Make Do and Mend

By: Douglas Murphy

However you read the statistics, the climate crisis has to mean less building. What does a future of living in old buildings hold for the future of architecture?

Arno Brandlhuber’s Antivilla, former Ernst Lück Lingerie Factory, 2014 (Architects: Brandlhuber+ Emde).

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Architecture, or at least construction, is one of the ugliest, thorniest problems of the entire climate crisis. It depends upon who you ask, and one can certainly find a bewilderingly inconsistent array of statistics, but the construction, running, and maintenance of buildings contributes something around half of all global carbon emissions. Producing cement and steel, […]

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Architecture, or at least construction, is one of the ugliest, thorniest problems of the entire climate crisis. It depends upon who you ask, and one can certainly find a bewilderingly inconsistent array of statistics, but the construction, running, and maintenance of buildings contributes something around half of all global carbon emissions. Producing cement and steel, […]

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Architecture, or at least construction, is one of the ugliest, thorniest problems of the entire climate crisis. It depends upon who you ask, and one can certainly find a bewilderingly inconsistent array of statistics, but the construction, running, and maintenance of buildings contributes something around half of all global carbon emissions. Producing cement and steel, […]

Architecture, or at least construction, is one of the ugliest, thorniest problems of the entire climate crisis. It depends upon who you ask, and one can certainly find a bewilderingly inconsistent array of statistics, but the construction, running, and maintenance of buildings contributes something around half of all global carbon emissions. Producing cement and steel, […]

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