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Date(s)
- c1988-1996 (Creation)
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Folder
Extent
143 items (inc. bound items)
Content and Structure
Scope and content
Folder contains:
- material relating to project monitoring
- Tech Talk newsletters
- Wise group 1989/90 annual review
- 'Condensation Culture' 2nd ed
- print media articles mentioning Easthall project (e.g. Big Issue feature)
- material relating to Japanese home builders visit
- drawings.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.
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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).