Title:  Improving Architecture’s Effect on the World
Date:  July 2，2014
Time: 14:30--16:30 pm
Speaker:  Professor Edward Arens
Venue:  The first floor,  multimedia classroom of Number 27 building
Organizer:  School of Architecture, SCUT

Brief Introduction of the Speaker:
Prof. Edward Arens, Ph.D., is a Professor of the  School of Architecture at UC Berkeley. He is the Director of the Center for Environmental Design Research, the University’s research unit for building science and resource efficient urban design, and  is also the Director of the Center for the Built Environment. He received his Ph.D. in Architectural Science in 1972 from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and also holds a BA in architectural history and masters degrees in Forestry and Urban Studies from Yale University.
He is co-founded Society of Building Science Educators

Brief Introduction of the Lecture:
Buildings are the largest consumer of energy and source of global climate change.They thereby damage the environment and our collective future. What can designers do about it?
Within any architectural form or style, there are underlying fundamental issues that need to be handled correctly. They do not impede a designer’s creativity, but challenge it.Some of them have to do with the design of the building, and some with how the building allows occupants and operators to interact with it. I will review some of these issues as we teach our students, and then talk about new ideas that we are pursuing at the Center for the Built Environment.