Mark DeKay

Mark DeKay, AIA, registered architect, Professor of Architecture at the University of Tennessee, is author of Integral Sustainable Design: transformative perspectives, the first book to apply integral theory to design, and co-author of Sun, Wind, and Light: architectural design strategies, 3rd ed, a classic climatic design resource. His research topics include urban wind field studies, integral architectural photography and “design-with-nature” narratives. His current scholarship is a co-authored book, about experiencing nature via buildings and rich indoor variability. He collaborates with scholars in Scotland, Australia, California, China, and Greece. Mark and his wife/editor, Susanne Bennett, were trained by Al Gore as Climate Reality Leaders. They offer lectures internationally on “Solving the Climate Crisis by Design,” along with trans-disciplinary workshops for built environment research teams using the Integral Research Approach.