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Climax Change!: How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency

Pedro Gadanho

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform the current tenet of architecture's aesthetic, ethical and professional drives.

Climax Change! offers an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. At a crossroads in which the construction sector and built environment produce nearly 40% of greenhouse gases accountable for global warming, architects are just starting to acknowledge their complicity in an impending disaster.

In need of a paradigm shift similar to that of the Modern Movement, architecture desperately requires clear guidelines and targets so as to operate its inevitable transformation towards an ecologically-friendly design logic. From historical analyses of ecocide or the environmental avant-gardes, to topics such as decarbonization, degrowth, the Great Transition and the aspirations of Green New Deals, this book features ten essays around today's climate change debates, bringing them home to architectural thinking.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Actar
  • Publish Date: Aug 2nd, 2022
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.60in - 7.30in - 1.00in - 1.90lb
  • EAN: 9781948765671
  • Categories: Sustainability & Green DesignIndividual Architects & Firms - EssaysGlobal Warming & Climate Change

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About the Author

Gadanho, Pedro: - Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer. He is a Loeb Fellow from Harvard University. He led a recognized architecture renovation practice until 2012, when he became the curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. There, he curated the Young Architects Program and exhibitions such as 9+1 Ways of Being Political, Uneven Growth, and A Japanese Constellation. He was the founding Director of MAAT, Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, where he initiated more than 50 projects, including publications such as Utopia / Dystopia, Tension & Conflict, and Eco-Visionaries. He has edited Beyond, Short-Stories on the Post-Contemporary, the ShrapnelContemporary blog, and contributes regularly to international publications. He wrote Arquitetura em Público, a recipient of the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism in 2012.

Praise for this book

"Architects know they play an important role in addressing climate change, given that buildings account for roughly 40% of carbon emissions, but few of them will go so far as recommending a stop to new construction. Former MoMA curator Pedro Gadanho is doing just that, with this book of ten essays that expand upon an idea he first expressed in 2009: "We should stop building anew." This tactic is not the only one architects have at their disposal, but it articulates the extreme changes that need to take place in the coming years in dealing with our global climate emergency. Or as Gadanho puts it: "We need to revive the spirit that once drove the avant-gardes."" --World-Architects
"How climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform, "Climax Change!: How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency" is a clarion call for rethinking the role of architecture in an era of increasing climate change. While a highly recommended and unique contribution to professional and academic library Contemporary Architecture collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists." --Midwest Book Review
"This collection of 10 essays explicitly ties contemporary climate change debates to current architectural thinking. Author Pedro Gadanho, an architect and former Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, argues that the profession requires clear guidelines for a wholesale transformation." --Architect Magazine