ADDRESS PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SUMMARY Sydney A. Baggs
I.O.M., Ph.D. (UNSW), M. Arch (UNSW), Grad Dip. Land. Des., Grad. Dip. Bldg
Biol. & Ecol., B. Arch., Dip. Arch., C.A., F.R.A.I.A., F.R.S. (Arts, Lond.),
F.R.I.B.C. (Cam. UK), F.A.B.I., F.C.I.M.R.F., R.I.B.A., A.C.N.E.M., R.S.C.I.,
F.I.G.P. (for ‘Outstanding Contributions to Sustainability’, 2008), The
International Order of Merit (for Services to Env. Science, 2002), Visiting
Research Fellow, University of New South Wales Graduate School of the Built
Environment (1985-95) and the Cambridge University Martin Centre for
Architecture and Planning (1985). Fellow of Research Board of Advisors,
A.B.I. and Deputy Governor of A.B.I. Research Association. He formerly
practiced as a Chartered Architect (1953-2001), and a Landscape Architect
(1975-2001), Urban Designer and Environmental Health Consultant (1985-2001).
From 1980-2001 he held the positions of C.E.O. of ECA Space Design
(Australia) and Chair of The PEOPl Group
After 25 years
in private architectural and landscape consultancy practice (specialising in
theatre design, both live and cinema), and following completion of the
design and supervision of Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, as well as a
headquarters and training college for the NSW Board of Fire Commissioners,
he joined the Faculty of Architecture at the University of New South Wales.
As a Senior Lecturer, he specialised in landscape planning and design,
environment impact assessment, and the history and prehistory of landscape.
In
collaboration with David W. Baggs (his son, also an architect) he designed
hundreds of passive-solar, healthy, earth-brick projects as well as
earth-sheltered and earth-integrated buildings in the range $200,000 to $6M
in addition to an earth-sheltered school. Several of these have received
Housing Industry Association, Five-Star Rating and National Energy
Management Awards while an earth-sheltered museum received the RAIA Blackett
Award (in collaboration with the N.S.W. Government Architect).
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION AND LECTURING
Sydney was the
Australian organiser of the First International Conference on 'Energy
Efficient Buildings with Earth Shelter Protection' (1983), editor of the
Australian Proceedings of the conference, member of the organising
committee for all subsequent international conferences on Geotecture
(1984-1992) and also a member of the organising committee of the
International Symposium on Earth-reinforcement Practice (1992). In 1985, he
gave a series of lectures to the Kirghizian Institute of the USSR Academy of
Sciences to implement a programme of earth-covered community buildings to
extend the capital city of Kirghizia (now Kirghistan), Frunze (now Bishkek),
into the foothills of the surrounding mountains. Apart from
the design of individual buildings, over the last decade, he has produced a
design proposal for a new Australian ecocity, an ecological health resort of
four hotels and condominiums as well as an ecovillage. In 1989 he
addressed the Institute of Australian Engineers and again in 1993, The Royal
Society of New South Wales in each case he presented a concept for an
earth-sheltered urban redesign of the City of Sydney to create a healthy,
garden-city for the next century. In 1994, he assisted with the organisation
of, and gave the opening address to, the Royal Society Summer School on:
'Cities of the Future'. (Sydney
Baggs is listed in the Australian Writers' and Readers’ Database, as well as
in Who’s Who in Australia and Who’s Who in the World)
PUBLICATIONS
Current books that are now
available from this website:
The Healthy
House
(2nd
edition);
Australian
Earth-Covered and Green Roof Buildings
(3rd edition now in DVD format)
The Underworld
in Myth, Magic and Mystery
(2nd
edition in both hard and soft cover as well as in DVD format)
Mysteries of
Art, Architecture and Landscape
(DVD format)
Sky Dragon,
Earth Serpent (DVD format)
Pyramids and
Pyramidiots
(DVD format)
Mystery of
Love
(DVD format)
Good
Vibrations: Sounds that Heal (DVD format)
He has more than 70 publications, including a recent book The Healthy House (1996,
published by HarperCollins in Australasia and USA, and Thames and Hudson in the
UK now out of print - to be republished in 2003). This contains the results of
research into factors of the natural and built environments that influence
health such as electromagnetic and chemical pollution, and ionised radiation
pollution as well as the restoration of health for individuals affected by
pollution. Other books have been: Geotecture and Environment,
Environmental Impact Assessment and Evaluation; Environmental Impact
Assessment in the Architectural Design Process (with R. Jack), and
Australian Earth-Covered Buildings (editions 1 and 2, now out of print - to
be republished in 2003). He has contributed chapters to books and was
editor-in-Chief of Geotecture Journal for 10 years.
Although now
retired, he continues his interests in writing books on architecture,
archaeology, and esoteric matters as well as researching various aspects of
human ecology (interior pollution, the use of non-toxic materials in
buildings, ionising and non-ionising radiation pollution and the incidence
of radon, geopathic surveys as well as electromagnetic and electrostatic
pollution with pulsed fields).
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