Toby Burgess BIO

                Toby Burgess is currently the Project Director of London Metropolitan University’s entry in the SolarDecathlon Europe 2012, coordinating the delivery of an ambitious live project within an academic framework, across two classes, the RIBAII Diploma Unit 04, with Nate Kolbe and Jonas Lundberg and the MAads in advanced digital systems with Iain Maxwell. He also teaches a postgraduate elective module titled Advanced Digital Design Systems, and is responsible for coordinating the digital delivery and software training for theuniversity’s architecture faculty. Across this spectrum of tutoring the themes of environmental design, digital analysis, formal generation and fabrication are the main area of research.As the recipient of the Baylight scholarship to study at the Architectural Association, his research focusedon the potential of utilising digital technologies in the generation and fabrication of environmentally andculturally responsible architecture.Toby was lead designer on ‘Casa Kike’ by Gianni Botsford Architects (2007 Lubetkin Prize) and has spentover two years working at Grimshaw Architects, where as well as gaining valuable project managementexperience, he was a founding member of the ‘Project Sustainability Group’ an in house team ofsustainability researchers and advisors to the office on a range of international projects. His design work andresearch has been internationally exhibited and published.