Architecture Is Climate dismantles the assumption that architecture can respond to climate breakdown through technical fixes alone, arguing instead that the discipline must be reconceived across eight interconnected dimensions — from land and resources to policy and culture.
About This Book
This is not a book about green roofs or passive solar retrofits. Architecture Is Climate locates the climate crisis within the broader structures of capitalism, colonialism, and social injustice, and asks what architectural practice looks like when those entanglements are taken seriously. Working through eight thematic territories — knowledge, economy, land, resources, infrastructure, work, policy, and culture — the book draws on diverse voices and grounded examples from across the world. It refuses easy optimism without surrendering to paralysis, identifying architectures already being made differently. Essential reading for practitioners and students who want to engage climate not as a technical problem but as a political and ethical one.
Key Features
- 208 pages of thematic essays, critical analysis, and grounded examples drawn from global contexts
- Authors: Anthony Powis, Tatjana Schneider, Christina Serifi, Jeremy Till, Becca Voelcker
- Published by DPR-Barcelona, ISBN 9788412892284
What You'll Discover
- Why technocratic solutions and linear growth models are structurally inadequate responses to climate breakdown in architecture
- How the eight themes — knowledge, economy, land, resources, infrastructure, work, policy, and culture — together reframe what architectural practice means under climate crisis
- Examples of alternative architectural practices already operating outside dominant paradigms, drawn from diverse global contexts
- The relationship between climate justice and architectural politics, including how history, land, and social equity shape what can be built and for whom
About the Author
Architecture Is Climate is a collaborative work by Anthony Powis, Tatjana Schneider, Christina Serifi, Jeremy Till, and Becca Voelcker. Jeremy Till is a widely published architectural educator and critic known for his work on architecture and contingency. [Details available upon request] for full contributor biographies.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 140 × 210 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788412892284
- Publisher: DPR-Barcelona
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architecture students and practitioners grappling with climate ethics, academics working at the intersection of design and social justice, and anyone who wants to move beyond sustainability rhetoric toward genuine disciplinary transformation.