Lebanon GBC board member & assistant professor of architecture (at the American University of Beirut), Architect Aram Yeretzian represented Lebanon GBC at the second talk of lecture series entitled “Is Nature a Political Actor?” organized by the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and the department of urban planning of the Lebanese university. The main aim of the series is to address the relationship between the city and nature.
This talk took place at the Order of the Engineers and Architects (OEA), Beirut on the 16th of January 2020.
Throughout his “Blue skies: planning for architecture in Beirut” presentation, Aram Yeretzian’s discussed the definition of “green” buildings, the competing logics associated with the understanding of “green” buildings over time and identified how “green architecture” starts with green planning (evolution of Beirut and its buildings). The presentation ended with a discussion on how buildings within a city can contribute to the evolution of the city as an environmental construct.
The session was moderated by Architect Firas Mortada (OEA) and included presentations by Dr. Shady Attia (Architect), Christina Abi Haidar (lawyer) and Farah (PhD researcher).
The presentations were followed by an extended discussion with the audience who asked questions about the role of governance and its relationship to the environmental condition, the importance of education in preparing professionals for the challenging future state of the environment as well as other relevant topics.
For more information, visit: https://www.ifporient.org/conference-13-02-2020/
