Beyond Infinity Project By Serge Salat

Serge Salat is an architect and has designed large-scale buildings worldwide. He has published more than 20 books on art and architecture theory. He is Professor of Sustainable Design at Ecole Nationale des Ponts and Ecole Nationale des Mines in Paris. He is Director of the Sustainable Cities Center, and Chief Architect and Urban Planner of CSTB (French Scientific Centre for Building). Before graduating as an architect, Serge Salat graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, from Institut d’ Etudes Politiques de Paris and from Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He also holds a PhD in economics. Serge Salat has had a long-term creative relationship with China including in 2002 a large-scale urban project in Tianjin and in 2006 the publication of an important book, The Sustainable Design Handbook for China, published in Chinese by Tsinghua University Press. Serge Salat is currently developing research work on comparative Chinese cities morphologies with Tongji University.
Serge Salat is is presently Director of the Urban Morphology Laboratory in Paris, grouping the research efforts on sustainable forms and metabolisms of cities of main French National Research Centers such as CSTB (The French Center for Building Science), Universities, engineering schools, and urban planning agencies in the field of the energy and carbon efficiency of urban forms . He is working on an International Institute for Sustainable Cities involving in particular Australian CSIRO, and major universities in Hong Kong and China in order to launch an international benchmark of the energy efficiency and carbon footprints of world cities using the same methodology.