Record on the Road Boston 2024
Boston
April 17, 2024
MIT Media Lab
Sustainability in Practice
This special half-day event, organized by Architectural Record in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offers a “master class” in sustainable design and how to make it an integral part of a firm’s DNA, led by architects who have been doing just that for decades.
This event has concluded. Attendees will receive credits for sessions attended by April 30.This event has been approved for a total 5.5 AIA LU/HSW.
Earn up to 5.5 AIA LU/HSW
Speakers
Ted Flato, FAIA
Co-Founder
Lake Flato Architects
2024 AIA Gold Medalist
David Lake, FAIA
Co-Founder
Lake Flato Architects
2024 AIA Gold Medalist
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA
Design Principal and Founder
Ross Barney Architects
2023 AIA Gold Medalist
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA
Design Principal and Founder
Ross Barney Architects
2023 AIA Gold Medalist
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, HASLA, is the recipient of the 2023 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. She is a renowned Architect for her expertise in civic space design and her dedication to creating exceptional public spaces. From small community facilities to prestigious academic and research buildings, as well as innovative transit stations and urban places and spaces, Carol's work has left a lasting impact. Her designs have become cultural icons, showcasing her belief in the transformative power of the built environment on our daily lives.
As an architect, urbanist, mentor, and educator, she has relentlessly advocated that excellent design is a right, not a privilege. For nearly two decades, Carol’s studio has been working along Chicago’s Rivers, including design of the Chicago Riverwalk and a vision for improvements for all 150 miles of riverfront.
Among her notable projects are the Oklahoma City Federal Building, which replaced the Murrah Federal Building after a domestic terrorist attack, the CTA Cermak and Morgan Street Stations, McDonald's Chicago and Disney World Flagship Restaurants, the Searle Visitor Center at the Lincoln Park Zoo, the JRC Synagogue in Evanston, the UMD Civil Engineering Building, the Multi-Modal Terminal at O'Hare International Airport, the NASA Aerospace Communications Facility, and Chicago's new DuSable Park.
Carol's work has garnered over 200 major design awards, including the prestigious Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award. She has also received 14 National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards for Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design, as well as over 45 AIA Chicago Awards. Her commitment to sustainable design has been recognized with two AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Project Awards.
Carol is a graduate of the University of Illinois and has served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, where she contributed to national park planning. Additionally, she has been teaching an advanced Design Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology for over thirty years, sharing her expertise and shaping the next generation of architects.
Felix Heisel, Assoc. AIA
Director, Cornell University’s Circular Construction Lab
Architekt AKBW
Mario Cucinella
Founder & Creative Director
MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects
Andy McIntyre
Regional Sales Manager
Kingspan | Benchmark
Andrea Zani
Sustainability and Building Physics Leader
Permasteelisa North America
Andrea Zani
Sustainability and Building Physics Leader
Permasteelisa North America
Andrea Zani is the Sustainability and Building Physics Leader at Permasteelisa North America where he is responsible for managing and leading the Sustainability & Building Physics team in delivering low carbon high-performance curtain wall systems across North American projects. Andrea is actively involved in shaping and driving Permasteelisa decarbonization strategies to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
Currently, he is a member and co-chair of Society of Facade Engineering North-America Hub, active in FTI Advocacy and Embodied Carbon committee and he collaborates with LBNL Window Group and CBE Berkeley on several research activities.
Andrea holds a Masters degree and Ph.D in Building Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan.
Davide Mangini
General Manager, East Region
Permasteelisa North America
Alejandro Daras
Global Projects Director
Neolith
Agenda
Coffee & Exhibits
Morning Sponsored CE Session (.5 AIA LU/HSW)
11:45 AM
CE Session Crafting a High-Performing Double-Skin Facade
Davide Mangini and Andrea ZaniSponsored by Permasteelisa
Permasteelisa's sustainability expert will discuss the process of designing — in collaboration with SOM — and constructing the highly innovative building envelope at the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. The glass shingles that make up the building’s south-facing side not only provide ample natural light, but their unique assembly also forms a double-skin facade crafted from interlocking units to create a deep-sealed cavity, which is expected to significantly reduce energy consumption.
Lunch & Learn (1 AIA LU/HSW)
1:00 PM
Embodied Carbon and the Envelope
Andy McIntyre
Sponsored by Kingspan
In the fight against climate change, efforts intensify against the planet’s number one enemy—carbon dioxide. The building industry will play a significant role in these efforts. Embodied carbon—the global greenhouse gas emissions generated from sourcing raw material and processing, manufacturing, transporting, and installing building materials—will be the target over the next decade. This course will define embodied carbon, its impact on greenhouse gas emissions, the construction industry's impact, and the methods and tools that building designers can employ to limit embodied carbon.
1:20 PM
Coffee Break & Exhibits
General Session (4 AIA LU/HSW)
1:25 PM
Introductory Remarks
Josephine Minutillo
Editor in Chief, Architectural Record
Nicholas de Monchaux
Head of Architecture, MIT
2:15 PM
Editorial CE Session Regionalism and Resiliency
Ted Flato, FAIA and David Lake, FAIA
While architects may traditionally be known as the designers of buildings alone, 2024 AIA Gold Medalists David Lake and Ted Flato see buildings as one piece of a much larger picture. Through an integrated design process that engages climate, culture and context in dialogue with high performance building strategies, Lake|Flato conducts rigorous analysis of the social and environmental history of each place to uplift shared values and sustainable priorities. In this session, learn how David and Ted leverage the connection between regionalism and resiliency in their design process to create highly sustainable and humane architecture.
Respondent
Kim Yao
Lecturer, MIT; Principal, ARO
3:05 PM
Editorial CE Session Creative Empathy
Using lessons from the past, and architectural design as a primary tool—rather than technology—to make buildings more sustainable, this talk explores how research, data, and prototyping can help us to build differently for the future.
Respondent
Christoph Reinhart
Professor; Director, Building Technology Program, MIT
3:20 PM
Sponsored SessionNEOLITH for a New Era: Improving Building Surfaces through Sustainable Technologies
Alejandro Daras
Sponsored by Neolith
3:40 PM
Break
4:25 PM
Editorial CE Session Towards Circular Construction: Design and Policy for Reuse
The Circular Construction Lab (CCL) at Cornell University's Department of Architecture - directed by Prof. Felix Heisel - houses a design research program that advances the paradigm shift from linear material consumption towards a circular economy within an industrialized construction industry. The interdisciplinary lab investigates new concepts, methods, and processes to (1) design and construct buildings as the material depots for future construction, and (2) activate the potential of the built environment as an 'urban mine' for today's construction. Through close collaborations with academic, industrial, and legislative/ political partners the lab ensures the relevance of its work and promotes the direct and full-scale implementation of research results towards a more sustainable, low/ no-carbon, circular construction industry. The presentation will showcase highlights from recent projects in the lab across scales.
Respondent
Caitlin Mueller
Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Architecture and Dept. of Environmental Engineering,MIT
5:15 PM
Editorial CE Session Sustainability Is Not Optional
A discussion of Big Ideas and small solutions in everyday Architecture.
Respondent
Rafi Segal
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Department of Architecture, MIT
6:00 PM
Cocktail Reception
Moderators
Josephine Minutillo
Editor in Chief
Architectural Record
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
Deputy Editor
Architectural Record
Location
MIT Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
75 Amherst St.
Cambridge MA 02139
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Moderators
Josephine Minutillo
Editor in Chief
Architectural Record
Josephine Minutillo is the editor in chief of Architectural Record. Trained as an architect, she began writing for RECORD in 2001 while practicing architecture, and has held several positions at the magazine over the past two decades. Her articles have appeared in many international publications.
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
Deputy Editor
Architectural Record
Joann Gonchar, FAIA, is deputy editor at Architectural Record. She joined RECORD in 2006, after working for eight years at its sister publication, Engineering News-Record. Before starting her career as a journalist, Joann worked for several architecture firms and spent three years in Kobe, Japan, with the firm Team Zoo, Atelier Iruka. She earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. She is licensed to practice architecture in New York State.