The panel aims to help humans adapt as effectively and appropriately as possible, in both technical + cultural ways, by encouraging built environments to become cooperative symbiotic ecologies.
In anticipation of the 2023 World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen, Design for Climate Adaptation will host three virtual events next week:
Panel 1:
Adaptation Through Indigenous Knowledges
June 7 | 5pm-6:430pm EDT
Zoom: bit.ly/3GG37aq
Passcode: 804883
Panel 2:
Adaptation Through Nature Based Solutions
June 8 | 6:30pm-8pm EDT
Zoom: bit.ly/3PYUZGj
Passcode: 819048
Panel 3:
Adaptation Through Behavior Change and Action
June 9 | 5pm-6:30pm EDT
Zoom: bit.ly/3te5I5Y
Passcode: 920329
Happy Birthday to Louis Kahn! Born #onthisday in 1901 and based in Philadelphia, Kahn’s boundary-expanding work around the world has inspired a generation of architects.
📷 Stephen Kieran, Barbara DeGrange Kieran, and James Timberlake, 2008.
James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran, 2021 recipients of the 35th Louis I. Kahn Award, introduced their November 2021 lecture with this acknowledgement of gratitude:
📷 Louis Kahn's Capital Complex, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
“Louis Kahn offered for us a way to move back, to reset in order to move forward; a way to focus on the simple, eternal elements of architecture as shelter for humankind: rooms, structure, walls, roofs, light, materials—all the stuff we get to work with every day of our lives.