Fresh Perspectives on Air, Water, and Carbon from Metropolis's 2020 Sustainability Issue
From HVAC to interior renovations, the November/December 2020 issue of Metropolis suggests meaningful areas of action for architects and designers.
Climate Change
Why Interior Designers Must Fight Climate Change
New studies show that interior designers can have a much bigger impact on climate change than they ever imagined.
A City's Surface Reflects Its Inequities
With the multiplying risks of urban heat and the pandemic, a city's streets and sidewalks tend to highlight vulnerabilities in urban communities.
Design Before Air Conditioning Surveys Early Experiments in Climate Control
In a new book, Daniel A. Barber details a climate-focused account of Modernism, one defined by increasingly blunt measures used to combat heat and humidity.
Architects and Designers Urge Action on Healthier Policy Priorities
Three recent initiatives outline how experts in the built environment are advocating for policy changes for public health and climate change.
Low Cost, High Impact: The Drawdown Review Suggests That Architects Move Toward Scalable Climate Solutions
Climate change expert Jesse M. Keenan analyzes the The Drawdown Review's recommendations for architects and designers.
Brooklyn Museum Presents a "Hemispheric" Survey of Indigenous Responses to Climate Change
Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas explores how global warming has affected the visual culture of indigenous communities.
Long-Term Plans: To Build for Resilience, We'll Need to Design With—Not Against—Nature
Moving away from its early exclusive focus on natural disasters, resilient architecture and design tackles the much tougher challenge of helping ecosystems regenerate.
Why the Building Sector May Be Humanity’s Best Hope for Averting Catastrophic Climate Change
Architects have enormous sway in specifying building materials and modes of operation; they also understand the political, budget, and client-education barriers to executing zero-carbon designs better than anyone.
5 Leading Experts and Advocates on How Architects Can Fight Climate Change
Metropolis speaks with Michael Sorkin, The Architecture Lobby, Kate Orff, Jesse M. Keenan, and Tom Jacobs on the Green New Deal, Architecture 2030, political activism, and more.
Can We Build a Safer World? Bill Gates and the World Bank Call for More Rapid Climate Adaptation
The Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and other global development influencers launch a Commission to address ecological disasters already at hand.
This Book Imagines How Cities Let Humanity Survive Cataclysmic Climate Change
2100: A Dystopian Utopia, written by architect Vanessa Keith and her firm StudioTEKA Design, depicts a world where humanity has dramatically adapted to risen seas and extreme weather.
How Architects Can Fight Climate Change During the Midterm Elections
Architects Advocate, an activist network of architects focused on climate change, describes the new tools it's releasing.
"Resiliency" Has Lost Its Meaning: Why We Need a More Radical Approach
Sometimes it’s better to adapt and retreat before the waters rise again.
Kate Orff on Her New Project in Israel, What's in Store for the Venice Biennale, and Activism in Landscape Architecture
Orff's New York practice SCAPE develops broad-based coalitions that can advocate for the firm's projects.
Studio Roosegaarde's Sublime "Waterlicht" Installation is Coming to Madrid
"Waterlicht," a "dream landscape about the power and poetry of water," is also an ominous warning of sea level rise.
The Bold Plan to Help Save the Mid-Atlantic Coast from Storm Surges
Metropolis talked to Harvard GSD Professor Jesse M. Keenan on "Blue Dunes: Climate Change By Design," a book he co-edited with Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture.
After Irma and Harvey, Architects Advocate Network Calls for Action
In the wake of two devastating hurricanes, the grassroots group is pushing for design and policy responses.
Rene Gonzalez's "Floating" Homes Reflect the Past, Look to the Future
Adapting the region’s traditional architecture and preparing for climate change, Rene Gonzalez is creating a new residential typology for South Florida.
Why Architects Must Rethink Carbon (It's Not the Enemy We Face)
Susan Szenasy sits down with William McDonough—the developer of Cradle to Cradle design—to understand why we must employ a new language regarding carbon and sustainable design.
