About the talk
Duncan Baker Brown will be finishing the series with a talk on working within a circular economy and the implications for the architectural profession of natural circular systems based on reutilisation and the remanufacture of building materials.
Duncan will cover the principles and practices of energy-efficient retrofitting, emphasizing the importance of a whole-building approach.
Whole life cycle resource management will be reviewed using case studies described in 'the Re-use Atlas', including BBM's Brighton Waste House, "UK's first permanent building made from rubbish".
About the speaker
Duncan Baker-Brown is a Principal Lecturer and Climate Literacy Champion based at the University of Brighton. They are a Chartered RIBA architect who has practised, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable design, the circular economy, and closed-loop systems for over 25 years.
Duncan has worked on projects as diverse as 'The Greenwich Millennium Village' in London with Ralph Erskine, RIBA’s ‘House of the Future’, and - more recently - the multi-award-winning new country house and estate masterplan in Hadlow Down, East Sussex.
Author of ‘The Re-Use Atlas: a designer’s guide towards a circular economy’ published by RIBA, Duncan is perhaps best known for a series of thought-provoking ‘house’ projects testing issues of sustainable design and resource management including 'The House that Kevin Built’ in 2008 and ‘The Brighton Waste House’ in 2014.