ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. Ph. Rahm
Event details
| Date | 04.12.2020 |
| Hour | 10:45 › 11:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Philippe Rahm |
| Location |
Zoom
Online
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
10:45 – 11:30 – Prof. Philippe Rahm
Tenured Assistant Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, France
Talk title:
Architecture as Climate Design
Abstract:
Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate, comfort and health, as we can read in treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the shapes of cities and buildings. These fundamental causes of urban planning and buildings were ignored in the second half of the 20th century thanks to the enormous use of fossil energy by heating and air conditioning systems, pumps and refrigerators, that today cause the greenhouse effect and global warming. Sustainability and fight against climate change force the architects and urban designers to take back seriously the climatic issue in order to base their design on more consideration to the local climatic context and energy resources. Faced with the climatic challenge of the 21st century, we propose to reset our discipline on its intrinsic climatic qualities, where air, light, heat or humidity are recognized are real materials of building; convection, thermal conduction, evaporation, emissivity, or effusivity are becoming design tools for composing architecture and cities, and through materialism dialectic, are able to revolutionize esthetic and social values.
Short bio:
Philippe Rahm (1967) is a swiss architect (M.Arch EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1993 and Ph.D. University of Paris-Saclay, 2019), principal in the office of “Philippe Rahm architectes”, based in Paris, France. His work, which grounds architecture in his environmental and climatic field, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. His recent work includes the first prize for the Farini and San Cristoforo urban masterplans competition (60 ha) in Milan in 2019, the 70 hectares Central Park in Taichung, Taiwan, completed in September 2020, the ongoing Agora of the French National Radio in Paris, the 8000 m2 new Head Office building of the company “Bureau Vallée” next to Paris and the competition for the new Park for the Esplanade of La Défense (6,3 hectares), France. He has held professorships at GSD Harvard University, Columbia, Cornell or Princeton Universities. He is a tenured associate professor at the National Superior School of Architecture in Versailles, France (ENSA-V). His work has been exhibited widely such at the Venice, Chicago or Seoul Architecture Biennales. In 2020, Dr. Rahm is publishing the books « Arquitectura meteorológica », in Mexico, “Écrits climatiques” and “Histoire Naturelle de l’Architecture” in France.
Tenured Assistant Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, France
Talk title:
Architecture as Climate Design
Abstract:
Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate, comfort and health, as we can read in treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the shapes of cities and buildings. These fundamental causes of urban planning and buildings were ignored in the second half of the 20th century thanks to the enormous use of fossil energy by heating and air conditioning systems, pumps and refrigerators, that today cause the greenhouse effect and global warming. Sustainability and fight against climate change force the architects and urban designers to take back seriously the climatic issue in order to base their design on more consideration to the local climatic context and energy resources. Faced with the climatic challenge of the 21st century, we propose to reset our discipline on its intrinsic climatic qualities, where air, light, heat or humidity are recognized are real materials of building; convection, thermal conduction, evaporation, emissivity, or effusivity are becoming design tools for composing architecture and cities, and through materialism dialectic, are able to revolutionize esthetic and social values.
Short bio:
Philippe Rahm (1967) is a swiss architect (M.Arch EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1993 and Ph.D. University of Paris-Saclay, 2019), principal in the office of “Philippe Rahm architectes”, based in Paris, France. His work, which grounds architecture in his environmental and climatic field, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. His recent work includes the first prize for the Farini and San Cristoforo urban masterplans competition (60 ha) in Milan in 2019, the 70 hectares Central Park in Taichung, Taiwan, completed in September 2020, the ongoing Agora of the French National Radio in Paris, the 8000 m2 new Head Office building of the company “Bureau Vallée” next to Paris and the competition for the new Park for the Esplanade of La Défense (6,3 hectares), France. He has held professorships at GSD Harvard University, Columbia, Cornell or Princeton Universities. He is a tenured associate professor at the National Superior School of Architecture in Versailles, France (ENSA-V). His work has been exhibited widely such at the Venice, Chicago or Seoul Architecture Biennales. In 2020, Dr. Rahm is publishing the books « Arquitectura meteorológica », in Mexico, “Écrits climatiques” and “Histoire Naturelle de l’Architecture” in France.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Joanna Jermini-Howard / Cristina Perez