Greg Keeffe

Position

Downing Professor of Sustainable Architecture

Biography

Greg Keeffe is an academic and practitioner with 25 years experience in sustainability, energy use and its impact on the design of built form and urban space. Over the past 20 years he has sought to develop a series of theoretical hypotheses about sustainability. Greg has extensive experience of working closely with architects and planners to develop exciting ways of re-invigorating the city through innovative sustainable interventions, informing his work on the sustainable city as synergistic super-organism.  He is author of the book 'Means Means Means'; which develops a model of a new city, as an econose, of mutually compatible functional elements.

He has won international competitions to design carbon neutral neighbourhoods, for example Whitefield, Nelson, Lancs, and low energy apartments such as Chorlton Park Housing, Manchester, both of which have been highly rated by CABE. Recent papers include 'Bio Port:Free Energy city' at SASBE 09 in Delft, which describes a design project concerning the integration of a giant algae array to give Liverpool a carbon neutral future. In Whitefield, Nelson he designed a huge inter-seasonal store, which was coupled with a bio-diesel powered co-generation plant, to create a carbon-neutral solution to a neighbourhood where heritage restraints prevented wholescale change.

Teaching interests

Greg's teaching interests are urban sustainability, low carbon design and urban food production.

Contact details

Leeds Metropolitan University
Broadcasting Place
Arts Building, B504
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

Telephone: +44 (0) 113 81 21714

Email: G.P.Keeffe@leedsmet.ac.uk