Climax Change!

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How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency
Pedro Gadanho

Climax Change! offers an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. At a crossroads in which the construction sector and built environment produce nearly 40% of greenhouse gases accountable for global warming, architects are just starting to acknowledge their complicity in an impending disaster.
In need of a paradigm shift similar to that of the Modern Movement, architecture desperately requires clear guidelines and targets so as to operate its inevitable transformation towards an ecologically-friendly design logic. From historical analyses of ecocide or the environmental avant-gardes, to topics such as decarbonization, degrowth, the Great Transition and the aspirations of Green New Deals, this book features ten essays around today’s climate change debates, bringing them home to architectural thinking.

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Author: Pedro Gadanho
Size: 18,5 x 24,5 cm/ 7,3 x 9,6 in.
Pages: 256
Illustrations: Color
Cover: Hardcover
Publication date: April 2022
ISBN: English 9781948765671
Price: 40€/ $44,95/ £40

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Authors	Pedro Gadanho
excerpt	Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture.
Epub	https://cutt.ly/C1T888T

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