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Harrison Fraker

Harrison Fraker

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Harrison Fraker was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton and Cambridge Universities and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting and sustainable design, applied research and teaching.  He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice.  He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding Dean.  He was granted Fellowship in the AIA College of Fellows for his distinguished career of bridging education and practice.  He has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit-oriented neighborhoods in China, including the development of the Eco Block, the first integrated whole-systems design approach that generates all energy from local renewables and recycles and reuses all water and waste. He stepped down as Dean in June 1908 and became the President of Places Journal Board of Directors in the fall of the same year.  He now teaches design studio stressing the critical importance of environmental performance. His research on best practices of sustainable neighborhoods globally is summarized in his recently published book, The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods, Sept 2013, Island Press. He currently is the Chair of the Energy Resources Group (ERG), a world renowned, interdisciplinary graduate group on Campus and is also the Ax:son Johnson Visiting Professor in the Sustainable Urban Design (SUDes) Masters program at Lund University in Sweden. He was selected most recently to receive the 2014 Topaz Medallion, the highest award given in architectural education by the AIA and the ACSA. He most recently received a $1.5million research grant from the California Energy Commission entitled: the Oakland Ecoblock – A ZNE, Low Water Use Retrofit Neighborhood Demonstration Project.

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Tiny House in My Backyard: Meeting emissions goals while reducing housing stressMay 23, 2016

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Harrison Fraker joined the Climate CoLab communityMay 24, 2016
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