Edward Mazria is an American

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, author and educator. He is a graduate of Lafayette High School, played basketball in high school and in college at

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in Brooklyn, New York, and was drafted by the

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in 1962. After receiving his Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the Pratt Institute in 1963 he spent two years as an architect in the

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in Arequipa, Peru. He later worked with the firm of

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in New York before completing his master's degree and beginning a teaching and research career at the

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in 1973. His architecture and

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research at both UNM and the

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established his leadership in the field of resource conservation and passive heating, cooling and daylighting design. His design methodology, developed at that time and presented in The

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Energy Book, is currently in use worldwide. Since forming the architecture and planning firm Mazria Associates, Inc. in 1978, he has completed award-winning architecture and planning projects from the day-lit Mt. Airy Public Library in

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to the Rio Grande Botanic Garden Conservatory in New Mexico. Mazria closed his architecture practice in 2006 and is currently the Founder and CEO of Architecture 2030, a think tank developing real-world solutions for 21st century problems including the AIA+2030 Professional Education Series, 2030 Palette, China Accord, and the 2030 Districts movement in North American cities. He developed the “Roadmap to Zero Emissions” and is currently working with cities across the U.S. to develop pathways for “zero” to “80%”

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reductions by 2050. In 2019, Mazria was a keynote speaker at Verdical Group's annual Net Zero Conference.

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 building designs have been published in

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, Progressive Architecture, Metropolis,

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, Process, Kenchiku Bunka, Public Garden, Solar Today, ArchitectureWeek, Texas Architect, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Recent work

Most recently Mazria has reshaped the national and international dialogue on

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to incorporate building design and the “Building Sector”. His research includes U.S. and global building sector analysis and

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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 report, "Roadmap to Zero Emissions" submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, outlines his strategy for addressing what he believes is today's most pressing global challenge.http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id32377 Article about Mazria He is the founder of Architecture 2030, a climate change organization. He currently speaks nationally and internationally on the subject of climate change and the built environment.

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Published work

Recent work

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