Initiative for Adaptive Buildings and Cities: Roundtable One, Interlocking Imperatives
The School of Architecture's Initiative for Adaptive Buildings and Cities is our answer to this call. During the spring 2024 semester, we are presenting five Faculty Roundtable discussions, led by Research Associate Carl Elefante. The first session introduces the framework for addressing the challenges of 21st century habitation in the context of the climate, justice, and urban imperatives with guest presentations by Edward Mazria, CEO & Founder of Architecture 2030, Sharon Prince, CEO & Founder of Grace Farms, and Carl Elefante, Senior Research Associate of the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.
TIME STAMPS
[0:10} The Climate Imperative by Edward Mazria, CEO & Founder of Architecture 2030
[11:56] The Justice Imperative by Sharon Prince, CEO & Founder of Grace Farms
[23:26] The Urban Imperative by Carl Elefante, Senior Research Associate
[36:06 ] Roundtable One Session
[1:10:19] Discussion
For more information on the Initiative for Adaptive Buildings and Cities and the following roundtable sessions, visit https://architecture.nd.edu/research-... .
Climate Imperative – by Edward Mazria, CEO & Founder, Architecture 2030
As an educator and researcher, Edward Mazria, FAIA, first gained international recognition for his groundbreaking work on solar energy, publishing the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979. Twenty-five years later, Mazria stepped away from a successful architectural practice to found Architecture 2030, a non-profit dedicated to combating climate change by “decarbonizing” buildings. Mazria launched the Architecture 2030 Challenge in 2003 and played a pivotal role at the Paris Climate Summit in 2015. For his singular contribution to changing the course of the architectural profession, Mazria was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 2021. Architecture 2030 remains the most trusted source on building sector climate action. www.Architecture2030.org
Justice Imperative – by Sharon Prince, CEO & Founder, Grace Farms
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Sharon Prince established and leads the Grace Farms Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing humanitarian causes. Their 2022 Design for Freedom Report identifies construction and the building materials industry as the most “at risk” for supporting forms of modern slavery, mapping construction and supply chain human rights violations globally for twelve of the most common construction materials. Grace Farms provides resources for architects in their Design for Freedom Toolkit. Creating a campus to facilitate its mission, Grace Farms constructed the River Building, designed by 2010 Pritzker Prize Laureates Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in Tokyo-based Sanaa. www.gracefarms.org
Urban Imperative – by Carl Elefante, Senior Research Associate
After an architecture career exploring the intersection of sustainable design and historic preservation, Carl Elefante, FAIA, FAPT, has devoted the past decade to advancing the profession’s efforts to address climate change, focusing on the importance of adapting existing structures and applying the lessons of built heritage to combat modern-era biases in building sector climate action. In 2018, he served as President of the AIA, playing a critical role in elevating climate change and social equity as AIA’s strategic priorities. Elefante is now serving as the first visiting scholar to the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.