 Mr. Peter Land
Professor College of Architecture IIT, Chicago
Peter Land is an architect and planner with international and US background and experience. He received his professional education at the A.A. School and the Royal Academy Schools in London, Yale University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He holds masters degrees in architecture and city planning, and is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has received awards from the Graham Foundation, the Distinguished Designer Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Department of Energy of the Federal Government.
Peter Land is a tenured member of the faculty at the College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology since 1977. At IIT his work involves urban design, house type development and planning for low-rise, high-density neighborhoods, and a wide range of projects and research in energy related advanced technology. He also lectures at other universities and conferences and before coming to Chicago Peter Land taught at Harvard University.
His major professional projects include the UN Experimental Housing project, completed in 1975 in Lima, Peru for which he was director and chief architect. He was responsible from inception through planning and building of this large international project. This new demonstration neighborhood of 440 houses is based upon the low-rise, high-density urban concept with new technologies and groups of houses designed by leading international architects. Peter Land has also worked on many projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East including architecture, technology and planning. More recently he has carried out major sun/shadow studies, with a heliodon designed and built by him for this purpose, to assess environmental degradation from new high-rise structures in the historical near north side of Chicago. The equipment is also used for a range of experimental design development work.
Short description of presentation:
The presentation of Peter Land will argue the case for high-density, low-rise, energy efficient urbanism and housing. He has carried out extensive research and design development studies at IIT extending over several years on this concept obtaining new data on densities, lot form, planning principles for solar efficiency, etc. Some of this material will be shown in relation to the Chicago context. A strategy for sustainable incremental redevelopment of the Chicago blocks and neighborhoods at increased densities, with passive solar design and integrated landscape will be discussed in detail. |
