Environmentally Intelligent Design
Well before sustainability was on any government agenda, Ian Ritchie was lecturing on the subject using his own projects as exemplars, beginning with low-cost, self–construct, passive and active solar energy housing (Fluy 1976, Eagle Rock house 1981)and a designed zero-energy cultural greenhouse (theatre/exhibition space), France 1993.
Ian Ritchie also chaired the launch of the first major global book on sustainability, Seymour, Girardet and Penney’s Blueprint for A Green Planet, at The Ecology Centre, London, 1987.
He has been lobbying since 1987 in Europe (ECTP), and UK Government, English Heritage, and advising volume house Builders (Wimpey and Berkeley Homes).
Ian Ritchie has given many international keynote lectures since the mid-90s on a wide range of topics, regularly encompassing an environmentally intelligent and ethical approach to design in Europe, USA and China.
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