Alan Hooper
Alan Hooper
- MSA Undergraduate Programme Leader
- Job Title
- MSA Undergraduate Programme Leader
- School or Academic Area
- Mackintosh School of Architecture
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- Mackintosh School of Architecture
- A.Hooper@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
Biography
Alan is an architect and educator with extensive experience in academia and
professional practice. Appointed Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture/Glasgow School of Art in 2008, Alan's
contributions extend globally, representing Scotland at the 2014 Venice Biennale and serving as Visiting Professor at Guangzhou University, China, investigating urban development. Beyond academia, Alan actively engages with architectural discourse, serving as a guest critic, member of the GIA practice awards panel, and contributor to architectural journals. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has participated in various architecture and design forums, including Architecture and Design Scotland's
Design Forum and Glasgow's Urban Design Panel. Alan's current research interests focus on architecture and research beyond the city, and the challenges and opportunities of generative AI in higher education. A life-long learner Alan completed a Master of Education degree in 2024.
Research Interests
Generative AI opportunities and challenges to higher education / Rural Lab architecture and research beyond the city
Grants
Currently awaiting outcome of GSA RDF grant application to present paper at Cumulus conference: Ethical Leadership: A new Frontier for Design (Ethics Strand) 3-7th June Nantes,France
PGR Supervision Interests
Generative AI in higher education. Architecture and research beyond the city.
Latest Additions
- Bird, Nicky, Brind, Susan, Carter, Justin, Evans, Brian, Elkovich, Carol, Greated, Marianne, Harold, Jim, Hooper, Alan, McMullan, Shauna, Mersinis, Michael, Punton, Lesley, Thomson, Amanda and Wall, Gina (2023) Pedagogy of Place - A Field Guide to Reading Landscape for Artists, Architects, & Designers. Intellect Books, Bristol.
- Hooper, Alan (2023) The Hidden Landscape: Contextual Understanding. In: Pedagogy of Place - A Field Guide to Reading Landscape for Artists, Architects, & Designers. Intellect Books, Bristol, pp. 50-53.
- Jaramillo, George Steve and Hooper, Alan (2018) Between the Cliffs and the Sea: St Kilda and Heritage from Afar. In: Creating Heritage for Tourism. Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism . Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 154-165. ISBN 9781138572713
- Hooper, Alan and Page, David (2014) Glasgow: Embedded Modernism. Scotland Past+Present, 1 (4). pp. 1-36.
- Hooper, Alan (2012) Notre Dame High School, Greenock, Scotland, Archial Architects. Architects Journal, 235 (5). pp. 42-46.
- Hooper, Alan (2010) Archial: Small Animal Hospital, Glasgow. Architecture Today (AT206). p. 57. ISSN 0958-6407
