Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect, sustainability expert, and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. She is the founder and former CEO of Bunting Coady Architects, now part of B+H Architects, and former COO of Kasian—two of Canada’s biggest design firms. Coady was also a director of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment and a member of the United Nations Environment Program’s Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction. She is a FRAIC AAIA LEED Fellow. She resides with her family in Vancouver, Canada.
In this excerpt from her book Rebuilding Earth, Coady reflects on the architecture of her home city, Vancouver, and how it might affect and reflect the happiness of residents.
This guide is about creating homes, buildings, and cities that are better for people and the environment.
It's predicted that the Earthʼs population could grow to nine billion people in the twenty-first century, putting more pressure on our environment, using up natural resources, and causing more stress due to overcrowding. In her inspiring book, Rebuilding Earth, Coady offers a hopeful plan for designing the cities, buildings, and homes of the future in a way that is more eco-friendly and humane.
Coady explains how we can move away from old, outdated ways of building and embrace new, greener methods that use less material and energy while creating healthier communities. This new approach can lead to a greater sense of purpose, better health, and more happiness. Instead of focusing on negative outcomes, Coady presents an optimistic view of how we can build a better future. This book is for people in construction, design, and development, as well as anyone interested in how our environment affects our well-being.
This episode of the Green Dreamer Podcast, features Teresa Coady, the author of Rebuilding Earth, a revolutionary guide to rethinking our role as planet shapers in the Digital Age.
Host Kamea Chayne asks questions about the book and Coady sheds light on why we need to go beyond thinking about wellness through an individualistic lens to looking at it through a systemic lens; how we've largely been designing our built environments for machines rather than for life and ecological health; and more.
Teresa Coady delivers a presentation at the 2019 Green Building Festival. She addresseds several considerations that contemporary architects ought to consider, emphasising happiness above all. Environmental factors include sound, sunlight, pollution, nuclear energy, and likely future conditions.
Teresa Coady was the keynote speaker at Sustainabuild Vancouver 2012, where she addressed the need for design to break free of traditional constraints and embrace “quantum” thinking. Coady, who is a founding partner with B+H Bunting Coady and worked with the United Nations, took time out to speak to the Journal of Commerce about her views on the future of architecture and how buildings need to adapt to the natural world rather than servicing vehicles and roads.
Embracing digital methods in building and maintaining structures is a path we will have to take in future, Coady said. She termed buildings made in the twentieth century “some of the worst buildings ever built,“ and predicted that future buildings will be much more in tune with their surrounding environment, using daylighting, geothermal heat and other sustainable technologies.
Women of Influence presents Teresa Coady, a trailblazing architect and environmental activist, who tells the story of her passion for architecture that honors the environment and enhances the well-being of people who inhabit the buildings.
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“We need to understand how nature achieves its own resilience. Then, we can direct our actions to support all life on Earth.”
Architect Teresa Coady offers an essay response to artist Lindsay Kirker’s 2021 exhibition This is a Love Story.