Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology

The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) is a research facility of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), founded in 2007 by Anna Dyson, Professor of Architecture at RPI, and Carl Galioto, senior technical architect at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). It is a joint project of RPI and SOM.^[1] It is located in SOM's Wall Street offices in Lower Manhattan.^[2]

CASE was established as a collaborative research model to integrate academia with the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, aiming to accelerate the deployment of radically disruptive technologies in the built environment.^[3]

CASE has received multiple awards for innovation and sustainability in architecture, including:

2009: LEED Award of Excellence in Education^[4] 2009: R+D Award for the Active Modular Phytoremediation System^[5] 2012: AIANY Honors Award for collaborative work between SOM and CASE 2012: ACADIA Innovative Academic Program Award^[6] 2012: Architectural Record Innovator Award (Second Annual)^[7] 2019: Falling Walls Venture First Place for the "CoHEX" innovation 2022: Grand Prize for “AERA,” a building systems integration project