Adapting Architecture | Emanuele Naboni (Royal Danish Academy)

Lecture by Emanuele Naboni
Adapting Architecture: Thriving in a Climate-Challenged World
In the frame of the Module Emerging Fields in Architecture (++), HB2, TU Wien

Emanuele Naboni is a Professor, Researcher, and Architectural Technologist. Emanuele, since 2023, has been a faculty at the Norman Foster Institute in Madrid (with MIT Media Lab); since 2023, he has been an Adjunct Professor at UNSW Sydney, working with Prof. Santamouris; since 2020, he has been a module leader of the SOS (Postgraduate School of Sustainability by Mario Cucinella). Since 2010, Emanuele has held the position of Associate Professor of Building Technology at the Royal Danish Academy, where he has been an adjunct since 2021 as he continues contributing to the Master of Architecture, collaborating with David Garcia. He is an experienced educator in a few European PhD schools. He has also co-taught architectural technology courses with NASA, BIG, CITA, and the Ladybug Tools team at different times. As a researcher working on various topics related to climate change, he has been invited as a professor at several prestigious institutions around the world. In 2022, he was an adjunct professor at NTNU, Norway, in 2020, the ETH Future Cities Lab in Singapore (2019), the EPFL Lausanne (2016-17), the Southeast University in Nanjing (2018), the Architectural Association in London (2014), and the University of California Berkeley (2013). He was a post-doctoral researcher in the Stephan Selkowitz team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley (LBNL). As a professional, he was the design leader at the "Performance Design Studio" of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) after starting his practice and consulting for more than 50 built masterplans and buildings on all continents and working with foremost known architectural firms.

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The module Emerging Fields in Architecture imparts current knowledge from new research fields in architectural and engineering disciplines, with the aim of dealing with current and future design challenges in a broader social context in an interdisciplinary and fundamental way. The lectures impart knowledge about different and interdisciplinary approaches to design, current developments and results of material and construction research, about planning and building under/in extreme conditions as well as about structures that change or develop due to changing parameters.
In this context, strategies for design (from the initial idea to implementation) are questioned in an interdisciplinary discourse, and the question of how the path from idea to realisation can be shaped and to what extent it is possible to be systematically creative is explored. In the practical part, an independent cross-thematic examination is to be carried out.