Amanda Sturgeon
Amanda Sturgeon is an architect and champion of sustainable architecture through practices like regenerative design and biophilic design. Previously CEO of the International Living Future Institute, she joined Mott MacDonald as the Regenerative Design Lead for the Asia Pacific Region in 2020. In November 2023, she became the CEO of The Biomimicry Institute.
Amanda Sturgeon
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- architect · environmentalist
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- University of Sydney · University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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Amanda Sturgeon is an architect and champion of sustainable architecture through practices like regenerative design and biophilic design. Previously CEO of the International Living Future Institute, she joined Mott MacDonald as the Regenerative Design Lead for the Asia Pacific Region in 2020. In November 2023, she became the CEO of The Biomimicry Institute.
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She was elected a 2013 fellow for the American Institute of Architects and a 2013 fellow at Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. In 2005, she got a Women in Sustainability Leadership Award. She gave a TED talk in 2018 as part of TEDMED. In 2019, she was a keynote speaker in Verdical Group's annual Net Zero Conference. Sturgeon contributed to the collection of essay and fiction by women in the climate change movement All We Can Save. Sturgeon was also a founding board member of the Cascadia Green Building Council, a chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, and the co-director of national sustainable design at Perkins+Will, an international architectural firm. She is the author of Creating Biophilic Buildings (Ecotone, 2017).
Sturgeon was born in England, went to school in Australia, and started her architecture practice in the United States. She completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Sydney and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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- 1.Regenerative and biophilic design with Amanda Sturgeon. LATITUDE Regenerative Real Estate.
- 2.Amanda Sturgeon. TEDMED.
- 3.Johnston, Poppy. Mott MacDonald snares ILFI's Amanda Sturgeon to drive regenerative design leadership. The Fifth Estate. 2020-05-19.
- 4.Amanda Sturgeon to lead regenerative design at Australia's Mott MacDonald. Living Building Chronicle. 2020-05-12.
- 5.Amanda Sturgeon Appointed as CEO of The Biomimicry. www.csrwire.com.
- 6.Amanda Sturgeon AIAU. aiau.aia.org.
- 7.brand, ECONYL®. Building a Greener World — a Shift to a Sustainable Architecture. Medium. 2017-11-28.
- 8.hello@verdicalgroup.com. Honoring Past Keynote Speakers and Trailblazer Award Winners. Net Zero Conference. 2023-09-29.
- 9.Contributors. All We Can Save.
- 10.D'Angelo, Madeleine. Amanda Sturgeon Steps Down as CEO of International Living Future Institute. Architect Magazine. January 8, 2020.
- 11.Our Team. Climate Action Network Australia.
- 12.Climate Action Network Australia Limited. ACNC.
- 13.Amanda Sturgeon: The greenest commercial building in the world Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation Victoria University of Wellington. www.wgtn.ac.nz.
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