- Ranulph Glanville
Ranulph Glanville (born London,
13 June , 1946) is a British freelance researcher and theoretician in botharchitecture andcybernetics .Biography
Glanville studied architecture at the
Architectural Association from 1964 to 1971. He completed a PhD in cybernetics atBrunel University in 1975, and obtained a second PhD in Human Learning from Brunel in 1988.He worked briefly as an architect in UK and
Finland . He taught at the Architectural Association 1972-78, andPortsmouth Polytechnic 1978-97. He was Adjunct Professor at the The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 1998-2001. He has been a freelance researcher since 1997, and lives inPortsmouth , UK. He has had scientific papers published in the fields ofarchitecture ,cybernetics andpsychology . He is a regular contributor to conferences around the world.Glanville is a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society.
Publications
Glanville has written more than 170 articles and papers about both
architecture andcybernetics . [ List of [http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/people/glanville/cv.html#publications Papers, publications and Writings] by Ranulph Glanville. ] A selection:
* 1984, "Cedric Price, Precisely" in "Cedric Price: Works II", The Architectural Association, London.
* 1995, withGerard de Zeeuw (eds.), "Problems of Values and Invariants", Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers.
* 1999, [http://home.snafu.de/jonasw/PARADOXGlanvilleE.html Researching design and designing research] , MIT paper
* 2000, "Living in Lines" in R. McLeod (ed), "Interior Cities", RMIT Press, Melbourne.
* 2000, with Gerard de Zeeuw (eds), "Problems of Action and Observation", BKS+, Southsea, 2000.
* 2000, "The Value of Being Unmanageable: Variety and Creativity in CyberSpace" in H. Eichmann, J. Hochgerner, and F. Nahrada (eds), "Netzwerke", Falter Verlag, Vienna.
* 2001, with B. Scott, “About Gordon Pask”, Special double issue of Kybernetes, Gordon Pask, Remembered and Celebrated, Part I, 30, 5/6, pp. 507-508.
* 2002, [http://www.cict.demon.co.uk/Glanville.pdf "Doing the Right Thing: the Problems of… Gerard de Zeeuw, Academic Guerilla."] , paper 2002.References
External links
* [http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/people/glanville/ Glanville home page]
* [http://www.scientificfly.de/sf_asif.html CD by Scientific Fly based on a paper of Glanville]
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