Ed Mazria to receive the Hanley Award for Green Building

Santa Fe architect Ed Mazria is this year’s winner of the Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Housing.
The award is sponsored by The Hanley Foundation, EcoHome magazine and Hanley Wood LLC, a media and information company in Washington, D.C., that serves the housing and construction industries.
Mazria was selected from 18 nominees and will [...]

Next UIA Congress – TOKYO 2011, DURBAN 2014

The next UIA congress will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from 22 September to 1st October 2011 on the theme ‘Design 2050’. This global event, organised by the Japan Institute of Architects, will provide the opportunity for architects from around the world to exchange views and share their visions of sustainable architecture, as well as [...]

Government Tax Incentives in Favour of Climate Change Mitigation

Amongst the many things that one can do to mitigate climate change, some of these are in the hands of our CSME governments. And of CSME government actions, tax incentives should be relatively easy to implement and should work very well for all CSME players.
Tax incentives, already adopted by many states in the [...]

The 2010 Imperative and the 2030 Challenge

On February 20th, 2007, tens of thousands of architects and other persons from all over the world gathered at the www.2010imperative.org website and a few hundred at the New York Academy of Sciences to participate in the Global Emergency Teach-in conducted by Architecture 2030.
On the discussion table were the alarming and ever increasing effects of [...]