Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859469655 ISBN 13: 9781859469651

Publisher: RIBA Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and ideas from schools and practices globally. The first volume launches with a statement: Everything Needs to Change. Exploring architecture and the climate emergency, editors Sofie Pelsmakers (author of Environmental Design Pocketbook) and Nick Newman (climate activist and Director at Studio Bark), are channelling the message of Greta Thunberg to inspire, enthuse and inform the next generation of architects. Featuring articles, building profiles and case studies from a range of leading voices, it explores solutions to climatic, environmental and social challenges. It urges readers to radically rethink what it means to be an architect in an era of climate crisis, and what the role of the architect is or can be. Discover how using local materials, working with nature, radical design processes, transformative learning and activism can help us find hope in the burning world. Together, we can force change for a more sustainable and equitable tomorrow. This first volume is produced in four unique fluorescent colours – green, red, yellow and purple – to be your own poster for change.

About this title

About the Author

Sofie Pelsmakers is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Architecture at Tampere University, Finland. She is an environmental architect, educator and author of the Environmental Design Pocketbook (sold 5,000 copies over two editions).

Nick Newman is Director of award-winning practice Studio Bark and U-Build. Nick is a Passivhaus Designer who speaks regularly at events on behalf of the studio and was named a ‘Rising Sustainability Star’ by Building magazine in 2014.

Edition details

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859469655
• ISBN 13: 9781859469651
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Pelsmakers Sofie, Newman Nick