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Summer Sessions at UMass: Sustainable, High-Performance Facades
- Article by Ajla Aksamija, PhD, LEED AP BD+C, CDT
Education is a core mission of the Institute. Ajla’s program is tailored to practicing professionals and represents a unique opportunity to ramp up your facade system expertise with a leading educator/practitioner. Check out Ajla’s bio and course description, and give it some serious consideration.

April 08, 2020
Innovation Glass
- Organization
Member since: May 21, 2024
Shade and Spectacle
- Paper by Warren Techentin, FAIA, NCARB, LEED, Adjunct Associate Professor
This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and…
March 26, 2020
Orientation Specific Solar Control
- Paper by Clifton Fordham, Assistant Professor
During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design of…
March 11, 2020
FTI World Congress Postponed Until August 5-6, 2020
- Announcement
Due to the increasing concerns surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Los Angeles area, the Facade Tectonics Institute has made the very difficult decision to postpone Facades Week: LA! until August 3-7, 2020 with the World Congress to be held August 5-6.

March 05, 2020
Combustible Cladding
- Paper by Juliet Landler
When it comes to the subject of building enclosure in Australia, one topic has eclipsed all others in recent years: combustible cladding. It has even

March 22, 2020
Facade Engineering for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Paper by Mikkel K. Kragh
What does the fourth industrial revolution mean to the design and engineering of facades of the future? We are experiencing a global technological

March 23, 2020
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA
- Paper by Roman Scheiber, Associate Director ppa. Florian Meier,
Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed a 290,000 sf museum celebrating the artistry and technology of film, becoming the world’s first museum and…
January 22, 2020
Infinite Panel System
- Paper by Mike Ryan, Director of Product Development Facades Division Brian Stern, Regional Energy Director Michael Adams, Senior Energy Analyst
Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.…
March 15, 2020