Speaker
-
Satprem MainiSatprem Maïni is French and has lived in Auroville, India, since 1989. He is a postgraduate architect in earthen architecture and he is the founding director of the Auroville Earth Institute, where he works as an architect, builder, consultant, researcher, trainer and lecturer. He has worked in 40 countries for promoting earthen architecture and since 1990 Satprem and his team in Auroville have trained more than 15,000 people from 94 countries on earth architecture and technologies.
He is the Representative for Asia of the UNESCO Chair “Earthen Architecture, Constructive Cultures and Sustainable Development”. He is an occasional consultant to the United Nations and member of a wide global network of earth builders.
He specialised in compressed stabilised earth blocks, arches, vaults and domes, as well as disaster resistance. Satprem has been granted 15 awards, 4 international awards and 11 Indian Awards.
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Jul 17 2025
- Time: 6:30 am
Stabilised Earth Techniques for a Sustainable Future and Works of the Auroville Earth Institute
Contents of the webinar will be as follows:
- Paradigm of “Modern architecture”
- Environmental impact of the building industry
- Emissions by burning wood and coal for fired bricks in India
- Are “green buildings” really green?
- About sustainability
- Earthen architecture in the world, a millennia old tradition
- The Auroville Earth Institute (AVEI)
- Compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEB)
- Development of CSEB machinery by AVEI
- R&D on stabilised earth technologies, architectural research and building methods by AVEI
- Selected projects of the Auroville Earth Institute