PERFORMANCE –DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE
Drawing from solar, water and waste technologies as the fundamentals of innovative design

Projects with performance-driven design criteria incorporate a variety of technology and design principles in the pursuit of maximizing a buildings efficiency.  Each project has a goal of generating a positive environmental benefit - either through yielding a surplus of renewable energy, harvesting rainwater, treating waste on site and / or incorporating the latest in solar technologies for increased energy efficiency.  Gregory Kiss will review these principles in projects ranging from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the Stillwell Avenue Terminal in Coney Island to the Harbin SongBei City hall in China.


SPEAKER:

GREGORY KISS,
Principal, Kiss + Cathcart, Architects

Gregory Kiss has been working to advance the art and technology of environmentally responsible architecture for over 20 years. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, he became a founding partner of Kiss + Cathcart Architects in 1983.
 
Mr. Kiss has designed and consulted on many groundbreaking High-Performance building projects in the Americas, Europe and Asia. His ongoing research into the function and aesthetics of photovoltaics for buildings has led to several new products and systems.  He has authored a number of technical manuals for the Department of Energy, and lectures frequently on recent advances in environmental technologies and their potential for integration into architecture.
 
Mr. Kiss’s recent projects include sustainable housing in the Netherlands, and the Bocas del Toro Station for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.  Projects under construction include the photovoltaic glass train shed for New York City Transit’s Stillwell Avenue Terminal in Coney Island, and a photovoltaic manufacturing facility for Heliodomi in Greece.
 
In addition to his work at Kiss + Cathcart, Mr. Kiss is a founder and President of Native American Photovoltaics, a not-for-profit company installing solar energy systems on Indian reservations in the United States.

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