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YAA Assembly showcases the Building Lab at Yale

March 30, 2021

As part of the year-long 2020-21 YAA Assembly Zoom series, Tony Lavely attended “Re-forming the Anthropocene: The New Building Lab at Yale,” a new program at the School of Architecture.

Featuring Alan Organschi, a teacher at the School and a practicing architect in New Haven, it described how Organschi’s students designed and built a regenerative building at the Lab in New Haven and then reassembled it on Horse Island, off the coast of Branford CT. The building will be used by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Yale School of the Environment for field study.

Lavely commented: “It reminded me of the session we had with Bill McDonough at our 40th reunion, arranged by Jon McBride, when McDonough talked about his ‘Cradle to Cradle’ philosophy of building design. In fact, Organschi cited McDonough’s work during the session. Organschi also used some of the most riveting charts on climate change that I have seen.”

You can read more about the project here.

The session was recorded, and you can watch it here.