Brian Evans //Boardmember
 Brian Evans
Urban Designer and Planner
Partner in Gillespie’s
After graduation, he worked in public offices for 5 years before entering private
practice. In the 1980´s he played a seminal role in introducing computer-aided
design to Landscape Architects in the UK. He is an urban designer and planner,
is based in Glasgow and is a partner in Gillespie’s, the multidisciplinary design
practice with offices in the UK and Australasia, and among the United Kingdom’s
leading urban and landscape design practices.
Brian has extensive experience of legibility and design in the public realm.
He played a key role in the seminal urban design studies which launched the Public
Realm programmes in Glasgow and Paisley following three years work on the design
coordination of the Glasgow Garden Festival, widely recognised as the most successful
of the British events. As project manager for Glasgow Public Realm Strategy, he
led and coordinated the detailed studies into urban form, use and circulation
underpinning the widely acclaimed strategy and building relationships with the
officers of the public authorities creating a sustainable initiative, which continues
today.
He led Gillespie’s successful collaboration with the Grainger Town Partnership
developing the Public Realm Strategy in 1998/99 and advising on all six stages
of this implementation. Brian led the winning team to become Middlesbrough’s strategic
urban design partner for the design implementation of public realm improvement
in the town centre in association with Gehl Architects of Copenhagen.
Brian Evans has made a significant contribution to urban design in Glasgow where
he has collaborated with a number of leading urbanists including the late Dr.
Gordon Cullen and Martorell Bohigas & Mackay of Barcelona. He has written
widely about design values in the planning process and has carried out research
published as national government advice in Scotland. He has carried out urban
design projects in many European cities and his work has been published in several
languages. He has participated in a number of international events, exhibitions,
competitions and festivals. Brian Evans has acted as a policy advisor to the Ducth
Secretary of State for the Environment and to major companies in the UK. For 10
years he has taught at the School of Housing and Planning at the College of Art,
Edinburgh. He has lectured at Milan Polytechnic, the University of Venice, the
Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and the
Royal College of Art, London. |