Architecture in the Age of Ecological Emergency
John Hill
10. October 2022
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Architect, author and curator Pedro Gadanho speaks about his new book Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency in a short film by urbanNext.
Following his years as curator of contemporary architecture at MoMA and those as founding director of MAAT in Portugal, Gadanho spent one year at Harvard University as a Loeb fellow. Gadanho wrote Climax Change! after his year at Harvard, a year when he noticed that schools were not preparing students to be ready for tackling the climate emergency in their work after graduation. Yet students were asking for such preparation, and Gadanho's book offers ten essays by which students and practitioners can see how the climate emergency may impact architecture — and how architecture should change so it can make positive contributions to the environment.