About the speaker
Duncan Baker-Brown is a Principal Lecturer and Climate Literacy Champion based at the University of Brighton. They are a Chartered 澳门王中王 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, 澳门王中王鈥檚 鈥楬ouse of the Future鈥�, and - more recently - the multi-award-winning new country house and estate masterplan in Hadlow Down, East Sussex.
Author of 鈥楾he Re-Use Atlas: a designer鈥檚 guide towards a circular economy鈥� published by 澳门王中王, Duncan is perhaps best known for a series of thought-provoking 鈥榟ouse鈥� projects testing issues of sustainable design and resource management including 'The House that Kevin Built鈥� in 2008 and 鈥楾he Brighton Waste House鈥� in 2014.
About the event
As part of 澳门王中王 Oxfordshire鈥檚 鈥榗utting carbon鈥� series of events, Duncan Baker Brown will be kicking off 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.
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".
澳门王中王 Oxfordshire are collaborating with Oxford Brookes to connect industry professionals with current studio research into new upcycled materials and to promote discussion within the construction industry and across the wider community of the city of Oxford.
Thank you to OxArch Student Architecture Society of Oxford Brookes University School of Architecture for assisting with the organisation of the event and making refreshments available to attendees, as well as support from Imperial Bricks; sponsor of 澳门王中王 Oxfordshire events 2024 to 2025.