On Architecture and Greenwashing (eBook)

The Political Economy of Space Vol. 01

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Herausgeber)

Meriem Chabani, Marc Angélil, Cary Siress, Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers, Architecture Climate Action Network (Text von)

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2024
120 Seiten
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
978-3-7757-5684-6 (ISBN)

Infos

As an industry that relies on extracted materials and an intense use of resources, isn't construction unsustainable by design? The pressure is increasing for the sector to diligently address the harm caused by the built environment, begging the question of whether real sustainability in architecture and planning is possible. As institutionalized and commodified greenwashing hollows out the term, how do architects and designers position their work beyond the inadequacy of a flattening universalistic understanding of sustainability? What forms of practice allow for accountable and revolutionized construction modes? How can we critically engage with technology as an ambivalent tool in the service of green capitalism.

The first volume of a forthcoming series by RIOT—Research and Innovation On Territory, a laboratory within the Institute of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), On Architecture and Greenwashing presents a cross-section of positions on architecture and its political economies and explores ways to correct course in the face of a climate crisis of unprecedented magnitude— beyond greenwashing.
RIOT—Research and Innovation On Territory—is a laboratory engaged in pedagogy and research within the Institute of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), lead by architect and urban designer CHARLOTTE MALTERRE-BARTHES. Believing that the construction sector and design disciplines must pivot and wholeheartedly engage in the current social and climatic urgencies by rewiring themselves to face and repair the harm, RIOT utilizes tactics and strategies to decarbonize, decolonize, and depatriarchalize space production—by design.

Inhalt

Cover
Halftitle
Titlepage
Table of Contents
Architecture's Good Intentions, or the Political Economy of Space
An Ecology of Piracy and Sacred Ecologies
Who Cares? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern to Matters of Care
Go Obliquely to Find Another Way
How Architects Organize Against Climate Change
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Colophon

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2024
• Reihe/Serie: The Political Economy of Space
• Mitarbeit: Designer: Berlin SOMETHING FANTASTIC
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Architectural pedagogy • Architecture • Architektur • Architekturdiskurs • Architekturtheorie • Architekturwissenschaft • Bauen • climate crisis • Construction Industry • decarbonize • Decolonize • depatriarchalize • Design • EPFL • extracted materials • Green Capitalism • Green Shift • Greenwashing • Klimakrise • Nachhaltigkeit • Political economy of space • RIOT laboratory • Schweiz • sustainability • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology • Technology • unsustainable by design
• ISBN-10: 3-7757-5684-1 / 3775756841
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-5684-6 / 9783775756846