What is Sustainable Design? The Ecology of the Built Environment in Historical Perspective
Monday, April 29, 2024 6 PM to 7:30 PM
About this Event
155 Castle Dr, DeKalb, IL 60115
#sustainability earthmonthSustainability Lecture Series
Professor Rebecca Houze, associate professor of art history.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy.
Responses to industrialization in the late 19th century by architects, designers and city planners anticipated many of the same questions about sustainability that we struggle with today. This talk considers innovative and alternative approaches to the design of the built environment in the past and for the future.
5:45 p.m.: Welcome
6 p.m.: Lecture
Reception to follow.