Sustainability from a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
Biomimicry in Architecture
Michael Pawlyn, Founding Director, Exploration Architecture
Monday, 25 January 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
This talk will describe the rapidly emerging discipline of biomimicry which uses nature as a source of inspiration for new sustainable solutions. It will be illustrated with a number of architectural projects that demonstrate some of the advantages to be gained from mimicking the functional basis of biological forms, processes and systems. The talk will include a description of the ambitious Sahara Forest Project which Exploration is currently working on with The Bellona Foundation, Bill Watts and Charlie Paton.
Michael Pawlyn, Architect and founding director at Exploration, established Exploration in 2007 to focus exclusively on environmentally sustainable projects that take their inspiration from nature. Prior to setting up the company he worked with Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that radically re-invented horticultural architecture for the Eden Project.
www.exploration-architecture.com
1.5 CES Credits
£3 AIA members, £5 non-members
RSVP preferred; email amiller@kpf.com
Either please send checks made to the AIA UK Chapter with self addressed, stamped envelop to the address below or arrive at the lecture with cash:
AIA UK Sustainability Lecture Series
c/o Alex Miller, Associate AIA
Kohn Pederson Fox
Associates (International) PA
13 Langley Street
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9JG
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/
2010-01-25_Michael%20Pawlyn%20Lecture.pdf
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