Brian Mark Evans

Professor of Urbanism and Landscape

Mackintosh School of Architecture

Brian Mark Evans is Professor of Urbanism and Landscape at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, director of the Glasgow Urban Laboratory and in 2019 was invited to become City Urbanist for Glasgow. He was previously Artistic Professor of Urban Design & Planning at Chalmers School of Architecture in Gothenburg and from 1990-2015 was a partner with Gillespies LLP, the international design practice where he developed the disciplines of landscape planning and urban design and pioneered ecological urbanism. From 2005 until 2010 he was Deputy Chair & Chair of Design Review with Architecture & Design Scotland and before that an Enabler with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) London. He is a founding Director and Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, London. Dr. Evans is author, editor and contributor to numerous books and articles and speaks widely on the contemporary and future city, urbanism, urban design and landscape planning.