Edward Mazria, AIA
Executive Director
Edward Mazria is an internationally recognized architect with a long and distinguished career. His architecture and planning projects span over a thirty-year period and each employs a cutting-edge environmental approach to its design.
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. He outlines his strategy for addressing today's most pressing global challenge, climate change, in his article "It's the Architecture Stupid!" (Solar Today) and in subsequent pieces "Turning Down the Global Thermostat" (Metropolis) and "Blueprint for Disaster" (On Earth). His buildings have been published in Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Digest, Process, Public Garden, Solar Today, Texas Architect, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to name a few.
Mr. Mazria lectures extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and has taught architecture at the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, UCLA, and the University of Colorado-Denver.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including AIA Design Awards, AIA Design Innovation Award, Commercial Building Awards from the Department of Energy, “Pioneer Award” from the American Solar Energy Society and an Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association.
He is the founder of Architecture 2030 (www.architecture2030.org), a non-traditional and flexible organization focused on protecting our global environment. He speaks nationally and internationally on the subject of the architecture, design, energy and climate change.
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