George Elvin

George Elvin is an associate professor of architecture at North Carolina State University, where his research and teaching focus on architecture for extreme environments. He is the author of more than 40 books, chapters, and articles, and has delivered lectures and workshops in more than 20 countries. In 1981 he founded his own design-build firm, and in 1998 received his PhD in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a fellow at the Center for Energy Research, Education, and Service, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute, and the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.