A 'big idea': architecture as a solution to unsustainable growth

Published April 13, 2016 This content is archived.

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UB associate professor of architecture and media study Mark Shepard is one of eight UB faculty members asked to disregard time and money and consider one 'big idea' they'd like to implement in their field today. Their responses were featured in UB's spring 2016 issue of At Buffalo, UB's alumni magazine.

Zoom image: Mark Shepard is director of the Media Arts and Architecture Program and co-directs the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies. Mark Shepard is associate professor of architecture and media study at UB. He is also co-director of the School of Architecture and Planning's Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies.

Mark Shepard is director of the Media Arts and Architecture Program and co-directs the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies. 

Shepard's idea considers architectural solutions to unsustainable growth: "One of my big ideas would be to actually realize some of the projects that my architecture graduate students are already developing. These are amazing projects that integrate natural and human-made systems to make cities and towns more sustainable."

Read Shepard's full response.