Loren Abraham
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | I am a licensed Architect, author, industrial designer, educator and researcher with 35 years experience in the building and construction industry. Since 1990 I have focused on energy, healthy environments and livable communities. I continue to develop curriculum in the field of ecological design, especially in the areas of daylighting and renewable energy. I have patented a number of advanced window and daylighting systems and "smart" manufacturing processes. I assisted in the early development of “green” building standards including LEED™ and design tools such as Energy10 Software and the Whole Building Design Guide. In 1992 I became one of 10 founding members of the US Green Building Council and chairman of the Sustainable Buildings Industries Council. I served on President Clinton's "Greening of the White House" initiative from 1992-96 and as Design Research Manager at Andersen Windows from 1989-94 when I joined William McDonough + Partners in Charlottesville Virginia. In 2001 I formed Abraham + Associates. In 2005 I joined the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota as an adjunct assistant professor. |
| Interests | Light, Renewable Energy, Sailing, Scuba Diving, Travel, Bible Prophecy, Baseball |
| Favorite movies | Princess Bride, Groundhog’s Day, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Jesus of Nazareth, Forest Gump, Doctor Zhivago, Facing the Giants, Forest Gump, Baraka, King of Hearts, For Love of the Game, The Great Outdoors, Faraway So Close, Shawshank Redemption, Legends of the Fall, Ushpazin, Life is Beautiful. King of Hearts, Diva, Night at the Roxy, Mouse Hunt, The Fountainhead, Schindler’s List, A River Runs Through It |
| Favorite music | I Love Music! My favorite piece of Music of all time is A Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughn Williams, followed by Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Five Mystical Songs (esp. The Call ) by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Pur Ti Miro (a duet) from L’incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Montiverdi, the 9th Symphony by Beethoven, The Messiah and The Four Seasons by Handel, and any music by Jesse Abraham, Van Morrison, Johnny Cash, Equador Manta, Alan Parsons Project (esp. Gaudi and I Robot), Jethro Tull, Peter Murphy, Indigo Girls, Living Stone, Dan Adler and HOTC, Selah, and a wealth of classical music including everything by J.S. Bach, Mozart, G.F.Telemann, R. Vaughn Williams, and many, many others. |
| Favorite books | I Love Books! My favorite works of Fiction include: Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien, The Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis, the Foundation Series, Caves of Steel, I Robot and other titles by Isaac Asimov, David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend, Great Expectations and other titles byCharles Dickens, Watership Down, Plague Dogs and Shardik by Richard Adams, Shogun and Tai Pan by My favorite Non-fiction works start with the Pentateuch (Torah) Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; and of course Romans, Ephesians and Galatians written by the Apostle Paul; The Psalms (various Authors) Proverbs and Song of Songs, by King Solomon; The Gospel of John, 1st John and Revelation of John, by John The Apostle. Other great an more recent works include: Catching the Light by Arthur Zajonc, Physics as Metaphor and Physics for the Rest of Us by Roger S. Jones Flatland by Edwin Abbot, Letters from a Skeptic, Satan and the Problem of Evil and Repenting of Religion, Greg Boyd Restoring the Jewishness to the Gospel by Sterns The Way Things Work and other titles by David MacCauly, A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander, Utopia or Oblivion by R. Buckminister Fuller, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, Our Stolen Future by Theo Colburn et al, The Myth and the Machine and other titles by Lewis Mumford, Osler's Web by Hillary Johnson, Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, The Web of Life and Hidden Connections by Fritjof Capra, In His Own Words by L. Grant Luton, The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin, The Logic of Architecture by William Mitchel and Devine Proportion by Priya Hemenway |