Peer Reviewed Journals + Proceedings2016-02-29T15:58:38+00:00

Chandler, Jason. “Hurricane Loss Reduction For Housing in Florida, Final Report”, Deliverable No. 6, International Hurricane Center, Single-family neighborhood Modifiers, 2004.

Chandler, Jason. “Hurricane Loss Reduction For Housing in Florida, Final Report”, Volume 3, Deliverable No. 5, International Hurricane Center, Section 3.1d Investigation of Influence of Architectural Features on Wind Loads, 2003.

Chandler, Jason. “Neighborhood Hurricane Wind Dynamics,” Proceedings: 96th ACSA National Meetings (Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2008)

Gelpi, Nicholas, “EXOTIC CONSTRUCTIONS / Incorporating Invasive Species in the Design-Build Studio,” Proceedings: Working Out: Thinking While Building, ACSA Fall Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2014)

Gelpi, Nicholas, “Pervasively Exotic: Alien Concrete in Miami.” CLOG, MIAMI. Masthead, Canada. (2013).

Gutsche, Jr., R. E., Devine, E., & Acosta, J., VirtualEyes, 8th Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit, West Palm Beach, Florida, Accepted, 2016

Gutsche, Jr., R. E., Jacobson, S., Pinto, J. and Michel, C. “Reciprocal (and reductionist?) Newswork: An examination of youth involvement in creating local participatory environmental news”. Journalism Practice, (2015).

Hal, Hsin-Yu, Shu-Ching Chen, Yimin Zhu, Steven Luis, Scott Graham, and Shahin Vassigh, “Constraint Driven Model Using Correlation and Collaborative Filtering for Sustainable Building”, Proceedings: 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, NV. (2012)

MacKay, Kenneth and Shahin Vassigh, Daylight Models, Pattern Development and Structure,” Proceedings of the Building Technology Educators’ Symposium, College Park, Maryland. (2006)

Nepomechie, Marilys R., “Introduction,” in Abbatte, A., Sustainable | Accessible: THOR, Florida Atlantic University Press. (2008)

Nepomechie, Marilys R., “Miami | La Habana” in Geuze, Adriaan, ed., IABR: The Flood, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, NL. (2005)

Nepomechie, Marilys R., “Miami | La Habana: Magic City | Novia del Mar” in de Baan, Christine, ed., The Mare Nostrum Papers, IABR, NAi Publishers. (2005).

Nepomechie, Marilys R. “Public Space/Urban Beach”, in Childs, M., Square Design, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. (2004)

Newman, Winifred and Shahin Vassigh, “Sustainable Development and Interdisciplinary Education” Proceedings: One Voice International Conference, Orlando, FL (2014)

Newman, Winifred and Shahin Vassigh, “What would Vitruvius do? Re-thinking architecture education for the 21st century university”, Proceedings: Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Hawaii, 67:75 (2014)

Newman, Winifred, Shahin Vassigh, Shu-Ching Chen and Scott Graham, “Using Immersive Computing Environments in Research,” Proceedings: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (2014)

Newman, Winifred, Shahin Vassigh and Yimin Zhu, “Matter as Energy: What Architects Need to Know?” Journal of Engineering Technology (Jet) GSTF Digital Library 2(2): DOI: 10.5176/2251 3701 2.2.71, (2013)

Özer, Ebru and Shahin Vassigh, Sustainability in Building Design: An Integrated Approach to Teaching in Landscape Architecture and Architecture,” Proceedings: CELA Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California (2011)

Pinto, J., Gutsche, Jr, R. E., & Prado, P., Press and public discourses of the ‘seen and unseen’ of sea level rise in Miami, Florida. COCE 2017, Leicester, England, 2017

Pinto, J., & Vigon, M., Press freedom, democracy and climate change reporting in Latin America. Hemispheres, 23, 24-32. (2014).

Read, Alice G. “Vernacular design in hot and humid cities of the Southeastern US” in Vernacular Buildings: A New World Survey, Sandra Piesik ed. (Thames & Hudson) forthcoming, 2016.

Read, Alice G., “What the Birds of the City Tell Us about Sustainable Desgn” in Proceedings: Subtropical Cities, 2013 ACSA Fall Conference. (Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2014)

Rosales, Camilo, and Mohammad Shanti. “Movable Sustainability: The Case of a 2011 Solar Decathlon House,” The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 7, Issue 4, (Urbana Champagne: CGPublisher, 2011).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas and Adam Bierman, “Automating Carbon Neutral Design and Practice for Optimization, Manufacturing, and Post occupancy,” Design Principles & Practices – An International Journal, 10th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2016).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas, Perry Polar, and Assad Mohammed, “Towards Carbon-Neutral Design Education in Programmes of the Built Environment in Caribbean Higher Education Institutes,” Design Principles & Practices – An International Journal, 10th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2016).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas, “Climate-Responsive, Carbon-Neutral Architecture Protocols and Design/Built Projects,” in: Innovative Approaches in Transformative Research. Co-authors: Andrea MAMMARELLA1, Gianmichele Panarelli, Thomas Spiegelhalter, Clarissa Di Tonno, Housing Policies and Urban Economies (HoPUE), (Fondazione Panta Rei, Italy, 2015).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas and Shahin Vassigh, “Achieving Best Practice Net-Zero-Energy Building Design Instruction Methods”, ID 2149, PLEA 2014 – Proceedings: The 30th International PLEA Conference, (Ahmadabad, India: CEPT University, 2014).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas and Shahin Vassigh “Towards Resilient Best Practice Net-Zero-Energy Building Designs.” Proceedings: GRAND RENEWABLE ENERGY 2014 (Tokyo: Big Sight, 2014).

Spiegelhalter Thomas “Energy-Efficiency Retrofitting and Transformation of the FIU-College of Architecture + The Arts into a Net-Zero-Energy-Building by 2018,” Journal: ENERGY PROCEDIA, (Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2014).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Energy-Efficiency Retrofitting and Transformation of the FIU-College of Architecture into a Net-Zero-Energy-Building in 2018.” (Cancun, Mexico: The Solar World Congress, 2013).

Spiegelhalter Thomas. “New Industrial Design Protocols for Carbon Neutral Buildings.” In: Proceedings: “101_1 Waste(lands) +Material Economies / Practicing Industry“. (Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2013).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Mitigate, Adapt, Sustain: Emerging Workflows and Design Protocols for Carbon Neutral Subtropical H2 Cities”, in: Proceedings: Subtropical Cities. ACSA Fall Conference: (Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2013).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Modeling Net-Zero-Fossil-Energy Buildings with 3D/4D Parametric BIM Performance Tools.” Journal of Green Building, Industry Research Section, Volume 7, Issue 4, (2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Carbon Neutrality Benchmarking for Buildings and Cities in the United States by 2050?” The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Roadmap for Developing Low-Carbon Buildings and Cities in the United States by 2050.” in The Constructed Environment 2011, Volume 4, Issue 4. The International Journal on the Constructed Environment. (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. and A. Lee. “Climatic Tropism In Buildings: Designing with Natural Response Cycles for Better Performance.” Design Principles & Practices – An International Journal, Volume 5, Number 4, (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Designing and Manufacturing Zero-Fossil-Energy Buildings With 3D-Parametric Performance Tools.” Design Principles & Practices – An International Journal, Volume 5, Number 4, (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Designing with Parametric 3D-tools, Measuring and Benchmarking Carbon-Neutral-Architecture: Local Examples, Global Perspective.” Proceedings: CHANGE, Architecture, Education, Practices, ACSA International Conference (Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas “Achieving the European and North American ‘2020-2030 Targets’ of Net-Zero-Energy-Buildings with Parametric 3D/4D-BIM Design Tools.” Proceedings: CHANGE, Architecture, Education, Practices, ACSA International Conference (Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Entropy Processes in Low-Energy Architecture.” Proceedings: PLEA, Opportunities, Limits & Needs, Towards an Environmentally Responsible Architecture, 28th International Conference on Low Energy Architecture, (Lima, Peru: CIAC/PUCUP, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas “Transforming and Benchmarking a LEED certified University building into a Net-Zero-Energy Building in the Subtropics.” Proceedings, OPPORTUNITIES, LIMITS & NEEDS, Towards an environmentally responsible architecture, (Lima, Peru: PLEA, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “AIA 2030 Carbon Neutral Building Challenge – Designing Net-Zero-Energy Buildings with Parametric 3D/4D-BIM Design Tools.” Proceedings, OPPORTUNITIES, LIMITS & NEEDS, Towards an environmentally responsible architecture, (Lima, Peru: PLEA, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas “Passive Carbon-Neutral Buildings – Designing with Energy-Entropy Processes in Low-Energy.” Proceedings, OPPORTUNITIES, LIMITS & NEEDS, Towards an environmentally responsible architecture, (Lima, Peru: PLEA, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas “AIA 2030 Carbon Neutral Building Challenge – Designing Net-Zero- Energy Buildings with Parametric 3D/4D-BIM Design Tools.” Proceedings, OPPORTUNITIES, LIMITS & NEEDS, Towards an environmentally responsible architecture, (Lima, Peru: PLEA, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Parametric Carbon-Neutral 3D-Design with Climatic Tropism For Better Building Energy Performance.” Proceedings: International Conference on Environment, Energy and Biotechnology ICEEB 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (New York: ICEEB, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Designing Carbon-Neutral Plus-Energy-Buildings with Site Adaptive Heliotropism Cycles.” Proceedings: World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF) 2012, (Boulder: WREF-ASES, 2012).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “From Theory to Practice in Measuring and Benchmarking Design/Build Sustainable Architecture: Local Examples, Global Perspective,” Design Principles and Practices – An International Journal, Volume 5, No. 2, (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2011).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. “Designing Cities of the Future with the Principles of Biomimicry and Circular Metabolism.” Design Principles and Practices – An International Journal”, Volume 4, No 2 (Urbana Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2010).

Spiegelhalter, Thomas. Keynote: “Energy Efficient Buildings and Cities in the U.S,” Proceedings: The POLYCITY Project – Visions of Sustainable Urban Energy Systems, European Commission CONCERTO Research Initiative, Sixth Framework Program, (Stuttgart, Germany: zafh.net Centre of Applied Research – Sustainable Energy Technology, 2010).

Takahashi, B., Pinto, J., Vigon, M., & Chavez, M. “El ambiente y las noticias: Understanding U.S. Spanish language newsrooms’ coverage of environmental issues.” International Journal of Hispanic Media. (2015).

Vassigh, Shahin, Thomas Spiegelhalter, “Integrated Design Pedagogy for Energy Efficient Design: Tools for Teaching Carbon Neutral Building Design, Energy,” Procedia, Volume 57, (2014).

Vassigh, Shahin, Winifred E Newman, Amir Behzadan, Yimin Zhu, Shu-Ching Chen, and Scott Graham, “Collaborative Learning in Building Sciences Enabled by Augmented Reality,” American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 2, No. 2, 83-88 (2014).

Vassigh, Shahin, Jason Chandler, Thomas Spiegelhalter, and Ebru Ozer. “Integrated Design Pedagogy in Energy Efficiency Design Education – Tools for Teaching Sustainable Design.” Proceedings, BTES Conference, (Philadelphia: BTES, 2013).

Vassigh, Shahin, Yimin Zhu and Winfred Newman, “Leveraging Cyber-infrastructure to Transform Building Science Education,” Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology, www.omicsgroup.org/journals/2168-9717/2168-9717-1-105.pdf. (2012).

 

Vassigh, Shahin, “Sustainable Carbon neutral Building Design: New Simulation Tools for Teaching Green Buildings,” International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, VIII, WIT Press, (2011).

Vassigh, Shahin, “Building Literacy: A Simulated Environment to Learn Building Technology,” The American Institute of Architects Report On University Research, 5th Edition www.aia.org/practicing/research/AIAB092876, (2011).

Vassigh, Shahin and Shahrzad Mirshahidi, “Collaborative Learning: An alternative pedagogy for teaching structures,” Proceedings of the Building Technology Educators’ Symposium Salt Lake City, Utah (2015).

Vassigh, Shahin and Thomas Spiegelhalter, “Towards Resilient best Practices: Net-Zero-Energy Building Designs,” Proceedings: Grand Renewable Energy Conference. Tokyo, Japan (2014)

Vassigh, Shahin,

[eco]Learning Interface: An interactive index of sustainable concepts and strategies for design,” Proceedings of the Building Technology Educators’ Symposium Toronto, Canada, (2011).

Vassigh, Shahin, “Sustainable Carbon Neutral Building Design: New Simulation Tools for Teaching Green Buildings,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, Alicante, Spain, (2011).

Vassigh, Shahin., “Virtual Case Studies: A Teaching Tool for Sustainable Design”, Proceedings of the Building Technology Educators’ Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2009).

Vassigh, Shahin, “Digital Gaming and Sustainable Design,” Proceedings of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium and the European Association of Architectural Educators, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2008).

Vassigh, Shahin and Kenneth MacKay “The Integration of Building Technology and Design in Architecture Curriculum”, Proceedings of the Building Technology Educators’ Symposium

College Park, Maryland, (2006).

Villar, M.E., & Pinto, J., “Coverage of climate change in leading U.S. Spanish-language newspapers”. Journal of Spanish Language Media, 6, 42-60. (2013).

Zamith, R., Pinto, J., & Villar, M. “Constructing climate change in the Americas: An analysis of news coverage in U.S. and South American newspapers”. Science Communication, 35(3), 334-357 (2013).

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