Holly Samuelson, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities core research faculty and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, was consulted in a recent article evaluating heat dynamics in theRead More
moreArchives
HouseZero: A Zero Energy Retrofit
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities retrofitted its headquarters in Cambridge into a data-driven living-laboratory that will help us to understand buildings in new ways. The Harvard Office for Technology Development (OTD) discusses theRead More
moreCambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards
Holly Samuelson, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities core research faculty and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is quoted in a recent article that responds to building emissionsRead More
moreHow Designers Can Help Keep Our Air Breathable
Smoke from wildfires raging in Canada blanketed the Northeastern United States this month, turning the skies an eerie orange. Responding to record-setting levels of pollution, officials around the region declared health emergencies. Advice to closeRead More
moreStruggling to design green buildings amid shifting legal, tech landscape
The push to prepare American cities and towns for greater climate resilience has become more urgent in recent years as scientific evidence of warming mounts and extreme weather events grow more common. Officials in manyRead More
moreFast Company: Harvard researchers designed a cheaper, more efficient air conditioner
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, inRead More
moreNew York Magazine: Is This Harvard Prototype the Greenest House in America?
HouseZero was featured in New York Magazine in a piece written by Justin Davidson, who praises the CGBC’s apt headquarters and urgent mission. “Most other environmentally sensitive buildings rely on advanced machinery: hyperefficient air conditioners,Read More
moreForbes: This 94-Year-Old Home May Be The Key To Revolutionizing Green Tech
Forbes featured a piece and an original video on Harvard HouseZero today, praising the structure as “one of the most important buildings in America.” The author notes HouseZero’s audacious goals—to drastically reduce the demand forRead More
moreQuartz: Harvard’s HouseZero sounds like a dream office, even without an HVAC system
Quartz featured a piece on Harvard HouseZero today, praising the building as a “locus of high tech architecture.” The author writes about HouseZero as an “alternative to sealed buildings,” noting that its new window system isRead More
moreFast Company: The home of the future is the one you’re already living in
Fast Company published an article advocating for the improvement of existing structures. “If we stand a chance against climate catastrophe,” the article reads, “architects, engineers, and the buildings they create will necessarily play a hugeRead More
more