The Metro Vancouver Chapter of Architecture Canada is proud to announce the last in the Built City Series with our Partner, the MOV. We look this coming January 19th at the Museum of Vancouver. It should be a wonderful finale and gift wrap to our focused theme of Sustainable Design.
Dr. Ray Cole will moderate the session, and presenting will be Thomas Knittel, AIA, LEED AP,HOK Vice President on Nature, Urban Space & Biomimicry
He is charting new territory through FIT©, a methodology incorporating biomimicry, ecological performance standards and the triple bottom line. FIT, co-developed by HOK and the Biomimicry Group, is inspired by natural systems and operating principles found in nature. Case studies will demonstrate how social, economic and environmental concerns are mapped at urban and building scale examples, and biomimicry has informed the design and decision-making process.
As a Vice President in HOK’s Seattle studio and former design principal and strategic director of sustainable design in HOK’s New York studio, Thomas Knittel is passionately committed to sustainable architecture. His international projects include an academic teaching facility for the LEED Platinum KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science + Technology) in Saudi Arabia, the Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Pennsylvania and a mixed-use center in Wuhan, China. He has successfully applied biomimicry at the Largo Da Batata Commercial Center in São Paulo, Brazil.
Thomas has received over 29 design excellence awards, including a GSA Design Excellence Award and the 2005 ASLA analysis and planning excellence for The New American City: The Noisette Community of North Charleston, South Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Kansas State University, completed graduate studies at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and holds a Master in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
HOK is a global provider of planning, design and delivery solutions for the built environment. Since 1955 the firm has taken a holistic approach to solving environmental, economic and social challenges. Powerful, aspirational ideas guide our solutions.
The second speaker is Dr. Faisal Moola, Program Director, Terrestrial Conservation and Science of the David Suzuki Foundation.
Faisal leads the terrestrial team in working to protect endangered and at-risk species that live on land, and the habitats that support them. Faisal is a practicing scientist and has published widely in scientific journals on ecology, conservation biology, and environmental policy. He has conducted research in some of Canada's most significant wilderness areas, such as the Boreal Forest, the old-growth rainforests of British Columbia and the Acadian woodlands of Atlantic Canada.
We invite you to bookmark your calendars on Thursday January 19th from 7 - 9 p.m., Architects earn 2 Core Learning Units.
Wayne De Angelis
FRAIC, MAIBC, MCaGBC
Chair, Architecture Canada Metro Vancouver Chapter
Architecture Canada - Regional Director for British Columbia and the Yukon
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