Sustainability

After Concrete: Redefining Materials and Energy in the Anthropocene

For over a hundred years, reinforced concrete has served as a paradigm of wonderous materiality: natural yet human-made, liquid yet permanent, technically specialized yet...

Towards a New Architecture: Climate Change and Design

The climate emergency demands that the ways we build, and think about building, change radically. But how? We are in a rapidly evolving, paradoxical...

Nature Based Metropolitan Solutions

How can ecosystems contribute to quality of life and a more livable, healthier and more resilient urban environment? Have you ever considered all the different...

Zero-Energy Design: An approach to make your building sustainable

Reduction of energy consumption of buildings is an important step in the move towards a sustainable economy. How can buildings be made net zero...

Sustainable Urban Development

Did you know that cities take up less than 3% of the earth’s land surface, but more than 50% of the world’s population live...

Climate Change at the Building Scale

Climate change is ground zero for a shared discussion about architecture’s engagement with the world. The magnitude and stakes could not be clearer, but...

Democracy in Retreat? Master Planning in a Warming World

The climate crisis is changing the world. Some people are moving in the face of rising seas and extreme weather, and others are redesigning...

Connection and its costs: Ground transportation and climate change

A one-day conference exploring the future of land-based transportation. The urgency of radical action to mitigate the causes of climate change is more apparent every...

Engineering Design for Circular Economy

Products and equipment all around us are made of materials: look around you and you will see phones, computers, cars, and buildings. We face...