Lecture – Making Better Buildings
Chris Magwood will be speaking about sustainable building practices in his new book “Making Better Buildings”. The event is happening in the Pit in the Architecture Building at Ryerson University on Tuesday March 18th at 7pm to 9pm.
Professor Mark Gorgolewski of Ryerson’s School of Architecture says of Chris:
“Chris Magwood’s considerable experience of sustainable buildings described in his new book “Making Better Buildings” book provides invaluable guidance for builders, designers and those thinking of building their own home. Striping away the hype, the book provides a rational and balanced assessment of alternative options for the major components of a building. It is particularly valuable since it includes a wide range of criteria such as cost, durability, code compliance and labour intensiveness together with environmental criteria, which make it a highly useful decision support tool for many sustainable building projects. Chris encourages us to get beyond the bickering about different systems at the “micro” level and to focus on the bigger picture, “macro” issues, when choosing building components and systems which will lead to significant change.”
Hope to see you there!
-CAi