Director of Design Technology | Lake|Flato Architects
Dan Stine is the Director of Design Technology and leads Investigations (an internal research program), at the top-ranked architecture firm Lake|Flato, in San Antonio, Texas. He is a registered architect (WI), educator, author, blogger, and international speaker. In addition to teaching graduate architecture students at NDSU, he has written 17 textbooks, which are used extensively in the academic market. Committed to climate action, Dan serves on the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Leadership Group and subcommittees Climate Action|Climate Justice and COTE Communications. He is also the chair of a national Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) committee. Dedicated to furthering the design profession, Dan has given presentations on building performance and design technology in North America, Europe, Singapore, and Australia. He has also presented at AIA conferences, AIA-COTE working groups, universities, lightfair, NVIDIA GTC, Autodesk University, and more.
Courses
So You Want to Build a Climate-Minded Architectural Practice?
The built environment is witnessing the cascading impacts of climate change, from every person, project, and client. The architecture industry must look within, with immense opportunities to transform firm culture in response to present and future changing conditions. Our new resource, the AIA Climate Action Business Playbook, is for building an architectural practice that embraces climate change mitigation and adaptation. Individuals and firms can immediately apply the included recommendations and best practices to enhance their current policies and efforts around climate action within their practice. This session will inspire attendees to focus on behavior change, giving architects the tools to adopt more sustainable practice models.
Course expires 2/5/2026