“From Bauhaus to Passive House” BCA Architects & Engineers Lecture Wednesday, February 18, 5:00 p.m. est CBIS Auditorium Rensselaer Architecture continues its spring 2026 lecture series this Wednesday, February 18th at 5p.m. est with the lecture “From Bauhaus to Passive House” by Bruce Becker of Becker and Becker Associates. Bruce Becker is President of Becker and Becker Associates, Inc. (Becker + Becker), where he employs a fully integrated approach to sustainable design, planning, financing, and development of buildings that meet the social, economic, and environmental needs of communities. His firm specializes in green supportive, affordable, and mixed-income housing, community centers, child and senior day care facilities, and urban and historic revitalization projects. Becker + Becker has planned, designed, and developed over 10,000 units of multi-family rental housing, along with a wide variety of commercial, retail, educational, and mixed-use facilities. Becker founded two non-profit housing organizations—Common Ground HDFC and Under One Roof—to sponsor innovative mixed-use affordable housing projects. He has served as development consultant and architect to dozens of non-profit organizations and municipalities. Among Becker + Becker’s notable projects are Hotel Marcel and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Hotel Marcel is a 165 room boutique hotel, including restaurant, gallery and meeting space. Certified historic rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of mid-century modern Armstrong Rubber Company Building aka Pirelli Building, originally designed by Marcel Breuer in 1967. The building features historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of New Haven’s iconic Breuer landmark into a model for sustainable hospitality. The project addresses long-standing historic preservation and economic development priorities to create a high quality hotel and meeting facility proximate to the waterfront, train stations, and major highways at the city’s gateway. The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is a renovation of and addition to the internationally renowned environmental research center, originally designed by founder of the green building movement, Malcolm Wells, in 1978. The renovation of the facility returns it to Malcolm Wells’ original vision to create a near-zero energy building to house the Institute’s research, conference center, and administrative offices. https://www.beckerandbecker.com/