Zack is Chief Marketing Officer at NK Architects, a Seattle and Pittsburgh-based architecture firm dedicated to accelerating the clean energy transition through zero carbon building design. He studied human biology, with a focus on human ecology, at Stanford University (BA, ’93). Since then he’s worked as a policy advocate for progressive regional planning, a developer and leader of nonprofit community organizations, a taiko (Japanese drum) musician, and an evangelist for Passive House construction.
Zack is author of the e-book, “On Buildings, Swans, and the Power of Arithmetic.”
How Passive House Design Can Propel the Clean Energy Transition in Architecture, Wed, Jun 21 '17
With reversals in US climate policy underway and a US exit from the Paris Agreement announced for 2020, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the clean energy transition is already underway. The potentially exponential forces of market transformation that this transition could release offer ...
Landscape Institute (now BAC), Cambridge, MA, US, Graduate Certificate in Landscape Design
Faculty Award of Excellence.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US, Bachelors, Human Biology
Concentration in Human Ecology. Degree conferred "With Distinction."
