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  • Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    • Paper by Ivan Lee

    Thermal bridging through building façades have been overlooked by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to hig…

  • Introducing the FTI Video Library

    • Announcement

    We are excited to announce the launch of our video library featuring a selection of past live event recordings now available, exclusively to FTI members. Our events bring international audiences together to explore industry issues, trends, and emerging technologies as they relate to buildings...

  • Facade Tectonics Institute Announces Second World Congress

    • Press Release

    The Facade Tectonics Institute will convene its second World Congress on March 12-13, 2018, in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California. The theme of this year’s conference, “Skins on Campus: Bridging Industry and Academia in Pursuit of Better Buildings and Urban Habitat,” focuses on the

  • The Facade Tectonics Institute announces Facades Week: LA!

    • Announcement

    Amidst a groundswell of both criticism and concern over the performance of the built environment the FTI has announced Facades Week: LA!, a weeklong series of events in Los Angeles celebrating the building skin as the lynchpin of resilience and sustainability in buildings and urban habitat.

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD · Adam Nizich

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and build…

  • Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements

    • Paper by Uta Pottgiesser · Angel Ayón

    Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern arch…

  • Curb Your Carbon, Knave!

    A question for architects and building industry: Can our cities be part of the solution to the challenges facing humanity, or are they intrinsically and inevitably a big part of the problem? To move beyond the latter demands nothing less than a fundamental shift in the way we think about buildings.

  • Contextual Envelopes

    • Paper by Zoltan Neville

    Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address …

  • The Monash Woodside Building

    • Paper by Alberto Sangiorgio · Andrew Cortese · Walter van der Linde

    Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious 2030 …

  • Reduce, Reuse, Reclad

    • Paper by Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP · Jessica Santonastaso · Jennifer Sze, RA, USGBC LEED AP

    Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an objec…

  • Saving Face

    • Paper by Xsusha CarlyAnn Flandro, FAIC, APT-RP

    In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of wa…

  • Advances in Laminated Glass Engineering

    • Paper by Richard Green PE (WA, NY, TX, CO, OR, MT), M.IEAUST CPEng, NER(Aus), APEC Engineer, IntPE(Aus), RBP(Vic)

    The stability of monolithic glass fins is reasonably well defined; as an elastic material it behaves in a similar manner to other elastic materials s…

  • ANFA 2021 Call for Presenters

    • Event by Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture

    The ANFA Conference will explore, from a scientific basis, the range of human experiences that occur in context with elements of architecture, both exterior and interior. Abstracts will be accepted until February 28, 2021.

  • Origami-Inspired Facade Design

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, Ph.D, P.E., LEED AP, ENV SP · Neil Katz, AIA

    To paraphrase Robert le Ricolias, the art of the structure is where to put the folds. Using that inspiration, fundamental concepts from origami, topo…

  • The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA featured image

    The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA

    • Paper by Roman Scheiber, Associate Director ppa. Florian Meier,

    Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed a 290,000 sf museum celebrating the artistry and technology of film, becoming the world’s first museum and eve…