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Ed Mazria

Speech Topics:
The 2030 Challenge
Solutions to Global Warming
Meeting Humanity's Greatest Challenge
Essentials of Green Building
Architecture of Sustainability

Edward Mazria, AIA, is an internationally recognized architect and an expert on the impact the building community has on climate change, the environment, resource depletion and energy consumption. For 30 years, Mazria has employed cutting-edge environmental design in his architecture and planning projects. Because the architecture and building community is responsible for almost half of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions annually (according to statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration), he has issued the 2030 Challenge — for all new and existing buildings and developments to immediately be designed to use half the fossil fuel energy as typical and all buildings to be carbon-neutral by the year 2030.

His published material includes technical papers, articles for professional magazines, and a number of published works including The Passive Solar Energy Book published by Rodale Press.

His buildings have been published in Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Process, Kenchiku Bunka, Public Garden, Solar Today, Texas Architect, The Wall Street Journal, The New Mexico Business Journal, and the New York Times.

Mazria has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and has taught architecture at the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, University of Colorado-Denver, UCLA and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico.

He is the recipient of numerous awards including an AIA Design Award, AIA Design Innovation Award, Commercial Building Award from the Department of Energy, Landmark Designation Award from The Albuquerque Conservation Association, Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Society and most recently, a 1999 Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association for Tierra Contenta in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its Design Arts Roundtable. After receiving his Bachelors of Architecture Degree from Pratt Institute in 1963 he spent two years as an architect in the Peace Corps in Arequipa, Peru. He later worked with the firm of Edward Larabee Barnes in New York before beginning a teaching and research career at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in 1973.

His architecture and energy research at both UNM and the University of Oregon established his leadership in the field of resource conservation and his innovative design methodology, developed at that time, is currently in use worldwide. Since forming Mazria Inc. Odems Dzurec in 1978, he has completed a diverse number of award winning architecture and planning projects from the Mt. Airy Public Library in North Carolina, to the Genoveva Chavez Community Center, a 170,000 square foot sports complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the principal-in-charge of design for all firm projects.

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