Lectures

John Mandyck Urban Green Council Building Forward: The Future of Urban Climate Policies   John Mandyck joined Urban Green Council in 2018 as its first-ever CEO after capping a 25-year career as Chief Sustainability Officer for United Technologies Corporation. He also serves as a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public [...]

Taka Sarui MiYuKu LLC. Visualizing Food Networks and Making a Case for Urban & Local Agriculture   Taka Sarui is a co-founding principal of XLXS Design, principle of MiYuKu LLC, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Parsons New School and has been a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. She is deeply [...]

Ken Levenson Volunteer, Extinction Rebellion Heading for Extinction: An Introduction to Extinction Rebellion   Ken Levenson is an architect, chief operating officer of 475 High Performance Building Supply, and Board Director of New York Passive House and the North American Passive House Network. Driven by the imperative of the climate crisis, Ken has devoted his [...]

  Håvard Breivik is an architect, assistant professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), and member of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s emergency standby roster, NORCAP. With a decade of experience from crisis response, humanitarian relief, and development efforts, Håvard has been deployed to United Nations agencies in Haiti, Nepal, North Macedonia, Hungary, and New York. Håvard is [...]

  Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours, architect, urban planner, author and professor of architecture, has developed a permanent work on the articulation of scales, defining himself as an architect of the territory.  From the drawing of shelves to furniture in a library to the project of a large metropolitan area, Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours inscribes his work in a continuity of thought creating [...]

  Dr. María Fullaondo is practicing architect and academic currently holding a Senior Lecturer position at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.  She has extensive  international experience in architecture education in various universities. Her research, creative work, and teaching are very much interweaved, blurring the boundaries between activities and outputs. She has been working for nearly twenty-five years at [...]

  Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, is the founder of the New York-based architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners. Since 1982, the practice has created a body of work with a distinct and lasting character, all of which is informed by Deborah’s vision and values. In 2013, she received the first Berkeley-Rupp award, given by the [...]

  Rahul Mehrotra is a practicing architect, urban designer and educator. He works in Mumbai and Boston, and teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University where he is professor of urban design and planning. His practice, RMA Architects (www.RMAarchitects.com), founded in 1990, has executed a range of projects: corporate office buildings, a [...]

Jeremy Reed '07 (M Arch) Project Manager and Associate Morris Adjmi Architects Context and Clarity Jeremy Reed is a registered architect whose eclectic educational experience included studying neuroscience and developmental biology. He frequently works in post-industrial and historic districts on contextual residential buildings, distinctive commercial properties and iconic hospitality work. Jeremy Reed has also created [...]

Jan Mun Artist, Newtown Creek Alliance In Practice: Myco-remediation and Biopolitics Jan Mun is a media artist who creates social sculptures working with digital and living media. The landscape has become her framework to unfold stories about others and herself by using a combination of artistic and scientific processes that manifest in the form of [...]