Living Buildings
The Future of Architecture
by Jason McLennon
Introduction by Bryony Schwan, executive director, Biomimicry Institute
SATURDAY PLENARY: October 17, 2009
9:00am – 1:00pm
This leading figure in the global green architecture movement challenges us to imagine and demand buildings that operate as elegantly and efficiently as the living structures nature creates. As CEO of Cascadia Green Building Council, author of the Living Building Challenge and co-creator of Pharos (the most advanced building material rating system in North America), he shows breathtaking examples from the worldwide Challenge underway to design buildings that meet or exceed nature’s ecosystem services.
