Monday, November 26, 2007

Announcement: President's Lecture Series: ED MAZRIA on Thursday, November 29, 2007

ALUMNI AND FRIENDS PLEASE JOIN ED MAZRIA Architect,
Environmentalist, Author, & Educator


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2007
Pratt Institute alumnus Edward Mazria, Architecture, '63, is an
internationally recognized architect, author, educator, and lecturer with
a long and distinguished career. His award-winning architecture and
planning projects span a thirty-year period and each employs a
cutting-edge environmental approach to design. He is the author of
numerous publications, including The Passive Solar Energy Book, which is
considered the definitive text on solar design worldwide. As the founder
of the non-profit Architecture 2030, he has developed and issued The 2030
Challenge, a measured and achievable strategy to dramatically reduce
global greenhouse gas emissions and fossil-fuel consumption by the year
2030. Mazria will explore the projected impacts of the burning of fossil
fuels, the rapid depletion of global petroleum and natural gas reserves,
and the historic role we must play in addressing them.

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION 6 PM
Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall Center Section Auditorium
61 St. James Place (corner of Lafayette Avenue) Brooklyn Campus

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
ADMISSION IS FREE, HOWEVER SEATING IS LIMITED.
TO RSVP, PLEASE E-MAIL events@pratt.edu


THOMAS F. SCHUTTE, PRESIDENT


FOURTEENTH ANNUAL
PRATT INSTITUTE
PRESIDENT'S LECTURE SERIES
a series of lectures by outstanding individuals in the arts fall 2007

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