Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- Jan 1994-Jul 1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Folder
Extent
19 items
Content and Structure
Scope and content
Folder contains:
- introductory address notes
- 'Great Moments in Architecture' cartoon, featuring GSA
- notes for sessions 3b and 4b
- Porteous' et al paper on 'Thermally Efficient Window Design For The Scottish Housing Market'
- timetable for tour and dinner
- instructions to chairperson (on handling time per speaker, etc)
- and acetates.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.
Accruals
System of arrangement
In order of presentation paper number
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Prof Colin Porteous is an architect and researcher whose interest extends to energy-efficient design moved from practice to in-depth research. In 1981, he became active in the international solar community and then a full-time academic in 1986 after leading a community technical aid centre. He linked problems of fuel poverty to passive solar solutions via EU-funded Easthall Demonstration Project in early 1990s. Prof Porteous initiated the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit (MEARU) in 1993. He is the author of THE NEW eco-ARCHITECTURE (2002) and Solar Architecture in Cool Climates (2005), and has contributed a chapter to Sensing a Historic Low-CO2 Future (2011).