MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 PANEL: Design + Context Wood Auditorium,
Avery Hall Michelle Addington - Professor, Yale School of
Architecture Dickson D. Despommier - Professor of Public Health
and Microbiology, Columbia University Cameron Sinclair -
Architecture for Humanity Moderators: Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. -
Terreform 1; Adjunct Professor of Architecture, GSAPP & Ioanna
Theocharopoulou, Ph.D. - Adjunct Professor of Architecture,
GSAPP Even though “green” is everywhere, the concepts of
sustainability and ecological design are still marginal in
schools of architecture as well as in architectural discourse at
large. That buildings and cities are significant polluters and
catalysts of climate change is beyond question. Buildings and
the building industry currently contribute at least 40-50% of
greenhouse gases. As more than half of the world's population
will live in cities by the end of 2008, most of them in
developing countries where environmental controls are often weak
or nonexistent, thinking about “sustainable dev