This design course is intended for developing design skill and knowledge within specific building’s issue (i.e sustainable architecture). This course will provide fundamentals of good, common-sense green building design principles from many point of views (technically, socially and culturally) including the quantification of the impact of passive bio-climatic design strategies, followed by more active options. The EDGE software application will be used as a tool to demonstrate the impact of the strategies. At the end of this course, students will be able to develop and apply design knowledge into a profitable, built-able, and sustainable architecture as well as be able to integrate efficiency into design, evaluate its impact, and learn how to posit themselves as champions of sustainability.