Teaching Carbon Neutral Design: Twenty Unique Perspectives
May 22, 2025 11am-12pm PT
There are hundreds of architecture programs across higher education institutions in North America; however, only a small percentage of them place an emphasis on pedagogy related to educating future graduates to combat the climate crisis through carbon neutral design. In an effort to increase the adoption of building decarbonization content into curricula across the continent, Robin Puttock crafted this book to highlight the many existing diverse and innovative methodologies, each detailed in a chapter written by an international award-winning professor in this field. She will speak about the process and the outcomes of this effort to date.
Robin Z. Puttock, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, is an Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University and a practicing architect with over twenty years of professional, national award-winning, sustainable design experience. She is the editor and contributing author of Teaching Carbon Neutral Design in North America: Twenty Award-Winning Architectural Design Studio Methodologies (Routledge 2025) and is the project architect of many LEED certified buildings as well as the first US Department of Education Green Ribbon School recognized by President Barack Obama. Robin serves as the 2025 Chair of the National AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Leadership Group.