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Single Family Dwellings: Green within reason

Being green more often than not starts at home - even with the home itself. But building green takes place in the context of a neighborhood, a community, and a legal and economic climate. These factors can work both for and against the constructive pursuit of sustainability. Here, four panelists will discuss their extensive and diverse experiences working with city & regional governments, private developers, and nonprofits, to reflect upon the practical side of the sustainable single family home, as well as the more abstract notions that have inspired their particular work. We will discuss the costs, material possibilities, and family impact of going green.

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GRAFT is a full service architectural firm located in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Beijing. Our collective professional experience encompasses a wide array of building types including Hospitality Design, Fine Arts, Educational, Institutional, Commercial and Residential facilities. The firm has won numerous awards in Europe as well as in the United States.

GRAFT was established in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit. Alejandra Lillo became a partner at Graft LA in 2007. Graft later opened offices in Berlin, Germany in 2001 as well as in Bejing, China in 2005 with Gregor Hoheisel as a partner.

GRAFT was conceived as a ‘Label’ for Architecture, Urban Planning, Exhibition Design, Music and the ‘pursuit of happiness’. Since the firm was established, it has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects in multiple disciplines and locations. With the core of the firm’s enterprises gravitating around the field of architecture and the built environment, GRAFT has always maintained an interest in crossing the boundaries between disciplines and ‘grafting’ the creative potentials and methodologies of different realities. This is reflected in the firm’s expansion into the fields of music, car design, art installations, academic projects and ‘eventings’ as well as in the variety of project locations in Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Italy, France and in the U.S. and Mexico.

With a staff of talented architectural professionals and administrators, GRAFT has the resources and technology necessary to execute a project from programming to design and through construction, including construction documents, construction administration, and governmental agency review phases. GRAFT has rigorously undertaken an increasing role in programming, master-planning and urban design. Additionally, our firm maintains successful relationships, as needed, with associate architectural and engineering firms and specialty consultants.