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Architecture Richard Rogers lectures at GSD.

November 23, 2016

Harvard GSD: Richard Rogers delivers second annual Harvard CGBC Lecture

The Harvard Graduate School of Design published an account of the CGBC Annual Lecture featuring Richard Rogers on October 18, 2016, an event that continues the Center’s annual tradition of honoring a key leader within the green design and planning movement. Rogers focused his talk on approaching sustainability through the relationships and interactions between buildings and inhabitants. Read the article here.

October 18, 2016

Harvard Crimson: Architect Richard Rogers Lectures at the GSD

by joe meyrick

The Harvard Crimson gives an account of the CGBC Annual Lecture featuring Richard Rogers on October 18, 2016, an event that continues the Center’s annual lecture series which convenes leaders from industry and academia to discuss pressing questions for the fields of sustainability and design. In this talk, Rogers drew upon his life experiences, his varied projects and ideas about the impact of architecture on the environment. Read the article here.

Norman Foster delivers inaugural lecture.

November 6, 2015

Harvard Crimson: Architect Norman Foster Lectures at the School of Design

by joe meyrick

The Harvard Crimson gives an account of the CGBC Inaugural Lecture featuring Lord Norman Foster on November 5, 2015, an event that formally introduced the Center’s annual lecture that convenes leaders from industry and academia to discuss pressing questions for the fields of sustainability and design. In the talk, Foster drew upon his life experiences, his varied projects and ideas about the impact of architecture on the environment. Read the article here.

October 29, 2015

Press Release: Address By Renowned Architect Norman Foster Keynotes Two-Day Event

by joe meyrick

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (PRWEB) OCTOBER 29, 2015 Renowned architect Lord Norman Foster, the Pritzker Prize winner whose numerous iconic projects include Germany’s Reichstag, London’s Millennium Bridge, and the world’s largest airport terminal (Beijing), on Thursday, November 5, will keynote a two-day conference marking the one-year anniversary of Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the university’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), Professor Ali Malkawi, the Center’s Founding Director announced. […]

May 27, 2015

Environment@Harvard: Profile of Founding Director Ali Malkawi

by joe meyrick

Writer and scholar Mariel Wolfson profiles Founding Director Ali Malkawi in a wide-ranging article for the latest issue of Environment@Harvard, an annual newsletter published by the Harvard University Center for the Environment. The author spotlights Malkawi’s intellectual development, international scope and local sensitivities in the field of sustainable design. Read more here: website, PDF.

November 19, 2014

Architect’s Newspaper: Greened House

by joe meyrick

Featured in the Architect’s Newspaper, CGBC Founding Director Ali Malkawi explains the rational behind choosing a sleepy 1940s house as headquarters and emphasizes the importance of “asking the right questions” and design that can drive the discussion. Read Article

November 12, 2014

Harvard Magazine: The Challenges of Greener Cities

by joe meyrick

The Harvard Magazine gives an account of the CGBC Inaugural Challenge Conference on November 7, 2014, an event that formally introduced the Center and convened leaders from industry and academia to discuss pressing questions for the fields of sustainability and design. The event featured James Carpenter of James Carpenter Design Associates; Alejandro Murat, CEO of INFONAVIT; Joshua Prince-Ramus, Principal of REX; Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in Harvard’s Department of […]

October 10, 2014

Architectural Record: Newsmaker interview with Founding Director Ali Malkawi

by joe meyrick

In an interview with Fred Bernstein for Architectural Record, Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Ali Malkawi chats about his career, explains his vision for the Center, and provides context that frames his research aspirations. Read the interview here.

May 16, 2014

Harvard Magazine: Greener Buildings and Cities

by joe meyrick

In an interview with Harvard Magazine, the Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, Ali Malkawi, explains the Center’s scope and emphasizes its main initiatives. Malkawi also underlines the Center’s next “giant task,” which “involves rethinking established design and construction processes, revising specifications-based building codes to emphasize lifetime performance and outcome-oriented standards, and retraining inspectors—all across one of the world’s largest industries and the spectrum of human habitations.” Read […]

April 1, 2014

GSD Student Teams Win First-Place Honors at 2013-14 NESEA Net-Zero Energy Design Competition

by joe meyrick

Two teams of GSD students won first-place awards at the 2013-14 NESEA Net-Zero Energy Design Competition. The competition supported low-energy, high aesthetic architectural designs supported by energy simulations analysis for a variety of building types. Kanika Arora (MDesS ’15), Abhinay Sharma (MDesS ’14), Baha Sadreddin (MDesS ’15) and Rohit Goyal (GSAS) led by Holly Samuelson, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the GSD, won for residential new construction. Johannes Staudt (MDesS ’14), Saurabh […]