"Punctual"
"Provides a tremendous amount of respect to all students"
Grew up in culturally and architecturally rich: East Mediterranean, Pierre showed an aptitude for art and design challenges at a young age. When his dad bought him legos for his second birthday, it got his concentration and imagination all at once. He spent hours and hours in assembling and building. Out of the captivation, Piere developed a passion for architecture and Urban Design.
Today, Pierre's authentic approach is to integrate three elements: structure, architecture and nature. As his designs gained reputation, his desire was stimulated to pursue post-graduate studies in Architecture and Urban Design and Planning. He attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design (US), Heriot-Watt (UK), and Université de Québec à Montréal (Canada). His PhD thesis title is "the influence of aesthetic perception of urban space on the decision to adopte cycling as mode of transport in city centres" - a multidisciplinary research project that constitutes urban and architectural aesthetics, human psychology, and active mobility.
As a USGBC accredited LEED Green Associate, Pierre's contribution to green, net-zero energy, passive, eco, bio-climatic, zero-Carbon, low-impact and environmental-friendly design and practice is remarkable. Most recently, he developed an analytical portfolio for the Joyce Centre for Partnership and Innovation.
Pierre is always keen on contributing his knowledge and expertise to academia and research. Since 2015, Piere delivered lectures and coached graduate and post graduate architecture and urban plannning students in multiple large scale porjects and connected them to the market. During, he believed in his message as an educator. He is described as teleporting his scholars from theory to practice and from application to innovation by utilizing various educational philosophies through a fascinating voyage that starts with the beginning of every class. When he reads students’ feedback reports on his teaching, only then does Piere contemplate their meaning as his highest achievement by far, and he realizes how much his lectures continue to inspire!
On a personal level, Pierre is a keen amateur chess player since the age of five and enjoys writing romance poems.
PRESS AND NEWS
SUSTAINABLE BY DESIGN
While most of us have viewed the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of cases, outbreaks and lockdowns, Piere Bordeaux has a different perspective. The professor of Architecture and Urban Planning sees architecture, planning and design as part of the problem with the crisis, and part of the solution, too.
Bordeaux recently started a social media campaign promoting green architectural and sustainable practices as the path to a safer and healthier society. He is creating a series of short videos to explain different issues, in simple terms, around sustainable design and practices, with the hashtag #OneMinuteGreenArchitecture, and he is challenging professionals from around the world to wade in.
“My goal is to educate the general public on the importance of sustainability, especially during this time of the crisis,” said Bordeaux, .....
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CAMPAIGN
ONE MINUTE GREEN
The pandemic and the stay-at-home state has influenced me to creating this not-for-profit campaign that aims at raising the awareness on the importance of embracing green architectural and sustainable urban practices.
In a one-minute video, we can show simple cases, tell great stories of influential urban and architectural design and practice that one may think will have an impact. This is your campaign, and I am looking forward for your participation.
