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Housing Agency
Places Journal
Opposed to top-down solutions, John F. C. Turner believed that architects and planners of housing should empower the people who will live in it. His ideas remain startlingly radical today.
All Is Lost: Notes on Broken World Design
Places Journal
J.C. Chandor’s elegiac film tells the story of one man’s struggle with nature. For designers, it’s also a persuasive parable about our collective struggle with life at the end of modernity.
Visualization of Renewable Energy in the Postwar Era
Places Journal
Today’s energy debates go back to the postwar era, when scientists argued that shifting away from fossil fuels was not just technically feasible but also ethically necessary.
Drawing the Line
Places Journal
In the Anthropocene, innovative architecture will rely less on formal or material invention and more on repair, retrofit, renovation — on the collective pursuit of decarbonization.
Tending Building
Places Journal
To tend a building requires us to direct our attention away from cultural expectations of the “new,” and to design in consonance with inevitable change.
Landscape Migration
Places Journal
We are now well into a geologic era — the Anthropocene — characterized by the acceleration of environmental change. This is the landscape medium in which we design.
Toward a Political Ecology of Architecture
Places Journal
As a profession and a practice, architecture can no longer ignore the toxic pollution of its supply chains, or the abuses that take place on building and manufacturing sites.
Maintenance and Care
Places Journal
A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations.
The Problem with Solutions
Places Journal
We need to engage troubled landscapes without presuming to fix them. Notes toward a history of non-solutionist design.
Aesthetic Environmentalism
Places Journal
A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art struggles to establish the relationship of architecture to the postwar environmental movement and its relevance to our present-day crisis.
The Trouble with Consumption
Places Journal
The contradictions between capitalist needs and ecological imperatives are impossible to ignore. How might the tenets of alternative hedonism foster new mandates for radical political change?