Projects per year
Personal profile
Academic / Professional qualifications
Registered Architect, UK, Architects Registration Board, ARB
RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect (SCA), RIBA Conservation Register
Chartered Architect, Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA
Chartered Architect, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, RIAS
Chartered Architect, Spain. Incorporation of Architects in Asturias (Spain), COAA
PRINCE2 Foundation, Project Management
Diploma in Advanced Academic Studies, University of Strathclyde
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, FHEA
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, FRSA
Personal Statement
Dr Cristina González-Longo RIBA SCA RIAS FHEA FRSA is the founder and Director of the MSc in Architectural Design for the Conservation of Built Heritage at the Department of Architecture of the University of Strathclyde, where she has also created and is leading the Architectural Design and Conservation Research Unit (ADCRU). Her research group deals with the challenges of conserving built heritage while allowing changes to adapt historic buildings to contemporary uses, as well as the design of new buildings to conserve the environment, which requires an interdisciplinary approach. After graduating at the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM), Cristina spent three years in Rome with a scholarship from the Italian Government to study architectural conservation at the prestigious Specialisation School of the University of “La Sapienza”. She is also a practising architect with over twenty years’ experience as a Chartered architect both in UK and Spain, is RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect (SCA) and is member of the RIBA Conservation Register Assessment Panel. She has had a central role in taking decisions concerning historic buildings of outstanding national importance and wide experience in leading the design, management and procurement of award winning architectural projects (both conservation and new build). She was the project architect and resident architect of Queensberry House, a Grade A Listed building, part of the new Scottish Parliament complex and designed Bowbridge Primary School in Newark (RICS Sustainability Award 2009). She is the President of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) International Training Committee (CIF).
Industrial Relevance
Cristina has 23 years experience as Chartered architect both in UK and Spain working in small companies, large multinational organisations and local and central Governments. She is RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect and set up her own practice in Spain, Cristina Gonzalez-Longo Architect (CG-LA) after graduating, winning a government competion shortly after, and the company is still running, also in UK. She has also been for ten year Examiner for the Architects Registration Board (ARB) Prescribed Examination and member of design review groups and policy advisory bodies in England and Scotland. She is currently member of the accreditation panel for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Conservation Register and Academic Adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC). Her career is balanced between practice, research and education, and has had a central role in taking decisions concerning historic buildings of outstanding national importance and wide experience in leading the design, management and procurement of award winning architectural projects (both conservation and new build). After moving to the UK, she has been project and resident architect in high profile and award-winning new design and conservation projects, such as Queensberry House, a 17th century Grade A Listed Building, part of the new Scottish Parliament building (RIBA Stirling Prize 2005). She also designed Bowbridge Primary School in Newark (RICS Sustainability Award 2009). The building has an innovative lamella glulam structure and is an exemplary case study in the Building Schools for the Future and NCSL programme ‘Leading sustainable schools’.
Research Interests
- Complex architectural conservation projects
- New design in historic cities, buildings, monuments and archaeological
areas
- Reuse of historic buildings and monuments
- Environmental design and reduction of energy consumption
- Conservation theory
- Architectural history and the transformation of buildings
- Tendencies and restoration in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish architecture
- Methods, strategies and instruments used by architects over the centuries in the transformation of a place.
- Conservation, Sustainable design and construction.
- Historic Construction technologies and systems
- Historic buildings, urban infrastructure and context
- Historic cities, buildings, monuments and local identity
- The Scottish Parliament building and the development of architecture and urban design in Scotland
- Architecture and archaeology
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Award Date: 3 Feb 2016
Diploma in Advanced Academic Studies, University of Strathclyde
Award Date: 6 Nov 2015
Master in Science, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Award Date: 1 Jan 1995
Master of Architecture, Technical University of Madrid
Award Date: 1 Jan 1992
External positions
President of the International Training Committee, ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
2020 → …Academic Adviser, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
2019 → …External Examiner, University of Kent
2019 → …External Examiner, University of Portsmouth
2017 → …Member of the Assessment Panel for the Accreditation of Architects in Conservation , Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA
2016 → …Examiner of the Architects Registration Board (ARB), UK
2004 → 2014Keywords
- Architectural Conservation
- Architectural Heritage
- Architectural Design
- Scottish Architecture
- Sustainable Design
- Architectural History
- Community Identity
- Conservation Theory
- Seventeenth-century
- Roman Architecture
- Eighteenth-century
- Materials and Techniques
- Structures
- Architecture & Archaeology
- Environmental Design
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Projects
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“Cultural Heritage Actions to Refine Training, Education and Roles (CHARTER)”
15/10/20 → 14/10/24
Project: Research
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Research output
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Achieving health and comfort in high-rise residential buildings by using dynamic-hybrid air permeable ceiling (DHAPC)
Mohd Sahabuddin, M. F. B. & Gonzalez-Longo, C., 2020, In: American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Transactions. 125, 2, 15 p., KC-19-002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The architectural innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c.1645-1731) within the European context
Gonzalez-Longo, C., 30 Jun 2020, The Architecture of Scotland 1660-1750. Lowrey, J., Humm, L. & Mackechnie, A. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Prizes
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Elected Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)
Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Election to learned society
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Notre Dame Design Competition
Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Recipient) & Boris Milanov (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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International Seminar on Urban Form (Event)
Cristina Gonzalez-Longo (Advisor)
23 Dec 2020 → 1 Mar 2021Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Architectural Conservation by Design
Cristina Gonzalez-Longo (Speaker)
25 Sep 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk