Maxwell Raymond Berner
(he/him)
Maxwell Berner recently graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture Hons from the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. He currently lives in North Carolina and is seeking work starting in fall of 2026. His practice is focused on low-impact, considerate modern designs with inspiration from vernacular forms.
A Center for the Built Environment
Glasgow is a patchwork city, where the built environment is under more threats than ever. This is evident in the recent fires at Union Corner or buildings by treasured Scottish architects Charles Rennie Mackintosh (the lighthouse) and Alexander “Greek” Thomson (the Egyptian halls) sitting empty and neglected right in the city’s center. This is the result of a variety of reasons, one of the most prevalent is the loss of the craftsmen and the disassociation of technology within our built environment in the modern day. This leads to degradation, disuse, and neglect. Simply put, people cannot care about what they don’t understand. The Glasgow Center for the Built Environment centralizes and celebrates Glasgow’s architecture, and takes the public on a journey of care for the spaces they live in. It adapts the architectural institution in this societal moment by engaging, educating, and driving discussion with the public in order to democratize Glasgow’s architectural future. The Center for the Built Environment will partner with one of the foremost conservators of Glasgow, the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, and the architects who will help define our future built environment in the form of the Glasgow Institute of Architects. Finally it will also partner with Material Source to introduce innovative materials and methods to Glaswegians.
