Introduction Maybe the need for sustainable development is not a new thing. Why during the Age of Agriculture, the human who was only one animal amough others, distanced himself from nature? What are the inventions or discoveries that allowed humans to no longer see themselves as part of nature? While the ebbs and flows of…
Category: Sustainability
Where does the concept of sustainable design and sustainable architecture come from?
Why do we now talk about sustainable design and sustainable architecture? More and more people say « We want to save the world, we have to save the world ! ». Well in fact the world is doing pretty good. Earth has undergone many changes over the past 4,5 billions years and will continue to…
Resilient Homes Challenge
Winners of ‘Resilient Homes Design Challenge’ announced World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb, GFDRR, and UN-Habitat competition WASHINGTON, December 17, 2018 — The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and UN-Habitat today announced the winners of the Resilient Homes Design Challenge. The Challengegenerated designs for disaster-resilient and sustainable…
Ivan Shumkov at the UN OCCAM Conference
My name is Ivan Shumkov, I’m the CEO and founder of Build Academy in New York. I’m an architect, engineer, entrepreneur and professor at NYU. I started Building Academy 5 years ago, which is a platform for professional solutions in the building industry. What we do is education, on one side, building culture and…
Change The World With Solar Light
Every single day, many of us have access to luxuries that we don’t even consider. We go through our days, just expecting for our lives to be made easy by innovations that we have always had access to. One of aspects of our lives that we hardly ever give a second thought to, is electricity.…
A Greener and More Sustainable New York City
Soft cars, green walls, garbage towers and mushroom chairs. That’s how New York could look in the future according to Mitchell Joachim at Terreform ONE.