Month: September 2022

A screenshot of the ECO FOLLY exhibition.

Eco Folly Exhibition Opening Reception

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Environmental implications ground the twelve projects of this exhibit, which is the outcome of a studio and seminar jointly taught by a designer and a historian, Professors Grace La Professor of Architecture and Principal of LA DALLMAN, and Erika Naginski, the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Architectural History. Taught in Spring 2022 and sponsored by the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, ECO FOLLY takes a speculative approach to […]

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Professor Jonathan Grinham sits inside the window of HouseZero.

Fast Company: Harvard researchers designed a cheaper, more efficient air conditioner

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In August, researchers from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Graduate School of Design, tested a new, exciting proprietary technology, coldSNAP, in HouseZero, the living lab that is also headquarters for the CGBC. The testing of the novel evaporative cooling tecnology was the latest research –  including physical and data-driven control algorithms – to be performed using […]

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