Pliny Fisk III

Associate Professor
Joint appointment Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Lead PI Solar Decathlon
Fellow Sustainable Urbanism
Fellow Health Systems Design

Location : A426 • Phone: (979)
pfisk@archmail.tamu.edu
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Pliny is considered one of the originators of the Sustainable Architecture and Planning movement in the U.S. His work has spanned from originating one of the first design build courses in the country using sustainable design procedures in the early 70's to being instrumental in helping formulate national policy and procedures regarding the design and planning professions. His teaching and research covers an equally wide range of subject matter from alternative materials and low impact building systems, biophilia in design, to alternative planning strategies developed from his work with Ian McHarg and many other well know figures in the environmental movement. He teaches undergraduate, graduate and Phd students

Pliny has received numerous national and international awards including the only Earth Summit Award shared with the City of Austin for his work in creating the first Green Building Program in the world, a Presidential award for the sustainable planning of towns moved in response to the Mississippi flood, the first ever Sacred Tree award given by the U.S. Green Building Council, The solar Pioneer Award given by the American solar Energy Society. He has recently been appoint onto the national peer review committee for the General Services Commission regarding all major federally funded buildings Pliny has produced many papers on his theories and practices and has invited lectures in this country and abroad averaging 20 such appearances on an annual basis....[more]