ARCHITECTURE AND ENERGY: Climate and Region, January 25, 2013 |

The Symposium was divided into three  sessions, one on the concepts of Regionalism and two on Climate and Region. Each of the three sessions featured three speakers and a respondent. Video recordings of individual lectures can be found at the addresses listed with each talk, and the whole symposium is available at: http://vimeo.com/album/2248364    

Buildings are not sustainable, neither are cars or shoes or smartphones, they can only be more-or-less efficient in their consumption of resources and so moderate the environmental effects of human activities. The smallest meaningful unit of sustainability is probably the city-state, or the city and its surrounding region, though with contemporary trade and commerce the [...]

Moderators Dan Willis Pennsylvania State University William W. Braham University of Pennsylvania Ali Malkawi University of Pennsylvania Contributors Keith Eggener University of Missouri Mark Alan Hughes University of Pennsylvania Dan Hoffman Studio MA, Phoenix, AZ Hadas Steiner University of Buffalo Rania Ghosn University of Michigan Mason White Lateral Office, Toronto, Canada Iñaki Abalos Abalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos, [...]

In the formation of an ambitious five-year, DOE-funded project to reduce the energy consumption of commercial buildings (Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster, GPIC), a challenging question has persisted. Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Putting the question in its original form, should more energy-efficient buildings look different and can that “look” be used to explain or [...]

  The Symposium was divided into three themed sessions: Systems, Style, and Performance. Each of the three sessions featured four speakers and concluded with a moderated segment for questions, answers, and expansions on the presentations. Video recordings of individual lectures can be found at the addresses listed with each talk, and the whole symposium is available [...]

The 2012 Architecture and Energy event Performance and Style was streamed live through the TC Chan Center. It may also be seen on archive.

Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style (pre-order from Routledge, May, 2013) This volume includes refinements of the presentations made at that event and some additional essays solicited to address other aspects of the topic. Style is something of a forbidden term among contemporary designers, and this collection is meant to provoke a reconsideration of the [...]

A map of LEED buildings in Philadelphia

Energy-Efficient Building HUB, a U.S. DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by Penn State University. Located at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia, the goals of the EEB Hub are to improve energy efficiency and operability and reduce carbon emissions of new and existing buildings, and to stimulate private investment and quality job creation in the Greater Philadelphia region, [...]

Our goal is to connect the academic and professional worlds of sustainability research. The mission of the T. C. Chan Center is to develop new knowledge, tools, processes, techniques and continuing education for professionals involved in building energy and technology. The goal is to create healthier, productive, energy efficient strategies that will lead to high [...]

Nearly since their beginnings a century ago, the Penn State departments of architecture and landscape architecture—and their corresponding faculties—inhabited their own spaces, planned their own programs, taught their own students, collaborated with their own peers. People with top-notch talents, educations, and credentials conducted important research and provided the knowledge and experiences their students needed to become [...]

Architecture and Energy is a series of events and publications organized to address the past, present and future of systems that manage energy in the built environment.

William W. Braham, Co-organizer brahamw@design.upenn.edu Dan Willis, Co-organizer dew2@psu.edu Daniel Barber, Co-organizer barberda@design.upenn.edu Katsu Muramoto, Co-Organizer kyrakyra@comcast.net