Luca
Brunelli
Senior Lecturer / Stage leader
Mackintosh School of Architecture
biography
I joined academia full-time relatively late in my career, having co-led an award-winning architectural practice in Madrid for 15 years. I also taught part-time as an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCH-CEU in Valencia, Spain (2003–2013), module leader, master in housing, University of Panama (2007), and as unit leader and urban design strategies tutor at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA, 2015–2016). In 2017, I took the full time role of Senior Lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSA). I hold an MArch from Turin Polytechnic, Italy; an MSc in Planning and Development from the Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett, UCL; an MRes in Town Planning from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; and a PhD in Urban Studies from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Research interests
Salutogenic design of the built environment, ageing, well-being, and public health; post-human approaches to urbanism and architecture; housing design and policies; user involvement in design and production of the built environment; and architectural design pedagogy.
PGR supervision interests
- Housing policies and design in the global south
- Ageing, urbanism and architecture.
- Well-being and the salutogenic design of the built environment
- Post-human approaches to urbanism and architecture.
Current PGR students
As second supervisor, Madiha Salam, Urban dwellings morphology and occupant’s health.
Investigating Sunlight Accessibility and Vitamin D Health Impacts in Karachi’s Middle-Income Formal Housing .
As second supervisor, Roba Al Garny, The Use of Advanced Computing Technologies and Generative Systems to Investigate the Design of Public Buildings in Saudi Arabia- An Inquiry into the Role of Digital Media and Generative Patterns Design in public buildings in Saudi Arabia.
