Please join us for a discussion on how to address energy in the pedagogy of architecture, models of advocacy, and architecture’s agency in our energy futures. This program is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Making Energy Visible, curated by Tülay Atak and on view at the Center for Architecture through March 28.
Energy drives modern life. We encounter its effects—light, warmth, motion—yet the infrastructures and urban systems that sustain them remain mostly unseen. Architecture and design can play a central role in thinking about energy today. While these fields can contribute to the decarbonization of building systems and the adoption of new technologies, they can also expand how energy is imagined—beyond quick fixes and toward visibility, legibility, and new forms of collective value.
A presentation by Ed Mazria will be followed by a conversation with exhibition curator Tülay Atak and Quilian Riano, the Dean of Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Speakers:
Tulay Atak, Curator, Making Energy Visible
Ed Mazria, Founder, Architecture 2030
Quilian Riano, Dean, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
About the Speakers:
Tülay Atak is an architect, an architectural historian, and theorist. Her research focuses on the intersection between environmental history and architecture.
Edward Mazria is a native New Yorker and an internationally renowned architect, author, researcher, and educator. His seminal research into urbanization, climate change, sustainability, and energy in the built environment has redefined and dramatically expanded the role of architecture, planning, design, and building in reshaping our world. He delivered the keynote address for “Buildings Day” at COP21 in Paris and issued and presented the “Roadmap to Zero Emissions”. He is the founder of Architecture 2030, a think tank developing real-world solutions for 21st century problems.
His innovative architecture, planning projects, and research, programs, and advocacy with Architecture 2030, has garnered him numerous awards including: Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Council for Science and the Environment and Design Futures Council; Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization’s President Award; National Wildlife Federation National Conservation Achievement Award; The Purpose Prize, Mumford Award from Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility; Game Changers Award from Metropolis Magazine; American Solar Energy Society Pioneer and Horace Greely Abbot Awards; World Green Building Council Chairman’s Award; AIA Kemper Award, and the 2021 AIA Gold Medal, to name a few.
Recognized for outstanding architecture and planning work, his firm has received AIA design and design innovation awards and an American Planning Association Award.
Quilian Riano is the Dean of Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, and is on the board of the Architectural League of New York and AIA New York.
Center for Architecture; Pratt Institute School of Architecture
