9.10.2009

Ken Yeang to offer RWU Civil Discourse Series Lecture for SAAHP Alumni Gathering 10.16.2009

Malaysian born architect Ken Yeang will lecture on “Designing Deep Green” at Roger Williams as part of President’s Fall 2009 Civil Discourse Series, “Sustainability and Social Change”, on October 16, 2009 at 630 PM in the RWU Fieldhouse. A reception for SAAHP Alumni will follow.

Yeang, principal in the London-based architecture firm of Llewellyn Davies Yeang, and of T.R. Hamzah and Yeang, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shenzen and Sydney, has been described as “an architectural visionary designing in a way that blurs the boundaries between the natural and human-built environment”, and “one of fifty people who can save the world”, with built projects in Europe, Asia, North America, Middle East. He is the author of Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design, EcoSkyscrapers, and EcoMaster Planning. In addition to a fulltime practice that encompasses large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning, Yeang has been a prolific writer of books about ecodesign and a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Yeang has been instrumental in developing the design of low energy skyscrapers. As a result of his energy conserving innovations, Yeang has designed skyscrapers in London, Singapore, Kuwait, Canada, China, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. The firm has also designed master plans for both sites and multi-building complexes in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, and China.