2021 Sustainability Foreword and Table of Contents Context: The Future of Environmental Responsibility - M. LeFevre The Changing Governance of All Things - D. Gilmore The 10-Minute Neighborhood - K. Sanders Life Cycle Assessment: A Changing Frame - R. Taylor/D. Kestner Planetary Design: The Profound Importance of Our Embedded Nature - G. Reid Design Will Not Change the World - R. Ventura The Circular Economy: Why Not Us? - R. Spears Shifting Perspectives - D. Condon COVID’s Effect on Sustainability - A. Horning Systems Thinking: Four Business Models to Accelerate Environmental Responsibility - P. Sundharam How Purpose Drives Balance - E. Mitchell-Kozack Collective Action: Lessons Learned - D. Davies Re-educating Ourselves: Crossing Boundaries Farther Afield - L. Sale The Road to 2030: Small Steps, Big Changes - R. Reis/T. Powers
Rives Taylor

Rives Taylor

FAIA LEED Fellow AP BD+C

Dirk Kestner

Dirk Kestner

PE, LEED AP BD+C

Life Cycle Assessment: A Changing Frame

Gensler’s Director of Design Resilience Rives Taylor shares the evolution and responsibility for perspective correction, along with 5 starting points for action. Collaborator Dirk Kestner’s case study offers evidence. 

Prologue: Then

Dallas, TX, circa 1996: I was standing in a Hilton conference room far below ground – in anything but a daylit room. I was speaking to the Texas Society of Architects about this “new thing” called sustainability. Not just as an architect, but as a client with the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. I faced the audience and posed a question for which no one had a response. I asked if they understood lifecycle thinking. Their blank stares delivered a clear answer.

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