Richard S. Levine is an Architect, Urban Designer and Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. He is a pioneer in the Solar Energy movement and his work has earned awards in Architecture, Energy Conservation and Sustainable Cities. He has many design projects to his credit and is the author of over 100 articles and papers on Architecture, Solar Energy, and Sustainable Cities. He holds several US patents including one on a unique post tensioned concrete structural system called the Coupled Plan Space Frame. Professor Levine is Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities as well as being chair of the Sustainability Division of the American Solar Energy Society. His current project, done in collaboration with Dr. Heidi Dumreicher, Director of Oikodrom, Vienna, is a preliminary study for the design of a Sustainable City--as-a-Hill on the site of the Westbahnhof train tracks in Vienna.