Presented by the Goethe-Institut New York, What Is Green Architecture?is  a new series of conversations, lectures and events exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on contemporary life as well as implications for the future. The series continues with a talk by noted engineer Matthias Schuler followed by a conversation with Andres Lepik.

Matthias Schuler was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and received a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1987. From 1987-1992, he was a scientific assistant at the Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, developing international R&D projects for low energy buildings, with expertise in dynamic building simulation (TRNSYS program). He’s currently the technical director of TRANSSOLAR, founded in Stuttgart in 1992. Today TRANSSOLAR has 32 employees and is a leader in the international low-energy consulting field. Mr. Schuler has been a lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart and has collaborated with the University of Wisconsin's Solar Energy Lab. He has published numerous articles in Architecture Aujourd'hui, DETAIL, and AIT, and is the co-author of Glasatlas (Birkhauser Verlag, 1999). He is currently a lecturer in architecture at Harvard University.

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