About This Book
The climate emergency has done more to architecture than hand it a new set of performance targets. The Climate Imaginary starts from the premise that the crisis is remaking the social, political and cultural ground beneath design, and that the discipline's response has spilled well past the technical vocabulary of sustainability. Editors Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah gather a deliberately plural body of work — speculative, built, researched — to show a field arguing with itself about what a warming world asks of it.
The pluralism is the point. Contributions come from Abalos + Sentkiewicz, appareil, B+W+, C+ Arquitectas, Design Earth, EcoLogicStudio, Ecosistema Urbano, Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa, Ensamble, Fadi Masoud, the Harvard Office for Urbanization, Iredale Pedersen Hook, LLDS Architects, Lydia Kallipoliti, MAD Architects, the Melbourne School of Design, Op/AL, Terreform One (Mitchell Joachim) and Liam Young.
Key Features
- A global survey rather than a single-office position
- Full-colour throughout
- Practice, academy and speculative work set side by side
- Strong Australian representation via the Melbourne School of Design, LLDS and Iredale Pedersen Hook
What You'll Discover
- How design has moved past efficiency metrics toward cultural and political questions
- Projects that treat climate as a condition to inhabit rather than a problem to solve
- The range of scales at which the emergency is being addressed, from installation to territory
- Where speculative and built practice are converging
About the Editors
Leire Asensio Villoria is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne School of Design and co-director of its Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication research hub. David Mah is a Senior Lecturer in urban design and architecture at the same school. Both have taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the Architectural Association and Cornell, and their collaborative work has been shown at the Royal Academy in London, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and the NGV for Melbourne Design Week.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 19.0 × 25.5 cm
- Pages: 200
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781638400059
- Publisher: Actar Publishers
Perfect For
Architects and landscape architects working on climate-adaptive projects, design students building a reference library beyond the technical, and anyone tracking how the discipline is narrating the emergency to itself.