January 2008
In the latest expression of its long commitment to advancing sustainable design, Metropolis magazine is supporting a national Webcast and competition that will kick off Architecture 2030's efforts to advance global warming solutions during 2008.
Architecture 2030-the influential, Santa Fe, N.M.-based non-profit organization dedicated to rapidly transforming the U.S. and global building sector from a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to global warming-approached Metropolis as a natural sponsor for these new initiatives.
"Metropolis has consistently supported sustainable architecture and was the first to help us get our 2030 Challenge out to the design community," said Edward Mazria,
the internationally recognized architect who founded Architecture 2030 in 2002.
The national Webcast, "Face It: There Is a Solution to Global Warming," will be broadcast from Architecture 2030's Web site www.architecture2030.org starting at 9 a.m. EST on Thursday, January 30th. It will build on the information provided during Architecture 2030's highly successful February 2007 Webcast, "The 2010 Imperative Global Emergency Teach-in." The Teach-In Webcast, which was moderated by Metropolis Editor in Chief Susan S. Szenasy, reached a quarter of a million students, design professionals and government officials worldwide.
During this month's "Face It" Webcast, Architecture 2030 will announce a dual-category graphic design and video student competition, the Reverberate Competitions-one of
several initiatives and events within its Reverberate Campaign, the umbrella name for its 2008 initiatives. Students will be asked to create projects (the nature
of which is to be revealed during the Webcast) that will "reverberate through their campus and society at large."
The competition winners will share in a $20,000 award. In addition, the winners within the graphic design category will have their work featured in an ad in Metropolis, through the magazine's donation of a full page for that purpose, and the video category winners' work will be featured on the Metropolis Web site www.metropolismag.com and on Architecture 2030's Web site.
The "Face It" Webcast will serve as a backdrop and lead-in for "Focus the Nation," a national event on Friday, January 31st organized by Architecture 2030 to engage students, faculty, administrators, citizens and government officials in discussions about global warming solutions.
"We consider it a great honor, and a critical extension of Metropolis's now 26-year-old mission, to wholeheartedly support Architecture 2030's historic agenda," said Szenasy.
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