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Phil Hawes - consulting architect Phil Hawes is an architect and town and regional designer whose area of interest and expertise is sustainable community development. With a BA in Architectural Design in 1963 from the University of Oklahoma, in 1998 he received a PhD in Ecological Community Design from the San Francisco Institute of Architecture. He also studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at the Taliesin fellowship during 1955-56 . He was the architect-of-record for the Biosphere 2 project near Oracle, Arizona for eight years during its design, construction, and early operation, and has worked on ecological projects in the USA, England, France, Nepal, and Australia. He has established sustainable architecture and community design educational programs in the USA, Portugal, and France, and has lectured widely in the US and abroad on these subjects. In 1981 Phil walked alone across 500 miles of the uninhabited Australian outback and re-discovered that human-kind is destined to struggle upward. In the mid 1970's he helped design, and build, a 130 ton ferrocement ship, on which he sailed for three years across the Indian and Pacific Oceans; two years as Political Captain and Bosun, and one year as Sailing Captain. Phil was the architect-of-record, general building contractor, and the developer of an adobe complex of 32 homes in Santa Fe, NM. He was also the architect-of-record for facilities in a variety of environments around the world including a Cattle Station and an ecological grasslands Research Station in the monsoonal savannah of the Australian Outback, a Conference Center in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, a hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, a high-altitude nature-study tented camp in the Himalayan mountains of northern India's Ladakh State and the Royal Manas Park Visitors Center in Bhutan, in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund. |
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Phil has given numerous papers and conference presentations on sustainable environmental design, as well as many related to Biosphere 2,and sustainable Ecological Village Design. He is currently the owner and president of Ecological Systems Design, a sustainable architecture town and regional planning firm. At present, Phil is engaged in a project to design and build the first economically and ecologically sustainable village for up to 5,000 persons near Amarillo, TX, which will provide its own:
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