In November, the Department of Architecture announced the offering of an advanced, one-year Master in Environmental Building Design (MEBD) for architects seeking new skills and competitive advantage in the growing field of sustainable design.
With the renewed urgency of environmental issues-from global climate change to resource shortages and “net-zero” design-architects are faced with demands for new [...]
Integrative Thinking About Life Cycle Analysis: Promises & Limitations
March 27 & 28, 2009
Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) Penn/Wharton
Second Annual Conference-Workshop
Registration Info: environment@wharton.upenn.edu
Keynote Talk: W. Braham, University of Pennsylvania, Sustainability and Carbon Action Planning, Life Cycle Methods
Penn Environmental Group (PEG): Green Week
Symposium: Ecology of Architecture
January 27, 6-7:30
Presentations-Panelists:
William Braham, Penn Architecture
Muscoe Martin, M2-Architecture
Scott Kelly, ReVision Architecture
Tim McDonald, OnionFlats Architecture
I gave a brief presentation on the problem of style and definitions. Ecological architecture is not a particular style or technique, but a way of looking at architecture. Every building is located somewhere in [...]
Seeking Sustainability: Penn confronts the local and global challenge
A Conversation with Scholars from Across the University
Moderator: Amy Gutmann, President
PANELISTS:
Gary Bernstein, Physics & Astronomy
Eugenie L. Birch, City and Regional Planning
William W. Braham, Architecture
Robert Giegengack, Earth & Environmental Science
Eric W. Orts, Legal Studies and Business Ethics & Management
Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m
Announcements:
Penn Current
Almanac
Media:
Conversation – [...]
Presentation at Urban Design After the Age of Oil, November 6-8
Scale and Measure
The general question posed by the conference was, “how does design change after the age of oil?” Throughout the event, the question was taken in two broad ways, the first was how do we change the design of cities, buildings, and products to [...]
In David Leatherbarrow’s seminar on Architecture and the Natural World (Arch 811), asked the question about ecological and technological determinism. Beginning with Banham’s claims about the evolution of conditioning equipment in buildings and the complex dynamics of the natural environment, tried to situate the designer’s work within that highly determined web. The challenge seems to [...]
September 17, 2008
Presented a beta-version of the Scenarios for Carbon Neutrailty to a class taught by Stan Laskowski, Bob Giegengack, and Dan Garofalo. Reviewed all the data and raised the question of how valid green power RECs are viewed for the attainment of carbon neutrality. Asked the class of about 30 to vote on a [...]
November 9-11, 2008
Presenting the University of Pennsylvania Sustainability Plan and Scenarios for Climate Neutrality at the 2nd biennial conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
November 6-8, 2008
This symposium has been organized to address the role of urban design in the face of one of the most profound and important challenges facing global society: the need to re-imagine and rethink how cities are designed and organized in a future without the plentiful and abundant oil upon which prosperous urban economies [...]