Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Longo
Senior Lecturer
Architecture
Personal statement
Dr Cristina Gonz谩lez-Longo RIBA SCA RIAS FHEA FRSA is a Chartered Architect in UK and Spain and RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect (SCA). She is the Founder and Director of the MSc in Architectural Design for the Conservation of Built Heritage at the Department of Architecture of the University of 麻豆女优, where she has also created and is leading the Architectural Design and Conservation Research Unit (ADCRU). Her research group deals with the challenges of conserving built heritage while allowing changes to adapt historic buildings for contemporary uses, as well as with the design of new buildings to conserve the environment, which requires an interdisciplinary approach. After graduating at the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM), Cristina spent three years in Rome with a scholarship from the Italian Government to study architectural conservation at the prestigious Specialisation School of the Sapienza University of Rome. On completion of the course, she won a government competition to conserve a twelve-century church in Spain, where she set her practice in 1996. Since, she had a central role in taking decisions concerning historic buildings of outstanding national and international importance and wide experience in leading the design, management and procurement of award-winning architectural projects. She was the project architect and resident architect of Queensberry House, a Category A Listed building, part of the new Scottish Parliament complex in Edinburgh (RIBA Stirling Prize 2005). She also designed Bowbridge Primary School in Newark, UK (RICS Sustainability Award 2009), with an innovative lamella glulam structure. She has lectured widely and extensible published, including her PhD thesis on preservation and transformation, published by Routledge (2020). She is, for the second term, the elected President of the ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) International Scientific Committee on Education and Training (CIF).
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2025
- Recipient
- 13/10/2023
- Recipient
- 2020
- Recipient
- 2019
- Recipient
- 2014
Qualifications
Registered Architect, UK, Architects Registration Board, ARB
RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect (SCA), RIBA Conservation Register
Chartered Architect, Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA
Chartered Architect, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, RIAS
Chartered Architect, Spain. Incorporation of Architects in Asturias (Spain), COAA
PRINCE2 Foundation, Project Management
Diploma in Advanced Academic Studies, University of 麻豆女优
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, FHEA
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, FRSA
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Publications
- Alexandrou Eleni, Berggren Kersti, Bourg猫s Ann, Brostr枚m Tor, Brito Nelson da Silva, Bruguerolle Antoine, Donnelly Jacqui, Erikkson Petra, Foster Jez, , Gould Anthony, Hughes David, Huttunen Marku, Haas Franziska, Karamyan Anna, McDermott Deirdre, Mirouze Chlo茅, Paulus Ave, Pissarides Chrysanthos, Radivojevi膰 Ana, Shaffrey Gr谩inne, Silvestru Claudiu, Sto拧kus Liutauras, Villalba Montaner Clara, Alatalu Riin, Iaquinta Maria Teresa, Kishal谋 Emre, Ritson James, Tom拧i膷 Miha, Vernimme Nathalie
- (2026)
- Architecture Vol 5 (2025)
- The International Network for Urban-rural Heritage Conservation in Higher Education Institutions (UHC-HEI) (2025)
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- MAJ - Malaysia Architectural Journal Vol 7, pp. 122-140 (2025)
- Cesare Brandi e le Frontiere del Restauro Teoria e Prassi (2025) (2025)
- 2025 (2025)
Research Interests
- Complex architectural conservation projects
- New design in historic cities, buildings, monuments and archaeological
areas
- Reuse of historic buildings and monuments, including retrofitting
- Environmental design and reduction of energy consumption
- Conservation theory
- Architectural history and the transformation of buildings
- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish architecture
- Methods, strategies and instruments used by architects over the centuries in the transformation of a place.
- Conservation, Sustainable design and construction.
- Historic Construction technologies and systems
- Historic buildings, urban infrastructure and context
- Historic cities, buildings, monuments and local identity
-听The Scottish Parliament building and the development of architecture and urban design in Scotland
- Architecture and archaeology
Professional Activities
- Chair
- 17/10/2026
- Chair
- 11/3/2026
- Recipient
- 11/3/2026
- Advisor
- 26/2/2026
- Participant
- 11/2/2026
- Invited speaker
- 13/1/2026
Projects
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator)
- 21-Jan-2025 - 16-Jan-2025
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro (Co-investigator) Farooq, Muhammad Zaeem (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator)
- 20-Jan-2021
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Co-investigator) Essex, Jane (Principal Investigator) Hendry, Martyn (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Co-investigator) Giovelli, Noemi (Post Grad Student) Ivaturi, Aruna (Co-investigator) Li, Rui (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Somorin, Tosin (Co-investigator) Yue, Hong (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator)
- STEM Equals + RKES funded project
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator)
- 31-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2023
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2020 - 14-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Cristina
Gonzalez-Longo
Senior Lecturer
Architecture
Email: c.gonzalez-longo@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3008