Data. Energy. Matter.: Why Architecture is Key to Climate Change - Softcover

Serero, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1638400482 ISBN 13: 9781638400486

Publisher: Actar, 2026

Synopsis

The work of Serero, through investigations of patterns found in nature, does not envision architecture to create new spaces, but rather as a strategy to unfold together patterns of cultural, social and spatial origins.

Architecture, as a living organism, establishes a relationship between beings and their environment, where the notions of energy, breathing and light are the vectors for the conception of spaces. Serero’s work rethinks architecture and shifts away its permanent condition towards a transient and ephemeral one, with greater spatial versatility and multiplying the potential usage to propose an open architecture.

Data. Energy. Matter reveals three profound transformations of recent architecture: the digital revolution and its impact on creative work in all conceptual aspects, the emergence of an internet of energy that buildings will contribute to create to share energy, and the profusion of new usage of private and public spaces, both collaborative and connected, creating an interstitial experience of spaces between the physical and the virtual.

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About the Author

David Serero is an architect and a PHD researcher at Ecole d’Architecture School of Paris Val-de-Seine. Graduated in architecture and urbanism at Columbia University, New York and at the École d’Architecture Paris-Villemin, Serero is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici, as well as the New Album Prize for Young French Architects (NAJA), and the Young Architects Forum award of New York. His recent PHD focuses on revealing the unknown potential of cities for wind energy harvesting, thanks to the numerous quantity of building edges and facade surfaces. He is the founder and co-director of the Research Chaire Architecture & Intelligences, a research platform developing innovative collaboration in technology, architecture and urban design for improving the act of building and its environmental impact. The AI Chaire creates operative research partnerships with companies and institutions in the field of smart cities, augmented architectural design, metaverse and digital twins.

Edition details

• Publisher: Actar
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1638400482
• ISBN 13: 9781638400486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280