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		<title>Design with Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all aware of the importance of conserving energy and natural resources, due to their growing scarcity, rising costs and the potential for permanent environmental harm to our world. Many people are surprised to discover that buildings are responsible &#8230; <a href="http://francoislevy.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/design-with-climate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=275&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book, BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design, recently became available at Amazon, and should be out in late November. I discuss in detail how building information modeling can effectively be used by small and medium-sized architecture firms to design more &#8230; <a href="http://francoislevy.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/book/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=236&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sublime</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kant contrasts the sublime (in whose presence the fundamental human response is awe) with the beautiful (which elicits attraction). For Kant, to be confronted with the sublime is to be made aware of one’s insignificance; it is a tonic to ego. <a href="http://francoislevy.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/the-sublime/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=42&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Spring 2010, I&#8217;m teaching graduate-level Environmental Controls II (thermal controls, passive systems) at UT Austin, as well as two undergraduate sections of Building Technology V (lighting, daylighting, acoustics) at UTSA.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=81&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: this is a lengthier version of an article of mine which first appeared in Matthew Devries' legal blog, Best Practices Construction Law back in July] As an architect and a concerned citizen, I frequently am required to evaluate the &#8230; <a href="http://francoislevy.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/measuring-cost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=43&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: 3D Modeling in Vectorworks 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an advocate of the strategic use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in architectural design, I&#8217;ve trained professionals in the use of Vectorworks (a BIM product) for over a decade, and I&#8217;ve taught Vectorworks in universities. So, I have both &#8230; <a href="http://francoislevy.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/review-3d-modeling-in-vectorworks-2009/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=44&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The price of progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Hubris and Hybrids, Hard and Jamison adopt a posture which on the face of it attempts to mediate between unbridled technological enthusiasm and reactionary distrust of science. The former, heroic view of science and technology is one which casts &#8230; <a href="http://francoislevy.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/the-price-of-progress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=45&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who owns saving the world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Schatzberg’s critique of Lovins et al.’s Natural Capitalism (2002), the reviewer claims the authors are naïve in enthusiastically and uncritically embracing technology as the solution to environmental problems. This emphasis on technology seems contradictory to the thrust of Lovins’ &#8230; <a href="http://francoislevy.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/who-owns-saving-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=46&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Space 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lunar Regolith Particles in Outposts, a paper for which I&#8217;m the lead author, was accepted at the AIAA Space 2009 Conference in Pasadena in September.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=84&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching and press</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Lévy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am teaching Environmental Controls II to graduate students and Technical Communication at the UT School of Architecture in the Spring 2009 semester. There&#8217;s also a profile of me in the Fall 2008 issue of St Johns&#8217; College Magazine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=francoislevy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11945447&amp;post=211&amp;subd=francoislevy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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