Master/Diploma for 3d-Design, Diploma for Architecture and Town Planning, University of the Arts, Berlin and Bremen, Germany
Professor Spiegelhalter was a professor of the School of Architecture, Center of Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He was awarded with a tenured university professorship at the University of Hanover and at the University of Applied Science, Leipzig, and he was also 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. Professor Spiegelhalter's extensive research and realized projects in solar, zero-fossil-energy, passive, low-energy, and plus-energy buildings, sustainable urban re-development, and experimental solar architecture brings considerable expertise to USC’s research and teaching efforts at the School of Architecture as a significant center for green architecture. Over the last 17 years, he has received 23 prizes and 10 awards in open European and US design competitions in collaboration with landscape architects.
Since 2000 he has actively been involved in the International Solar City Program toward sustainable urban development. Many of his built projects have been published in international anthologies of European architecture.
He has lectured and contributed at international conferences, design charettes, and workshops about architecture and environmental design in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, U.K., Australia, Canada, U.S., Mexico, and Costa Rica. He is currently developing a sustainability lab and teaching design studio, thesis, and seminar courses emphasizing sustainability in the urban environment, sustainable materials and methods of construction systems integration.
For more information on Thomas Spiegelhalter, please see the following web pages:
Graduate Building Science Program:
www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/mbs/faculty/index.html
Materials Sustainability Lab: www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/msl/mslhome.htm
Studio Thomas Spiegelhalter and Associates: www-rcf.usc.edu/~ spiegelh
Solar-Zero-Fossil-Energy-Building-Development: www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/SbPr/index.html