Founder of BakerBrown, Climate Literacy Champion (Principal Lecturer) at the School of Architecture Technology & Engineering University of Brighton, Member of RIBA Council, Co-Chair RIBA Climate Action Expert Advisory Group, Chair University of Brighton’s Industry Advisory Board for Architecture, UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard Governance Board, Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), Architects Declare Steering Committee, Member of Brighton & Hove City Circular Economy Oversight Board.
Duncan is a practicing architect, academic and environmental activist. Author of ‘The Re-Use Atlas: a designer’s guide towards a circular economy’ published by RIBA, (second edition Sept ’24), he has practised, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable development and closed-looped systems for more than 25 years. He recently founded BakerBrown, a research-led architectural practice and consultancy created to address the huge demands presented by the climate and ecological emergency as well as the challenges of designing in a post-COVID world. Over the years Duncan’s practices (and academic ‘live’ projects) have won numerous accolades including RIBA National Awards and a special award from The Stephen Lawrence Prize for the Brighton Waste House – the prize money has since been used to set up a student prize for circular, closed loop design at the University of Brighton.
Duncan is the University of Brighton’s Principal Investigator for the NW Europe INTERREG FCRBE project. He was responsible for curating the pedagogic outputs for the FCRBE team. Said outputs are the subject of a book ‘The Pedagogies of Re-Use’ published by Routledge June 2024, which he has co-edited with the Prof. Graeme Brooker.
Duncan Chairs the University of Brighton’s Industry Advisory Group for Architecture, Co-Chair’s RIBA’s Climate Action Expert Advisory Group, regularly attending United Nations’ COP’s on behalf of the institution. Duncan is an excellent public speaker. He was the first Architect to be invited to speak at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment and recently spoke at venues as diverse as Chatham House, Mies van de Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion and the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainable Leadership.
Until recently Duncan represented the RIBA on the Governance Board of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard and the Steering Group of UK Architects Declare.
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