1st Edition
Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change Architecture and the Climate Emergency
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. The first volume launches with a statement: Everything Needs to Change. Exploring architecture and the climate emergency, editors Sofie Pelsmakers (author of Environmental Design Sourcebook) and Nick Newman (climate activist and Director at Studio Bark), are channelling the message of Greta Thunberg to inspire, enthuse and inform the next generation of architects. Featuring articles, building profiles and case studies 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. Discover how using local materials, working with nature, radical design processes, transformative learning and activism can help us find hope in the burning world. Together, we can force change for a more sustainable and equitable tomorrow. This first volume is produced in four unique fluorescent colours – green, red, yellow and purple – to be your own poster for change.
Editor's Note
Creating Change with Impact: An Architect’s Manifesto
Dorte Mandrup
Not Opposites: A Conversation with Hiroshi Sambuichi on Architecture and Nature
Andrew Barrie
Think Before You Build
Kari Kytölä, Paulina Sawczuk and Satu Huuhka
Movement Building: Activism in an Age of Crisis
Tom Bennett
The Sponge City: Planning, Design and Political Design
Kongjian Yu
Radical Design Processes and Rethinking the Architect’s Role
Mario Kolkwitz and Elina Luotonen
Transforming Education in a Climate Emergency
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN)
Architectural Learning for a Sustainable Future
Elizabeth Donovan, Urszula Kozminska, Nacho Ruiz Allen and Thomas R. Hilberth
Hope in the Burning World
Kasia Nawratek
Towards a Zero Carbon Architecture: Clay Field, Suffolk, UK; Goldsmith Street, Norwich, UK; Housing for City of York, UK
Mikhail Riches
Radical Sustainable Architecture: Kingsdale School, London, UK
Alex de Rijke, dRMM
Co-housing Project: Vindmøllebakken, Stavanger, Norway
Siv Helene Stangeland, Helen & Hard Architects
Implementing Sustainability: Upcycle Studios, Ørestad, Denmark; Resource Rows, Ørestad, Denmark; Olympic Pavilion, Tokyo, Japan; UN17 Village, Copenhagen, Denmark
Anders Lendager, Lendager Group
A Choreography of Bricks: School of Dancing Arches, Bhadran, India
Samira Rathod
Adaptation Out of Necessity: Cuba
Anyana Zimmerman
Sustainability is Not Enough: SBRC, University of Wollongong, Australia; Burnwood Brickworks, Melbourne, Australia; The Paddock, Castlemaine, Australia
Stephen Choi
Final Word
Biography
Sofie Pelsmakers is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Architecture at Tampere University, Finland. She is an environmental architect, educator and author of the Environmental Design Pocketbook (sold 5,000 copies over two editions).
Nick Newman is Director of award-winning practice Studio Bark and U-Build. Nick is a Passivhaus Designer who speaks regularly at events on behalf of the studio and was named a ‘Rising Sustainability Star’ by Building magazine in 2014.
