Faculty Associates

Kiel Moe

Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology; Area Coordinator, GSD Master in Design Studies, Energy & Environments Concentration



Office: Gund Hall 219b
Email: kmoe@gsd.harvard.edu
Web: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/people/kiel-moe.html

Research Interests: 

Professor Moe's research and pedagogy focuses on an agenda (theories, techniques, and technologies) for energy that is at once more ecologically and architecturally ambitous: Maximum Power Design. A such, he focuses on both buildings as manifestations of large scale energy systems as well as overlooked and discrete thermal parameters in buildings that yet have great impact on the power of a building.

Related Publications: 

What is Energy & How (Else) Might We Think About It? (2017)

Empire, State & Building (2016)

Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (2016)

The Hierarchy of Energy in Architecture: Emergy Analysis (2015)

Insulating Modernism: Isolated and Non-Isolated Thermodynamics in Architecture (2014)

Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy (2013)

Co-editor, Building Systems: Design, Technology, and Society (2012)

Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture (2010)

Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture (2008)

Research Areas: 

Harvard University
Center for the Environment
Address: 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
Email: huce@environment.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-0368

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