Dr David Reat
Teaching Fellow
Architecture
Personal statement
Personal statement
Director of Cultural Studies.
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Prize And Awards
- RIAS Architecture Design Tutor of the Year
- Recipient
- 30/6/2012
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Publications
- How San Francisco landmarks like the Transamerica Pyramid and SFO influenced 'Star Wars'
- Wakeman Gregory, Reat David
- (2024)
- Do they keep you in a little box? Cells. Interlinked.
- Reat David
- Blade Runner @ 40 (2022)
- A review of Konishi Gaffney's Sawmill Visitor Building
- Reat David
- (2021)
- London Design Biennale – how a forest in a courtyard is challenging the city's Enlightenment principles
- Reat David
- (2021)
- Blade Runner 2049
- Reat David
- (2019)
- Building an empire : exploring the architecture of 'Star Wars'
- Reat David
- CNN (2017)
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Professional Activities
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
- Peer reviewer
- 18/11/2025
- Journal of Architecture (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 7/10/2025
- Sub Cultures of Architecture - Cultural Studies
- Contributor
- 13/3/2024
- Journal of Architecture (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/2/2024
- Scenography & Architecture
- Participant
- 13/2/2023
- The One Show
- Interviewee
- 13/6/2022
Projects
- EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account - University of Strathclyde 2022 / R220416-209
- Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro (Academic) Reat, David (Academic) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator)
- The East Ayrshire CoRE – BarShare Retrofit Demonstrator project, which will provide a real-world testing and evaluation of different retrofitting strategies, has received the Scottish Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) cross-institutional award.
Led by Dr Kate Carter, with Professor Sonja Dragojlovic-Oliveira and Dr Faye Wade, the concept was initially conceived at the Alliance’s Decarbonising Heat Crucible in Cumnock, East Ayrshire last September. The event brought academics, local authority, and community stakeholders together with professional grant writers to foster focused collaboration and support the development of co-created research ideas.
Beginning 1 March 2025, the East Ayrshire CoRE – BarShare Retrofit Demonstrator project will test and evaluate retrofitting in three identical housing blocks within the Barshare housing estate in Cumnock. Researchers from The University of Edinburgh and the University Strathclyde will collaborate with the council, design professionals, retrofit and renewables contractors, community, young people and residents to evaluate the different retrofit. To make this possible, innovative ‘digital twins’ will be created providing data to model embodied carbon and energy reduction possible with each approach.
The evaluation will focus on the technical processes, materials and standard of quality deployed by construction firms, and how the approach impacts on the residents involved. This will provide an understanding of the most effective technical approach to retrofit, alongside broader environmental, social and economic impacts that arise for the households, community and the council. The outcomes will inform recommendations for East Ayrshire and other Councils to retrofit their housing stock, with the aim to accelerate retrofit across Scotland.
As well as a report containing evaluation findings and strategies for scaling up retrofit, a skills analysis will be conducted to inform the career pathways, training, and development of people who will carry out future retrofitting and make training materials available. The project would be embedded in Cumnock’s net zero initiatives, connecting the retrofitting work to other projects such as the Community Renewable Energy (CoRE) Project, Rankinston Village ‘Pathfinder’, and the new Barony Campus, which will fund and embed retrofitting STEM skills for all ages. - 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026