Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and ideas from schools and practices globally.
Everything needs to change. Every minute we pollute the air and rivers using resources that we cannot replenish. Each newly erected building aggravates by consuming additional materials and energy.
Exploring architecture and the climate emergency, editors So-fie Pelsmakers (sustainable architect, educator and author of The Environmental Design Pocketbook) and Nick Newman (climate activist and Director of award-winning practice Studio Bark) are channelling the message of Greta Thunberg to inspire, enthuse and inform the next generation of architects.
By including articles, building pro-files and design projects from a range of leading voices, it explores solutions to climatic, environmental and social challenges. It urges readers to radically rethink what it means to be an architect in an era of climate crisis, and what the role of the architect is or can be.
Features: Goldsmith Street, Norwich; Kingsdale School, London; Upcycle Studios, Ørestad; Olympic Pavilion, Tokyo; School of Dancing Arches, Bhadran; Burwood Brickworks, Melbourne; UN17 Village, Copenhagen, and more.
Discover how by using local materials and working with nature, radical design processes and transformative learning, infused with activism, hope can be found in the burning world.
The cover has been designed in four unique fluorescent colours - green, pink, red or yellow - and delivered at random.
Together, we can force change for a more sustainable and equitable tomorrow.
Editor's Note
Creating Change with Impact: An Architect's Manifesto
By Dorte Mandrup
Not Opposites: A Conversation with Hiroshi Sambuichi on Architecture and Nature
By Andrew Barrie
Think Before You Build
By Kari Kytölä, Paulina Sawczuk and Satu Huuhka
Movement Building: Activism in an Age of Crisis
By Tom Bennett
The Sponge City: Planning, Design and Political Design
By Kongjian Yu
Contesting the Architect's Role Through Radical Participatory Design: A Discussion with Al Borde and raumlabor
By Mario Kolkwitz and Elina Luotonen
Transforming Education in a Climate Emergency
By Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN)
Architectural Learning for a Sustainable Future
By Elizabeth Donovan, Urszula Kozminska, Nacho Ruiz Allen and Thomas R. Hilberth
Hope in the Burning World
By Kasia Nawratek
Towards a Zero Carbon Architecture: Clay Field, Suffolk, UK; Goldsmith Street, Norwich,
UK; Housing for City of York, UK
By Mikhail Riches
Radical Sustainable Architecture: Kingsdale School, London, UK
By Alex de Rijke at dRMM
Co-housing Project: Vindmøllebakken, Stavanger, Norway
By Siv Helene Stangeland at Helen & Hard Architects
Implementing Sustainability: Upcycle Studios, Ørestad, Denmark; Resource Rows, Ørestad,
Denmark; Olympic Pavilion, Tokyo, Japan; UN17 Village, Copenhagen, Denmark
By Anders Lendager at Lendager Group
A Choreography of Bricks: School of Dancing Arches, Bhadran, India
By Samira Rathod
Adaptation Out of Necessity: Cuba
By Anyana Zimmerman and Fabián Rodriguez Izquierdo
Sustainability is Not Enough: SBRC, University of Wollongong, Australia; Burnwood Brickworks,
Melbourne, Australia; The Paddock, Castlemaine, Australia
By Stephen Choi
Final Word
