Built Environment

Elihu Rubin

PhD, MCP, Associate Professor of Urbanism, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale School of Architecture

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Drew Gentner

PhD, Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Associate Professor, Yale School of the Environment

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Morgan Grove

PhD, MFS, Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment, Team Leader, USDA Forest Service’s Baltimore Urban Field Station, Scholar in Residence, SESYNC (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center)

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Study Reveals Surprising Role of Haze In the Warming of Chinese Cities

Note: Yale School of the Environment (YSE) was formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). News articles and events posted prior to July 1, 2020 refer to the School’s name at that time.

A new Yale-led study published in the journal Nature Communications sheds light on the surprising role that haze in China plays in promoting the urban heat island effect [UHI], a process whereby city centers tend to be significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.

Yale School of Divinity Develops the Living Village Project

A residential project of the Yale Divinity School, the Yale Planetary Solutions Project, and the Living Building Challenge

Mae-ling Lokko

PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture, Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture

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Anna Dyson

MArch, Hines Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of the Environment, Founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture

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The Built Environment: Soil Sisters – An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health

A SOM Foundation and Yale School of Architecture supported project at Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture

Karen Seto

PhD, Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale School of the Environment, Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology

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Global ambition: ‘Reinventing the DNA of the built environment’

Buildings account for 40% of global energy use and 25% of water consumption. The Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture hopes to change that.

Imagine a small house whose exterior is covered with planters full of ripe radishes, carrots, and lettuce. Indoors, another wall of plants stretches floor to ceiling. Their microbe-rich roots capture harmful air pollutants. If you touch the plants, beneficial microbes cross to you, possibly prompting a subtle shift of your own microbiome toward better health.