CARBSE Lecture Series - The Frontiers of Architecture
Speaker: Sanjay Prakash
Date : Thursday, October 15, 2015, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Venue: NZEB Basement, CEPT University
This talk explores how architecture today is transforming in addressing the challenges of sustainability. With pictorial examples drawn from the work of the author and his peers in India and east Asia, it explains how conventional architecture prized safety, compliance with codes, and brand value, and how this is being actively layered over by concerns of “green” values in architecture: the need to be efficient while substituting fossil resources with renewable ones.
It concludes by illustrating some emerging frontiers of architecture that a new generation is evolving as it works in a world progressing towards sustainability: values and issues such as sufficiency, resilience, equity, and identity.
Sanjay Prakash, B. Arch., A.I.I.A., is an architect with a commitment to energy-conscious architecture, eco-friendly design, people’s participation in planning, music and production design. Over the years, he has integrated all his work with the practice of new urbanism and sustainability in his professional and personal life.
His area of practice and research over the last 34 years includes passive and low energy architecture and planning, hybrid air-conditioning, autonomous energy and water systems, bamboo, wood and earth construction, community-based design of common property, and computer-aided design. Under his guidance, hundreds of persons have developed capabilities in performing design, conceptual or management work in these areas.
He is Principal Consultant of his design firm, SHiFt: Studio for Habitat Futures, and was a partner of daat and Studio Plus, firms that predate SHiFt.
His name and work is mentioned in the twentieth edition of one of the main reference works in architectural history, A History of Architecture by Sir Bannister Fletcher.
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