Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of façade design and construction today, with a focus on both product and process innovation. The book brings together the expertise, creativity, and critical thinking of more than fifty global innovators from both academia and industry, to guide the reader in translating research into practice. It identifies new opportunities for the construction sector to respond to present challenges, towards a more sustainable, efficient, connected, and safe future. Introduces the reader to the role of façades with respect to the main challenges ahead - Provides an overview of the major façade technological advancements throughout history and identifies prospective research trajectories - Includes interviews with key industry players from different backgrounds and expertise - Showcases a comprehensive range of leading research topics in the field, organised by product and process innovation - Covers major innovations across the value chain including façade design, fabrication, construction, operation and maintenance, and end-of-life - Contributes towards the definition of an international research agenda and identifies emerging market opportunities for the façade industry Considers the multidisciplinary field of façade design and construction, presenting emerging trends and major research trajectories worldwide, with an emphasis on putting new solutions from various research specialised areas to practical use Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of façade design and construction today, with a focus on both product and process innovation. The book brings together the expertise, creativity, and critical thinking of more than fifty global innovators from both academia and industry, to guide the reader in translating research into practice. It identifies new opportunities for the construction sector to respond to present challenges, towards a more sustainable, efficient, connected, and safe future. Key features: Introduces the reader to the role of façades with respect to the main challenges ahead; Provides an overview of the major façade technological advancements throughout history and identifies prospective research trajectories; Includes interviews with key industry players from different backgrounds and expertise; Showcases a comprehensive range of leading research topics in the field, organised by product and process innovation; Covers major innovations across the value chain including façade design, fabrication, construction, operation and maintenance, and end-of-life; Contributes towards the definition of an international research agenda and identifies emerging market opportunities for the façade industry. This book will be of particular use to researchers in the field of façade design and construction, as well as professionals working in the industry. Eugenia Gasparri is a Lecturer in Architectural Technologies at the University of Sydney. Her research experience is in the field of sustainable construction with a focus on envelope design, building prefabrication, and mass-timber technologies. Arianna Brambilla is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sydney. Her research draws upon architecture, building physics, and engineering to assess and interpret construction as a holistic concept, with a strong focus on sustainability. Gabriele is an emerging researcher in renewable energy, with a focus on the digitalization of solar energy in the built environment. His background is grounded on building engineer and architecture knowledge and his expertise convers solar energy systems integration at building and district level, urban energy planning, smart cities, climate-based solutions, mitigation, and adaptation strategies, and environmental, microclimate, and energy analyses. He is contributing to advance the state-of-the-art of solar energy exploration and integration through the definition of solar neighborhoods’ archetypes, approaches, methods, and tools to accelerate the use of solar energy in built environments. Gabriele coordinated the Subtask C “Case studies and action research” in the IEA Task 51 Solar Energy in Urban Planning and now he is coordinating the Subtask D “Case studies” in the IEA Task 63 Solar Neighbourhood Planning and the activity A3 - BIPV in our society within IEA PVPS Task 15 - Enabling Framework for the Development of BIPV. Gabriele has experienced in several national (REINVENT and HELIOS), European (Exploit4InnoMat, RAMSES, and CoSSMic), and international research projects (SEniC, SiNoPSE, and iSTAR). Gabriele has co-/ author of more than 65 publications, including research and review articles in international high-impact peer-reviewed journals, national and