Selected Teaching & Research Links

 

Webster University Exchange Taos, NM - How on-grid systems within traditional homes supply water, process waste, generate power and maintain thermal comfort compared to how alternative systems function in off-grid homes

Webster Online Learning Center - How different societies around the planet interact with their local and global ecosystems, how those natural systems enable and constrain specific cultures and their ways of life, how various cultures impact their natural environments, how humans meet basic needs and to what degree the ways they meet them are sustainable.

Royal Danish Academy of Art & Architecture- University course with Emanuel Naboni and Daniel Nielsen - Students utilized BIM software to run computer simulations of climate conditions to compare sustainability features of functionalist and contemporary architecture based on local climate

Copenhagen August 20-21, 2015- Learning From Functionalist Nordic Houses Towards Passive, Active, Adaptable and Prefabricated Homes: This research presents a preliminary exploration to the definition of sustainable Nordic housing by appraising the qualities of four functionalist projects built prior to the energy crisis of the 1970s and four projects built after the year 2000, when sustainable design became an explicit target.