Climax Change!: How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency

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Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform the current tenet of architecture’s aesthetic, ethical and professional drives.
Climax Change! offers an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. At a crossroads in which the construction sector and built environment produce nearly 40% of greenhouse gases accountable for global warming, architects are just starting to acknowledge their complicity in an impending disaster.
In need of a paradigm shift similar to that of the Modern Movement, architecture desperately requires clear guidelines and targets so as to operate its inevitable transformation towards an ecologically-friendly design logic. From historical analyses of ecocide or the environmental avant-gardes, to topics such as decarbonization, degrowth, the Great Transition and the aspirations of Green New Deals, this book features ten essays around today’s climate change debates, bringing them home to architectural thinking.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Actar
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948765675
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948765671
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,603,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #886 in Sustainability & Green Design #2,132 in Climatology #4,839 in Environmental Science (Books)
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