The Architect's Role in Mitigating Climate Change

When:  Jun 17, 2015 from 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM (ET)

 
Sandy Rockaway boardwalk during a MAS and local Resiliency organization tour with Walter Meyer. Photographer: Lance Jay Brown.

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Ideal Audience: Design and planning firms of all sizes, interested in resilient, adaptive design and planning practice

Education Level: Intermediate

This webinar explores how design and other professionals, working collaboratively, can address the new normal of climate change, sea level rise, seismic risks, extreme heat and other emerging risks. Discussions will focus on the creation of principles for action, awareness raising, pre- and post-disaster professional training programs, and New York’s ongoing responses to Superstorm Sandy. 

 

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Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the challenges and opportunities for the design professions being caused by climate change and other forces. 
  2. Plan and execute training programs to help design professionals know how to design for and respond to disasters.
  3. Organize local and regional communities to plan for and respond to emerging risks.
  4. Find knowledge based information useful for designing in times of increased risk. 

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Speakers:

  Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA is an architect, urban designer, educator, author, and world-traveling lecturer. 2014 President of AIANY, he has launched the theme of “Civic Vision: Civic Spirit.” He founded the post 9/11 task force in concert with Illya Azaroff in 2011 into DfRR. He is an ACSA Distinguished Professor in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Lance has served in the Design Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts and advised the World Trade Center Site 9/11 International Memorial Design Competition. His awards include the national AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education and AIA New York State President’s Award for Excellence in Non-Traditional Architecture. He recently co-edited Beyond Zucotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space and The Legacy Project: Via Verde. 
   Illya Azaroff, AIA is director +LAB architect PLLC, and Associate Professor at New York City College of Technology (CUNY). He is a recognized expert in disaster mitigation and building strategies serving as an advisor to the Federal Government working with DHS, FEMA and HHS. Regionally he works with RCPT, OEM, RAMP and the Sandy Recovery Office. He contributed to the New York DCP Housing Retrofit Guidelines, FLASH Resilient Housing Guidelines, and AIA Post Sandy Initiative. Illya is the National Advocacy Director for the YAF, and on the Board of the AIANY. He is founding Co-chair of DfRR along with Lance Jay Brown, receiving the 2014 AIA National Collaborative Achievement Award. He received the 2014 AIA National Young Architects Award for innovative practice and is an instructor with National Disaster Training Preparedness Center. Illya received the 2014 AIANYS Presidential Citation and the 2015 AIA National Component Award for leading the AIARRWG. His recent lectures can be found via TEDx, We are not alone, and ArchNewsNow: What Does Recovery Look Like?
Moderator: 

  Daniel E. Williams, FAIA, APA is a practicing architect and planner in Seattle and Miami and an internationally recognized expert in sustainable design. Mr. Williams is a member of the experts team for the Clinton Climate + Initiative, advising on projects in Toronto and London. He served as 2006 chair of the AIA’s Sustainability Task Group and sat on the national advisory council for United States Environmental Protection Agency - NACEPT. In 2011 he was selected to act as jury chair for the National AIA/Urban and Regional Design Honor Awards. Named Eminent Scholar and Distinguished Alumni at the University of Florida, his book Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture and Planning was published Earthday 2007 by John Wiley & Sons was called a top ten book on sustainable design by the Royal Academy of Architects and top 5 in sustainable design and planning by Planetizen. Dan has taught and lectured in architecture and planning for over 30 years and is on the Master of Sustainable Design faculty at the University of Florida's extension in Singapore. Presently he is working on a book that illustrates the designs connectivity between science and art titled No Small Plans: An Ecological Design Approach to National Sustainability. 



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