Stan Allen/ Iñaki Ábalos: Introduction
Michelle Addington: Unprecedented Collaborations
Mahadev Raman: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - A Quarter Century of Environmentally Conscious Design
Mark Jarzombek: The Reverse Utopianism of Sustaining Sustainability
Volker M. Welter: Sustainability - The Shangri-La of Modern Architecture?
Manuel Bauer: Integration of Sustainable Development Objectives in Buildings, the Swiss Approach
Matthias Sauerbruch: Architecture and Sustainability
Mohsen Mostafavi: Ecological Urbanism
Sustainable? is an international colloquium bringing together individuals from various disciplines to explore questions of sustainability in relation to architecture. Initiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos, the colloquium and roundtable discussion historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement through collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars.
Participants include:
Stan Allen (Stan Allen Architect and Princeton University)
Iñaki Àbalos (Àbalos & Herreros and Princeton University)
Michelle Addington (Yale University)
Mahadev Raman (Ove Arup & Partners Ltd and Columbia University)
Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Volker M. Welter (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Manuel Bauer (Estia SA and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Matthias Sauerbruch (Sauerbruch Hutton GmbH)
Mohsen Mostafavi (Cornell University)
Mirko Zardini and Phyllis Lambert join the subsequent roundtable discussion, as well as Mario Carpo, Mellon Senior Fellow Francis Strauven, and CCA Visiting Scholars Hilary Sample and Caroline Maniaque.
Event information:
16 June, to 17 June 2007
Paul Desmarais Theatre



