Alan Organschi

Alan Organschi is a principal and partner at GOA, an architectural practice in New Haven, Connecticut recognized internationally for its integration of design, construction, and environmental research in work that spans in scale from small demonstration projects in micro-housing to global environmental analysis.

In April 2021, Mr. Organschi was appointed Director of the Innovation Labs at the Bauhaus Earth an interdisciplinary initiative based in Berlin, Germany focused on the transformation of buildings and infrastructure from a major source of anthropogenic environmental impact and social inequity into a climate restorative and ecologically regenerative means to meet the housing and infrastructural needs of a rapidly urbanizing global population.

Mr. Organschi continues as a senior member of the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught architectural design and building science for two decades and now directs the Yale Building Lab. He has written and lectured extensively on the carbon storage benefits of biogenic material substitution and circular economic strategies in urban building. He is a co-author of the recently published book Carbon: A Field Manual For Building Designers and the scientific paper “Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink” published in the journal Nature Sustainability in January 2020 and winner of the Aquila Capital Transformation Award for contributions to the decarbonization of Europe.

In addition to their firm’s national and regional awards for a range of architectural projects, Mr. Organschi and his partner Elizabeth Gray were honored for their work with an Arts and Letters Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.