New LEED Certified Chapels
The new US/Canada meetinghouse standard is being developed with several prototypes being designed and built. These new prototypes will be LEED certified, registering under LEED Version 2.2 before the...
View ArticleEarth (Half) Hour
It was exciting to hear that the icon of the LDS Church, the Salt Lake Temple, would be apart of Earth Hour 2009. From the hills north of the city, the view is spectacular and provided a good location...
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Earth Day 2009 = 1st LDS Green Building
(Rendering source)I previously posted on the Church History Library registering with the USGBC. And now we have the results of what rating they are going for. And on Earth Day no less. The new Church...
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Only Beautiful is Sustainable
The best thing I learned at the recent AIA Convention in San Francisco:'If it's not beautiful, it's not sustainable.'If the community doesn't embrace a building, the building will not be saved or...
View ArticleThe Green Book of Mormon: 1st Nephi
The Green Bible is a fantastic book and resource and one of my favorite new purchases. In it, over 1000 earth-friendly verses are highlighted in green and topically indexed for useful study. There are...
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Leura Chapel
The Leura chapel is located in the Blue Mountains of Australia in New South Wales, near Sydney. Designed in 1980 by Dale Swan from the firm of Ancher/Mortlock/Woolley and built in 1983, this is a...
View ArticleCan Poetry Save the Earth?
This post is inspired from a beautiful morning devotional yesterday by Frances Lee Menlove given at the 2009 Sunstone Symposium. In the book, Can Poetry Save The Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems,...
View ArticleGuest Post at Wilderness Interface Zone
For anyone interested, I have a guest post today over at Wilderness Interface Zone. Patricia has created a wonderful website described as "A Mormon literary backcountry where words and place come...
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Calgary Temple - update
Aerial image of Calgary (temple location indicated with red dot)This original post, done far too late last night, mistakenly included an image of what I thought was the Calgary temple, but turns out to...
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Green is the Greenest Color
Green wing by A HermidaEver wonder why so many buildings have green glass? I learned why today during a lunch presentation by Pilkington glass. It turns out that green offers the optimum solution for...
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Liepaja Latvia Chapel
Liepaja is a beautiful coastal city off the Baltic Sea in Latvia. Starting in 2003, the LDS Church looked at the possibility of building a new meetinghouse downtown for the large branch created after...
View ArticleNew LEED Certified Temples
Just found out that all LDS temples will now be minimum LEED certified through the US Green Building Council starting with the Kansas City and Philadelphia temples.
View ArticleI Made a Sustainable Choice Today
Inspired by the movie 'Climate Refugees' from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which showed the bleak situation that people of all nations will soon be in, but offered hope for how we can help to make...
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Sustainability Summit
For any who may be interested, I have been invited to speak this Thursday evening at BYU as part of their Sustainability Summit. I will be speaking at 7pm in Room 3104 JKB. Click on the Agenda for more...
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More on the Leura Chapel
Here are some additional images of the Leura Chapel in Australia that I posted on a while back. It remains my current favorite LDS Chapel with natural light carving out and shaping the forms of the...
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A-Frame Chapel
While I'm on the theme of light, here is another favorite LDS Chapel of mine right here in Utah. The building as a whole is not as exquisitely detailed as the Leura Chapel or Liepaja Chapel, but the...
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Places of Worship: 150 Years of Latter-day Saint Architecture
Richard Woolley Jackson compiled a great deal of research on LDS Meetinghouses and published the book ‘Places of Worship: 150 Years of Latter-day Saint Architecture.’ In the book, Jackson states that...
View ArticleBest of Utah 2010: Best Faithfully Green Blog
I forgot to mention that last week this blog won a 'Best of Utah 2010' award from Salt Lake City Weekly:Best Faithfully Green BlogGreen Mormon ArchitectJust when you thought there was no diversity in...
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Brookline Chapel
Current proposed plan for the site - a large footprint with underground parking to accommodate overlapping wards.*NOTE: This post has been edited from its original content.The Brookline Chapel in...
View ArticleEarth Day 2010
It won't be exactly on Earth Day, but you can look forward to next Tuesday when there will be a Church website unveiled on sustainability...In the meantime, check out this great quote and website...
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Sustainability Summit Presentation
Here is what I presented at the BYU Sustainability Summit several weeks ago. I have included each of the images used from the powerpoint presentation as well as my notes adjacent to each slide. Much of...
View ArticlePrivate
This blog will be going private. Please email if you wish to have permissions access.greenmormonarchitect@gmail.com
View ArticleUp and Running
We are live again. I wanted all my past posts and research to be available and searchable for any LDS out there interested in sustainability, since it was such a large effort for me. A little over a...
View ArticleLDS Architecture
For any who may be interested, I am working on a project of compiling great LDS architecture, as well as working on a history of LDS meetinghouses. My belief is that the greatest architectural legacy...
View ArticleCan Mormons Go Green?
I had a great opportunity last Thursday to be part of a panel discussing Mormonism and the Environmental movement. The show was an hour long and aired on KRCL's daily program, RadioActive, from 6-7pm...
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