Steven Mannell, NSAA, FRAIC, is founding Director of Dalhousie's College of Sustainability. He is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture, teaching in design, technology, history and practice; his publications consider the role of water in society, and advocate the reassessment and conservation of our modern built heritage. Other research includes design-build studies of spatial improvisation in lightweight building techniques of the 20th century, and community-based sustainable building. He has collaborated with Dalhousie’s Sexton Library to create online Open Access repositories of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (dating back to 1974), and the RAIC Journal (published 1924 through 1974). Steven is founder of Docomomo Canada-Atlantic. His publications on regional modern architecture include Images of Progress: Modern Architecture in Waterloo [ON] Region 1945-1995 (1996); and Atlantic Modern: The Architecture of the Atlantic Provinces 1950-2000, (2004). His current research analyses the PEI Ark (1976) in the context of contemporary counterculture, alternative technology, and the emergence of “green architecture.”