David
Fannon
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Fannon in the Press
New buildings are huge carbon hogs. Here’s how to design them to last for centuries
“Buildings are an enormous investment of energy, material, human capital, and money,” says David Fannon, a professor of architecture at Northeastern University and coauthor of The Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use. “We pour all these resources into making them. It seems like it would be good if those things served their purpose for as […]
The secret to Beijing’s Olympic venues? More than half the buildings were used before
Reuse of venues is beginning to become almost an expectation, according to David Fannon, architecture and engineering professor at Northeastern University, who has studied the afterlives of Olympic venues in Rio de Janeiro and other former host cities.
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‘Future-use architecture’, a project by faculty members at Northeastern, wins $100k Latrobe Prize
Awarded every other year by the AIA College of Fellows, the Latrobe Prize is a major award—$100,000—granted to a two-year project that leads “to significant advances in the architectural profession.” This year, the award, which is named after architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, was given to a team of three faculty members of Northeastern University’s School […]
