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Whether as author, speaker, advocate, or advisor, I welcome opportunities to engage. Below are some recent activities.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
National Conferences
National Trust for Historic Preservation
2025 Past/Forward Conference, Keynote
Congress for the New Urbanism
CNU33 Conference, Keynote
Building Reuse
2025 Deconstruction & Reuse Conference, Keynote
American Institute of Architects
2026 Conference on Architecture and Design, Education Session
AIA Conferences
AIA Wyoming
2025 Annual Statewide Conference, Keynote
AIA Maryland
2025 Annual Statewide Conference, Keynote
AIA Illinois
2025 Annual Statewide Conference, Keynote
AIA Baltimore
Book Talk
Academic Lectures
Texas A&M University
University of Maryland
Catholic University of America
Architectural Firm Presentations
Bonstra Haresign
Quinn Evans
Perkins Eastman
IStudio
Eskew Dumez Ripple
Affiliated Organizations
Climate Action Museum (CAM)
Getting to Zero Carbon, Panel Discussion
SHIFT (a program of the German Sustainable Buildings Council)
2025 Boston Summit, Presentation
Climate Heritage Network (CHN) Built Environment Forum (BEF)
BEF Work Group Presentation
Montgomery County, Maryland
2025 Annual Energy Summit, Keynote
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
2025 Conference for Integrated Design, Construction & Operation (CIDCO), Keynote
ZNCC (Zero Net Carbon Collaboration)
2025 Annual Symposium, Keynote
WEBINARS
Frequently, conference programs are recorded and posted for on-demand viewing. Many are offered for continuing education credits. The AIA “University” (AIAU) is a clearinghouse for hundreds of certified continuing education providers. Over a dozen of my recent presentations are available through AIAU.
PODCASTS
Podcasts provide a more conversational format. Here are some of the most engaging conversations from recent months.
Unfrozen Podcast with Daniel Safarik and Greg Lindsey
Booked on Planning Podcast with Stephanie Rouse and Jennifer Hiatt
8 80 Cities for Everyone with Gil Penalosa
Traditional Building Podcast with Peter Miller
ARTICLES
Online and printed media play an irreplaceable role in reaching broader constituencies and the general public on substantive issues. Here are some noteworthy articles I contributed to in recent months.
Reuse: Building Better Can Actually Mean Not Building At All
by Jennifer Castenson for Forbes
Tear It Down or Build It Back? Carl Elefante Says the Future Is Already Built
by Edward Mazria for ARCHITECT Magazine
As American Architects Gather in Boston, Retrofits Are All the Rage
by Anthony Flint for Bloomberg, City Lab
ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Peer-reviewed academic journals remain the gold standard in advancing thought and practice. I was honored to serve as guest editor for a series of six articles in ANTA 7. These Five Provocations present some of the material developed during my tenure at the University of Notre Dame as the inaugural visiting scholar to the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability.
Five Provocations: Valuing Traditional Architecture in a Time of Climate Crisis
Archive of New Traditional Architecture, Issue No. 7, Spring 2025
University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture