Ranulph Glanville

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Ranulph Glanville (born London, 13 June, 1946) is a researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics.

He studied architecture at the Architectural Association (1964-71). He completed a PhD in cybernetics at Brunel University in 1975, and a second PhD in Human Learning from Brunel in 1988.

He has worked briefly as an architect in UK and Finland. He taught at the Architectural Association 1972-78, and Portsmouth Polytechnic 1978-97. He was Adjunct Professor at the RMIT 1998-2001. He has been a freelance researcher since 1997, and lives in Portsmouth, UK. He has had hundreds of scientific papers published in the fields of architecture, cybernetics and psychology. He is a regular contributor to conferences around the world.

Glanville is a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society and holds tens of other consultant positions in both the private and public sector.

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Ranulph Glanville, "Cedric Price, Precisely" in Cedric Price: Works II, The Architectural Association, London, 1984.
Ranulph Glanville, "Living in Lines" in R. McLeod (ed), Interior Cities, RMIT Press, Melbourne, 2000.
Ranulph Glanville and G. de Zeeuw (eds), Problems of Action and Observation, BKS+, Southsea, 2000.
Ranulph Glanville, "The Value of Being Unmanageable: Variety and Creativity in CyberSpace" in H. Eichmann, J. Hochgerner, and F. Nahrada (eds), Netzwerke, Falter Verlag, Vienna, 2000.