1st Edition

Changing the Game How to be a Sustainable and Regenerative Small Practice

By Tara Gbolade, Lanre Gbloade Copyright 2024
176 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

176 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Architecture has hit something of a sticking point when it comes to adapting to contemporary life and its various concerns - the finite resources of the planet, the lack of diversity in the profession, the punishing lifestyle afforded by traditional practice models. Changing the Game explores how to create and run a future-proofed small practice through value-driven decision-making and... Read more

Preface

Introduction

1. Cultural Counter-Currents: Postmodernism in its Historical Place

2. The ‘High Style’ period of Postmodernism

3. We are all Postmodernists now

4. Modernist Orthodoxy Challenged

5. The Postmodern spirit takes hold

6. Backlash and resurgence

References

Image credits

Index

Biography

Tara Gbolade is Co-Founding Director of Gbolade Design Studio and a Mayor’s Design Advocate. She is a winner of the UK Net Zero Climate Champions Powerlist and a RIBA J Rising Star winner. An Architect and Passivhaus designer with expertise in net-zero design and deep retrofit, Tara’s over 15-year experience in sustainability sees her lead strategic design and policy work for varying client groups.

Co-Founding Director of the Gbolade Design Studio, Lanre Gbolade’s expertise lies in medium to large scale sustainable residential architecture, Offsite Construction, Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DfMA) and design management. He has a passion for and expertise in all things Digital, Innovation, Off-site Construction and collaborative working.