The Briefs

It could be argued that architecture is fundamentally experienced through contrast – even though contemporary construction often results in atmospherically bland, homeostatic, unsenseable spaces.

The production of building materials places an insupportable load on the planetary environment. But from the perspective of an individual designer, the question of how best ot mitigate the effects of their own consumption can be elusive. Abstractions like ‘carbon footprint,’ separated as it is from broader ecological relationships, can only ever be a provisional solution.

How should architecture understand its role in the project of environmental transformation? Faced with the looming disaster of climate change, societies all over the world will have to transform their

The production of building materials places an insupportable load on the planetary environment. But from the perspective of an individual designer, the question of how best ot mitigate the effects of