2023 Vitruvian Awards Lecture & Awards Ceremony

Join us at the Center For Architecture in New York City as we celebrate outstanding achievements in the field of facade design and delivery!

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• ACCELERATING THE ADOPTION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE FENESTRATION

• Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop — ACAW 2023

• APT Seattle Conference Symposium 2023: Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies

• Sisteccer XIII — International Facade Conference

• Creating equity in a built environment

  

• Highlights from the 2023 Vitruvian Awards Program

• Rainscreen Fundamentals Education Day

• Facade Tectonics 2024 World Congress

• Facade Futures: Building Resilience is Skin Deep

  

• Resilient SKINS: Bending with the Wind

  

• Episode 19: Cultivating Community through Facade Design

  

• Episode 18: Intersectionality in Facade Design

  

• Episode 17: Facades as Instant Landmarks

  

• Episode 16: How to Build Equity – Facade Design & Development in Affordable Housing

  

• Building Innovation 2023 - Call for Abstracts!

• Stop F*cking Around – Build Our Zero Carbon Economy Now

  

• Curb Your Carbon, Knave!

  

• College of Fellows presents: All About Facade

• Facade Tectonics Forum: MONTERREY

• FTI Education Forum

• 2023 Vitruvian Awards

  

• Facade Tectonics Forum: CHICAGO

• Facade Tectonics Forum: LA

• Form Follows Well-Being: An Approach to Human Centric Facade Design

  

SKINS Podcast See all Podcasts

A searchable database of research papers with focus on building facade technology

• Episode 19: Cultivating Community through Facade Design

  

• Episode 18: Intersectionality in Facade Design

  

• Episode 17: Facades as Instant Landmarks

  

• Episode 16: How to Build Equity – Facade Design & Development in Affordable Housing

  

• Episode 15: Forced Labor in the Design & Construction Supply Chain

  

• Episode 14: Diversity & Inclusion in the Architectural Profession

  

• Episode 13: Resilience

  

• Episode 12: Durability

  

• Episode 11: Embodied Carbon

  

• Episode 10: Modular Prefab & Offsite Manufacturing

  

• Episode 09: Ted Kesik on SKINS

  

• Episode 08: Reglazing Modernism

  

• Episode 07: 2020 World Congress Series | The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA

  

• Episode 06: 2020 World Congress Series | End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

  

• Episode 05: 2020 World Congress Series | Put Your Sweater On!

  

• Episode 04: 2020 World Congress Series | The First Triple Certified Facade

  

• Episode 03: DOE Does Windows

  

• Episode 02: Tall Building Skins

  

• Episode 01: Passive House

  

Articles See all Articles

The archive of featured original articles from the SKINS newsletter

• Creating equity in a built environment

  

• Resilient SKINS: Bending with the Wind

  

• Facade Futures: Building Resilience is Skin Deep

  

• Stop F*cking Around – Build Our Zero Carbon Economy Now

  

• Curb Your Carbon, Knave!

  

• 2023 Vitruvian Awards

  

• Form Follows Well-Being: An Approach to Human Centric Facade Design

  

• Kinetic Solar Envelope Design

  

• Reconfigurable Terracotta Facades

  

• Printed Facades? Cases of Additive Manufacturing in the Building Envelope

  

• Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

  

• Toward Net Zero Enclosures

  

• Façade Resilience Evaluation Framework

  

• Rethinking Building Skins

  

• Looking Back at the 2022 World Congress

  

• Plant-based Architecture and Living Facades: The Intersection of Biology and the Building Skin

  

• Biofacades: Integrating Biological Systems with Building Enclosures

  

• Fenestration Challenges

  

• Reflections on Views

  

• Designing With Composites: The Why, When and How

  

• Next normal: Advanced composites for a changing industry

  

• Tectonism and Responsible Urban Futures

  

• Connecting Composites to Sustainability: Probabilistic LCA, Industrialized Construction, and Digital Twinning

  

• Thermal and Fire Characteristics of FRP Composites for Architectural Applications

  

New FTI Board Members

We are pleased to welcome three new Board members.

Papers See all Papers

A searchable database of research papers with focus on building facade technology

• ACCELERATING THE ADOPTION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE FENESTRATION

• Facing Density

• Rethinking Building Skins

  

• Sculptural Facades

  

• ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies

  

• Transparent Aerogel Window

  

• Passively Actuated Systems

  

• CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

  

• Novel Thermal Break Solution

  

• Kinetic Solar Envelope

  

• More Than a Facade

  

• Spandrel Glass Design

  

• Glass Spandrels and Shadow Boxes

  

• Control Tower Glass Design

  

• Comparison of Historical Weathered Annealed Glass Failure Data to ASTM E1300

• Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade

  

• The Monash Woodside Building

  

• Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

• Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower

  

• Sustainable Retrofit Strategies for an Existing Laboratory Building

  

• The Myth of Simplicity

  

• The Carapace Pavilion

  

• Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  

• City Development and Cladding Design

  

Events See all Events

• Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop — ACAW 2023

• Sisteccer XIII — International Facade Conference

• APT Seattle Conference Symposium 2023: Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies

• Highlights from the 2023 Vitruvian Awards Program

• Rainscreen Fundamentals Education Day

• Facade Tectonics 2024 World Congress

• Building Innovation 2023 - Call for Abstracts!

• College of Fellows presents: All About Facade

• Facade Tectonics Forum: MONTERREY

• FTI Education Forum

• Facade Tectonics Forum: CHICAGO

• Facade Tectonics Forum: LA

• Facade Tectonics Forum: TORONTO

• Facade Tectonics Forum: NYC

• Codes & Advocacy Webinars

• Passive House Revisited - 2 Part

• 2023 Vitruvian Awards Lecture & Awards Ceremony

• EFN Conference the Future Envelope - “Towards Zero Carbon”

• PowerSkin Conference 2022

• Building Innovation 2022

• FGIA Virtual Summer Conference

• 2022 Glass and Glazing Forum

• The Passive House Network - Fenestration Focus

• NY Build Expo 2022

Better buildings through better skins

FTI is a non-profit member organization for the AECO industry and a research and education institution focused on healthy buildings and livable urban habitat. The Institute’s mission is to accelerate transformative change in the built environment toward common goals of resilience and sustainability. FTI members share recognition of the building facade as the lynchpin of this endeavor.