A mere 44 years after graduating from Princeton’s School of Architecture, I was back. Dean Monica Ponce de Leon had invited me to give a lecture on embodied energy. I would focus on how architects’ determination to reduce operational energy was, in some cases, making the embodied energy problem worse, and how touting the former while ignoring the latter made buildings seem much “greener” than they really are.
I gave the lecture in the fall of 2021. A few days later, the dean asked me to expand it into a graduate seminar, which would give me a chance to guide students’ research on aspects of the embodied energy problem, while also working on my own.
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