Passive House has regularly appeared in the American press since a groundbreaking article in the New York Times back in 2008 by Elisabeth Rosenthal. Here is a list of many of the more significant publications.
Covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Forbes, Architectural Record, Fast Company, The Globe and Mail, Axios, and others.
On this page: Featured · PHN in the news · Passive House in the news
Featured
Los Angeles Times
They lost their homes to fire. Now they’re rebuilding with all-electric
Fire survivors in Altadena and the Palisades rebuild all-electric for health and climate, with new subsidies behind them.
Architectural Record
Is the Passive House Standard the Answer?
Architectural Record asks whether the standard fits Los Angeles, starting from the county’s first certified Passive House.
Forbes
6 Benefits Of Passive House Design For Your Well-Being And Wallet
What homeowners gain, from health and comfort to lower bills, and the drawbacks worth knowing.
The New York Times
No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
The article that introduced Passive House to American readers: a visit to the Darmstadt row houses that need no furnace.
PHN in the news
Coverage of The Passive House Network, and our own announcements.
- New Research Highlights Passive House as up to 4.5 Times More Efficient than Standard Codes
- David Komet and Nidhi Shah join The Passive House Network Board
- The National Organization of Minority Architects and The Passive House Network Announce New Partnership
A partnership for education, equity, and professional development across architecture and construction.
- Passive House Network Names Darren Macri, Co-CEO of Wythe Windows, as New Board President
- Step inside Efficient, Healthy, Sustainable Buildings at the 2026 Passive House Network Conference
- The Passive House Network Releases Catalog of Sustainable, Fire Resilient Housing Designs for Altadena and Pacific Palisades
- The Passive House Network & Passive House California Announce Winners of the California Rebuilds Design Competition
Passive House designs for fire-resilient rebuilding in four styles, from Craftsman to Contemporary.
- California Rebuilds design competition gives fire victims new, resilient choices
- The Passive House Network Announces Jury for the California Rebuilds Design Competition
- The Passive House Network Announces Design Competition to Aid Wildfire Rebuilding Efforts in Los Angeles
- The Passive House Network 2023 Design Awards
Passive House in the news
2026
- Bard College Residences Honored With Passive House Certification for Energy Efficiency
- Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
- Northeast Minneapolis home, built with sustainability at its core, lists for $1M
- Groundbreaking Marks Start Of Award-Winning Passive House Rebuild In Altadena
- Passive House Conference Highlights Energy-Efficient Construction
- Charlotte of the Upper West Side
- A new modular wall system from CO Adaptive seeks to make Passive House retrofits faster, cheaper, and more accessible
- Passive House: It’s all in the details
- Canada’s first tall timber Passive House building for B.C. Indigenous community
- Love Schack Architecture insulates an Idaho home with straw, making the case for low-carbon construction in the Mountain West
- The first phase of Alafia, a wellness-focused affordable housing campus designed
- Westchester LEED Platinum “Passive House” Wins 2026 Green Builder Home of the Year
- Pa.’s first passive house debuts in Wilkinsburg
- Alpen High Performance Windows Works with Habitat for Humanity
- Wilkinsburg residence 1st in state to earn EnerPHit certification from Passive House Institute
- Cathy Hobbs Highland Passive House Opens as The Hudson Valley’s Premier Home Staging and Design Center
2025
- Aufgang Architects Announces Two New 100% Affordable Multifamily Design Projects in the Bronx Totaling 446 Units
- Maugel DeStefano Architects Designs New 132-Unit Passive House Multifamily Community in Norwood
- A zen Toronto Passive House
- Kids most affected
- UB-RIT-Wendel team wins national home design competition
- Kansas Profile: Great energy is put into passive house project
- ‘Nothing Being Built’ Months After L.A. Wildfires. Could Prefab Passive Homes Be a Solution?
- Prairie Passive: The evolution of Passive House in Manitoba
- Creative Solutions for a Changing Climate
- Passivhaus Philippines launches at webinar on energy-efficient building for tropical climates
- ResCorp opens doors to new apartment building on Austin
- $535M Secured For One Third Avenue In Downtown Brooklyn
- Seattle Social Housing Developer Strives for High Sustainability and Affordability Standards
- Increasing amount of homeowners affected
- Green Tourism at Its Best: Hotel Marcel in New Haven Runs Entirely on Renewable Energy
- In Brooklyn, Passive House Design Was a Quirk 10 Years Ago. Now, It’s a Selling Point
- Resilient
- How These Towers Are Adding VITAlity to Hell’s Kitchen
- Beyond the Grid: Home Energy
- Future of Passive House | Luis Medina & Ken Levenson | S7 E14
- Tufts University Breaks Ground on New 664-Bed Student Residence Halls in Medford
- Climate-proofing homes more important than ever, say experts
- PEI industrial park aims to meet Passive House standards
- Village Grove project in Trumansburg earns Passive House certification
- New Passive House CEO out to raise engagement ‘one conversation at a time’
- Sales Launch for ‘VITA’ Passive House Development at 499-501 Ninth Avenue in Hudson Yards, Manhattan
- Homeowners create jaw-dropping home designed to eliminate utility bills: ‘Stays warm in winter and cool in summer’
- Meet the South Bay company designing fire-resistant, eco-friendly homes
- Wildfire Resiliency: Building Homes Among The Flames
- A Passive House Designed for Aging in Place
- Passive House, the active choice to redefine living
- Energy efficiency meets novel technologies in emerging housing trends
- Governor Hochul and HCR Announce Opening of New 45-Unit Affordable Housing Development in Westchester
- Helping young people break the ice on homebuilding
- Alloy shares renderings of One Third Avenue, phase two of Downtown Brooklyn’s Alloy Block megadevelopment
- Free Architectural Plans Offer Fire-Resistant Housing Solutions for LA Residents
- Building for Safety: The Role of Passive Architecture in Enhancing Wildfire Resilience
- N.Y.U. Dorm Is Retrofitted to Be Sustainable
- New York’s First ‘Passive House’ School Is a Model of Downtown Density
- Architects unveil gorgeous home built using ancient materials and modern design principles — take a look inside
- Rebuilding after a fire: lessons from previous disasters
- Pacific Palisades Home Saved from Destruction
- Passive Design May Have Saved This House From Destruction in Pacific Palisades
- ‘Passive House’ Survives Fire in California: How It Avoided Total Destruction, According to Architect
- Why This Boston Homeowner Doesn’t Pay Anything To Heat His House
- Federation of American Scientists Unveils Federal Policy Agenda for Tackling Extreme Heat; Supported by 60+ Organizations
- How One House Used Passive House Designs To Survive The LA Wildfire
- Green Stamp of Approval: The Rationale and Route to Obtaining a Sustainability Certification
- The Challenge: Building a Passive House on a Greek Island
2023–2024
- This Passive House Was Built to Withstand Harsh Montana Winters
- A House Attune with Nature
- 2023 Likely to be Among the Coolest in 20 Years
- Skyscraper in Boston is now the largest ‘passive house’ office space in the world
- Three West Roxbury houses become first internationally certified Passive Homes in Boston
2022
- Low-Income Apartments That Set a High Standard for Energy Efficiency
- This climate-friendly house for Marshall fire victims isn’t a luxury home
- Hotel Marcel New Haven, Tapestry Collection
- First look at Cincinnati’s first passive house rises in Mt. Airy
- Ken Soble Tower becomes world’s largest residential Passive House retrofit
- A ‘postcard from the future,’ Oak Park building is one of three to prove it creates as much energy as it uses
2021
- How Sustainable Multifamily Is Finally Paying Off
- How an ancient design technique could help us survive extreme heat, no AC needed
- It’s not easy being green in Massachusetts, but here’s how
- Continuing Education: Zero Energy Houses
- An Architecture Firm’s Push to Build Net-Zero Apartments-On a Budget
- NYC’s First Major Passive House Office Building to Rise in Long Island City
2020
- New York’s Real Climate Challenge: Fixing Its Aging Buildings
- A Blueprint for Green Buildings Struggles to Catch On
- Modular Architecture Is Back. Is It Better?
- Is Passive House The Answer To A Pandemic And Climate Change? These Brooklyn Developers Think So
- Manhattan’s ‘Most Sustainable Condominium’ Building Unveiled
- A Passive House Architect Spreading His Wings
- Woodside Building for Technology and Design at Monash University
- Learning to Live in a Passive House
- Is the Passive House Movement Getting Radical?
- Passive House brings awareness of ways to battle climate change in the Monterey Bay area
2010–2019
- A 19th-Century Home in Brooklyn Gets a 21st-Century Makeover
- One of These Bed-Stuy Homes Is Not Like the Others
- Living in the First Passive-House High-Rise
- Counting Down to a Green New York
- Striving for Energy-Efficiency in New York
- Can expensive, ultra-green homes sell in a gritty suburban Maryland town?
- Cornell Tech Project Tests ‘Passive’ Design in the U.S.
- The Passive House in New York
- Just Don’t Call It a Lab
- Easy on the Environment, but Not Necessarily the Eyes, Matt A.V. Chaban
- Aiming for Truly Sustainable Buildings
- The Passive House: Sealed for Freshness
- Collaborative brings affordable green home to Deanwood, Kathy Orton
- Falls Church’s Pimmit Hills neighborhood has the first “passive house” in Fairfax County
- Getting Active With Passive Houses
- Can We Build in a Brighter Shade of Green?
- The Secrets of a Passive House
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Checked October 2026.
