ARCHITECTURE AND ENERGY | January 27, 2012

Thomas Abel Tzu Chi University, Taiwan William W. Braham University of Pennsylvania Dean Hawkes Cardiff University and Cambridge University   David Leatherbarrow University of Pennsylvania Vivian Loftness Carnegie Mellon University Ali Malkawi University of Pennsylvania Kiel Moe Harvard University John Thackara Doors of Perception Franca Trubiano University of Pennsylvania Simos Yannas Architectural Association, London Richard [...]

Dr. William W. Braham FAIA is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design. He received an engineering degree from Princeton University and an M. Arch and Ph.D. Arch. From the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1988. At Penn he [...]

Dan Willis is a Professor of Architecture and Science, Technology, and Society at Penn State University. Willis is a practicing architect and artist, and a past winner of the Hugh Ferriss Prize for architectural drawing. Between 2002 and 2009, he served as the Department Head of Architecture at Penn State. He is the author of [...]

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 [...]

Downloadable Schedule (pdf): Arch&EnergySchedule_011912  

ON-LINE REGISTRATION Public Symposium: Architecture and Energy: Questions about Performance and Style Meyerson Hall. School of Design. University of Pennsylvania 1:30 PM   Welcome/Introductions 2:00 PM  Session 1: Moderator: TBD William W. Braham    Architecture, Style, and Power Kiel Moe                         Forms of Energy [...]

Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) for Energy-Efficient Buildings, a U.S. DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by Penn State University. Located at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia, the goals of the GPIC 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 [...]

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 [...]