Year: 2018

November 4, 2018

Romano’s Torre Reforma Wins 2018 International Highrise Award

Benjamin Romano, former CGBC Visiting Affiliated Faculty Member, accepted the 2018 International Highrise Award for the Torre Reforma in Mexico City. The International Highrise Award (IHA) was jointly initiated in 2003 by the City of Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum and DekaBank and was awarded for the first time in 2004. Since then, it has been biannually organized and financed in partnership and cooperation between Deutsches Architekturmuseum and DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale. It […]

Cover of book, "Sustainability in Scandinavia: Architectural Design and Planning."

October 2, 2018

“Sustainability in Scandinavia” international book launch events hosted in Oslo & Copenhagen

by joe meyrick

Book launch events for Sustainability in Scandinavia: Architectural Design and Planning will be hosted by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) in early October. The book is a collaboration between the Harvard Center of Green Buildings and Cities and the schools of architecture in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo, and was edited by Ali Malkawi, Marius Nygaard, Anne Beim, and […]

August 20, 2018

CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Dietmar Eberle, “200 100 50 20 10”

by joe meyrick

On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 12:00pm, Dietmar Eberle will present a lecture at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities entitled “200 100 50 20 10.” The event will take place at 20 Sumner Road, Cambridge, MA. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton: [email protected]. Dietmar Eberle is an architect and academic, who has taught in several universities […]

August 20, 2018

CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Gail Brager, “The Value of Variability”

by joe meyrick

On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 12:00pm, Gail Brager will give a talk entitled “The Value of Variability.” The event will be held at the Center for Green Buildings and Cities at 20 Sumner Road, Cambridge, MA. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton: [email protected]. Gail Brager has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Professor in the Building Science, Technology […]

August 20, 2018

CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Hiroshi Ishii, “TRANSFORM: Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical Atoms”

by joe meyrick

On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 12:00pm, Hiroshi Ishii will give a talk entitled “TRANSFORM:  Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical Atoms.” The event will be held at the Center for Green Buildings and Cities at 20 Sumner Road, Cambridge, MA. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton: [email protected]. Hiroshi Ishii is a Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at […]

August 14, 2018

2018 GSD DDes Conference: [RE]FORM: New Investigations in Urban Form

by joe meyrick

The Annual GSD DDes Conference: “[RE]FORM: New Investigations in Urban Form” will take place on Friday, September 14th at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . [Re]FORM: New Investigations in Urban Form aims to reposition the discourse of urban form within contemporary urban theory. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s seminal text Urban Form (1970), this conference aspires to provoke new investigations and debates on urban form and its relevance in contemporary urbanizations. Specifically, by […]

June 1, 2018

Malkawi, Nygaard, Beim & Stenberg publish “Sustainability in Scandinavia”

by joe meyrick

Ali Malkawi, Marius Nygaard, Anne Beim and Erik Stenberg have edited a book entitled Sustainability in Scandinavia: Architectural Design and Planning. The book contains a collection of case-studies—most written by participants of the CGBC’s 2015 Fall Conference: Sustainability in Scandinavia. The book is published by Axel Menges and is currently available for pre-order. Summary The challenges of the global climate crisis are heightened in large part by a pervasive uncertainty regarding how architects […]

April 15, 2018

CGBC celebrates HouseZero Commissioning Ceremony, hosts HouseZero Typology Symposium

by joe meyrick

On Tuesday, April 3, 2018, the CGBC’s Harvard HouseZero, an ambitious living laboratory and prototype for ultra-efficiency, was officially commissioned during a private ceremony in Harvard GSD’s Piper Auditorium. Event participants included Drew Faust, President of Harvard University; Alan Garber, Provost of Harvard University; Ali Malkawi, Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Representatives from […]

March 6, 2018

Harvard HouseZero Typology Symposium

by joe meyrick

Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm Location: Harvard Graduate School of Design Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Audience: Open to the public Description The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) retrofitted its headquarters, a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, MA, into a first-of-its-kind test case to demonstrate unprecedented levels of building efficiency and promote substantial shifts in the design and operation of existing buildings. Dubbed “HouseZero,” the project aims […]

January 26, 2018

Ken Yeang Lecture: “Ecoarchitecture & Ecomasterplanning”

by joe meyrick

On Friday, January 26, 2018, Ken Yeang will give a talk at the Harvard Graduate School of Design entitled “Ecoarchitecture and Ecomasterplanning.” The event will take place in Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112 at 12:00pm. Yeang will discuss an approach to green and sustainable design based on the science of ecology. He will show how ecology and the ecosystem influence the design and planning of the built environment while offering a theoretical […]