Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology

Architects must respond to the climate crisis by shaping their ideas of the city and sustainability, and Peter Raisbeck's book explores how architects have viewed the climate emergency and positions architecture alongside the politics of climate and development studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2022
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Architects' promises, dreams, and hopes for future cities are now inextricably linked to climate change. Architects, Sustainability, and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology chronicles how architects have shaped their ideas of the city and sustainability as knowledge of the climate emergency has unfolded.

Have architects responded to the climate crisis too slowly? Describing a political ecology of architecture, Peter Raisbeck draws on architectural history, theory, and practice, as well as the climate imaginaries of architects themselves. This exploration indicates how architects have viewed the climate emergency and positions architecture alongside the politics of climate and development studies. Raisbeck questions to what degree the traditional agency of architects leads to a political authority isolated from nature, human-environment systems, and the nonhuman ecological subjects rapidly approaching tipping points.

The fluidity of the climate emergency itself and its unfolding relationship to architectural knowledge suggests that new approaches, agencies, and subjectivities are urgently required. As architects struggle to respond to the climate emergency, this book is an important and timely contribution to sustainability, climate, and development debates.

Architects, Sustainability, and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology is a necessary provocation of a critical topic.

Weight: 494g
Dimension: 238 x 298 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803822921