Ben Gourley

Biography

Ben Gourley is a practicing building conservator and archaeologist with a specialization in earth, timber and masonry structures. Originally from Vancouver, he moved to the UK to study conservation at the Institute for Advanced Architctural Studies in York in 1998, and subsequently joined the Department of Archaeology (York) in 2003 where he taught building conservation, buildings archaeology and landscape archaeology for nearly a decade. He has worked on projects in Europe, Canada, Asia and Africa, and has a particular interest in the conservation of vernacular building traditions worldwide. In 2010, with stonemason colleague Nigel Copsey, Ben set up the Centre for Traditional and Sustainable Building, an organization dedicated to the promotion of traditional building skills in conservation.