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Passive House Facade Design and Construction
- Paper by Louis Koehl, AIA, CPHD, Project Architect
Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure on…
March 22, 2020
Doubling Mies
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
March 22, 2020
Thinking About Facades
- Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC,
There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the…
March 14, 2018
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
Blurred Edges
- Paper by Elizabeth L. McCormick AIA, WELL AP, LEED AP, CPHC, Assistant Professor
Sealed indoor environments have created artificial, homogeneous ecosystems that sever ties between humans and the natural world. This paper…
September 2, 2024
Air Spaces Changed Everything
- Paper by Gerry Lang, M.Arch., (Penn, 2008), B. Arch (hons., Toronto, 1978) OAA, AIA,TSA
This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create

March 19, 2020
Seismic Movements
- Paper by Gijs Libourel · Daniel Segraves
A common building upgrade to add value to existing commercial real estate is the renewal of the entrance lobby. The lobby facade is replaced to give

March 14, 2018
HydroSKIN
- Paper by Christina Eisenbarth, M.Sc. · Walter Haase, Dr.-Ing. · Lucio Blandini, Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Arch. · Werner Sobek, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c.
Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate

October 11, 2022
New Course on Building Façade Design Developed at Oklahoma State University
- Paper by Bodhisatta Hajra · John Phillips, PE
A façade, which is also called a ‘secondary structural system’, typically separates the exterior from the interior of a building. In recent times,

September 18, 2024
Fire Safety Facade Design
- Paper by Rigone Paolo · Mazzucchelli Enrico Sergio · De la Fuente Ceja Blanca Judith
Nowadays the construction industry is characterised by high multifunctional and complex buildings with innovative facade systems. Unlike a simple

March 22, 2020