Crafting Circularity

Rethinking Sustainable Design and Construction in Architecture Education
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98612-333-8
Verlag: Jovis Verlag GmbH

Buch, Deutsch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

How can architectural education respond to the climate crisis? Positioning architects as key agents of change, this book argues for a shift from extractive toward availability-based design—starting not from abstract form or resources, but from what already exists. By placing students in contact with reclaimed materials and construction constraints shows how learning-through-making can embed circularity in the design studio.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rinke, Mario

Vandyck, Frederik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur

Über Autor(innen)

Mario Rinke, Frederik Vandyck (University of Antwerp, Antwerp, BE)

Mario Rinke is a Professor at the University of Antwerp. Mario Rinke holds a Diploma in civil engineering from the Bauhaus University Weimar and a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was a senior researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts after working as a design engineer for major offices in London and Zurich.

Frederik Vandyck is a guest professor at the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he teaches architectural research methods and an urban design studio. He holds a Master of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a joint PhD in Engineering Sciences and Design Sciences (VUB - UAntwerpen).