Facade Tectonics 2024 World Congress

Join us October 8-10, 2024 for our biennial World Congress at the University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning

Newly Added See all Resources

• RAINA SYMPOSIUM: RAINSCREENS & SUSTAINABILITY

• Deep green skins: Façade assembly design for adaptive capacity, durability, and disassembly

  

• Performance-Based Façade Design

• BOMA 2024 International Conference & Expo

• Design & Preservation Resource Roundup!

  

• Appropriate Repair and Retrofit for Carbon Reductions: OSCAR

  

• Exploring Heritage: Building on the Past

  

• Introduction to APT

  

• Leveraging Avoided Emissions Through Retrofit and Reuse: the CARE Tool

  

• Guidelines for the Treatment of Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies

  

• A Break From The Past: How the Guggenheim Renovation Made Thermally Broken Steel Windows a New Normal

  

• The Energy Performance of Mid-Century Metal-and-Glass Curtain Walls

  

• Repainting the Existing Curtain Wall at Toronto Dominion Centre

  

• Stop Relying on Myths – Energy Efficient and Durable Heritage Building Enclosures

  

• BUILDING ENCLOSURE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

• Building Rehab/Reuse, Decarbonization and Modern-Era Precast Facades

  

• All Things Facades #2: Learning from the Experts

  

• CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE

• 2023 Highlights of the Vitruvian Awards

• Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop — ACAW 2023

• Sisteccer XIII — International Facade Conference

• APT Seattle Conference Symposium 2023: Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies

• Highlights from the 2023 Vitruvian Awards Program

• Rainscreen Fundamentals Education Day

SKINS Podcast See all Podcasts

A searchable database of research papers with focus on building facade technology

• Episode 20: Embodied Carbon

  

• Episode 16: How to Build Equity – Facade Design & Development in Affordable Housing

  

• Episode 17: Facades as Instant Landmarks

  

• Episode 18: Intersectionality in Facade Design

  

• Episode 19: Cultivating Community through Facade Design

  

• Episode 15: Forced Labor in the Design & Construction Supply Chain

  

• Episode 14: Diversity & Inclusion in the Architectural Profession

  

• Episode 13: Resilience

  

• Episode 12: Durability

  

• Episode 11: Embodied Carbon

  

• Episode 10: Modular Prefab & Offsite Manufacturing

  

• Episode 09: Ted Kesik on SKINS

  

• Episode 08: Reglazing Modernism

  

• Episode 07: 2020 World Congress Series | The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA

  

• Episode 06: 2020 World Congress Series | End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

  

• Episode 05: 2020 World Congress Series | Put Your Sweater On!

  

• Episode 04: 2020 World Congress Series | The First Triple Certified Facade

  

• Episode 03: DOE Does Windows

  

• Episode 02: Tall Building Skins

  

• Episode 01: Passive House

  

Articles See all Articles

The archive of featured original articles from the SKINS newsletter

• Deep green skins: Façade assembly design for adaptive capacity, durability, and disassembly

  

• Design & Preservation Resource Roundup!

  

• Appropriate Repair and Retrofit for Carbon Reductions: OSCAR

  

• Exploring Heritage: Building on the Past

  

• Introduction to APT

  

• Leveraging Avoided Emissions Through Retrofit and Reuse: the CARE Tool

  

• Guidelines for the Treatment of Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies

  

• A Break From The Past: How the Guggenheim Renovation Made Thermally Broken Steel Windows a New Normal

  

• The Energy Performance of Mid-Century Metal-and-Glass Curtain Walls

  

• Repainting the Existing Curtain Wall at Toronto Dominion Centre

  

• Stop Relying on Myths – Energy Efficient and Durable Heritage Building Enclosures

  

• Building Rehab/Reuse, Decarbonization and Modern-Era Precast Facades

  

• Focus on carbon: Unlocking embodied carbon reductions in facade systems

  

• Embodied Carbon

  

• Focus on Facades Education

  

• Creating equity in a built environment

  

• Resilient SKINS: Bending with the Wind

  

• Facade Futures: Building Resilience is Skin Deep

  

• Stop F*cking Around – Build Our Zero Carbon Economy Now

  

• Curb Your Carbon, Knave!

  

• 2023 Vitruvian Awards

  

• Form Follows Well-Being: An Approach to Human Centric Facade Design

  

• Kinetic Solar Envelope Design

  

• Reconfigurable Terracotta Facades

  

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We promote innovation in the art, science, and technology of the building facade in pursuit of accelerating change in the performance of built environments.

Papers See all Papers

A searchable database of research papers with focus on building facade technology

• Facing Density

• Rethinking Building Skins

  

• Sculptural Facades

  

• ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies

  

• Transparent Aerogel Window

  

• Passively Actuated Systems

  

• CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

  

• Novel Thermal Break Solution

  

• Kinetic Solar Envelope

  

• More Than a Facade

  

• Spandrel Glass Design

  

• Glass Spandrels and Shadow Boxes

  

• Control Tower Glass Design

  

• Comparison of Historical Weathered Annealed Glass Failure Data to ASTM E1300

• Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade

  

• The Monash Woodside Building

  

• Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

• Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower

  

• Sustainable Retrofit Strategies for an Existing Laboratory Building

  

• The Myth of Simplicity

  

• The Carapace Pavilion

  

• Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  

• City Development and Cladding Design

  

• Laminated Security Glazing

Events See all Events

• RAINA SYMPOSIUM: RAINSCREENS & SUSTAINABILITY

• Performance-Based Façade Design

• BOMA 2024 International Conference & Expo

• BUILDING ENCLOSURE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

• All Things Facades #2: Learning from the Experts

  

• CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE

• 2023 Highlights of the Vitruvian Awards

• Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop — ACAW 2023

• APT Seattle Conference Symposium 2023: Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies

• Sisteccer XIII — International Facade Conference

• Highlights from the 2023 Vitruvian Awards Program

• Rainscreen Fundamentals Education Day

• Facade Tectonics 2024 World Congress

  

• Building Innovation 2023 - Call for Abstracts!

• All Things Facades #1

• FTI LA-Hub Event: The Architect's Perspective and the Great International Facade System Smackdown!

• Facade Tectonics Forum: MONTERREY

• FTI Education Forum

• Facade Tectonics Forum: CHICAGO

• Facade Tectonics Forum: LA

• Facade Tectonics Forum: TORONTO

• Facade Tectonics Forum: NYC

• Passive House Revisited - 2 Part

• Codes & Advocacy Webinars

Better buildings through better skins

FTI is a non-profit member organization for the AECO industry and a research and education institution focused on healthy buildings and livable urban habitat. The Institute’s mission is to accelerate transformative change in the built environment toward common goals of resilience and sustainability. FTI members share recognition of the building facade as the lynchpin of this endeavor.