Philip Steadman is Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies, and the Bartlett Faculty Graduate Tutor. Professor Steadman works on the use of fuels in the national non-domestic building stock, and on the relationship of patterns of land uses and transport networks to the use of energy, and to environmental effects, at the urban scale.  He was a partner in the PROPOLIS project (2000-2004), funded by the European Commission, whose purpose was to compare seven European cities in terms of their sustainability. He worked during the 1990s with a team of up to 15 people, on the development of a database and model of energy use in the non-domestic building stock of Britain, for the British Government. This National Non-Domestic Building Stock database uses property taxation data and other sources, and covers some 1.7 million properties in England and Wales.

The work has continued in the recently completed four-year multi-university Carbon Reduction in Buildings (CaRB) project, funded by EPSRC and the Carbon Trust, in which the Bartlett was a partner.

Professor Steadman is also taking part in a three-year interdisciplinary study of the urban heat island in London and its likely medical effects, called the LUCID project. The LUCID project is funded by EPSRC and started in 2007.

In addition he works on a series of issues to do with the representation of building geometry, and is currently writing a book on Built Forms and Building Types.

Professor Steadman’s previous books include:

The Geometry of Environment (with Lionel March, 1971)
Energy, Environment and Building (1975)
The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts (1979: new revised edition 2008) see www.routledge.com/books/The-Evolution-of-Designs-isbn9780415447539
Architectural Morphology (1983)
Energy and Urban Built Form (with Dean Hawkes, Janet Owers, Peter Rickaby, 1987)
Cities and Technology: The USA, from Wilderness to Wired City (with Gerrylynn Roberts, 1999)
Vermeer’s Camera (2001) see www.vermeerscamera.co.uk