Construction managers bring buildings to life. Without them, nothing happens.

For the fourth time in as many years, a team from the College of Architecture & Built Environment (CABE) has been awarded honors in the U.S. Department of Energy’s annual Solar Decathlon Design Challenge.

In his new book, Edgar Stach, PhD—professor of architecture and director of the Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities at Thomas Jefferson University’s College of Architecture and the Built Environment—decodes the relationship between space, structure and light in some of the most important contemporary art museums in the world built by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW).