“Clients want a good building. They want a well-designed building. But they don't tell us how to site the building—we decide how site the building. We decide its orientation. We specify pretty much everything in a building. The big decisions that decide energy consumption and emissions of a building are really left to us.”
—Edward Mazria, FAIA, AIA Gold Medal 2021
Before Edward Mazria helped launch Architecture 2030 in 2002, the industry had little to no impetus to act on climate change. Then Edward, with a background in sustainable design, discovered architecture’s outsized role in emissions as designers of the built environment. By making these findings public, he spurred the industry to change its approach to emissions—and began helping the industry get to zero climate emissions by 2030. Watch to learn more about Edward’s career and impact.
Praise for Edward Mazria, FAIA:
“He has changed the tone, the language, and the conversation around the built environment and climate change for the last 20 years—and really was the first person to do that on a large scale.”
—Vincent Martinez, Hon. AIA, President & CEO Architecture 2030
“He deconstructed the carbon pie chart, which leaned toward the automotive and transportation industries. Architecture was never part of it. But because he had knowledge around building, shipping, and manufacturing, he added it all up and made us see that the architecture industry (was) producing about 48% of carbon (emissions) in the US.”
—Susan S. Szenasy, former Editor-in-Chief at Metropolis Magazine
“Somehow, he manages to look at all that scary data and these complicated, messy, dynamic, interactive elements… Not only is he able to distill them down and understand this landscape to say what needs to be done in simple, clear ways—he does so with genuine optimism. It's not fake. It's not naive. It's reality-based optimism."
—Erin McDade, Assoc. AIA, Senior Program Director of Architecture 2030
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