THE ECO-RACE IN ARCHITECTURE: Caught between environmental intuition and Intelligence
Jonathan Natanian, Technion
Please join us for our next Monday departmental seminar on the 2nd of January from 15:00 to 16:00 at the Porter Auditorium
THE ECO-RACE IN ARCHITECTURE: Caught between environmental intuition and Intelligence
Jonathan Natanian, Technion
The race towards sustainability in the built environment is on! zero carbon by 2050 or under 1.5OC are just some of the ambitious thresholds we need to get to – but how do we get there
Many claim that we had an environmental intuition which we must get back to – but will it be enough? Others push towards fully digitized environmental design workflows – but what will happen then? This lecture will discuss some of these questions which revolve around the gap between environmental intuition and intelligence from a personal, local, and global Eco-race perspectives
BIO
Jonathan Natanian is an assistant professor at the Technion IIT, and the head of the Environmental Performance and Design Laboratory (EPDL). Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion, master's degree with distinction in sustainable environmental design from the Architectural Association (AA), and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich. In his doctoral dissertation, which won the highest distinction and the Marschall Prize, Jonathan developed methodologies for integrating environmental considerations into urban planning using digital tools. The Environmental Performance and Design Laboratory led by Jonathan combines sensing tools, computational capabilities, and advanced visualization interfaces to investigate the interrelations between environmental engineering and architectural design at various scales. Since 2014 Jonathan is leading StudioADAPT – a research-based consultancy through which he is exploring the architectural applicability and spatial expression of his research on environmental performance in practice
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