
Anthony Richard BrandUniversity of Auckland · School of Architecture and Planning
Anthony Richard Brand
PhD
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Introduction
Anthony Brand (BArch(Hons)., DipArch. PhD.) completed his Bachelors of Architecture and Diploma of Architecture at the University of Nottingham (UK).
After coming to New Zealand in 2009 and working with Habitat for Humanity, he joined the University of Auckland in 2011, where Anthony completed his PhD. entitled “Touching Architecture: a felt phenomenology of affective atmospheres and embodied encounters,”. His research addresses the question “(How) can a more-than visual architecture generate more touching experiences?”
After the submission of his thesis, Anthony gained employment in an architectural firm (Rowe Baetens) before returning into the fold of academia as a full-time lecturer in at the University of Auckland in 2019.
His current research explores perception and situated cognition
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February 2019 - present
Education
March 2011 - March 2017
September 2007 - July 2009
September 2003 - July 2006
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Publications (12)
In the digital evolution of architectural education, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT signifies a remarkable shift, particularly in essay-based assignments. This integration heralds a new era of learning - one where the immediate accessibility of information, personalised content, and interactive learning are at the fore...
Can the architectural classroom harness the power of advanced text-generating tools? This paper delves into the dramatic shifts spurred by these tools in architectural pedagogy, with a particular focus on OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It underscores the pressing need to reconfigure our pedagogical strategies as we grapple with the profound implications of such...
Over half of the population of Nairobi, Kenya lives in informal settlements. Located in the lower elevations of the city, these settlement are susceptible to annual flooding. Chronic property damage and deaths are experienced during the two rainy seasons of the year. Climate change is projected to significantly worsen these impacts. This paper pres...
Can the architectural classroom harness the power of advanced text-generating tools? This paper delves into the dramatic shifts spurred by these tools in architectural pedagogy, with a particular focus on OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It underscores the pressing need to reconfigure our pedagogical strategies as we grapple with the profound implications of such...
This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings and bodies contribute to this.
Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses acting in concert as we move through time and space. The book picks up where much of the critique of...
'Culture’ is as much about inventing as it is about preserving; about discontinuity as it is about continuation; about novelty as about tradition
– Bauman Zygmunt
“Heritage” is defined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as our cultural legacy – that which we inhabit today and bequeath to the inhabitan...
Anthony Brand meets Groupwork's Amin Taha, discusses the rise of ‘amnesic architecture’ at an Oxford conference about memory and place, and finds several practices using narratives about material traces to counter the trend.
“Memories are built as a city is built. It could be said that architecture, from its beginnings, has been one of the ways of fixing memories” (Eco 1986)
Walking through old buildings and cities we are often struck by a strong sense of character: a feeling of past presences and temporal density. This is the power “mnemonic traces” (Ricoeur 2004) tha...
Although it has indeed been forty years since Robert Sommer diagnosed ‘hard architecture’ and the symptoms of an anesthetized inhabitant, it is only now that its effects are being felt, like the trace itself, as an absent presence. Both the trace and its erasure, are unavoidably concerned with the recording, experiencing, and expressing of time. A...