Architecture & Design, Sustainable Design, Interior Design
University of Toronto
Lloyd Alter has been an architect, real estate developer, and prefab entrepreneur. He now teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson School of Interior Design.
Alter has been writing for Treehugger since 2005 about architecture, design, transportation, and planning. He is design editor and was previously managing editor. He has written for MNN since 2015. He has contributed to The Guardian, Corporate Knights Magazine, Azure Magazine, Architectural Record, and Greensource.
He has been a regular speaker or moderator at Passive House conferences in Seattle, Vancouver, New York City, Boston, Vienna, and Munich. He Has also spoken about green building in Vancouver, Toronto, and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Prior to writing, Alter was a promoter of tiny homes and prefabricated housing, lecturing on prefab at conferences in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin, Texas. He has worked as a real estate developer, building condominiums in Toronto, Canada, and as an architect.
Alter was Chairman of the Toronto Society of Architects, Vice President of the Ontario Association of Architects, and President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario.
Awards and Publications
Alter has a Bachelor of Architecture, Alpha Rho Chi medal, from the University of Toronto. He was admitted to the Ontario Association of Architects in 1979.
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