When Facades Kill
The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of f…
The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of f…
Awareness of embodied carbon impacts is surging like hurricane-driven floodwaters and altering the landscape of everything in its path. What are the implications for buildings, the facade system and urban habitat? FTI is taking this on with its 2019 Forum series.
Facade Tectonics Institute completes its 2019 Regional Forum Series with NYC Forum hosted by the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York at the Princeton Club
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) hosted the first of its 2019 Regional Forum Series, Material Matters, at the University of Miami School of Architecture of
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) hosted the second event of its 2019 Regional Forum Series Phase Change at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) hosted its fifth 2019 Regional Forum in the Material Matters series at Rice University. FTI is widely recognized for producing the leading technical events focused on buildings and urban habitat through the lens of the building skin.
This paper presents new historical research on the concrete facade of an important but relatively unknown and now demolished building by the American…
All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve en…