Sadly, Willi Weber, architect and Professor of Building Physics at the University of Geneva, longstanding PLEA associate and the organiser of PLEA 2006 International Conference in Geneva, died at his home in Geneva, in March 2026. Willi Weber was co-editor with Simos Yannas of book Lessons from Vernacular Architecture (2013).
PLEA Day in London – Public Lecture by Poggione+Biondi: Architecture, Landscape and Sustainability – 26th June 2025
Lecture: Poggione+Biondi: Architecture, Landscape and Sustainability
Factory in Piura -northern coast of Peru, by Poggione+Biondi.
By Susel Biondi and René Poggione 26th June, 5.30 to 6.30pm At the SED Studio 1 Montague Street, WC1B 5BP
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PLEA Day in London or: In between conferences activities
As the PLEA Board of Directors we try to meet on a regulary basis. Most of the meeting are online but we try to meet in person between the conferences once, whenever the overseas directors are in Europe.
This year we have a whole PLEA Day full of activities in London at the Architectural Association. It starts on Thursday 26th of June with an open lecture of our director Susel Biondi.
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PLEA 2026 in Costa Rica
Dear friends of PLEA,
we proudly announce the 2026 PLEA conference which will be held in Costa Rica from 27th to 31st of JULY 2026.
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PLEA 2024 Review
PLEA folks are getting back into the rhythm of attending live, in person conferences. And thus we traveled to Poland this summer. The PLEA 2024 conference organizers called to Wroclaw in Poland to share, debate and engage in person on a challenging sustainable architecture and urbanism to (Re)thinking resilience, to (re)think together to be an instrument for a change and to make a significant difference together. Online option were mixed in for those not able or willing to travel.
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Appointment of Next President and Change in Board Committee
The Board is pleased to announce that with effect from 1st January 2022:
(1) Dr. Heide Schuster has been appointed as the President.
(2) Dr. Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves has been appointed as the Vice-President.
(3) Prof. Rajat Gupta has been appointed as the Secretary.
A virtual board meeting was held on Zoom on 30th September 2021.
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Natural Ventilation and Fans for Low Carbon Buildings
Dear PLEA friends,
This is just a thought as you may be now going on to design very low energy buildings – for practice, projects or competitions. Obviously the longer one can run a building on free local, natural energy the less the energy you have to import into a building through pipes and wires, and the lower the carbon impact of that building. So a key indicator or a truly low energy building must be how much of a day or year it can be run with resorting to mechanical systems. I had been concerned that while some of us like to design Star Wars fashion (May the Force be with Us) – others like to nail down calcs for every step of the process. So windows in many locations may need a) security grills or screens (the Japanese are wonderful at these) and b) insect or fly screens.
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PLEA2018 Special Issue at Architectural Science Review was published
The PLEA2018 Special Issue at Architectural Science Review was published online:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00038628.2021.1874713
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