Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope
has partnered with Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planningand Preservation (GSAPP) on "The Future of Energy," assembling
experts to exchange ideas on how best to address energy
production and consumption issues for the future. This full-day conference is
open to the public and will be held on Oct. 2, 2013, at The Museum
of Modern Art in New York City from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"The Future of Energy"
is an interdisciplinary research program devoted to exploring key
questions facing designers, developers and other professionals who are
concerned with energy, efficiency and sustainability in the building industry.
This collaborative effort between Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope and GSAPP resists
focusing on specific technologies or prospective energy sources.
Instead, it
examines energy, both discursively and thematically, addressing such issues
as how problems of the future of energy are framed and how these problems are
conceived and discussed.
Along with a panel of
leaders in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction, keynote
speakers include two of the preeminent minds in energy today. Matthias
Schuler is an engineer, an adjunct professor of Environmental Technology at
Harvard GSD and the founder of Stuttgart, Germany-based Transsolar. Schuler
works with architects to develop
sustainable design strategies for buildings.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs is
the director of The Earth Institute, a professor at Columbia University, special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and author of
several books, including "The Price of Civilization."
To learn more about "The Future
of Energy," go to http://events.gsapp.org/event/auditor-the-future-of-energy. For more information about GSAPP, contact Gavin Browning, 212-854-9248 or Gdb2106@columbia.edu.
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