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  • Designing Housing to Adapt to the Changing Needs of Families, Neighborhoods, Cities, and our Natural Environment

    How homes are conceived, clustered, and constructed can be the foundation for building community or breaking it. Homes involve personal factors such as how individuals live today and how the home can adapt to the changes of our stages of life over time, making them one of the most dynamic and diverse kinds of projects for architects.  From single-family to affordable housing, homes invoke environmental factors of climate action - such as what we build them out of, material, how much energy they use, design, and how long they will serve their purpose before being torn down, resiliency. Housing is complex and prolific. Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 5:30 pm, virtually, Wyly Brown will present some of the complexities of designing quality housing that is environmentally sustainable, socially responsible, and financially feasible. Topics of focus will include Net-Zero energy use, minimizing a home's carbon footprint, affordability, multi-generation living, retrofitting existing (and historic) buildings to enable aging in place, and the use of recycled materials and products. SPEAKER Wyly Brown, Founding Partner, Leupold Brown Goldbach Architekten and Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School  Wyly Brown is a Founding Partner of Leupold Brown Goldbach Architekten, and the partner responsible for the projects conducted in North America. Wyly holds a Bachelors of Art in Anthropology, and… Continue Reading Designing Housing to Adapt to the Changing Needs of Families, Neighborhoods, Cities, and our Natural Environment

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    Coffee Break – Community-Based Flood Mitigation in University City

    Coffee Break – Third Friday
    Virtual Event via Zoom

    REGISTER NOW! HOT TOPIC: With it's proximity to the flood-prone River Des Peres, University City has experienced several flash floods over the years. On July 26, 2022 the region saw 11 inches of rainfall within 8 hour time period, causing historic flash floods in University City and many other parts of the region. After yet another flooding incident, University City residents are working together to chart a path forward. Join us at this coffee break to learn more about the immediate and long-term actions that are being pursued. FEATURED SPEAKERS: Robert E. Criss is Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and currently serves on the University City Stormwater Commission. After earning his PhD at Caltech in 1981, he was an isotope geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, then was Professor of Geology at UC Davis, and has been at Washington University since 1994. He is author of Principles of Stable Isotope Distribution (Oxford University Press, 1999) and co-editor of several books including At the Confluence: Rivers, Floods and Water Quality in the St. Louis Region. Dr, Criss has authored over 150 published papers that encompass many scientific disciplines, but 40 of these concern… Continue Reading Coffee Break – Community-Based Flood Mitigation in University City