Alpha Arsano is an architect, building scientist, and educator with a focus on making passive and hybrid building strategies accessible to both professionals and non-professionals who are involved in the design of sustainable buildings and habitats. She is an Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment at Northeastern’s School of Architecture. Her research focuses on passive and hybrid building strategies for various climatic contexts.

Before joining Northeastern University, she completed her doctoral study in the Building Technology program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been developing a web app called CLIMAPLUS to support bioclimatic building design approaches for energy-efficient and low-carbon buildings, which is being used to teach an introductory university level course on sustainable building design to thousands of learners around the world.

She was a Transsolar Academy fellow (2014) and worked for Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects based in Munich, German. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Architecture at Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction & City Development (EiABC) (2013).