2/25 Lecture: Anna Dyson

Join the Nature Lab and Nature, Culture, and Sustainability Studies for a talk by Anna Dyson, Founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA) and the Hines Professor of Architecture at the Yale Schools of Architecture (YSoA) and Environment (YSE). Presented as part of the Nature, Culture, and Sustainability Studies Core Seminar series, this program is open to all members of the RISD community and to the public.

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About the presenter: Anna Dyson is the Hines Professor of Architecture at the Yale Schools of Architecture (YSoA) and Environment (YSE). She is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA), a research initiative that integrates interdisciplinary labs across campus to collaborate on the research, development and deployment of novel architectural systems that are focused on the challenge of metabolizing energy, water and materials within architecture in radically new ways. At the YSoA, Dyson has established a new model for PhD-level design research in Architectural Sciences which has received multiple honors for pedagogy, including the award for most innovative academic program from the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and an Award of Excellence from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

20 N Main St (Metcalf Auditorium in the RISD Museum)
Providence, RI — 02903

February 25 5:00 pm

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