Join us at the T-Rex innovation center downtown for a conversation between seasoned architect and former AIA president Carl Elefante and area leaders about how St. Louis can build back better after the tornado.

We’ll be selling copies of Going for Zero. In the book, Elefante addresses how buildings and cities can and must help resolve the looming climate emergency. For architects and the countless others who work together creating human habitation, the twenty-first century imperatives demand a profound mode shift, from an expansion mindset to one of reintegration and healing.

Elefante explains that revitalizing communities by optimizing existing resources makes social, economic, and environmental sense and directs resources where they are most needed. He offers a decidedly alternative viewpoint, one informed by his career rescuing buildings from demolition and learning from the practices and wisdom embedded in built heritage.

In Going for Zero Elefante offers a message of hope, with the urgency to act now. You can pre-order the book here for pickup at the event. Register here to attend: https://www.aia-stlouis.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1979487