Architectural Technology Speaker Series: Dr. Carlos Cerezo Davila

The Fall 2025 Architectural Technology Speaker Series - Data, Details, Delivery, is a series of daytime lectures from leading practitioners and researchers presented by the Department of Architecture's Technology Committee.

As climate change accelerates urban warming, the future of thermally comfortable and economically vibrant outdoor spaces is in jeopardy everywhere. To ensure that projects are thermally comfortable in warming conditions, architects at KPF leverage a range of physics-based modeling tools that promise to reveal how the built environment and climatic conditions will impact human sensorial experience of a given space, using that data to optimize designs for passive cooling. From real time design tools to microclimate “digital twins”, research informs the creation of new workflows, feeding directly into project work and allowing designers to communicate risks and solutions to stakeholders.

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