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Antony Wood, architect, Director of the CTBUH
Antony Wood is Executive
Director of the CTBUH, responsible for the day-to-day running of the
Council and steering in conjunction with the Chairman and the Executive
Committee. His field of specialism is the design, and in particular the
sustainable design, of tall buildings.
Based at the College of
Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Antony is also a
teaching faculty member in the School of the Built Environment,
University of Nottingham. He has worked in architectural practice in
Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. Tall Buildings / large
projects he has been involved in these countries include the £120
million, 11 No. mixed office / residential tower project of SV City,
Bangkok (completed 1995), the £70 million 4 No. 44-storey condominia
project of Kuningan Persada, Jakarta (1997) and the prestigious £200
million Kuala Lumpur Central International Railway Terminal, Malaysia
(completed 2001).
He is editor of the CTBUH special annual
edition of the John Wiley & Sons published Journal: µThe Structural
design of Tall and Special Buildings¶ and co-chair of the CTBUH Tall
Buildings and Sustainability working group. Antony is also founder of
the Tall Buildings Teaching and Research Group, based between the
University of Nottingham, UK and the Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago. The educational and research output of this group can be found
at www.tallbuildingstarg.com
His published Research papers in the field of Tall Buildings include:
• Mixed-Use High Rise in the UK: An Urban Renaissance (2005),
• The Shortfall of Tall: The rise of a High Rise Environmental Consciousness (2005),
•
Bridging the Gap: An analysis of proposed evacuation links at height in
the World Trade Centre design competition entries (2005),
• New Paradigms in High Rise Design (2004),
•
Immediate action in providing fire safety in cities with dense highrise
buildings; The Possibility of Incorporating Skybridges (2004), and
• Pavements in the Sky: The use of the Skybridge in Tall Buildings (2003)
In
addition to the research papers listed above, he has presented papers
on numerous tall buildings conferences and seminars, including:
• Demystifying Sustainability in the Context of Tall (2006) at the London conference: “Talking Tall 2”,
• Tall Buildings – a 360 degree view (2006) at the BCO (British Council for Offices) Annual Conference: “Going Green” in Dublin.
• Culture and Personality: the right place and face for Tall Buildings (2005) at the Manchester symposium: "Talking Tall",
• The Shortfall of Tall (2005) at the Illinois Institute of Technology,
• the µAsian Skyscraper¶ at the 2005 Asia De sign Forum International Session in Kuala Lumpur, and
• the opening address to the Tall Building Programme of the Birmingham Architectural Association 2005 lecture series.
He
is working on research projects in conjunction with Arup, the
University of Greenwich Fire Safety Engineering Group and the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University Department of Building Services Engineering. He
is also Supervisor for the 3-year PhD studentship 'Towards Carbon
Neutral', undertaken by Philip Oldfield. He is currently writing two
books, entitled ¶Pavements in the Sky: The Use of the Skybridge in Tall
Buildings¶ and µThe History of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban
Habitat¶.
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