigious international and national design awards from the RIBA, RIAS, and the Saltire Society.

He has been working on multidisciplinary research project looking at Co-Housing typologies for senior occupants including active ageing, social isolation, health & well-being, and business models for rural and remote communities. Prof Deveci is the Architect for the Greyhope Bay Centre in Torry Battery Aberdeen, and currently co-creating with all stakeholders towards the Phase 2 development.

His recent work Boxwood has just been nominated for the Scottish Design Awards 2024.

MODERATOR

Dr Filbert Musau is an academic at the Glasgow School of Art. His past and ongoing research interests have focused on energy efficiency in buildings in the context of thermal control, daylight & natural ventilation, urban density, and space planning. Dr. Musau is actively engaged in research and consultancy partnerships with industry; and has collaborated in performance evaluation of innovative housing designed by Prof Deveci. He is currently leading research on Indoor Environmental Quality of housing for vulnerable populations in Glasgow and Nairobi.