Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-27748-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

What is the role of architecture — and the architect — in the Anthropocene?

It’s an immutable fact: human activity is driving the climate and biodiversity crises that now threaten all life. The damage we inflict on the planet undermines basic human rights, displaces millions, and intensifies structural racism, sexism, and segregation, with the greatest burden falling on the most vulnerable people and ecosystems.

Architects must act.

The design and construction of most buildings and urban environments today are rooted in an economic model that pursues infinite growth. Our profession is embedded in a paradigm that favours individual gain over collective benefit. We are rewarded for overlooking the interdependence between people and the natural world. Architecture contributes directly to environmental degradation and social injustice.

Architects agree that the profession must change. But we lack the tools and knowledge to undertake the transformations that are urgently needed. This book aims to address that need through 15 chapters illustrating how we can act collectively to make a difference.

Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency brings together writers, researchers, educators, students, and practitioners working at the forefront of this transformation. Contributors come from fourteen countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Many are leading voices in their fields; others are emerging thinkers introducing fresh perspectives from both academia and practice.

Above all, they each affirm the architect’s responsibility to help transition toward carbon-neutral, sustainable practices that advance social and environmental justice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, James Benedict

Pelsmakers, Sofie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Setting the scene: Architectural Thinking in a Time of Climate Emergency  PART 1: Architectural philosophies to address the climate emergency: injustice, circularity, radical inclusivity, spatial insurgence  2. Architects and Climate Justice 3. The New Aesthetics of Circular Architecture 4. Who do we create architecture for, and why? 5. Enacted utopias: learning from insurgent spatial practices  PART 2: Architectural pedagogies to address the climate emergency: creaturely pedagogy, collaboration and communities of equity, empathy and interdisciplinarity  6. Everyday, Equity & Ease 7. Responding to embodied injustices: introducing critical thinking and empathy in architectural education 8. Changing Cultures: Sustainability in Architectural Education and Design Teaching 9. Preparing architects to serve as change agents 10. Changing paradigms: educating for the climate emergency  PART 3: Architectural practices to address the climate emergency: justice, interdisciplinarity, co-design, decolonisation  11. Planning for climate justice: digital mapping as an interdisciplinary tool for alleviating inequalities 12. Decolonising Resilient Architecture 13. Situating The Concept of Sustainable Design in Africa 14. Boundaries and bonds in a boundless world: the relationship of place and community to landscape  15. An Architecture of Paying Attention: Scenarios for rehearsing climate futures otherwise

Über Autor(innen)

James Benedict Brown is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Umeå University in Sweden. He teaches architectural history and theory and researches the relationship between architectural education, practice, values and materials.

Sofie Pelsmakers (she/her) is Professor of sustainable housing design at Tampere University, Finland. She is a chartered architect (UK), author of several books and has dedicated the past two decades to teaching, designing and researching sustainable architecture. She brings experience from Denmark (the Aarhus School of Architecture) and the UK (Sheffild School of Architecture, The Bartlett, University of East London). Her collaborative work connects research, teaching and practice for the training of the architects of the future.