Sustainability and Architecture

Collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change considering cultural values ascribed to climate. Essays ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is and does. Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable, and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points?

Weather Architecture attempts to understand the history of architecture as a history of weather, and investigate how the weather could be a an architectural co-author that affects design, construction and use in a creative dialogue with the architect and user. The analysis of weather's effects on the design and experience of specific buildings and gardens is interwoven with a historical survey of changing attitudes to the weather in the arts, sciences and society.

The book claims that resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century as we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change. Research has shown that the crises arising from climate change will become increasingly frequent and severe. Bringing together perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science and psychoanalysis, Architecture & Resilience aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies and projects to ask how we can build resilience in preparation for major societal challenges.