Last week, Architectural Record hosted its first-ever Sustainability in Practice summit. The half-day event, organized by Record editors Josephine Minutillo and Joann Gonchar in collaboration with the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), took place at the school’s Samberg Conference Center overlooking the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The speakers—a combination of SA+P professors and architects and sustainability consultants from across the globe—presented research that could be translated into practice, as well as built projects that are pushing the current limits of design and construction technology.
Opening remarks by Nicholas de Monchaux, MIT Architecture department head, set the tone for the event. He characterized the current period in history as one where humans’ relationships with both nature and technology are being reimagined. “It is a pivotal time,” he said.
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