Lectures
ECOWEEK has initiated, invited and hosted
lectures by a number of internationally acclaimed speakers,
specialists and leaders in their field. Among the ECOWEEK
distinguished speakers are Nobel Laureate and former US Vice
President Al Gore, speaker at ECOWEEK 2007 on Global
Warming, at the Athens Concert Hall in June 2007 (in cooperation
with Megaron Plus); UK explorer and leadership expert Robert
Swan, OBE ECOWEEK 2007 opening keynote speaker, at the
Benaki Museum in Athens (in collaboration with the British
Council).
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ECOWEEK 2012: Public Lectures
Admission free
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Keynote & Distinguished Speakers
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For
schedule see ECOWEEK 2012 Program
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Kengo
Kuma , Architect | Japan
Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He completed his master's degree
at the University of Tokyo in 1979. From 1985 to 1986, he studied
at Columbia University as Visiting Scholar. He established Kengo
Kuma & Associates 1990. He taught at Keio University from 2001
to 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008,
and in 2009, he was installed as Professor at the Graduate School
of Architecture, University of Tokyo.
Among Kuma's major works are Kirosan Observatory (1995), Water/Glass
(1995, received AIA Benedictus Award), Stage in Forest, Toyoma
Center for Performance Arts (received 1997 Architectural Institute
of Japan Annual Award), Stone Museum (received International
Stone Architecture Award 2001), Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum
(received The Murano Prize). Recent works include Great Bamboo
Wall (2002, Beijing, China), Nezu Museum (2009, Tokyo), Yusuhara
Marche and Wooden Bridge Museum (2010). A number of large projects
are also going on abroad, including arts centre in Besancon
City, France, Granada, Spain, and a new Victoria & Albert Museum
building in Dundee, Scotland U.K..
He was awarded the International Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture
Award in 2002 (Finland), International Architecture Awards for
the Best New Global Design for "Chokkura Plaza and Shelter"
in 2007, and Energy Performance + Architectutre Award in 2008
(France). He is an International Fellow of RIBA, UK, and Honorary
Fellow of AIA in the US. Kengo Kuma is also a prolific writer
/ critic and his books have been translated into English, Chinese
and other languages. www.kkaa.co.jp
With the hospitality of the American
Academy in Rome. |
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Elena
Barthel, Architect | RURAL STUDIO, Alabama, USA
Elena Barthel comes to the Rural Studio
from the School of Architecture of the University of Florence
in Italy, where she graduated in 1999, and recently accomplished
her PHD with the thesis 'Design & Build at the Rural Studio:
the education of the Citizen Architect'. While she run her private
practice in the historical centre of Florence Santo Spirito,
a well-known craft district, she taught at the Department of
Urban Design of the University of Florence, at the Architectural
Association in London and lead Auburn University Study Abroad
in Florence for the academic year 2010. In 2008-2009 she taught
the Second Year Studio at the Rural Studio as Visiting Assistant
Professor. Her studio took the opportunity to design and build
Rose Lee's house, in Footwash, a small community near the Rural
Studio. The students explored the 'Expandable Courtyard House'
as the first of a new type in response to the transient nature
and demographic of the contemporary family. She is currently
Assistant Professor running the 3rd year design Studio and charged
to design the Rural Studio Farm. A project focused on the redesign
of the Rural Studio Campus and an opportunity to experiment
with the production of food, energy and building material. The
project is intended as a prototype to answer the important question:
What can the future of farming be in a contemporary rural setting?
www.ruralstudio.org
In cooperation and with the support of the US Embassy and
the hospitality of the American Academy in Rome. |
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Ulf
Meyer, Architect |
Ingenhoven Architects, Germany
Ulf Meyer is an architect, partner in the architecture office
of Ingenhoven Architects in German. Graduated from the Technical
University (TU) of Berlin as Master of Architecture, and studied-abroad
at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Ill.
with the international IIT Fellowship and the Academic Scholarship
of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is Distinguished Hyde
Chair of Excellence for sustainable urban design at the University
of Nebraska/Lincoln. Ulf is a member of the FuturArc Forum for
Green Building in Southeast-Asia and Australia, correspondent
for Central Europe for "World Architecture" magazine, London,
UK, and Editor at "archplus" architectural magazine in Berlin.
Ulf has lectured at universities all over Europe, the USA and
Canada as well as Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia,
the Philippines and Taiwan. He has taught at the Bauhaus Graduate
School of Design in Dessau/Germany and at summer schools with
the Middle Eastern Technical University of Ankara/Turkey, the
Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta/Georgia, the Rice
Design Alliance of Houston/Texas and the University of Kansas
Lawrence/Kansas (USA). Ulf has published over 1,000 articles
in newspapers and magazines in Germany and abroad. He appeared
on Radio, TV and Internet broadcast. Some of his texts have
been translated into Spanish, Italian, Russian, Dutch and English.
Ulf was the keynote speaker at the Green Build Conference in
Phoenix/AZ 2009 and at the BCA in Singapore 2011. www.ingenhovenarchitects.com
In cooperation and with the support of the Embassy of Germany
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Alessandra
Faticanti, Architect & Roberto (Bebo) Ferlito, Architect
| Nabito Architects and Partneres SLP, Italy
Alessandra
Faticanti, Architect graduated from Sapienza University of Rome
in 2002, including a period of studies at L'Ecole polytechnique
Belleville de Paris (France). Since 2002, she is registered
as an architect at COAC Barcelona. Faticanti collaborated in
various professional studies as the project supervisor. In 2006,
Faticanti founded Nabito Architects and partners in Barcelona.
The same year, she won an award for the top twenty young architects
in Europe, NOUVEAUX ALBUMS DES JEUNES ARCHITECTES, presented
by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of France. Faticanti
was an Assistant Professor at the Architecture Department of
Sapienza University of Rome in 2004, a Visiting Professor at
Institute for Advanced Architecture at Catalunya IAAC where
she taught on the subject Genocities, Logica Abierta in 2006.
From 2010 she is a member of the technical equipe of the Generalitat
de Catalunya for the new development of the social services
in the region.
Roberto (Bebo) Ferlito, Architect graduated from Sapienza University
of Rome in 2002, after having spent a part of his studies at
Faculteit Toegepaste Wetenschappen of Gent in Belgium. In 2006,
Ferlito founded Nabito Architects and Partners in Barcelona.
The same year, he won an award for the top twenty young architects
in Europe, NOUVEAUX ALBUMS DES JEUNES ARCHITECTES, presented
by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of France. In 2009
he won the award Cavalierato Giovanile, presented by the Province
of Rome, for the category of art and architecture. Since 2005
Ferlito has taught at the Architecture Department of Sapienza
University, at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya
IAAC where he collaborated with Professor/Architect Manuel Gausa,
at the University of Politecnic of Catalunya, Barcelona, at
the Architecture Department at the University of Trento, and
IUAV in Venezia. From 2010 he is a member of the technical equipe
of the Generalitat De Catalunya for the new development of the
social services in the region.
NABITO architects is a group of more then 20 architects and
engineers, born in Barcelona from the will and courage of the
architects Alessandra Faticanti and Roberto Ferlito in 2007.
www.nabitoarchitects.com
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MariaLuisa
Palumbo, Architect | McLuhan Program, Toronto University, Italy
MariaLuisa Palumbo, architect and senior fellow of the McLuhan
Program in Culture and Technology of Toronto University, author
of New Wombs, Electronic bodies and architectural disorder (Birkhauser,
2000) and Architettura Produttiva. Principi di progettazione
ecologica (Maggioli 2012). Since 2003, she direct the Master
di Architettura Digitale at the Italian National Institute of
Architecture (IN/ARCH) in Rome. In 2004 she founded Romalab,
Laboratorio di Architettura Relazionale, a research laboratory
focused on the issue of public space and the search of new strategies
for the development of the contemporary city. Her book New Wombs
has been translated in english and chinois and her essays have
been published in several collective books: Architettura e Cultura
Digitale, Skira 2003; La conquista del Tempo, Editori Riuniti
2003; Mediazioni. Spazi, linguaggi e soggettivita delle reti,
Costa & Nolan 2005; Media Corpi Saperi, Franco Angeli 2006,
Per un'architettura come ecologia umana studiosi a confronto,
Jaca Book 2010. Since 2010 she collaborates with Domusweb.
Marialuisa Palumbo is a partner-organizer of ECOWEEK in Rome. |
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Tom
Rankin , Architect | Studio Rome, Italy
Tom Rankin is the founder and director of Studio Rome, a design
firm devoted to research and practice of environmentally sustainable
architecture and urbanism. He practices architecture and teaches
at the at Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" (School of Engineering)
and coordinates the University of Minnesota Rome architecture
program for Accent. He received his Master's in Architecture
at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a BA in
Architecture at Princeton, and a "Laurea" in Architecture at
Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza'. Since moving to Italy in 1991
he has worked extensively in architecture, cultural heritage,
environmental and cultural sustainability and digital media.
He was founder of the successful non-profit cultural travel
association Scala Reale and continues to support culturally
and environmentally sustainable travel as a partner in Context
Travel. From 2002 until 2008 he was President of the American
Institute for Roman Culture, a non-profit organization he co-founded.
He has written articles and presented frequently at conferences.
His blog on the Still Sustainable City is a reference point
for sustainable urbanism in Rome. www.studiorome.net |
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Paolo
Cascone, Architect | COdesignLab, France & Italy
Paolo Cascone, AA-MA PhD Eng. is an AA-trained architect, born
in Naples, who grew up between Italy, East-Africa and West-Indies.
Recently, Paolo has been researching and working towards developing
an interdisciplinary design methodology in the field of ecologic
design. He founded COdesignLab in Paris which is also involved
in education and research projects on Urban Ecologies. Paolo
is lecturing regularly and widely on his work and research in
Schools of Architecture and Engineering. COdesignLab, is an
architectural practice and design research lab with a solid
experience at the forefront of performance-oriented architecture
linking high-tech design with low-tech construction. COdesignLab,
based also in Naples, develops projects at different scale and
is leading experimental self-construction projects between Africa
and Europe, evolving local technologies through a participative
approach. www.codesignlab.org
and www.co-design-lab.net
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Francesco
Bedeschi, Architect | University of Arkansas & GBC Italia,
Italy
Francesco Bedeschi is an architect and professor of integrated
architectural design and historic preservation with the Italian
Program of the University of Arkansas Rome Center. He is also
the site coordinator of the program of study in Italy at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, State of New York. During the academic
year of 2007-2008 he was a visiting Assisting Professor at Mississippi
State University in Jackson, MS. Francesco is an international
member of the American Institute of Architects. He has been
involved in the GBC Italia since May 2008. He was elected Chair
in 2010, and recently, appointed Executive Member of the National
Board of GBC Italia with responsibility on education and local
chapters. Francesco has been actively involved in the LEED Italia
rating system development. In addition to sharing his great
experience with american architecture students through sites
of culture and history in various parts of Italy, he is also
consulting several LEED projects in Italy.
Francesco Bedeschi is a partner-organizer of ECOWEEK in Rome.
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Giuseppe
Todisco, Architect | University of Arkansas & GBC Italia,
Italy
Giuseppe Todisco graduated in Architecture in Rome in 1989,
and since 1990 has been teaching Architecture at Design programs
in Bari, Reggio Calabria, Genoa. He is a Ph.D. candidate in
Palermo on the topic of design in Los Angeles, California. He
founded "Sustainable Architecture" in 2007 for research, development
and eco-environmental design of buildings integrated with systems
powered by renewable sources, winning thematic competitions
including the International Competition for the Solar Tower
in Beijing, China and the Competition for the Redevelopment
of the Former Pezzullo at Eboli (SA), Italy. Since 2009 he held
teaching positions in Design on Renewable Energy for the Province
of Rome. Adviser for IGEAM, ALTAN Italy and other companies.
He has been instrumental in the drafting of major International
Conferences organized by the Municipality of Rome, the Lazio
Region, the Fiera di Bolzano, the Citadel Mediterranean Science
of Bari, and others. From 2011 plays dissemination activities
of the Covenant of Mayors (UE) of Italy. He has published numerous
articles, and this year he published M.A.R.S. (Handbook of Sustainable
Residential Architecture) by Alinea-Florence. www.architetturasostenibile.com |
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Camilla
Bevilacqua, Environmental Engineer
| ARUP, UK
Camilla Bevilacqua is an environmental
engineer in the Europe & Building Division in Arup Italia (Milan).
Camilla works in services system design, environmental sustainability
of building and low energy systems. Her work experience is both
in Building Physics, Sustainability , Building Services design
and masterplan. In the last two years Camilla has gained experience
on dynamic thermal modelling of building performances, natural
ventilation strategies, advances solar shading and lighting
analysis using software like Design Builder, Energy Plus ,Ecotect
and IES . She is very keen on services design and high-performance
mechanical systems, on simulation software for natural ventilation
systems and design strategies for low-energy buildings.
www.arup.com |
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Gabriele
Guala, Civil Engineer | Italcementi, Italy
Gabriele Guala, civil engineer graduated
from Politecnico di Milano in 1997, is working since 1999 in
Italcementi Group, Real Estate Italian Department. After working
in real estate evaluating and selling operations, in the last
years he has also been envolved in development of disused industrial
sites. From 2005 since 2012 he collaborated with RMP studio,
Abitech and Politecnico di Milano to obtain the LEED certification
of i.lab project, the new Italcementi Innovation and Research
Laboratories located in Bergamo. |
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For lectures schedule see ECOWEEK
2012 Program
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ECOWEEK 2012: Workshop Lectures
With Registration Only | NET Members Only
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Training Session
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Michelle
Farrell, Architect | IES
Michelle Farrell is the Head of the European Division for Integrated
Environmental Solutions, Ltd. She attended Boston Architectural
College, where she received both a Bachelors of Design Studies
and Masters of Architecture. Michelle was named to the Consulting
Specifying Engineer 2011 "40 under 40" list, is a LEED Accredited
Professional, and has taught various courses in BIM and integrated
analysis. After working for over 6 years in various architecture
firms in the USA as an architectural designer, she began to
analyze the 3D building models using performance analysis tools.
Michelle has experience as a consultant in the USA and in Europe,
including LEED consulting, and working directly with some of
the top engineering and architecture firms in the USA and Europe
to develop solutions that can be part of their normal design
process, through the use of BIM models.
IES, Ltd. is a world leader in precision, intelligent sustainability
solutions for every factor in making new and existing buildings
more energy efficient, dramatically reducing operating overheads,
and lowering CO2 emissions. Their consultative input is so innovative
and analytical software so accurate that they're significantly
reducing the carbon emissions of the built environment through
the work of their architecture and engineering clients, as well
as their own consulting services. www.iesve.com
Building Performance Analysis using
Google SKETCHUP & IES
BIM and Early Stage Analysis: These sessions provide an
overview on how architects and designers can bring analysis
for sustainable strategies to the earliest stages of the building
design process using an Integrated Building Performance Model
approach. Through the direct connectivity and import capabilities
offered by IES software to other CAD/BIM systems, such as SketchUp
and Revit, participants will experience how analysis can be
integrated into their workflow, keeping sustainable design on-track.
Attendees will be introduced to the process of analysing various
building parameters, like energy consumption, daylighting and
LEED assessments.
DOWNLOAD and install the software prior to the training
session: click here
NOTICE: In the NOTE write 'ECOWEEK' to receive a one-year
free student license to use the software. |
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For lectures schedule please see ECOWEEK 2012 PROGRAM |
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ECOWEEK speakers
ECOWEEK has initiated, invited and hosted
lectures by a number of internationally acclaimed speakers,
specialists and leaders in their field. Among the ECOWEEK
distinguished speakers are Nobel Laureate and former US Vice
President Al Gore, speaker at ECOWEEK 2007 on Global
Warming, at the Athens Concert Hall in June 2007 (in cooperation
with Megaron Plus); UK explorer and leadership expert Robert
Swan, OBE ECOWEEK 2007 opening keynote speaker, at the
Benaki Museum in Athens (in cooperation with the British Council).
Since ECOWEEK 2010 ECOWEEK keynote speakers included award-winning
architects Diebedo Francis Kere, Bjarke Ingels of BIG,
award-winning architect Francoise-Helene Jourda, architect
Daniel Pearl (L'OEUF, Canada), architects Elena
Barthel and Daniel Wicke of the Rural Studio,
award-winning architect George Hargreaves, environmentalist
and 'green' design expert Prof. David W. Orr (Oberlin
College), German architect Ulf Meyer of Ingenhoven
Architects, and Danish architect Louis Becker of
Henning Larsen Architects.
'ECOWEEK 2009: Empowering Youth: Ecology + Leadership + Architecture'
International Conference in Athens, hosted keynote lectures
by award-winning architect Shigeru Ban, and UK award-winning
architect Ivan Harbour (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners).
'ECOWEEK 2008: Ecology + Environment + Architecture' International
Conference in collaboration with AIAContinental Europe, keynote
speakers were 'green' skyscraper and author architect Ken
Yeang, and Landscape Designer Julie Bargmann, at
the Cotsen Hall of the American School of Classical Studies
in Athens. In 2008 ECOWEEK also hosted the director of the
architectural documentary Last Call for Planet Earth
Jacques Allard, award-winning Greek architect
Alexandros Tombazis and others.
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