Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Inaugural Lecture: Norman Foster

An annual lecture within the Harvard GSD Lecture Series, this event intends to expose a large audience of students, faculty and members of the public to the importance of green design and planning. Lord Foster’s practice, Foster + Partners, has pioneered an integrated design approach driven by sustainability, winning hundreds of awards and international competitions. From airports, urban masterplans to cultural buildings and workplaces, the practice is renowned for its deftness at integrating advanced technology with cultural and environmental concerns.
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to transform the building industry through a commitment to design-centric strategy that directly links research outcomes to the development of new processes, systems, and products.
www.harvardcgbc.org

[@OlexiyLitinsky]

His deep awareness in the technological, cultural, urban issues gives an ability to balance , of course, and move in a desirable direction by few surfaces simultaneously. I see here a sort of new understanding of ancient dogma :'usefulness, strength, beauty', it was turned into something like : 'Technologicalness, Nature-care, Sustainability ' ; and in this speech one can clearly see a wish of Mr. Foster to push humanity in this complex directions . It is his vision of the future. Will see...

[@drasmahaliamohamadbohari8407]

Glad i found this TH-cam channel.. very interesting

[@angelmatos9143]

Harvard conducts these talks to then 'stick it' to the world. Some things never change.

[@mohammadmoradi1826]

Great workshop,thanks

[@MaZEEZaM]

Very interesting talk, thanks for sharing :D

[@xavier2303]

Very amazing talk and show a great combination of sustainable and technology in an architecture what foster said is deserve to contemplate, thanks for the sharing

[@shubhamkarps]

Hello, can someone please explain the charts at 15:45, how is the Energy Consumption (GJ/ capita) of countries changing between charts even though the scale of x axis is same?

[@teddyber6337]

Very good talk 🙌🔥🔥🔥

[@synon9m]

9:09 lecture starts

[@rickysturgis4614]

I would like to see this talk given again after they had to include 10,000+ (?) parking spaces to the Apple campus; no more connection to nature with that much pavement. How do we balance the difference in some of the these hyper idealized proposals (Apple being wholly unrealistic), and severe limitations in ability to be energy efficient due to restrictive codes and zoning requirements that don’t facilitate or encourage a deviation from the norm (pun intended 🤷🏻‍♂️).

[@ljudmilakoprivec5289]

higher knowledge

[@tao7802]

go environmental awareness

[@danglybit1]

Norman can't Riechstag without lecturing.

[@jonsl2000]

For the benefit of those high school kids interested in this profession, there is rampant fallacy held by people including myself before I entered architecture school that architects are technical people in traditional STEM sense in addition to working with aesthetics but that is complete false. Architecture education in US is 99% humanities discipline i.e. art, history and english with virtually no science classes to receive a diploma.

[@farrahnazmahdavi5921]

a great combination of capitalism and green growth....

[@intezashariar]

Lord ...😂

[@pitfa1140]

too short man u gotta keep takling

[@maryspencer813]

only rich people....!!!!

[@R.E.A.L.I.T.Y]

No thanks. From the advise i received from a former employee his people have to talk him out off consistently bad ideas.
He certainly lives of their ideas, pays the young subsistence salaries and employees poorly, while his Lordship flies to his building on the Thames in a helicopter.

[@johnnylee8194]

Many confused people throw around false equivalency by comparing Pritzker prize to Nobel prize. Pritzker prize is just a vanity project and is a branding effort for wealthy Pritzker family name. Moreover, the prize committee is composed of mostly random buffoons who have no knowledge of building design and hence the prizes has no credibility. Its akin to trash collector in Nobel award selection committee making award for physics. Architecture is a more a humanities degree than anything. Almost all top tier us college or university do not offer this degree for a reason. Harvard graduate design school has lot of people from second, third rate undergraduate schools because most kid smart enough to get into top tier undergrad schools are too intelligent to get into this non technical profession.

[@aaronreynolds5303]

Very interesting talk, thanks for sharing :D