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AIA San Diego, a proud partner of the San Diego Green Building Council, is pleased to participate in Sustainable Building Week by offering a special program hosted by our very own architect and author extraordinaire, Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED.

Over the past two decades, architects and designers have increasingly embraced the principles of sustainability. Yet, by and large, the building industry continues to think of performance as a purely technical topic. Does going green change the face of design or only its content?

This talk will outline a clear set of principles to bridge the gap between standards of good design and green design. There is a relationship between form and performance, image and impact, at every scale of design, from products to buildings to cities.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow

Lance Hosey is the Chief Impact Officer at HMC Architects. He has led the design of many award-winning high-performance projects and has written two books and hundreds of essays on sustainable design for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and many other publications.

His latest book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design (Island Press, 2012), has won a New York Book Show Award, has been Amazon’s #1 bestseller for sustainable design, and was listed among the three dozen books “all designers should read” (Environmental Building News).

A popular public speaker, he has spoken at TED and keynoted SXSW Eco, the Idea Festival, and many other events, addressing a cumulative audience of over 25,000 people. In 2015 Lance became one of only 30 people in the world to be named a Fellow with both the American Institute of Architects and the US Green Building Council. “Lance Hosey is on a crusade to revolutionize what it means to be sustainable.” —Builder Magazine