"Architecture is Climate is a project that reimagines the future of architecture through exploring its entanglement with climate breakdown. The website is divided into three sections: FOUNDATIONS sets the background themes and issues; PRACTICES gathers inspiring examples across multiple disciplines; FUTURES prompts paths forward. All three parts are interlinked, to understand the connections between pasts, presents, and futures.
Climate breakdown fundamentally alters architecture as we know it: as discipline, practice, field, and education. The systemic changes required to avoid complete ecological collapse should be accompanied by reimagined forms of architecture. This website therefore moves beyond architecture as defined solely by buildings (because that continues the status quo), and instead presents paths to other ways of doing architecture beyond the current norms. FOUNDATIONS interprets the roots of climate breakdown in relation to architecture and collects theoretical and historical resources that have addressed them. It is only through understanding these foundations that architecture can meaningfully engage with climate. PRACTICES gathers a multitude of spatial and non-spatial examples that present powerful counterweights to the roots of climate breakdown, suggesting ways of doing otherwise. FUTURES prompts how other social and spatial practices might be imagined and enacted."
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