Philip Oldfield is a Lecturer in Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham. His role at Nottingham sees him co-coordinate the Masters in Sustainable Tall Buildings course and the tall building design studio modules and seminars. He has also taught tall building studio and lecture modules at universities in Chicago, Venice and Singapore.
Studio output produced by Philip’s students has been published widely, including in the Architects’ Journal, Building Magazine, Modus, Urbanism + Architecture, Urban Land Institute Magazine and has been displayed as part of the 2011 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. In addition, his students have been finalists in the 2010 Evolo Skyscraper Competition, the 2011 CTBUH ‘Why Tall’ Competition, and achieved second place at the International Finals of the 2011 Isover Multi-Comfort House Architectural Competition.
Philip is an active member of the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and is Co-Chair of the CTBUH Research, Academic and Postgraduate Working Group and a member of the Competitions Committee. He has also sat on the Scientific / Peer Review Committee for the CTBUH 8th World Congress: 'Tall & Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future', held in Dubai, March, 2008. He currently sits on the Editorial Board for the quarterly CTBUH Journal.
Philip’s research interests are focused primarily on tall buildings, sustainability and embodied energy / carbon. His current research activities include:
• The Carbon Implications of Tall: A Life Cycle Energy / Carbon Analysis of High-Rise Buildings
• Double-Skin Facades: The Carbon Equation (an investigation into the embodied and operational carbon impacts of double-skin facades in office buildings in the UK)
• The PassivHaus Skyscraper: An Investigation into the Opportunities and Challenges for PassivHaus Performance in High-Rise Residential Buildings in Temperate Climates
• The creation of a ‘roadmap’ to identify and prioritise research within the field of tall buildings in order to advance the typology in the coming years, undertaken in conjunction with the CTBUH, CIB and UNESCO.
Philip is the author of numerous papers and has had peer-reviewed papers published in the Journal of Architecture, CTBUH Journal, Urbanism and Architecture and Architectural Science Review. In addition he has written articles for STRUCTURE Magazine (USA), BbICOTHbIE (Russia) and The Big Project (UAE) amongst others.
His presentations and research papers in the field of Tall Buildings include:
OLDFIELD, P. (2010). The Carbon Impact of Tall: Embodied Energy in High Rise. In: Remaking Sustainable Cities in the Vertical Age. CTBUH 2010 World Conference, Mumbai, India, 3-5 February, 2010. pp. 97.
OLDFIELD, P., TRABUCCO, D. & WOOD, A. (2009). Five Energy Generations of Tall Buildings: An Historical Analysis of Energy Consumption in High-Rise Buildings. The Journal of Architecture, 14(5), 591-613.
OLDFIELD, P. & WOOD, A. (2009). Tall buildings in the Global Recession: 2008, 2020 and Beyond. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Journal 2009, Issue III. Chicago, USA. pp.20-26.
WOOD, A. & OLDFIELD, P. (2009). Global Trends in High-Rise Design. In: MEI, H., ZHU, Y., eds. The New Trends of the Creation of High-Rise Building. China Architecture and Building Press, pp. 10-13. (Text in Chinese)
WOOD, A. & OLDFIELD, P. (2007). Bridging the Gap: An Analysis of Proposed Evacuation Links at Height in the World Trade Center Design Competition Entries. Architectural Science Review, 50(2), 173-180.