Lindsay Bremner

Lindsay Bremner
Born	Zambia [1]
Education	University of Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand
Occupation(s)	Educator, architect
Awards	Jane Jacobs Prize

Lindsay Bremner is a South African scholar and architect, and is currently Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster, in the United Kingdom. She has authored several books and her work has won several awards, including the Jane Jacobs Prize in 2011. Bremner's research studies oceans, design, and climate change.

Life and education

Bremner earned a Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Cape Town, and a Masters and DSc. in Architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa. ^[2]

Career

Teaching

Bremner taught architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1983 to 2004, before teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she was also a Chair at the Tyler School of Art, in the United States of America. Since 2012, she has taught architecture at the University of Westminster, in the United Kingdom, where she is currently a Professor of Architecture. ^[2]

Bremner has also taught as a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, the Centre of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Columbia University, New York, University of Cordoba, Argentina, and Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland. ^[2]

Design and Architecture

Bremner has created and participated in a number of design projects, including the development of a cyclone shelter in Bangladesh with Jeremy Voorhees. ^[3] Along with architectural firm, 26'10 South, she worked to rebuild and restore the Sans Souci community cinema theatre in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa. ^{[4] [5]} The Sans Souci cinema restoration won Bauwelt Magazine's First Work Competition Prize in 2010. ^[6]

Research

Bremner's initial research at the University of the Witwatersrand focused on architecture in post-apartheid South Africa. ^[7] Two books by Bremner build on this research. In 2010, she published Writing the City into Being: Essays on Johannesburg 1998 – 2008 (Fourth Wall, 2010), which won the 2011 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award in 2011 and the Graham Foundation Award. ^{[8] [9]} In 2004, she published Johannesburg: One City Colliding Worlds (STE Publications). ^[10]

Bremner's research has focused on issues concerning climate change, oceans, and architecture. From 2016 to 2022, she was the principal investigator in a European Research Council funded project titled Monsoon Assemblages, which examined the impact of changing monsoon climates in four Asian cities: Delhi, Chennai, Dhaka and Yangon. ^{[11] [7]} Previously, along with Jonathan Cane and Euclides Gonvalves, she studied the impact of the monsoon on Mozambique, in a project funded by the US Social Science Research Councils. ^[12]

Bremner's publications have touched on issues relating to planning urban architecture to manage flooding in Chennai, the impact of climatic factors on Rohingya refugees, climate justice in relation to monsoons, and the geographical factors relating to the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. ^[13]

Publications

Bremner's publications include:

• Bremner, L. 2010. Writing the city into being: essays on Johannesburg, 1998–2008. Johannesburg Fourthwall Books.
• Bremner, L. 2018. Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370. in: Sorensen, D. (ed.) Territories and Trajectories: Cultures in Circulation Chapel Hill, NC Duke University Press. pp. 223–256
• Bremner, L. 2020. Planning the 2015 Chennai Floods. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 3 (3), pp. 732–760. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619880130
• Bremner, L. 2020. Sedimentary logics and the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. Political Geography. 77 102109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102109
• Bremner, L. 2022. Monsoonal Solidarity: A Global Approach to Climate Justice. Architectural Design. 92 (1), pp. 104–111.
• Bremner, L., Cullen, B., Geros, C., Cook, J., Powis, A. and Seetharama Bhat, H. Bremner, L. (ed.) 2022. Monsoon as Method: Assembling Monsoonal Multiplicities. Barcelona Actar.
• Bremner, L. and Cullen, B. 2022. Jade Urbanism. in: Axel, N., Hirsch, N., Barber, D. and Vidokle, A. (ed.) Accumulation: The Art, Architecture and Media of Climate Change Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press.

References

1. "#2 Empire of Calculus – Finissage". Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
2. "Bremner, Lindsay | University of Westminster". www.westminster.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
3. "Cyclone Shelter / Lindsay Bremner and Jeremy Voorhees". ArchDaily. 27 January 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
4. "Spatial Agency: Sans Souci cinema". spatialagency.net. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
5. "Sans Souci Cinema". South African Informal City. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
6. "in the terrain of water | Penn Design • LINDSAY BREMNER". terrain.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
7. "Professor Lindsay Bremner, Principal Investigator | Monsoon Assemblages" . Retrieved 19 July 2022.
8. "Writing the City into Being". Fourthwall Books. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
9. "Lindsay Bremner". Actar Publishers. 21 April 2022.
10. Bremner, Lindsay (2004). Johannesburg: One City, Colliding Worlds (in French). STE Pub. ISBN   978-1-919855-28-8.
11. "About | Monsoon Assemblages" . Retrieved 19 July 2022.
12. "Professor Lindsay Bremner awarded one-year planning grant for 'Sounding the Monsoon' project". westminster.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
13. "British Architecture Professor Denied Entry Into India, Second Scholar to Be Deported in 2022". The Wire. Retrieved 19 July 2022.