Franca Trubiano is associate professor of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design where she teaches in construction technology, sustainable design, and energy free design principles. She is a member and co-director (2021-22) of the Mellon Humanities Urbanism and Design (H+U+D) Initiative at Penn where she conducts funded research in the area of “Building Ethics and Construction Labor.” She is also funded by the Perry World House at Penn for her research on “Forced Labour, Urban Migration and the Built Environment.” The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy sponsored her work on “Fossil Fuels, the Building Industry, and Human Health.” Previous research was funded by the US Department of Energy and NSF. Her manuscript Building Theories, Architecture as the Art of Building (Routledge) will be published in fall 2021. Most recently she co-edited the book Women [Re]Build; Stories, Polemics, Futures (2019), as well as Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (2015-Korean, 2012).

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