The bioinspired pavilion shows how processes that account for geometrical, productional, structural, environmental, and aesthetic requirements, along with robotic fabrication techniques applied to natural materials, generate works that are both ecolo
The city of Almere, within the metropolitan area of Amsterdam, is on the verge of experiencing a large population growth geered by urban plans like that of Oosterwold or Almere 2030, which foresees the construction of 60,000 new homes. In this contex
With its steel sheets and its bright colors, the huge origami-like roof of this museum devoted to biodiversity strikes a contrast with the vertical silhouette of Panama City.
The tsunami of 2011 razed the coast of Tohoku in Japan and the subsequent nuclear crisis dramatically threw light on the fragility of conventional construction and energy generation infrastructures. Since then several initiatives have been made to ac
This greenhouse is part of Rural Studio Farm, a project which was launched back in 2010 to bring back into use the systems of planting organic foods that had been largely abandoned in industrialized countries, especially in the United States. The bui
El urbanismo, la ecología y la ingeniería civil han confluido en la regeneración urbana de un barrio de viviendas informales situadas a la orilla de un embalse.
Mercabarna, el gran mercado mayorista de Barcelona, ha construido un vertedero y planta recicladora rebautizado como Punto Verde, para que cale más hondo el mensaje ecológico implícito en este tipo de dotaciones. Con una superficie de 6.675 metros cu
Mariano Vázquez Sarah y Jeremy necesitaban casa y también oficina. En el norte de Londres encontraron un solar a un precio conveniente en el mercado de desperdicios de suelo a que dio lugar la privatización de los Ferrocarriles Británicos. Dispuestos
Both praised by Bill Gates, the Czech-Canadian scientist and political analyst Vaclav Smil and the Danish economist and political scientist Bjørn Lomborg propose a reality check: Smil’s How the World Really Works and Lomborg’s Best Things First invit
They offer ways to produce cement without releasing carbon dioxide. Concrete is one of the world’s most important materials. But making the cement that binds it generates about 8% of anthropogenic carbon-dioxide emissions. This is not just because of
Bruno Latour was one of the last specimens of a once thriving species now on the brink of extinction: the intellectual. To be precise, he was a typical example of a no less prestigious and no less threatened subclass thereof: the French intellectual.
The American Jason W. Moore and the Swedish Andreas Malm are part of what they call ‘radical academy,’ a group of Marxist writers who teach on both sides of the Atlantic. Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital present complementary (and som
Norrland is the largest of Sweden’s three historical “lands”. It spans the top half of the country and is sparsely populated, the more so the farther north you go. The few people who live there have long relied for work on mining, the army and forest
Since the Romans began doing it with great panache more than 2,000 years ago, road-building has been a sweaty, grubby business, involving heaving great quantities of rocks and stones into place and, in more recent times, covering the surface with asp
The giant human footprint stamped across the world in 2020 is greater than the impact on the planet of all other living things, research suggests. The amount of plastic alone is greater in mass than all land animals and marine creatures combined, the
The landscape is a voluntary geography. The idyllic vision of landscape as intact nature is denied by experience and memory. Shaped by economic, environmental, and cultural forces, the planet’s panoramas are not the mere result of geology, botanics,
Al cumplirse medio siglo del Mayo francés, reproducimos un texto que defiende las arquitecturas de la necesidad suscitadas por la crisis ecológica frente a las arquitecturas del deseo de los jóvenes de mayo. En él se reúnen un artículo publicado hace
Naming a storm in the Gulf of Mexico during hurricane season can be like playing Russian roulette. Sometimes an endearing, even musically named storm turns lethal in a sudden atmospheric spin. Take Hurricane Rita, for instance, a category 5 tropical
Science tends to reward not the brave nor the powerful, but those who use their reason, putting the latter on pedestals, relegating the former to oblivion; an arbitrary scheme perfectly played out in the case of two 19th-century giants, Charles Darwi
Sustainability needs rigor: this was the premise of the World SB14 congress held in Barcelona on 28, 29, and 30 October. Organized by Green Building Council España, the event brought together a good number of national and international institutions b
Although it is more and more present in the architectural field, the language of sustainability is used with scant rigor. This brief dictionary collects some of its terms.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit suggests we forget 68, Dand it is a reasonable suggestion. Our world bears little resemblance to what it was forty years ago, and analyses made then can hardly be applied to a context marked by globalization and ecological crisis.
There is no ecology without economy. Beyond the etymological relationship, which places both sciences on a common ground, transfering its logos and its nomos to the shared oikos of our residence on earth, the green science is inconceivable without th
Bjørn Lomborg Las 12 soluciones más eficientes para erradicar la pobreza y alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la ONU
Vaclav Smil Una guía científica de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro
Jason W. Moore Ecología y acumulación del capital
Andreas Malm El auge del vapor y las raíces del calentamiento global
Andrea Wulf El nuevo mundo de Alexander von Humboldt
Anne Beim Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen The Need For Rethinking Construction In Architecture
