The book TORRE REFORMA by L. Benjamín Romano, with text by Felipe Leal, Ali Malkawi, and Francisco Serrano, is named a 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2019 winner. With photographs by Iwan Bann, TORRE REFORMA documents the Reforma Tower … Read more
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Dwell features Malkawi as one of eight climate-conscious design visionaries
As working from home becomes the new normal for many around the world, Dwell talks to Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Ali Malkawi about the future of energy-efficient living. Malkawi is featured among eight … Read more
Postponed: CGBC Spring 2020 Lunchtime Lecture Series
In line with Harvard’s COVID-19 travel policies and campus restrictions, the Havard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Lunchtime Lecture Series (Spring 2020) will be postponed until further notice. Each speaker will be invited to reschedule their lecture. Details
Multidisciplinary team of designers from the CGBC and scientists from SEAS are awarded funding through Harvard Climate Change Solutions Fund
A multidisciplinary team of scientists and designers from the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC), the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences (SEAS) was awarded funding … Read more
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui talks to Malkawi about HouseZero and the future of simulation software and predictive tools
International magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui interviews Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Professor Ali Malkawi about the future of simulation software and predictive tools both in the design process and in the operation of buildings after … Read more
BBC Worklife interviews Holly Samuelson on how indoor air quality boosts not only health, but cognitive abilities
Improving indoor air quality may boost cognitive abilities as well as health. So how should buildings be designed to make us more productive? The question posed to Holly Samuelson, Associated Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design … Read more
PBS NewsHour: Architectural design for buildings that create more energy than they consume
Heating and cooling buildings consumes 40 percent of energy used across the world. As climate change continues to threaten the planet, rising temperatures may only increase the usage. Now, an architect in Boston is trying to change not just how … Read more
Center for Green Buildings and Cites partners with Wyss Institute develop cold-SNAP
Center for Green Buildings and Cites partners with Wyss Institute to develop cold-SNAP: an alternative cooling process that uses substantially less energy than modern coolers.
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cites researchers collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists … Read more
Malkawi to serve on 2019 Master Jury for Aga Khan Award for Architecture
The members of the Master Jury for the 2017-2019 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The Jury, which independently selects the recipients of the US$ 1 million Award, will convene in January 2019 to select … Read more
Harvard CGBC Unveils First-of-its-Kind HouseZero Lab & Prototype
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced today the completion of HouseZero, the retrofitting of its headquarters in a pre-1940s building in Cambridge into an ambitious living-laboratory and an … Read more