1st Edition
Inside OUT Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era
Introduction
1. Air Quality and Human Health
Elizabeth L. McCormick
2. The Socially Constructed Microbiome
Elizabeth L. McCormick
3. The Microscopic World of Building Science
Sarah Haines
4. The Building/Occupant Organism
Marcel Harmon
5. Designing with Metrics for Indoor Air Quality, Comfort, and Health.
Z Smith
6. Respiratory Equity
Ulysses Sean Vance
7. Transcript of Panel Discussion: Inside/Out Symposium
8. Reconciling Inside and Out
Elizabeth L. McCormick
Acknowledgements
Biography
Elizabeth L. McCormick is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Building Technology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture, as well as a PhD candidate at North Carolina State University’s College of Design. She is a licensed architect, educator, and researcher whose work explores healthy, climatically sensitive, and contextually appropriate building design strategies that connect occupants to the outdoors while also reducing the dependence on mechanical conditioning technologies. McCormick is a LEED and WELL-Accredited Professional, as well as a Certified Passive House Consultant with over 10 years of experience as a practicing architect. She has worked on a variety of project scales from single-family passive houses to LEED-certified commercial office buildings and campuses.
McCormick was the recipient of the 2021 AIAS/ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award and is an active member of numerous professional and academic organizations, including the American Institute of Architects (AIA), National Passive House Alliance (PHAUS), and she is a board member for the Building Technology Educators Society (BTES). This book proposal is inspired by the Inside l OUT Symposium that McCormick organized and moderated in Charlotte, North Carolina in March 2022.
"In this extraordinary book, McCormick and collaborators help us to understand the new environment we have created, indoors, from the perspectives of history and architecture. If you would like to understand the spaces in which you spend nearly all of your waking and sleeping hours, how they affect you and how they came to be the way they are, read Inside OUT."
- Rob Dunn, biologist, author of A Natural History of the Future
