Master Classes

Building Sense Now initiative has joined forces with MISEREOR, the German Catholic Bishops’ Organisation for Development Cooperation, to offer the following virtual Master Classes. By this, our aim is to offer access to country-specific building expertise – not only in line with climate-friendly and culturally sensitive practice, but also so that ideas can be implemented directly worldwide. Please feel free to register for the events you’re interested in. You’ll find actual construction examples from all over the world. The scheduling of all Master Classes will take place promptly.

Upcoming events:

Activism through architecture

Rosie Paul (Masons Ink Studio, Co Founder and principal architect)
Date: 13 September 2023, 11:30 am CEST
Register here

Further dates will be published shortly.

Past events:

Master Classes 2023

How bio-based concrete can create synergies between urban growth and rural development

Wolfram Schmidt (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) and Angela Tetteh Tawiah (Università degli Studi di Padovak)
Date: 11 May 2023

Master Classes 2022

Experiences from the network of earthen construction actors in the Sahel

Odile Vandermeeren and Mariam Sy, Architects and Co-founder of the FACT Sahel+ network
Date: 5 May 2022

The role of women in construction with earth and other locally available building materials in Mesoamerica

Sandy Minier, Red MesoAmeri-Kaab
Date: 22 February 2022

Bahareque Ceren: A ancestral construction technique to create modern and sustainable architecture from El Salvador

Wilfredo Carazas Aedo, Architect, Research Unit Architecture, Environment & Constructive Cultures – CRATerre (International Centre on Earthen Architecture)
Date: 24 January 2022

Master Classes 2021

Post disaster reconstruction in Haiti based on Local Building Cultures

Alexandre Douline, civil engineer, CRAterre (International Centre on Earthen Architecture)
Date: December, 16

COP 26: How to reach a zero carbon built environment

Edward Mazria, Founder of Architecture 2030
Date: November, 29

Affordable Housing and Sustainability – housing typologies, low embodied energy construction systems, ecological resilience – Chennai and Ambur

Ashok Lall, Ashok B. Lall Architects
Date: October, 26

‘Re-inventing Growth through Strategic Design’

Professor Peter Sharratt, Founder and Managing Director of Fhoras Consulting, a specialist in sustainability strategy practice
Date: October, 1

Urban Village Regeneration; – Building with earth and local recycled materials, climate responsive dense typology, low energy cooling systems – Resilience Centre, Delhi

Ashok Lall, Ashok B Lall Architects
Date: September, 24th

Climate Responsive Building and Construction in Development Cooperation – Experiences from Latin America

Marcelo Waschl, former Desk Officer Urban Development for Latin America at MISEREOR
Date: August 13th

Low Tech Design

Thomas Auer, Managing Director of Transsolar
Date: August 6th

Building Sense Now – an introductory conversation between Christine Lemaitre and Prashant Kapoor, two of the Building Sense Now initiators

Christine Lemaitre, CEO German Sustainable Building Council – DGNB e.V.
Prashant Kapoor, Chief Industry Specialist, IFC Climate Business Group, World Bank Group
Date: July 22nd

Building Sense Now Global Award – Leading by example: Building with ramped earth

Anna Heringer, architect at Studio Anna Heringer Austria and 1st Building Sense Now Award Winner
Date: July 27th

India

July 19th to 20th in Auroville, Centre for Indian Studies / Pondicherry, India

London

Building Sense Now open round table, took place in October 19, 2018 at the University of Westminster Marylebone Hall. Read an article about the event here.

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We would like to invite you to join our initiative and actively support this in your own practice.

Meet the Initiators

	Christine Lemaitre, Chief Executive Officer, DGNB e.V.
	Prashant Kapoor, IFC Climate Business Group, World Bank Group
	Peter Sharratt, Founder and Managing Director of Fhoras Consulting
	Ashok Lall, Design and Technology, Chair at KRVIA, Mumbai
	Bruno Sauer, Chief Executive Officer, Green Building Council España
	Michael Braungart, CEO EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung Hamburg
	Thomas Auer, Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, TU Munich
	Edward Mazria, Founder of Architecture 2030
	Ipsita Mahajan, Principal Consultant, Real Estate Development, Mumbai