Ranulph Glanville (born London, 13 June, 1946) is a British freelance researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics.

Biography

Glanville studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1964 to 1971. He completed a PhD in cybernetics at Brunel 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, and Portsmouth 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 in Portsmouth, UK. He has had scientific papers published in the fields of architecture, cybernetics and psychology. 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 and cybernetics.¹ A selection:

• 1984, "Cedric Price, Precisely" in Cedric Price: Works II, The Architectural Association, London.
• 1995, with Gerard de Zeeuw (eds.), Problems of Values and Invariants, Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers.
• 1999, 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, Doing the Right Thing: the Problems of… Gerard de Zeeuw, Academic Guerilla., paper 2002.

References

External links

• Glanville home page
• CD by Scientific Fly based on a paper of Glanville

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