Bill Caplan

With a passion for people-friendly building design, an engineer's understanding of sustainability and a 34-year career in high-technology, Bill Caplan’s books address the built environment from a human and environmental perspective. A sober look at our efforts to contain global warming and the public's self-delusion with “green” and “sustainable” living inspired his writing "Thwart Climate Change Now", published by the Environmental Law Institute (2021). "Buildings Are for People", a holistic approach to designing sustainable user- and community-friendly buildings published in 2016. "Contrast 21c: People & Places" followed in 2018, a photographic essay about people and places in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam highlighting disparities between rural and urban areas, struggles adapting to a 21st-century environment. Caplan holds a Master of Architecture from the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture and a Materials Engineering degree from Cornell University College of Engineering.