Dr. William W. Braham FAIA is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design (MEBD) and the certificate program in Ecological Architecture. He received an engineering degree from Princeton University and an M. Arch and Ph.D. Arch. From the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1988. At Penn he teaches graduate courses on ecology, technology, and design. He practices with the TC Chan Center. At the Chan Center, his most recent projects have been the Sustainability Plan and the Carbon Action Plan for the University of Pennsylvania. He also blogs at williambraham.net
Sustainability, Sustainable Design
Active Glass Walls: A Typological and Historical Account, AIA Convention (2005)
This paper provides a summary analysis of the typological and historical development of active glass...
Biotechniques: Remarks on the Intensity of Conditioning, Performative Architecture (2004)
An exploration of the concept of Biotechniques, adapted from the term originally coined by Frederick...
Erasing the Face: Solar Control and Shading in Post-War Architecture, Interstices (2000)
Sun control and shading constitute the second chapter in the heroic story of the modem...
Correalism and Equipoise: Observations on the Sustainable, Architectural Research Quarterly: ARQ (1999)
Modern environmentalism originates with the recognition of ecological connectivity and the negative effects of technological...
Technology
Biotechniques: Form Follows Flow?, Unites States Green Building Council / Greenbuild 2003 Conference and Exposition (2003)
Sustainable design is well characterized by Sim Van der Ryn’s compelling aphorism “form follows flow,”...
Do Houses Evolve? Neo-biology at House_n, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Technology Conference (2002)
This paper inquires about neo-biology in architecture by examining House_n, a compelling house-of-the-future project that...
Emergence-cy! Notes on the Flow of Information in Architecture, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 90th Annual Meeting (2002)
After Typology: The Suffering of Diagrams, Architectural Design, “Contemporary Processes in Architecture” (2000)
In an examination of the diagram as a generator of architectural form and process, William...
What's Hecuba to Him? On Kiesler and the Knot, Assemblage (1998)
During the 1920s and 1930s , Frederick Kiesler belonged to De Stijl, the American Union...
Light
The Persistence of the Open Flame: Work and Waste in the Healthy, Modern Home, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Conference (1999)
Historical accounts of the modern house report the progressive elimination of work as the household...
The Candle at the Table: Work, Waste, and Leisure in the Modern Home, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Northeast Regional Meeting (1998)
Digital or Physical? The translation of lighting design into the digital domain has yielded tremendous...
Color
A Wall of Books: The Gender of Natural Colors in Modern Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education (1999)
This essay examines a decorative convention-the display of books in modern interiors-that appears in both...