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Ken Yeang, Principal of Llewelyn Davies Yeang (UK) and a leader in green building design featured in the Design:e2 film, will join the discussion on sustainability and innovative design and speak after the screening of the film Design:e2 on October 13, 2007 at the Greennx Film Festival which is a special event featuring inspirational films on sustainability and innovative design. The Greennx Film Festival will be held at the Vancity Theatre at the Vancouver International Film Centre. Click here for more info of the Greennx Film Festival. Tickets available at Vancity Theatre at the Vancouver International Film Centre. Films that will be screened on October 13, 2007 include Waste=Food, Building the Gherkin and Design:e2. There will be a discussion on sustainability and innovative design after each screening session. Ken Yeang is an architect-planner, and one of the foremost ecodesigners, theoreticians, and thinkers in the field of green design. After having studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, his work on the green agenda started in the 70s with his doctoral dissertation for the University of Cambridge on ecological design and planning. Yeang is the author of several books on ecological design, including The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered: A Design Primer (1996) published by Wiley-Academy, and The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings (1999) published by Prestel (Germany). He is the distinguished Plym Professor at the University of Illinois and Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya and University of Hawaii (at Manoa) and recently received a D.Lit. (Hon) from the University of Sheffield. He is an Honorary FAIA and has served on the RIBA Council. A principal of Llewelyn Davies Yeang (UK) and its sister firm, Hamzah & Yeang (Malaysia), Ken Yeang is well known for designing signature green high-performance buildings and master plans, and for his pursuit of an ecological aesthetic in his designs. |
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