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Net Zero Tower
- Article by John Neary, AIA, LEED AP NCARB, Senior Facade Specialist
John Neary describes a collaborative Advanced design Studio at City Tech that involved Permasteelisa, Skanska and Onyx Solar, with links to the published student works.

July 25, 2020
Facade Games
- Paper by James Tice, Professor of Architecture
This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for this…
January 24, 2020
Cool precast concrete enclosure studies from Washington U. in St. Louis
- Article by Pablo Moyano Fernandez, Assistant Professor
Precast Concrete Enclosures is an elective course taught by Assistant Professor Pablo Moyano Fernandez at Washington University in St. Louis. The primary goal of the course is to enable students to envision and materialize full-scale building envelopes using precast concrete.

September 27, 2021
Facade Technology in Educational Methodology
- Paper by Roger Schroeder, Lecturer Joseph A. Ebert, Professor
With facades becoming increasingly more complex, and performance a key objective, expertise becomes an important component of successful design…
October 11, 2022
Architectural Ceramic Assemblies
- Paper by Omar Khan, Bill Pottle, Mitchell Bring,
This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)…
March 14, 2018
3rd Annual ACAW Ceramic Workshop 2018 Recap
- Article by Mic Patterson, PhD, LEED AP BD+, Ambassador of Innovation and Collaboration
2018 teams included; Morphosis, SHoP Architects, Sasaki/Studio NYL, University at Buffalo, AECOM, and Radical Matter. The ACAWorkshop is an outstanding model of industry-academia partnership aimed at the ongoing education of students and practitioners alike.

September 28, 2018
New Course on Building Façade Design Developed at Oklahoma State University
- Paper by Bodhisatta Hajra · John Phillips, PE
A façade, which is also called a ‘secondary structural system’, typically separates the exterior from the interior of a building. In recent times,

September 18, 2024
The Vertical Campus Facade
- Paper by Mayine Yu, AIA · Cooper Schilling, AIA, LEED AP BD+C · Jessica Young, RA
Case study of the recently opened John A. Paulson Center for New York University in Manhattan reviews design solutions of façade depth and scale to

September 02, 2024
Mapping Advanced Facades
- Paper by David Russell Lehrer · Vito Lamberti
This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from

August 15, 2024
Behind the Surface
- Paper by Damon Caldwell,
The architectural facade, like clothing for a building's form, serves as both an aesthetic expression and a protective veil, concealing the inner…
September 2, 2024
Fit for the Future
- Paper by Julia Koerner-Al-Rawi, Associate Adjunct Professor, Director of Summer Programs, Department of Architecture and Urban Design
Wearables protect us from climatic conditions, they provide privacy, comfort and they also reflect our style and personality. Building facades in the…
September 2, 2024
Teaching Facades
- Paper by Alex Terzich,
As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a…
March 14, 2018