The Master's Degree at design and management Environmental Buildings hosts Sustainability Weeks
From February 29 to March 11 the School of Architecture hosts the Sustainability Weeks, organized by the Master's Degree in design and management Environmental Building
The School of Architecture will host from February 29 to March 11 the Sustainability Weeks, organized by the Master's Degree in design and management Environmental Buildings. During two weeks, professors of different nationalities will give several conferences with the goal to provide a global vision of sustainability and materialize this concept from different points of view and climates.
This year's guests at conference will be Nirmal Kishnani, from the National University of Singapore, Francesca Galeazzi, from Arup Associate, and Craig Schwitter, from Columbia University. The lectures, open to the general public, will take place at 12 noon at the classroom Magna of the School of Architecture on the following days:
Monday, February 29th
Nirmal Kishnani. National University of Singapore
The Failure of Green: The Search for Man-Nature Balance in Asia
Thursday, March 3rd
Francesca Galeazzi MSc. Architectural Engineer. ARUP Asoociate. Senior Sustainability Consultant
Sustainable buildings in different continents. The Arup experience
Thursday, March 10th
Craig Schwitter. Principal at BuroHappold Engineering - Columbia University
Adaptive and sustainable Facades. Built experiences
Nirmal Kishnani holds a PhD in Architecture from Curtin University of Technology (Australia) and teaches at the National University of Singapore at department architecture. He is the director of the Master "Integrated Sustainable Design degree" at the School of design and Environment at the same university, also director of FutureArc magazine and jury of the FuturArc Prize & FuturArc Green Leadership Award. Nirmal is the author of the book "Greening Asia - Emerging Principles for Sustainable Architecture" and his areas of specialization are sustainable architecture in hot and humid climates, passive and energy efficient systems, sustainable buildings and CO2 neutral developments, and climate change and urbanization among others.
Francesca Galeazzi is an architectural engineer with more than 15 years of experience at development sustainable. She currently leads Arup's Sustainability team in Berlin. She has worked in Australia, UK, India and China. Francesca has extensive experience in sustainability strategies at the urban and building scale, zero emission projects, climate change adaptation and mitigation, urbanization and social sustainability. speaker She is a regular speaker at international conferences and forums on sustainable architecture and lectures at teaching at leading universities in Europe and China.
Craig Schwitter is Adjunct Professor of Columbia University at School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and is the director of BuroHappold Engineering's U.S. office of which he founded the first North American office in 1999. He is also the director, along with Chuck Hoberman, of The Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), a joint business between BuroHappold Engineering and Hoberman Associates dedicated to designing and delivering a new generation of buildings that optimize their configuration in real time by responding to environmental changes. This business designs and produces adaptive facades and building envelopes and has extensive experience in the design engineering of complex buildings and large-scale developments, in the design and engineering of facades, design of buildings and their systems as well as sustainable master plans.