Design Like Ken Yeang
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Skyscrapers can breathe.
His actually do.
Learn green design at vertical scale from its true pioneer. Discover how towers can live, breathe, and cool themselves, and carry that thinking into the cities of tomorrow.
Green towers will grow naturally from your sketches.
- Green the vertical city — bringing living, growing systems into the heart of tall buildings.
- Design breathing towers — that ventilate, shade, and cool themselves through pure design.
- Think ecology first — treating buildings as living organisms rather than sealed objects.
- Lead climate innovation — in a market where regulation and client demand are racing ahead.
- Merge nature and structure — weaving planting and life into the very bones of architecture.
- Future-proof your towers — designing high-rises the next era will still admire.
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RTF | Rethinking The Future has spent over a decade publishing the ideas, projects and voices shaping architecture — and now brings that depth to learning. Every course is researched, written and produced by the RTF team.
Tall and green is the future. Get there first.
A clear path. Seven steps.
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If you see yourself here, start today.
A few hours from now, you could already see differently.
Green towers in publications always seemed like renderings with trees pasted on. Yeang's bioclimatic, section-driven method showed me the difference between decoration and performance. My high-rise studio project now has an ecological logic running top to bottom.
Simple by design.
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Short, focused video lessons — each one a single idea, clearly explained.
Apply
End every lesson with a small task that pushes your real project forward.
Transform
Watch your work develop a point of view that is unmistakably yours.
Answered simply.
Is Yeang's bioclimatic skyscraper concept practical or utopian?
Increasingly practical. Green towers, sky gardens and climate-driven high-rise planning have moved from his drawings into mainstream development, and this course covers the thinking behind them.
I don't design towers — what do I gain?
His ecological design framework applies at every scale. Yeang teaches you to treat a building as an organism in an environment, which changes how you approach any project.
Does this connect to green certification work?
It goes deeper than certification. Yeang's approach is about genuine ecological performance, which makes rating-system compliance almost a byproduct.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Every course starts from where you are and builds up step by step, in plain language.
Is this software training?
No — software changes yearly. The thinking you learn here lasts a career.
How does it work?
Short video lessons with a small practice task after each. Any device, your pace.
What does membership include?
One membership unlocks every course on RTF Academy — all 450+, nothing sold separately. And you stay in control: cancel anytime in one click, and you will never be charged again.
Ready to see your work change?
Your next project could be the one that feels truly yours.
- 7 Sections
- 25 Lessons
- 4 Hours
- Introduction to Ken Yeang3
- Principles of Ecological Architecture4
- Sustainable Systems & Building Technology4
- Iconic Projects & Design Lessons4
- Urban Ecology & Future Cities3
- Representation & Environmental Analysis3
- Applying the Ken Yeang Approach4
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Green towers in publications always seemed like renderings with trees pasted on. Yeang's bioclimatic, section-driven method showed me the difference between decoration and performance. My high-rise studio project now has an ecological logic running top to bottom.
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