ARCHITECTURE AND ENERGY

Live Streaming

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The event will be streamed live through the TC Chan Center web site at the following URL: http://tcchancenter.com/architectureandenergy/

Downloadable Schedule

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Downloadable Schedule (pdf): Arch&EnergySchedule_011912

Schedule: January 27, 2012

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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 and the Appearance of Architecture

Thomas Abel Household Hierarchies and Changing Times

John Thackara It Is Not Just the Building

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM Session 2: Moderator: TBD

Vivian Loftness Environmental Surfing – delight and nature’s renewable energies

Ali Malkawi Architecture and Performance

Simos Yannas Adaptive Architecturing

Franca Trubiano Designing High Performance – The Ethical Representation of Net Zero

5:30 PM Break

6:00 PM Session 3: Moderator: TBD

Dean Hawkes Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment

David Leatherbarrow & Richard Wesley Eclipsing Modernism: The Olgyay Brothers
and the Environmentalization of Architecture

Dan Willis Less is Less: Should We Be Building Smaller Buildings?

7:15 PM Concluding Discussion Moderator: TBD

7:30 PM Reception

GPIC HUB

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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 the Greater Philadelphia region, the larger Mid Atlantic region, and beyond. The GPIC will focus on full spectrum retrofit of existing average size commercial and multi-family residential buildings.

TC Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies

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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 performance buildings and sustain(able) environments.

Dr. Ali Malkawi
Founder and Director

Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University

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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 great architects and landscape architects.

Thanks to the generosity of an architecture alumnus who believed in the power of collaboration, the school would have its own building—the Stuckeman Family Building—and would be called the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Nathaniel Belcher
Director and Professor
The H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

PennDesign

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In fall 2003, the historic Graduate School of Fine Arts became the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Our new name—familiarly PennDesign—describes what we are now, a single school, within a great university, dedicated to promoting excellence in design across a rich diversity of programs—Architecture, City Planning, Landscape Architecture, Fine Arts, Historic Preservation, Digital Media Design and Visual Studies.

The change in our name underscores our belief in the centrality of design to all aspects of creativity. A dual challenge is offered to our students: explore a broad range of possibilities through both practice and theory. Students at PennDesign seek the critical balance between art and practicality, the why and the how, the left brain and the right.

As our students and their work impact our global environment through the making of thoughtful places and objects, our new name celebrates the future of PennDesign as a leading center for design education and practice in the 21st century and beyond.

MARILYN JORDAN TAYLOR
Dean and Paley Professor

Participants

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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 Wesley
University of Pennsylvania

Dan Willis
Pennsylvania State University

William W. Braham

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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 teaches graduate courses on ecology, technology, and design. He practices with the TC Chan Center and as a design consultant for Ivalo Lighting and Lutron Electronics. At the Chan Center, his most recent projects have been the Sustainability Plan, Carbon Footprint, and Carbon Reduction Action Plan for the University of Pennsylvania.

As a contribution to the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster on Energy-Efficient Buildings, he is preparing a symposium and book (2012) onArchitecture and Energy, which will consider the connection between performance and style. In 2006 he published a book called Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, and in 2002 published a book called Modern Color/Modern Architecture: Amédée Ozenfant and the genealogy of color in modern architecture (www.modcolor.com). He blogs at williambraham.net.

Dan Willis

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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 The Emerald City and Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination (Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), and is currently at work on a book about craftwork and design. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Design Magazine, and his essays have appeared in two books: Judging Architectural Value (2007) and Fabricating Architecture (2010). He is also one of the founding members of Penn State’s Center for Research in Design and Innovation (CRDI). His recent research focuses on the differing disciplinary understandings of “design.”