Edward Mazria

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Edward Mazria is an internationally recognized architect, author and educator with a long and distinguished career. His architecture and planning projects span a thirty-year period and each employs a cutting-edge environmental approach to design. After receiving his Bachelors of Architecture Degree form Pratt Institute in 1963 he spent two years as an architect in the Peace Corps in Arequipa, Peru. He later worked with the firm of Edward Larabee Barnes in New York before completing his Master’s Degree and beginning a teaching and research career at the University of New Mexico in 1973. His architecture and renewable energy research at both UNM and the University of Oregon established his leadership in the field of resource conservation and passive heating, cooling and daylighting design. His innovative design methodology, developed at that time and presented in The Passive Solar Energy Book, is currently in use worldwide. Since forming the architecture and planning firm Mazria Associates, Inc. in 1978, he has completed a diverse number of award winning architecture and planning projects from the day-lit Mt. Airy Public Library in North Carolina to the innovative Rio Grande Botanic Garden Conservatory in New Mexico.

Published Work

His published material includes technical papers, articles for professional magazines, and a number of published works including the following:

The Passive Solar Energy Book, Rodale Press 1979
It’s the Architecture Stupid!, Solar Today Magazine, May/June 2003
Turning Down the Global Thermostat, Metropolis Magazine, October 2003
Blueprint for Disaster, On Earth Magazine, Summer 2005

His buildings have been published in Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Digest, Process, Kenchiku Bunka, Public Garden, Solar Today, Architecture Week, Texas Architect, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Awards and Honors

Mr. Mazria has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and has taught architecture at the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, University of Colorado-Denver and UCLA. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the following:

American Institute of Architects Design Awards
AIA Design Innovation Award
Commercial Building Awards from the Department of Energy
Landmark Designation Award from The Albuquerque Conservation Association
Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Society
Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association

Recent Work

Most recently Mr. Mazria has reshaped the national and international dialogue on climate change to incorporate building design and the “Building Sector”. His research includes U.S. and global building sector analysis and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. He is the architect of both the AIA’s position statement and the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s Resolution #50 adopting the “2030 Challenge” as a means of dramatically reducing building sector greenhouse gas emissions. His article, Blueprint for Disaster, outlines his strategy for addressing today’s most pressing global challenge, climate change.

He is the founder of Architecture 2030, an organization committed to protecting our global environment by using innovation and common sense to develop and quickly implement bold solutions to global warming. He currently speaks nationally and internationally on the subject of climate change and architecture and serves as a senior analyst for the Southwest Climate Council. He is also senior principal with the architecture and planning firm of Mazria Inc. in Santa Fe, NM.

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