Alan Organschi

Alan Organschi

Senior Critic; Director of the Building Lab

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.

Education
BA Brown University
MArch Yale University
Practice
GOA

Courses

2251
Fall 2024
Regenerative Building Research
Alan Organschi
1101
Fall 2023
Regenerative Building | Bioregional Synergies
Alan Organschi, Andrew Ruff
2229
Spring 2021
Regenerative Building: Horse Island
Alan Organschi
2229
Spring 2020
Regenerative Building: Horse Island
Alan Organschi
2016
Spring 2019
Building Project I: Research, Analysis, Design
Alan Organschi, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore
1107
Fall 2018
Advanced Design Studio
Lisa Gray, Alan Organschi
1012
Spring 2018
First-Year Core Studio
Alan Organschi, Andrew Benner, Adam Hopfner, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore, Peter de Bretteville, Marta Caldeira
2015
Spring 2018
Building Technology
Alan Organschi, Adam Hopfner
1012
Spring 2017
First-Year Core Studio
Alan Organschi, Andrew Benner, Peter de Bretteville, Adam Hopfner, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore
2015
Spring 2017
Building Technology
Alan Organschi, Adam Hopfner
1012
Spring 2016
First-Year Core Studio
Alan Organschi, Andrew Benner, Adam Hopfner, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore, Peter de Bretteville, Herbert Newman
2015
Spring 2016
Building Technology
Alan Organschi, Adam Hopfner
1012
Spring 2015
First-Year Core Studio
Alan Organschi, Trattie Davies, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore, Peter de Bretteville
2015
Spring 2015
Building Technology
Alan Organschi, Adam Hopfner