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"Proving Your Point: Researched Sustainable Strategies in Historic Housing applied and documented in contemporary practice" is a part of the AIA Housing Knowledge Community research webinar series. When architects innovate they have a responsibility to “Prove their Point.” Wasserman and Connolly will demonstrate the innovative and sustainable building practices of historic residential architecture found in the homes they researched for their book Wisconsin’s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes. They will explain how one particular sustainable strategy: the Vent Chimney was researched and adapted to new projects. Wasserman and Connolly will show how they employed economical tools to gather the necessary data to “Prove their Point.”
Learning Objectives
- Explain the contribution that historic residential architecture makes to contemporary American architecture.
- Evaluate an historic home’s sustainable practices according to current environmental standards.
- Discuss how sustainable strategies in historic residential architecture can actually be applied today.
- Demonstrate how practicing architects can use economical and technical tools to gather data to demonstrate the efficacy of their design intent…to “prove their point.”
AIA/CES Reporting
At the conclusion of the webinar, a link to a survey/CES report form will be provided. All attendees at each site will submit one form: 1) page one: webinar survey and 2) page two: CES report form. The survey must be completed within 24 hours of the webinar’s conclusion. AIA members and IDP record holders (http://www.aia.org/FreeTranscriptsforInterns) will have their credit recorded within 48 hours of the webinar. All attendees will be prompted to download a certificate of completion at the end of the survey.
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Questions
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Speakers
Louis Wasserman, AIA
Principal Architect, Louis Wasserman & Associates
Louis Wasserman, AIA, and M. Caren Connolly have collaborated on projects since they met as undergraduates at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. They both have Master degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Louis in Architecture and Caren in Landscape Architecture. They have worked, taught and lectured across the country. They are principals in their Milwaukee based architectural firm. Louis Wasserman and Associates believe that research is a crucial process to inform the professional in order to share gained expertise with their clients.
Louis Wasserman has received NEA Research Grants (including a PA First Award): state research grants to study Main Streets: and Energy Grants to study Daylighting.
The Jeffris Family Foundation with the Wisconsin Historic Society Press commissioned Connolly and Wasserman to research and write their most recent book; Wisconsin’s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes that has won numerous publication awards including an “Indie” award. Updating Classic America: The Bungalow, Updating the Classic America The Ranch, and the Cottage: America’s Favorite Home Inside and Out are published by Taunton Press.
M. Caren Connolly
Landscape Designer, Louis Wasserman & Associates
Landscape designer M. Caren Connolly has twenty years of expertise in Estate Landscape Design, Master Planning, Institutional and Regional Landscape Architecture with projects across the country. Having received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, Connolly has developed an impressive understanding of the complex relationship between the built and natural environment as well as a commitment to sustainable design. In addition, she brings her background in Fine Art and aesthetics to lead the firm in Interior Design.
In addition to practicing Landscape Architecture, Connolly has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Landscape Architecture Department as well as at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in both the Architecture and the Visual Art.