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In 2000, I worked at the Center for Building Performance & Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University. My office was in the Intelligent Workplace, an energy efficient space that functioned as working laboratory on the roof of Margaret Morrison. One of the research projects that I was involved in was Building as Power Plant, [...]

We completed our time in Florence with a trip to the top of the Duomo, Brunelleschi’s dome on the Santa Maria del Fiore. This included carrying our 9 month old son up all 463 steps up to the top of the dome!
On a hot summer day, it was surprisingly cool and comfortable inside on the [...]

Continuing our visit in Florence, we crossed the Ponte Vecchio, and walked to the Pitti Palace.  The palace is a true Renaissance structure with order, symmetry, and a vival of greek and roman style arches. The facade of the palace  is currently undergoing restoration. Here, the scaffolding wrap is printed with an image of [...]

I snapped this fantastic photo of a detail on the south side of the Campanile: Giotto’s Bell Tower (1334)

On June 25, 2009 I visited Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento, Italy. The Castle was first constructed in the 13th century and was the residence of Trento’s prince-bishops. It was enlarged by Bishop George of Liechtenstein in the 14th century, and the loggia and Gothic entrance gate was added later by Johannes Hinderbach. A residential [...]

 
While in Trento, Italy, I snapped the perfect photo for my daylighting course. The building on the right uses many of the strategies that I discuss with my students:

The generous roof overhang is shading the windows on the third and fourth floors. The shutters are open, allowing the occupants to have a view, indirect daylighting, [...]

I spent the last week of June in Trento, Italy during the San Vigilio Festival. The city is surrounded by hills and mountains on all sides, and the Adige River to the west.  Several days into my stay, the wind was calm enough to take the cable car up to the village of Sardagna. I [...]