Sustainable Design: Larger Issues and Detailed Methods

This seminar looks broadly at sustainable architectural and urban design, reviewing the current state of the global environment, the key historical documents of the sustainable revolution, and the guiding principles of sustainable design. Then more narrowly, the seminar examines detailed methods used to support design development of larger-scale built environments, cities, communities, and buildings. Devised to complement 2021a, Environmental Design, this seminar explores scales larger and smaller than the single building by considering guidelines for and case studies of innovative community, urban, and regional-scale strategies of sustainable design. The seminar surveys recent sustainable design assessment methods, design guidelines, and international standards and considers case studies of innovative buildings shaped by these methods. To ground these methods in reality, students apply the principles and methods to a green urban design project. Limited enrollment.