Lance Hosey

Lance Hosey is an architect and author who has written two books, contributed to several others, and published hundreds of essays for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and many other media outlets. In 2018, he won the American Institute of Architects Sarah Booth Conroy Prize, and in 2015 he became one of only 30 people in the world to be named a Fellow with both the AIA and the US Green Building Council. Builder magazine has said “Lance Hosey is on a crusade to revolutionize what it means to be sustainable.”

The Shape of Green

The Shape of Green

Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design

Does going green change the face of design or only its content? The first book to outline principles for the aesthetics of sustainable design, The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made.

In addition to examining what makes something attractive or emotionally pleasing, Hosey connects these questions with practical design challenges. Can the shape of a car make it more aerodynamic and more attractive at the same time?