Thomas Spiegelhalter, RA EU, ACE, ISES, SBSE, LEED Assistant Professor Thomas Spiegelhalter, Architect, Industrial Designer, Town Planner,
R.A., E.U., ACE, ISES, LEED AP

Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter has realized research demonstration work in Europe and the US in numerous contextualsolar, zero-fossil-energy, passive and low-energy building realizations projects; large-scale sustainability master planning and consultancies, redevelopment projects for abandoned post-industrial architectures and landscapes, engineered suspension bridges, preservation, and revitalization projects.

Many of his completed projects have been published in International anthologies of European and American Architecture such in "Contemporary European Architects, Volume V," 1997, Building a New Millennium 1999-2000", both Benedict Taschen Publisher, in "Solar Architecture for Europe, Publisher Birkhäuser, 1996, in "The Architectural Review, on "Ecology and Architecture,” in 1998, in“Architectural Record- "DESIGN VANGUARD AWARD 2003 or in the monograph "Adaptable Technologies - Le tecnologie adattabili nelle architetture di Thomas Spiegelhalter” by Franco Angeli Publisher, Rome, in 2008.

Spiegelhalter includes in his master planning, research, and consultation projects multiple sustainability measurement criteria systems such as the ISO 9000/14000 standards, IEA Solar City, the European Building Energy Performance Certificate Methodology, the World GBC, UK BREEAM, CASBEE, DNGB, Energy Star, Cascadia, and the USGBC LEED rating systems.

Since 1990, he has worked with numerous EU and US Universities to research on multi-disciplinary ecological engineering projects in Europe and in the US. As a result of his 20 years of design and built work, professional consulting, awarded research, teaching. Spiegelhalter has received 52 prizes, awards, and honors in European and US sustainability competitions individual and in collaboration with landscape architects, and engineers.

He lectured and contributed at over hundred international conferences, design charettes, exhibitions, and workshops about Environmental Design in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Great Britain, Canada, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Australia since 1989.

He was a professor of the Center of Building Performance, and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor for Innovations in Sustainable Solar and Renewable Energy in Architecture, University of Minnesota, Center for Sustainable Building Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was awarded with a tenured University professorship at the University of Hanover and at the University of Applied Science, Leipzig in 1992, and he was an assistant professor at the University of Kaiserslautern, all in Germany. He was a DAAD-visiting professor at the University of Houston and a visiting professor at the Universidad del Desino in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Since 2003, he is teaching and researching at the University of Southern California, Sustainability Systems Integration Design Studios, Thesis, and courses on “Sustainability in the Environment: Infrastructures, operative Landscapes and Buildings”, and “Architectural Sustainability Tools and Methods”. He is an affiliate of the USC Sustainable Cities Center, the USC Energy Institute, and the USC Wrigley Institute.

For more information on Thomas Spiegelhalter, please see the
following web pages:

Project Studio Web Page: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~spiegelh
Solar Building Studio: http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/SbPr/index.html
Franco Angeli Publisher, Rome, Italy: Monograph Link: Adaptable technologies. Le architetture di Thomas Spiegelhalter
http://www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/Scheda_Libro.asp?ID=16283&Tipo=Libro&titolo=Adaptable+technologies.+Le+architetture+di+Thomas+Spiegelhalter