John Brennan
MA Dip.Arch ARIAS
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Design

Room: 3.62
Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 2324
Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 8019
Email: john.brennan@ed.ac.uk

Architecture: School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE)
The University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
EH1 1JZ, Scotland

Profile

John is an architect who combines practice with research. He has worked in the field of sustainable architecture for 20 years and has through practice and research engaged with the key issues of the environmental debate. Current projects bridge academia and the profession and he is currently researching how sustainable agendas will change the way in which we perceive rural settlement. He is also interested in the many ways in which sustainability is defined and how this can both help and hinder the formulation of robust sustainable design strategies.

John teaches on undergraduate technology and environment courses and has recently established a new masters programme in advanced sustainable design [http://www.ace.ed.ac.uk/asd]

Recent publications and built works include:

Brennan, J. and J. Wilson (2008). Scotland's Housing Expo Inverness: A winning entry for a sustainable housing exhibition that will see the construction of selected best practice design exemplars. Completion 2010.

Brennan, J. (2007). 'Architecture and sustainability as autonomous techniques in interdisciplinary education.' EAAE Transactions on architectural education (34) : 205-213

Pedreschi, R. F., J. Brennan, et al. (2006). Preliminary studies of steel-plywood composite structures Steel: a new and traditional material, Brasov, Romania, Taylor & Francis.

Brennan, J. (2006). The use of narrative in contemporary rural architecture. ARQ 10(1): 12-23.

Brennan, J. and J. Wilson (2004). Culorrin House. Ross-shire: Built Work. Winner of Saltire Award for Housing [2005], The Northern Exposure Prize, Scottish Design Awards [2005], Best Residential Building, Scottish Design Awards [2005].

Brennan, J. (2004). Skyspace Scotland. Perthshire: Permanent art installation in collaboration with James Turrell.