Contact: Ray Ladd
(805) 756-7432
rladd@calpoly.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Designer of Arizona's Biosphere 2 to Speak Friday,
Close Series Focusing on Global Environment
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Architect and activist Phil Hawes, designer of
Biosphere 2 in Arizona, will speak at 2 p.m. Friday, May 7, in the final
program of the Spring Hearst Lecture Series presented by Cal Poly's
College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
Hawes will speak on sustainable town development as well as the
development of Biosphere 2. The free, public lecture will be in the
Rotunda (Room 213) of Cal Poly's Business Building.
The Biosphere complex was designed to be the first completely man-made,
enclosed, self-sufficient environment for people. It was intended to
operate without any resources or assistance from outside its glass
shell.
Hawes is active in projects aimed at achieving communities able to
sustain themselves in their basic requirements, from food and water to
energy and building materials. He is working with a Global Eco-Village
Project and developing a new sustainable town of 6,000 homes in New
Mexico.
"Dr. Hawes has contributed to altering the existing world-paradigm
to
one of
sustainability," said Hearst Lecture Series coordinator and Architecture
Professor Laura Joines-Novotny. "Architects truly hold the key to
the
global thermostat.”
With a theme of "Synergy," this quarter's Hearst Lecture Series
focused
on how simultaneous separate actions can interact to produce an effect
greater than the sum of the parts.
"For us this means that our individual actions will add up to a
greater
total effect to keep us in existence on this planet," Joines-Novotny
said.
The Hearst Lecture Series brings internationally respected design
professionals to Cal Poly to speak, visit classrooms and critique
student design projects. The series is supported by a grant from the
Hearst Foundation. For more information, call the College of
Architecture and Environmental Design at (805) 756-1311.
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