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.
About the event
As part of RIBA Oxfordshire’s ‘cutting carbon’ 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".
RIBA 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 RIBA Oxfordshire events 2024 to 2025.
