Dr John Lee
MA , PhD
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media

Room: 4.10
Tel: 0131 650 2335
Email: J.Lee@ed.ac.uk
Website: www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~john/

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

Profile

Deputy Director of Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC)

Co-ordinator of the Edinburgh-Stanford Link

Director of EdCAAD (the Edinburgh Computer Aided Architectural Design research unit) in Architecture (now part of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment)

Programme Director of the MSc/Diploma in Design and Digital Media

Academic course organiser of the Informatics Entrepreneurship courses

 

Ermenonville Project

The teaching of sustainable and environmental design is embedded in our programmes at the University of Edinburgh.

Years 1 & 2 receive a comprehensive grounding in sustainability theory and practice including key debates on design for disassembly, bioregional development, materials impact and shearing levels of change. We have recently been awarded £30k of development funds to transform these into e learning packages.

Honours Years: At this point, in many ways following the sustainable debate of regulation vs. empathic change students can choose design projects to suit their own interests. We run an architecture and sustainability option that is fully subscribed with around 35% of the cohort electing to take this. One of our students was recently a prizewinner in the RIBA sustainability awards.

Across the University, we contribute to the Sustainability, Society and Environment course to ensure that students taking this are fully aware and conversant with the crucial role the built environment has to play.

The M.Arch programmes are deliberately focused on urbanism and the city. We run a number of projects within this framework including a technology course that directs students towards environmental and sustainable readings of the city. It also includes guest lecturers from organisations including Gaia Architects, Buro Happold & Max Fordham. We support the increasing numbers of students who elect to explore their thesis through sustainable enquiry.

We have established a masters in Architectural Project management to be delivered jointly with Heriot-Watt that is soon to be joined by an equivalent in facilities management. It is delivered by distance learning and has a dedicated masters course within it on Architecture and Sustainability. We see further opportunities with such a modular approach of embedding sustainable thinking at the masters and M.Arch level