‘A Whole Family of Schools’

Timber is at the heart of Architype’s first wave of Passivhaus schools

In Unstructured 5’s Passivhaus themed section – 2012

The AECB’s long march to Passivhaus

A history of the AECB from its craft inflected and natural materials beginnings to its mainstreaming championing of Passivhaus

In Unstructured 5’s Passivhaus themed section

Designing the Future Forest

How Scotland’s future forestry can green building with native trees, by Bernard Planterose

Originally one of the essays for the Building Biographies exhibition, curated by Oliver Lowenstein and The Lighthouse, Glasgow 2008/9

Timber and the new Highlands regionalism

Dualchas, Neil Sutherland, Gaia Group, Gokay Devici, and Bernard Planterose’s projects breathing new life into a contemporary Highlands architecture

In Annular –  part 2 a series on the return of timber to Scottish building and architectural culture – A version of this piece appeared in Building for a Future vol 16 no 2, Winter/Spring, 2006-7