William W. Braham

Biography

B.S.E., Princeton University
M.Arch, Ph.D. Arch., University of Pennsylvania

Dr. William W. Braham, FAIA is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently Interim Chair, and Director of the certificate program in Ecological Architecture. He received an engineering degree from Princeton University and an M.Arch and Ph.D. Arch. From the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1988. At Penn he teaches graduate courses on ecology, technology, and design, and coordinates the second year design studios. He practices with the TC Chan Center and as a design consultant for Ivalo Lighting. At the Chan Center, his most recent projects have been the Sustainability Plan and the Carbon Footprint for the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2006 he published a book called Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory and in 2002 published a book called Modern Color/Modern Architecture: Amédée Ozenfant and the Genealogy of Color in Modern Architecture. He is working on another book project called Conditioned Space: Architecture and the Environment.