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note speaker
Alan Organschi
Alan Organschi is a principal and partnerat Gray Organschi Architecture, an architectural practice in New Haven,
Connecticut, USA, recognized internationally for its integration of design, construction, and environmental
research.
In April 2021, Mr. Organschi was appointed Director of the Innovation Labs at the Bauhaus Earth, a global
interdisciplinary initiative that seeks to transform the building sector from a major source of anthropogenic
environmental and social impact into a regenerative and ecologically sensitive means to meet the housing and
infrastructural needs of an urbanizing global population. Mr. Organschi continues as a Senior member of the
faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught architectural design and building technology for
two decades.
Mr. Organschi has written and lectured extensively on the carbon storage benefits of biogenic material
substitution in urban building. He is a co-author of the recently published book Carbon: A Field Manual For
Building Designers and the scientific paper “Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink” published in the journal Nature
Sustainability in January 2020.
In 2012, Mr. Organschi and his partner Elizabeth Gray were honored for their work with an Arts and Letters
Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.t J4-1767.
13–14 SEPTEMBER 2023 I IZOLA, SLOVENIA 3
Alan Organschi
Alan Organschi is a principal and partnerat Gray Organschi Architecture, an architectural practice in New Haven,
Connecticut, USA, recognized internationally for its integration of design, construction, and environmental
research.
In April 2021, Mr. Organschi was appointed Director of the Innovation Labs at the Bauhaus Earth, a global
interdisciplinary initiative that seeks to transform the building sector from a major source of anthropogenic
environmental and social impact into a regenerative and ecologically sensitive means to meet the housing and
infrastructural needs of an urbanizing global population. Mr. Organschi continues as a Senior member of the
faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught architectural design and building technology for
two decades.
Mr. Organschi has written and lectured extensively on the carbon storage benefits of biogenic material
substitution in urban building. He is a co-author of the recently published book Carbon: A Field Manual For
Building Designers and the scientific paper “Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink” published in the journal Nature
Sustainability in January 2020.
In 2012, Mr. Organschi and his partner Elizabeth Gray were honored for their work with an Arts and Letters
Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.t J4-1767.
13–14 SEPTEMBER 2023 I IZOLA, SLOVENIA 3
