Book:

 Durable Design for Durable Architecture

Can humans revert back to the building of shelters that can be adapted to fufill changing roles and requirements instead of wasteful demolition ? Learn more from Dr. Michael Cassidy on Monday, January 5 at 12:00 noon on the terrace of the Oaxaca Lending Library (Pino Suarez 519). Dr. Cassidy`s new book, Durable Design for Durable Architecture proposes that using flexibilty and adaptability can make buildings last a very long time and his talk will be an interesting look at the future of architecture. This program is free and open to all.

Author:

Michael Cassidy graduated in 1962 with First Class Honours in Architecture from University College, London, and received his Master's degree in 1970 in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Harkness Fellow. The University of Plymouth recently awarded him his Doctorate in Architecture. Following experience in hospital research, teaching and design, he was appointed leader of the Environmental Studies Group in the Greater London Council. From 1975, he worked as an architect and planner in private practice and has been responsible for the design and execution of more than one million square meters of buildings in twenty-six countries. He has held academic positions at University College, London, the Regent's Street Polytechnic (now University of Middlesex), Washington University, St Louis, the Centre for Planning and Development Research, UC, Berkeley, Kuwait University Department of Architecture and Gulf University for Science and Technology. He is a Registered Architect in the UK. He has published widely in the technical press and has held exhibitions of his paintings in Kuwait and Mexico.