2019
Inhotim: Contemporary Ruralities
Amanda Coen writes about the role of cultural institutions in rural development by looking at the Inhotim art center in Brumadinho, Brazil.
David Benjamin: Architecture as open system
Could interpreting buildings as open, active systems rather than inert objects enable us to develop better solutions for the climate crisis?
Emanuel Christ: The Architecture of the City
Emanuel Christ, cofounder of Switzerland's Christ & Gantenbein, presents his firm's projects.
Architects Declare wants to change design paradigms
Michael Pawlyn, one of the founders of Architects Declare, discusses the group's origins and plans for the future.
Empowering architects to take on carbon
The design community needs a robust toolkit of decarbonization strategies that all practitioners can use, argues KieranTimberlake's Stephanie Carlisle.
Alan Organschi: Building a global carbon sink
Large-scale engineered wood products offer the possibility of turning cities into carbon sinks, Organschi posits.
Rethinking form and function for a warming planet
Architects face significant hurdles to taking on climate change, says Atelier Ten's Nico Kienzl—but there are also exciting opportunities.
Kiel Moe: Climate change, architecture change
We must alter basic assumptions about architecture in order to address the key challenges of this century, Moe asserts.