Avi Friedman Biography

Avi Friedman is known across the world as Canada's housing innovation guru. Wallpaper, an international design magazine, backs up this assertion by including him in its top-10 list of persons "most likely to transform the way we live." Friedman, an architectural professor at Montreal's McGill University, has earned honors for his work in house design, community development, and sustainability. His study focuses on market acceptability, construction, and resource efficiency as well as other aspects that impact the design and implementation of inexpensive and sustainable building methods at the unit and community level. Friedman is the author of several books and has been widely published in academic and trade journals. He's also created three home prototypes that were constructed to scale as full-size demonstration projects. The Grow Home (co-designed with Witold Rybczynski), one of the prototypes, is a narrow-front rowhouse that has gotten a lot of press. Since then, it has been constructed in a number of towns across North America and Europe. According to Friedman, the twenty-first century presents civilization with a "perfect storm" of difficulties and possibilities. His approach is based on sustainability, which considers social, environmental, economic, and cultural factors as intertwined variables that drive prosperity and self-esteem. Avi Friedman will present his sustainability ideas, demonstrating how his work has been applied to regional master planning, neighborhood design, urban redevelopment, and the creation of prototypes for new housing. He portrays a clear picture of the future in house design and will influence the way you consider our society's objectives as an impassioned speaker.

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