Spotlight on Design: Buro Happold

Tuesday, February 16 6:30 to 8 pm Since 1997, Spotlight on Design has invited architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and designers to explore the creative process, cultural forces, and evolving questions shaping the built environment. Roger Chang, partner and building environments lead at Buro Happold’s Washington, D.C. office, presents the lecture Invisible Structures, exploring the unseen dimensions of engineering in shaping the built environment. Drawing on projects across cultural, educational, civic, and historic settings, Invisible Structures reveals the intelligence embedded within, illuminating the systems and structures that make architecture possible. Buro Happold is an international consultancy of engineers, designers, and advisors tackling complex engineering challenges in the built environment. Through collaborations with leading architectural practices and organizations including the United Nations, UNESCO, and C40 Cities, the firm addresses major challenges and questions of performance, sustainability, and resilience. Program Schedule 6 pm: Doors open 6:30 pm: Program starts 7:15 pm: Q&A 7:30 pm: Light reception 8 pm: Program ends About the Speaker Roger Chang has over two decades of building engineering experience and currently leads the MEP team within Buro Happold’s Washington, D.C. office. He has worked on complex cultural, education, civic, and government projects. Chang has a special interest in the intersection of façade engineering and building systems. He is a strong proponent of adaptive reuse and modernization projects and has worked on a significant number of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2020, he was recognized as an ASHRAE Fellow. Sponsors Spotlight on Design is presented by the Anthony and Keiko Greenberg Foundation. Additional support provided by the American Institute of Architects, Brick Industry Association, HDR, Inc., and the Edward A. Feiner Fund. Image courtesy Buro Happold.