Ecogram: The Sustainability Question

Even though "green" is everywhere, the concepts of sustainability and ecological design and development are still marginal in schools of architecture as well as in architectural discourse at large. That buildings and cities are significant polluters and catalysts of climate change is beyond question. Buildings and the building industry currently contribute at least 40-50% of greenhouse gases. As more than half of the world's population will live in cities by the end of 2008, most of them in developing countries where environmental controls are often weak or nonexistent, thinking about "sustainable development" seems all the more urgent. PROGRAM MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 PANEL: ECO-CRAFT: Design, Context + Innovation Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30 PM Michelle Addington - Professor, Yale School of Architecture Dickson D. Despommier - Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, Columbia University Matthias Schuler - Engineer, TRANSSOLAR, Stuttgart Cameron Sinclair - Co-Founder, Architecture for Humanity Moderated by Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. (M.Arch 1997) and Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D. (MsAAD 1996, Ph.D. Arch. 2007), - Adjunct Professors of Architecture, GSAPP Opening reception for the exhibit, Ecology. Design. Synergy. Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar Climate Engineering, to follow at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 ALUMNI KEYNOTE LECTURE Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30 PM Daniel Wood (M.Arch 1992) and Amale Andraos WORK Architecture Company, New York Reception to Follow FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 FACULTY KEYNOTE LECTURE Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30 PM Kenneth Frampton Ware Professor of Architecture, GSAPP Reception to Follow AVERY HALL SOCIETY LEADERS DINNER 8:00 PM Special Event for the Leaders and Partners of The Avery Hall Society By separate invitation only SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST Brownie's Cafe, Avery Hall 10:00 AM WELCOME Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 10:30 AM Mark Wigley, Dean of GSAPP INTRODUCTION Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D. (MsAAD 1996, Ph.D. Arch 2007) - Adjunct Professor of Architecture, GSAPP Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. (M.Arch 1997)- Adjunct Professor of Architecture, GSAPP PANEL: ECO-SEARCH: Research, Culture + Policy Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 11:00 AM Sarah Haga - Director, Owner's Representative Studio, Jonathan Rose Companies Nilda Mesa - Assistant Vice President, Environmental Stewardship, Columbia University Kate Orff - Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, GSAPP; Founding Principal, SCAPE Jorge Otero-Pailos - Professor of Historic Preservation, GSAPP Kyong Park - Associate Professor of Public Culture, University of California, San Diego; Founder, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York Smita Srinivas - Assistant Professor of Urban Planning; Director, Technological Change Lab, GSAPP Moderated by Elliott Sclar - Professor of Urban Planning, GSAPP LUNCH, TOURS, TALK, and EXHIBITIONS 12:30 - 2:30 PM Carbon Footprint: A Personal Air Quality Track Sarah Williams - Director, Spatial Iinformation Design Lab, Columbia University GSAPP Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory Phillip Anzalone (M.Arch 1997) - Associate Director, Building Technologies and Technical Director, Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory, Columbia University GSAPP The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for American Architecture Reinhold Martin - Director, The Buell Center and Professor of Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP Open Studios Ecology. Design. Synergy. Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar Climate Engineering Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall Amphorae, the 2008 Young Alumni Exhibition Avery Hall PANEL: ECO-ED: Education, Practice + Ecology Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 2:30 PM SHoP Architects, P.C Bruce Lindsey - Dean, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, Washington University John Peterson - Founder, Public Architecture Zoka Zola - Principal, zoka zola architecture + urban design, Chicago Moderated by Mark Wigley - Dean of GSAPP www.ecogram.org