The world’s urban population is estimated to reach 2.6 billion people by 2050. To accommodate this population increase, an additional 65,000 square meters of floor space needs to be constructed per hour for the next three decades. Yet, the productivity of the construction industry has stagnated or fallen for decades in many advanced economies. Construction activity also generates an enormous amount of waste. This excessive waste and the lack of construction productivity, coupled with the high projected societal demand for new floor space, suggests that we need new approaches to design, fabricate and construct building forms.
In the Linda Hall Library’s 22nd Annual Bartlett Lecture, Building the Future for People and Planet, Princeton University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sigrid Adriaenssens will explore the most inventive analog, digital, and AI methodologies and craft-based, robotic, and Augmented Reality construction techniques, demonstrating their use in the realization of sustainable building forms.
About the Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture Series
The Linda Hall Library’s annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture was established in 2003 to bring the finest university professors to speak on subjects related to the Library’s collections. Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. was the first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Linda Hall Library. Under his leadership, the Hall’s bequest for the creation of a public library in Kansas City was used to establish this library devoted to science, engineering, and technology. Mr. Bartlett served on the Board until his death in 1964.
The Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture is presented in association with the Yale Club of Kansas City, the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City, and the Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City.
This program will be held at Kansas City’s Linda Hall Library on Thursday, September 26, at 7:00 PM. Click here to visit the event page and register.
