Professor Ian Ritchie FRSE
Founder and Director, ritchie*studio
Architect, writer, poet, artist (prints) and sculptor, climate ambassador Global Returns Project, Trustee Backstage Trust (performing arts); Visiting Professor Liverpool University and currently a member of Milan Polytechnic’s Urbanism, Architecture + Construction Academic Board.
Research Interests
New materials; glass; light; lightweight structural engineering; industrial processes; energy + sustainability; design education; museology; theatre, housing; master planning, urbanism; colour, neuroscience as a design tool.
Policy Interests
Pan-disciplinary design in the built environment; raising design quality in social housing; international design exchange; raising government awareness that architecture is a cultural product; environmentally intelligent and low/zero-carbon design.
