Professor Alan
Short was educated at Trinity College (senior
scholar) and as Exchange Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of
Design. He is the 9th President of Clare Hall Cambridge. He has recently
retired as the 5th Professor of Architecture at the University of
Cambridge, a post he held since 2001. His work focuses on the design of
sustainable buildings. He won the RIBA President’s Award for ‘Outstanding
Professional Practice-located Research’ 2007 for the project ‘Design for the Warming Environment’ and the 2009
RIBA President’s Commendation for Outstanding University-located Research for
his work on the resilience of the NHS Estate. He is a PR China Ministry of Education
Distinguished Professor, a Guest Professor at Zhejiang University and was the 2014
George Collins Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and 2013-14 Geddes
Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
He
was the PI for the UK-China EPSRC/NSFC funded ‘Low carbon climate-responsive
heating and cooling of cities’ (LoHCool) £800K, focussing on carbon reduction
opportunities in mega-cities in China and the PI for the EPSRC Adaptation and
Resilience to Climate Change project ‘Design and Delivery of Robust Hospital
Environments in a Changing Climate’ DeDeRHECC (2009-13) £800K, He was appointed
to administer and monitor the NHS Energy Efficiency Fund 2013-14 with the
Professor of Sustainable Engineering Peter Guthrie, reporting to the Under
Secretary of State for Health. He authored the Commission for Architecture and
the Built Environment (CABE) Guidance for Capital Arts Projects, “Building
Excellence for the Arts” and designed the Contact Theatre in Manchester, the
Garrick at Lichfield the Lighthouse at Poole and the School of Slavonic and
East European Studies SSEES in Bloomsbury.