James Wasley

Education

M.Arch, Rice University, 1992
B.Arch/ Honors, University of Oregon, 1983

Biography

Professor James Wasley is a director of the Institute for Ecological Design at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. He is a Past-President of the Society of Building Science Educators and a Past-President of the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance (now the Wisconsin Chapter of the USGBC).

His current research interests are broadly in ‘transition design’- the multi-faceted problem of evolving our physical environment towards forms and structures that allow us to thrive while maintaining the integrity of the world’s ecological and geophysical systems. This includes the design of resilient and regenerative buildings, the adaptive reuse of existing buildings, the redevelopment of brownfield sites, the linking of individual buildings through district scale energy and water systems, and the use of green/ blue infrastructure to reintroduce ecosystem services into urban environments through the medium of water.