Designing for the Climate Emergency
By James Okafor
The climate emergency is not a constraint on architecture. It is the most significant design brief of our time. The question is not how to accommodate sustainability — it is how sustainability becomes the architecture.
The climate emergency is not a constraint on architecture. It is the most significant design brief of our time. The question is not how to accommodate sustainability — it is how sustainability becomes the architecture.
We are done with the model of sustainability as afterthought — solar panels bolted to a roof, green roofs applied to a podium, a LEED checklist completed after the design is fixed. Genuine climate architecture begins with orientation, with a commitment to the local, the material-light, the long-lived.
